2021
EURA 2021 ONLINE CONFERENCE
Time and place: May 6-7, 2021, On Zoom
The EURA 2020 conference "Contradictions Shaping Urban Futures" is relaunched to an online event 6 – 7 May 2021.
In this online event, on May 6 – 7, we will explore how contradictions related to sustainable vs. unsustainable urban development and growth vs degrowth, are shaping our cities. The contradictions are not fixed, but intersect and are contested among actors who seek, in their own ways, to shape their city.
2018
NCSR 2018: The 24th Nordic Conference in the Sociology of Religion
Time and place: Aug 1-3 2018, 09:00-17:00 Georg Sverdrups hus, University of Oslo, Blindern
Welcome to the Nordic Conference in the Sociology of Religion 2018, University of Oslo, Norway. The NCSR is a bi-annual conference arranged in one of the Nordic countries. Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, in cooperation with KIFO Institute for church, religion and worldview research and Norwegian School of Theology, are proud to be the host for the 24th NCSR conference 2018.
Closing conference: Disease Prestige and Informal Priority Settings
Time and place: Jan 29, 2018, 12:00-17:00 Store møterom, Georg Sverdrups Hus
The conference will mark the closing of the Disease Prestige Project. The program will end with a reception marking the career of professor Dag Album and his work in medical sociology.
2017
Power, Welfare and Democracy Conference 2017
Time and place: Nov 29-30, 2017 09:00-16:00 Håndverkeren Konferansesenter, Rosenkrantzgate 7
Join our two-days closing conference "Lessons learned from Indonesia in comparative perspectives, especially Myanmar and Scandinavia". We will summarise all major findings and discuss the implications for domestic and international policy making.
Negotiating the Nation: Implications of Ethnic and Religious Diversity for National Identity
Time and place: Nov 20, 2017 09:00-15:30 Auditorium 2, Eilert Sundts hus, Blindern
At this final conference NATION researchers will present insights from our data and analysis on negotiating the nation, drawing on top-down as well as bottom-up perspectives, honing in on the role of the media, providing international comparative perspectives, and foregrounding the roles of religion and religious diversity.
INAS 2017 Conference
Time and place: Jun 8-9, 2017, 09:00-17:00 Eilert Sundt building, University of Oslo, Blindern, Auditorium 1
Welcome to the 10th INAS Conference in Oslo, Norway: "Segregation in schools and neighborhoods: consequences and dynamics”.
Reason and Affect in Divided Societies: The Nordic Case
Time and place: Apr 25, 2017 13:00-18:00 Auditorium 3, Eilert Sundts Hus, Blindern
Mini-conference with Cathrine Holst, Arne Johan Vetesen, and Henrik Syse on reason and affect in divided societies.
Programme
| 1.00pm: | Professor Cathrine Holst, University Oslo: “The 22 July Commission – Lessons for Democratic Theory” |
| 2.30pm: | Coffee break |
| 2.45pm: | Professor Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO): “The Fragility of Values – Exploring Freedom and Identity after the Terror Attacks of July 22, 2011” |
| 4.15pm: | Coffee break |
| 4.30pm: | Professor Arne Johan Vetlesen, University of Oslo: ”Narratives of Entitlement – Reflections on Accountability in the Case of Breivik” |
| 6.00pm: | End of conference. |
Ecological Challenges Conference 2017
Time and place: Feb 15-18, 2017, 09:00-17:00 Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo
Environmental movements use the slogan “System Change, not Climate Change.” It points out that international negotiations and technological innovations repeatedly fail to reduce carbon emissions levels, and that our societies need to be profoundly transformed to prevent disastrous climate change.
At the Ecological Challenges conference in Oslo, Norway 15-18 February 2017, we take this as a point of departure and focus on questions that relate to systemic change:
- What kind of systemic alternatives are desirable and feasible in the economic, political, social, and cultural spheres?
- What systems have to change, and why is it so hard to change them?
- What strategies could environmental movements adopt in order to achieve system change?
2016
The 18th Nordic Migration Conference 11-12 August, 2016
Time and place: Aug 11-12, 2016 Georg Sverdrups hus, Moltke Moes vei 39
The University of Oslo in cooperation with Nordic Migration Research and the Norwegian Network for Migration Research welcomes you to The 18th Nordic Migration Conference. This interdisciplinary and international conference takes place every two years, and will this time take place in Oslo.
Future Oslo - building a city that respects itself
Time and place: May 13, 2016, 09:00-16:00 Auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrups Hus (new library)
Oslo is expanding: about 150 000 new inhabitants are expected to live within its boundaries before 2030, and at least as many in its surroundings. Researchers, planners and politicians are invited to present knowledge and ideas on the challenges raised by urban growth.
Programme
9.00 From The Oslo Research Programme
Welcome
9.05 Chair: Associate Professor Erling Dokk Holm
Introduction: Unruly urbanisms
9.15 Professor Sako Musterd
Segregation in European cities
10.00 Professor Roger Andersson
Politics against segregation
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Professor Glen Bramley
Challenges in the planning of livable sustainable communities
‘Hovinbyen’
12.30 Architect Peter Butenschøn
‘Fjordbyen’ as concept and consequence
13.00 Chair and auditorium
Discussion
13.15 Lunch
14.00 Senior researcher Rolf Barlindhaug
14.30 Professor Per Gunnar Røe
15.00 Commissioner for urban development Hanna Marcussen
The Oslo Case
15.30 Chair and auditorium
So what?
16.00 Tentative end
2013
Paul Hawken Public Lecture - The Reimagination of Carbon
Time and place: June 19, 2013 17:00-18:00 Sophus Lies Auditorium, University of Oslo
This lecture is part of the international conference on “Transformation in a Changing Climate” that will take place at the University of Oslo, June 19-21, 2013 (see the Transformation website).