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We are pleased to invite you to this Cities & Society seminar.
Karen A. Franck, Professor in the College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, is visiting Cities and Society. She will give a talk titled: Is This Space Public? How Do You Know?
Velkommen til et nytt Arbeid, politikk og organisasjon-seminar. Fredrik Engelstad vil presenterer paperet: "Voluntary organizations in democracy. The case of Norway".
What is the role of the students and employees at the University when it comes to transformations to sustainability in society? What are the skills and competencies students need to navigate change and influence their future? Can there be such a thing as transformative universities?
You are invited to join us for a talk with Steve Waddell on deep and systemic transformations. Starting out from the example of changing approaches to marriage equality in the US, the aim of the seminar is to advance the development of the concept of “transformations systems” and to initiate a discussion about possible collaborative actions in this inter-disciplinary, action-oriented research work.
How do you view the possibilities for a sustainable future? What is the role of hope in activating actions for sustainability? What is the difference between optimism, pessimism and realism?
In this Climate and Society Forum, we would like to talk about change. Is the solution to climate change about “changing people” or is it about activating people as agents of change? What’s the difference and why is it important? What’s your experience?
We are pleased to invite you to the next Cities & Society seminar.
Kurt Iveson, Associate Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Sydney, will present Crowds, clouds and ‘accumulation by datafication’: further adventures in the commodification of everyday urban life.
Plus panel discussion: See below for details
Join Professor Hilary Bradbury for a participatory symposium on revitalizing knowledge creation
We are pleased to invite you to this Cities & Society seminar.
Håvard Haarstad, Professor of human geography and Director for the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen will present "Urban sustainability and the problem of the built environment: reworking Forus Industrial Park"
We are pleased to invite you to the next event of the Cities & Society seminar series on Thursday, week 46.
Professor Brett Christophers of the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, will present "Putting financialisation in its financial context: transformations in local government-led urban development in post-financial crisis England"
What other types of knowledge does art foster that will be helpful faced the challenge of climate change? What are the multiple ways art can contribute to sustainable transformations?
AdaptationCONNECTS is heavily involved in the 5th Nordic Conference on Climate Change Adaptation, Norrköping, Sweden 23-25 October 2018.
What role does music play in sustainability transformations? Why are more people not singing, drumming, strumming, tapping, or playing tunes about climate change?
Professor Lars Coenen from The University of Melbourne held the 2018 Tschudi-lecture at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography
We are starting a discussion forum on Climate and Society.
In this public lecture, Rogers Brubaker will talk about the distinctive ways in which religion can inform political conflict and violence.
We are pleased to invite you to the next event of the Cities & Society seminar series this upcoming Monday.
Professor Monika Buscher (Lancaster University, Dept. Sociology) will present "About Time: Changing mobilities and creative urbanism".
Who am I?' and 'Who are you? Professor Rogers Brubaker will give a public lecture based on his book Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities.
Welcome to the 24th Nordic Conference for the Sociology of Religion 2018.
PLEASE NOTE that the City of Oslo has invited all conference participants to a welcome reception in Oslo City Hall on the evening of July 31st.
Who’s Your Daddy? Nepotism, Employer Inheritance, and the Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Advantage in Norway
Mats Lillehagen (ISS, UiO)
Are Skeie Hermansen (ISS, UiO)
We are pleased to invite you to the next event of the Cities & Society seminar series: Towards a Global Urban Geopolitics - Bringing Geopolitics into the Mainstream of Comparative Urban Studies by Dr. Jonathan Rokem.
"To comply or not to comply, that’s not the question: On the foundation of institutions and agency in institutional maintenance work"
Lars Klemsdal presenterer paper. Ta kontak med Lars for å få tilsendt paper på forhånd.
Mike Savage kommer tilbake til Klasse- og eliteseminaret med nye perspektiver på samtidige ulikhetsmønstre.
We are pleased to invite you to a collaboration event between UiO:Energy and Cities and Socity: Climate and energy justice: Foregrounding space and place by professor Stefan Bouzarovski.
EUREX welcomes submission of abstracts for the workshop 'The role of expertise in policy-making – empirical scholarship and normative analysis'. The workshop will be held in Oslo 22-23 May 2018. Deadline for paper proposal: by Thursday 1 February 2018.