2022
Postapocalyptic environmentalism? Narratives in the Green movement.
Time and place: Nov 16, 2022 14:15-16:00 aud. 3, Eilert Sundts hus
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.
Nordic Climate Tipping Points: How to Prepare for a Non-linear Future – Science-Policy Workshop
Time and place: Oct 11, 2022 09:00-17:00 Assembly room, 12th floor, Niels Treschows hus
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.
Eva Bendix: Learning From Project Work - On the Philosophy Behind Roskilde University
Time and place: March 16, 2022 12:00-13:00 2nd floor, Harriet Holters hus
The Sociology Research Seminar features Professor Eva Bendix Petersen, director of The Research Centre for Problem-Oriented Project Learning at Roskilde University in Denmark.
Hannah Wohl: Found by Creativity
Time and place: Feb 9, 2022 15:00-16:00 2nd floor, Harriet Holters hus
The Sociology Research Seminar features Hannah Wohl, Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara.
2020
Rogers Brubaker and Tariq Modood: Nationalism and Populism Today
Time and place: May 28, 2020 19:00-20:30, Online webinar
Organizer: Department of Sociology and Human Geography
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.
Programme
Rogers Brubaker: Paradoxes of Populism during the Pandemic
Can populism, widely understood as implacably hostile to expertise, flourish during a medical emergency that has increased the demand for and trust in expertise? Can populism, which thrives on crisis, gain traction by accusing mainstream politicians and media of overblowing and even inventing a crisis? Can populism, ordinarily protectionist in cultural and securitarian as well as economic senses, prosper by challenging the allegedly over-protective “nanny state”?
Suggested reading before the webinar: Why populism? (Article by Brubaker, 2017)
Tariq Modood: A Multicultural Nationalism?
What is often described today as neo-nationalism or a new nationalist-populism arguably looks like the old nationalism. What is emerging as genuinely new are the identity-based nationalisms of the centre-left, sometimes called ‘liberal nationalism’ or ‘progressive patriotism’, which Nationalism Studies has been slow to recognize. I shall explore this idea with special reference to multiculturalism; the place of secularism, religion and religious identity; and the place of the majority.
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey og Dustin Avent-Holt: Relational Inequalities – An Organizational Approach
Time and place: Jan 17, 2020 12:00-13:15, Auditorium 4, Eilert Sundts hus, Blindern, Universitetet i Oslo
This talk is an introduction to relational inequality theory (RIT), with applications to linked employer-employee data sources. RIT makes the following assertions: Resources, like money, jobs and dignity, are generated in organizations. Actors make claims on those resources. Some people are denied access to organizational resources through processes of social exclusion and social closure. Others appropriate resources based on their ability to exploit weaker actors in interactional and exchange relationships. Actors are more or less powerful in these claims-making processes, and this relational power tends to be associated with categorical distinctions such as class, occupation, gender, education, citizenship, race and the like. Institutions and organizational fields influence, but do not determine, action and opportunities. Rather, actors use cultural and other tools to devise local strategies of action.
Cathrine Holst – CPS Annual Lecture: Expertise and democracy: what can we learn from the corona virus crisis?
Time and place: Oct 29, 2020 14:15-16:00, Zoom
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.
2018
Religious Dimensions of Conflict and Violence
Time and place: Sep 14, 2018 10:15-12:00 Aud.7, Eilert Sundts House
In this public lecture, Rogers Brubaker will talk about the distinctive ways in which religion can inform political conflict and violence.
Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities
Time and place: Sep 6, 2018 12:15-14:00 Aud. 2, Eilert Sundts House
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.
2017
Fragile Fatherhood: The Growth of Family Instability and Complexity in the U.S. and the Implications for Child Wellbeing
Time and place: Sep 20, 2017 12:15-14:00 Eilert Sundt building, University of Oslo, Blindern, Auditorium 5
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).
Eilert Sundt lecture 2017: $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
Time and place: 19 Sep, 2017 14:15-16:00 Aud 1, Eilert Sundts hus
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?
Edin's study is based on novel income surveys and in-depth interviews and field work among America's poorest. 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. She is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Carlota Perez: Capitalism, Technology and a Green Golden Age
Time and place: May 12, 2017 10:15-17:00 Blindern, UIO
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Lecture: May 12, 2017 10:15 AM – 12:00, A5, Eilert Sundts hus, Molkte Moesvei 31
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Workshop: May 12, 2017 15:15 PM – 17:00, seminar room 132, Harriet Holters hus, Molkte Moesvei 31.
Carlota Perez is a researcher, lecturer and international consultant, specialized in the social and economic impact of technical change. She is Centennial Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics, U.K.; Professor of Technology and Development, Technological University of Tallinn, Estonia; Research Affiliate, and Honorary Professor at SPRU, Science and Technology Policy Research, School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, U.K.
Carlota Perez has developed Joseph Schumpeter and Christopher Freeman’s work on technologically based long surges in techno-economic development, particularly by coining the concept of techno-economic paradigms, and by introducing periods of financial instability into this macro-historical perspective. She has also explored what role the awareness of global environmental problems may play in the further development and diffusion of the information-technology paradigm. This will be the topic of her lecture. Her main work is Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital (2002), and she is presently working on a follow up book that will deal with the role of the state in each technological revolution. She will contribute to a workshop on these matters.
