Guest lectures and seminars

Seminar and workshop on non-institutional approaches to art in public space.

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.

This workshop will bring together natural and social scientist as well as policy makers to explore specific climate risks facing the Nordic region, to develop a future, interdisciplinary research agenda, and to create a science-policy bridge for Nordic climate tipping points.

The Sociology Research Seminar features Professor Eva Bendix Petersen, director of The Research Centre for Problem-Oriented Project Learning at Roskilde University in Denmark.

The Sociology Research Seminar features Hannah Wohl, Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara.

How does the current crisis shed light on questions regarding the relationship between science, policy and democracy? Professor Cathrine Holst gives the 2020 Annual Lecture at the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences.

Online webinar: Can populism flourish during a pandemic? Are we witnessing a multicultural nationalism? These are the two of the questions asked by Rogers Brubaker and Tariq Modood in this webinar.

Book talk on "Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach" (Oxford University Press, 2019) with Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Dustin Avent-Holt (Augusta University). The event is open to all.

In this public lecture, Rogers Brubaker will talk about the distinctive ways in which religion can inform political conflict and violence.

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.

Kathryn Edin is one of the worlds leading poverty researchers, working in the domains of welfare and low-wage work, family life, and neighborhood contexts. The lecture is about her book Doing the Best I Can (2013).

Jon Elster is a new honorary doctor at University of Oslo and will hold the open lecture  On Anger in history. 

Department seminar: In addition to his honory doctor lecture, Jon Elster will hold an autobiographical lecture on the topic Marx and emotions.

Carlota Perez is one of the leading contemporary scholars in the study of present socio-technical change in a historical perspective. Come to her lecture and sign up to participate in her workshop at Blindern, UIO.

Building on his life-long engagement in the sociology of knowledge, Andrew Abbott will explore the relationship between research and policy in his talk at Eilert Sundts Hus, UIO.

Associate Professor Emma Engdahl, Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg

Professor Olli Pyyhtinen, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere

Professor Christian Borch, Department of Management, Philosophy and Politics, Copenhagen Business School