Previous events - Page 9
Eight young opera talents visit the University Aula
An evening filled with musical beauty, flirts and galantry
Czech evening in the University Aula
The concert has been cancelled due to illness
Open lectures by Catherine (Katie) Peichel and Dag Undlien. The topic covers reconciling Mendelian genetics and Darwinian evolution, and how genetics is used in modern medicine.
Professor and former Minister of Research and Higher Education in Ethiopia Hirut Woldemariam Teketel (University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is appointed honorary doctor by the Rectorate of the University of Oslo, and will give a lecture on that occasion.
Polish-Canadian star pianist with music by Biber, Chopin and Shostakovich
Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore reflects on the global governance reforms needed in light of a new confluence of global insecurities stemming from pandemics, the growing challenges of the global commons and a more polarised world.
Join the celebration of one of Norway's most intriguing artistic voices.
World-famous pianist performs Mozart's Piano concerto no. 22.
Leif Ove Andsnes meets musicians from the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra in different constellations.
World-famous pianist performs Mozart's Piano concerto no. 24.
The COVID-19 pandemic has infected at least 500 million people and killed more than six million. How can we learn from these events and develop a complete pandemic preparedness and response system? What role can universities and university alliances play?
Living in Hong Kong is to witness history as it unfolds. The city was handed over from the British Crown to the Chinese Communist Party in 1997, and is globally known as a skyscraper-lined economic powerhouse. It is also the site of intense political struggle. The talk brings together two Hong Kong activists who have shaped historical events and an historian who has studied them.
How can active student engagement in research improve the quality of education? Learn from colleagues at King’s College London and the University of Oslo.
In February 2022, UiO adopted a very ambitious climate and environmental strategy. A first draft of an action plan accompanying the strategy has been submitted for consultation, and we invite you to an open debate meeting!
Can we expect future generations to take part in the public debate when hate speech and anti-democratic extremism are spreading at record speed on the internet and in social media? Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St?re and Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier will join young Norwegian politicians, survivors of terrorist attacks and German social commentators for a discussion on this issue.
The 2021 Anders Jahre Main Award for Medical Research goes to Professor Poul Nissen and the 2020 Main Award goes to Professors Jiri Bartek and Jiri Lukas. The 2021 Young Researcher Award goes to Professor Barbara van Loon and the 2020 Award goes to Professor Niklas Bj?rkstr?m.
Should we allocate more resources to interdisciplinary environmental research? Reduce air travel by half? Let climate and the environment permeate all study programs? Employees and students are invited to have their say and put their mark on UiO's new climate and environmental strategy.
Open lectures by C. Jessica E. Metcalf and John-Arne R?ttingen. The topics are the ecology and evolution of hosts and pathogens, and translating science to policy – the case of pandemic preparedness and response.
The University of Oslo’s North-South Committee is holding a panel debate on the role of South perspectives in UiO’s input to the Government’s Long Term Plan for Research and Higher Education (LTP). The North-South Committee’s role is to highlight cooperation with the global South.
Easter will be different for everyone this year, also for our students. As an encouragement we are wishing the students Happy Easter with an online concert. With us we have Kristian Kristensen, better known as “the guy with the voice”.
Through the rise of YouTube and Facebook, our online behavior has become a commodity that is bought and sold. Algorithms are made in a way to make us addicted, and we are fed increasingly more extreme content to keep us tuned in.
PRIO and the University of Oslo (Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages) invite you to a seminar about the role of social media and protest, particularly during the Arab Spring.
The two speakers at the Kristine Bonnevie lectures for 2019 will be the German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize-winner Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and the Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel Prize-winner May-Britt Moser. Moser's lecture will be a multimedia concert lecture together with the Trondheim Soloists. This event is part of the University of Oslo's Annual Festivities 2019.