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Hvordan kan en motkulturell modernisme utfordre tradisjonelle forestillinger om urbanitet og bidra til å skape et ekte byliv?
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How can financial mechanisms adapt or reconfigure capitalist orthodoxies towards socially just outcomes in urban sustainability transitions?
Individual perceptions and experiences, rituals, institutions, and the law.
Workshop with Lars Klemsdal, 21th of May 2024, 14:50-16:00
Workshop with Beatrice Johannessen, 23th of April 2024, 14:15-16:00
Såkalte svenske tilstander er mye omtalt om dagen, men hva kjennetegner norske tilstander? Og hva betyr sårbarhetsfaktorer og mulighetsstrukturer for utviklingen av byområder?
Workshop with Lars Erik Kjekshus, 27th of February 2024, 14:30-16:00
What is green gentrification, and how can we best understand it?
Gurminder K. Bhambra, professor at the University of Sussex, will give this year's Aubert memorial lecture.
Neoliberalism and elites in Sweden
Professor Gavin Bridge from Durham University held the 2023 Tschudi lecture at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography.
How have business elites shaped our modern economy and democracy? What patterns of formation and impact distinguish them within Western countries, and how do these differ on a global scale, particularly in Russia and China? Are the pathways of CEOs universally applicable, or do we witness divergent career trajectories across different cultural and political landscapes? Do billionaires and CEOs share common grounds, or do they operate within distinct echelons even within the elite strata? Is the concept of a transnational business elite grounded in our contemporary globalized world?
How may area-based initiatives affect gentrification?
What is segregation, and how do we study it?
Seminar and workshop on non-institutional approaches to art in public space.
How do we build knowledge and capacity for change for a comprehensive housing policy?
Public lecture with Professor Rogers Brubaker
Welcome to this seminar in the Cities & Society series with Professor William Solecki on the prospects for enhancing urban adaptation effectiveness.
What makes creativity and artistic practice flourish?
Since its establishment, Uber has upset the local mobility ecosystem in many countries and cities. In this seminar Dr. Juan del Nido will give a talk on Uber's conflict with the Taxi industry in Buenos Aires and its implications for urban mobility politics.
Welcome to this seminar and the Cities & Society seminar series with Professor Tone Huse on colonial architecture, urban planning and temporal displacement in the Arctic.
The Department of Sociology and Human Geography's research and seminar group for social movement studies SMOKE (Sosial mobilisering og klimaendring) invites anyone interested in climate change and social movements to a public seminar with Håkan Thörn, professor in Sociology at the University of Gothenburg.
Anyone is welcome to join and there is no need for pre-registration.
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Margaret Archer, professor emeritus at the University of Warwick, will hold this year's Aubert memorial lecture at the University of Oslo 10 November.
The public is invited to a reception after the lecture. Refreshments will be served. See the full schedule of events below.
Welcome to this breakfast seminar in the Cities & Society seminar series: Fostering Sustainable Urban Futures: Building Equity into Climate Change Planning and Action, with Robin Leichenko, Professor of Geography at Rutgers University.
Coffee and light snacks will be served.
Social and ecological crises related to the Covid-19 pandemic and a changing climate have heightened the awareness of the entangled fates of humans and non-humans, from the individual body to the planetary scale. This awareness demands that we examine and question how humans coexist not only with nature but also with other species.