The Eilert Sundt lecture

The deep foundations of global order are under severe strain. Great power competition has returned with a vengeance, as China and Russia have stepped forward to contest the Western-led liberal international order.

Ordinary people in the post-Soviet space have for years fund themselves caught in an information competition over both their geopolitical belonging and memories of their own pasts. This is the topic for Professor Kristin M. Bakke when she gives the Eilert Sundt lecture 2022. 

How does the rising discontent affect political behaviour in the EU?  And how do people from the so-called "places that don't matter" -  vent their anger against the system at the ballot box?   

The DNA revolution has made it possible to use DNA to predict at birth who we will become. This will transform psychology, society and how we understand ourselves, according to professor Robert Plomin.

How pessimistic are we allowed to be about the nature and the exercise of reason? Professor Pascal Engel will talk about the conditions of reason’s resistance, including in the public domain, in his lecture.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Based on his own research and that of others, Edward Miguel will discuss how extreme climate changes impact the economy.

The number of American families living on $2.00 per person, per day, has skyrocketed to one and a half million American households, including about three million children. Where do these families live? How did they get so desperately poor? And what do they do to survive?

Good childhoods are the foundation for a good life and thus an incredibly important societal investment, according to psychology professor Terrie Moffitt.

The Eilert Sundt Lecture 2016: Gastón Gordillo, University of British Colombia.

Professor Kathleen M. Blee  will speak about ten common misconceptions about racial extremists, and how better understandings can help stop the spread of this ideology.

The Nobel laureate and professor in economics discusses social sustainability and global governance in this year's Eilert Sundt lecture.

Hvordan påvirker de sosiale nettverkene livene våre, ideene våre og handlingene våre?, spør James H. Fowler, som er professor i medisinsk genetikk og statsvitenskap ved University of California, San Diego.

French anthropologist Bruno Latour will hold a lecture at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The lecture is public and open to all.

Årets Eilert Sundt-foreleser er professor Kees van Kersbergen fra Århus Universitet, som foreleser over ”Does the Welfare State Do What it Promises to Do?”

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