Andrew Abbott: Varieties of Normative Inquiry in Social Science
Time and place: May 8, 2017 14:15-16:00 A3, Eilert Sundts hus, Moltke Moesvei 31
Professor Andrew Abbott will address the long-term prospects for a social science that can move away from the engineering model (social sciences tell policy-makers how things "are" and policy-makers then "use" this knowledge in making policy) towards a model in which the social sciences themselves combine rigorous research and equally rigorous normative reasoning.
Sociology as a case study
Abbott will consider the proper organization for normative inquiry in social science, taking sociology as a case study. He considers the two major existing positions.
First is the dualist position, according to which sociologists are scientists whose expert knowledge of social life provides input to a separate normative/political system. Second is the monist position, which rejects this isolation of scholarship from political or normative action, believing rather that normative action informs and possibly deepens our sociological work.
He then turns to two hypothetical alternatives. First, he discusses the possibility of a sub-discipline like political theory in political science. Such a sub-discipline would inquire systematically into the political and normative questions on which sociology bears, probably basing this inquiry on a set of canonical moral texts. In a second, “legalist” alternative, such a normative subdiscipline would not organize itself around a set of canonical texts, but rather around the detailed normative examination of bodies of sociological research.
Andrew Abbott evaluates these four alternatives against four separate criteria: practicality, intellectual coherence, potential trajectory, and ability to handle cultural differences.
Jon Elster: Honorary doctor 2017
Time and place: Aug 30, 2017 12:15-13:30 Aud 1, Eilert Sundt House
Jon Elster is a new honorary doctor at University of Oslo and will hold the open lecture On Anger in history.
Jon Elster: From Marx to Emotions
Time and place: Aug 29, 2017 10:15-12:00 Aud 4, Eilert Sundts House
Department seminar: In addition to his honory doctor lecture, Jon Elster will hold an autobiographical lecture on the topic Marx and emotions.
2015
Climate Society presents - Norway’s petroleum policy and opportunistic adaptation
Time and place: Sep 3, 2015 11:15-12:00 Auditorium 3, Eilert Sundts hus
Lunch seminar with Berit Kristoffersen, University of Tromsø
The Birth of Social Psychology: From Adam Smith to Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead
Time and place: Dec 10, 2015 14:15-16:00 Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka: Auditorium 2
Associate Professor Emma Engdahl, Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg
The Real as Relations: Georg Simmel as a Pioneer of Relational Sociology
Time and place: Dec 3, 2015 14:15-16:00 Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka: Auditorium 2
Professor Olli Pyyhtinen, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere
The Specter of Crowds: Modernity’s Flip Side
Time and place: Nov 19, 2015 16:15-18:00 Eilert Sundts hus, A-blokka: Auditorium 4
Professor Christian Borch, Department of Management, Philosophy and Politics, Copenhagen Business School
2014
Seminar: Realizing China's Urban Dream
Time and place: Oct. 15, 2014 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Auditorium 4, Eilert Sundts hus
China’s urban population could top 1 billion people in the next two decades. Can China successfully navigate through this uncharted water, and realize its urban dream?
China is urbanizing at an unprecedented rate. If the current trend holds, China’s urban population could top 1 billion people in the next two decades.
In this seminar Xuemei Bai will make a presentation with special focus on the key policy challenges.
Per Gunnar Røe, Head of Department Sociology and Human Geography, UiO and Solveig Glomsrød, Research Director, CICERO will comment.
Moderator: UiO Professor Karen O'Brien.
Lunch seminar: Rethinking Geographies of Citizenship
Time and place: – , Rådsstyresalen
The seminar will explore a broad conception of citizenship as a common frame for geographical research on topics such as democratization struggles, transnationalism, labour mobilization and media representations.
Towards this purpose, five thematic presentations will examine different dimensions, spatialities and politics of citizenship. The presentations will be followed by a discussion on spatiality and citizenship as a possible focal point for political geographic scholarship at the University of Oslo.
- Spatiality and politics of citizenship: Kristian Stokke (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, UiO)
- What does it take to belong? Citizenship beyond legal status in the context of migrant transnationalism: Marta Bivand Erdal (Peace Research Institute, Oslo)
- Workers, citizenship and precarious employment: David Jordhus-Lier (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, UiO)
- Citizenship, political space and Chinese labor NGOs: Marielle Stigum Gleiss (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, UiO)
- Performing citizenship under authoritarianism: Elin Sæther (Department of Sociology and Human Geography, UiO)
- Comments and reflections: Geraldine Pratt (Department of Geography, University of British Columbia)
Climate Beliefs: The relationship between belief system flexibility and adaptation
Time and place: Aug. 20, 2014 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, room 221, Harriet Holters hus
The seminar will start with an introduction by Professor Karen O'Brien at Department of Sociology and Human Geography, UiO and then there will be a talk by Dr. Ananka Loubser a Philosopher at North-West University in South Africa. A discussion will follow.
This seminar explores how beliefs are organized and structured, how they change, and consequently how they influence adaptation to climate change. The interactive talk focuses on the mapping of belief systems, identification of belief flexibility indicators and some innovative methods to measure these in communities in rural South Africa. The seminar considers belief system flexibility as a significant factor in the reduction of vulnerability and risk. The discussions will have an interdisciplinary focus, and scientists and students from different fields are welcome.
Seminar with professor Tariq Modood: 'Is There A Crisis of Secularism in Western Europe?'
Time and place: June 18, 2014 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, room 221, Harriet Holters hus
Tariq Modood is a professor at the University of Bristol and the founding director of the University Research Centre for the study of ethnicity and citizenship.