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Master of Clinical Health Care Kari-Anne Hoel at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Home care services for people with dementia - Tailored and person centered for improved quality of care” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Master Saskia van Laar at Centre for Educational Measurement will be defending the thesis "Null Baseline Modeling Approaches with Applications in International Large-Scale Educational Assessments" for the degree of PhD.
Dr Suki Finn is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London and a visiting fellow with the CPS at the University of Oslo. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southampton and has held other visiting fellowships at the University of Vienna (2023), Australian National University (2019), New York University (2018), and City University of New York Graduate Center (2014). Her areas of research span the philosophy of logic, metaphysics, philosophy of science, feminism, and epistemology. She has published a number of articles on these topics in Synthese, Bioethics, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, European Journal of the Philosophy of Science, Australasian Journal of Logic, Philosophia, and more. She is the author of What’s in a Doughnut Hole? And other philosophical food for thought (Icon, 2024) and editor of Women of Ideas (Oxford University Press, 2021). Dr Finn. is a University and College Union representative, and is on the Executive Committee for the Society for Women in Philosophy UK and the Council for the Royal Institute of Philosophy. For more information on her research, see: www.sukifinn.com
PhD candidate Zhuokun Li at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Characterizing and improving CRISPR-Cas9 system with high-throughput methods" for the degree of PhD.
M.Sc. Alisa Elinsdatter Dewan at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Investigating adaptive immune reactions relevant to celiac disease in animal models” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Isak H?rem (University of Oslo)
Dr. David Adams, Senior Group Leader & Head of Experimental Cancer Genetics, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, will present his research as part of the NCMM Tuesday Seminar Series.
Department seminar. Timm Behler is a Doctoral Student at the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg. He will present the paper: "Salience-Based Stereotyping."
- Causes, prevention and intervention
Nikoletta Kanavou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
The third Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture will be given by Jason Allen-Paisant, Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing, and will address the challenge of a just ecological transition by exploring how ideas and praxes of ‘cultivation’ might foster an awareness of deep time in mainstream political consciousness.
Department seminar. David Hémous is the UBS Foundation Associate Professor of Economics of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Zurich and an Affiliated Professor at the UBS Center. He will present the paper: "Trade, Innovation and Optimal Patent Protection" (written with Simon Lepot, Ralph Ossa, Tom Sampson, Julian Sch?rer)
Geoffrey Galt Harpham is the author of thirteen books and over one hundred articles and essays in the fields of literary studies, philosophy, linguistics, and intellectual history. His recent books are Scholarship and Freedom (Harvard Univ. Press) and Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Entertainment (Univ. of South Carolina Press). His Theories of Race 1684-1900, an anthology of scientific and philosophical discussions of the race concept, will be online in early summer 2023. He has taught at Tulane University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University, and from 2002-15, he was director of the National Humanities Center.
The European Causal Inference Meeting 2023 will take place on April 19th-21st in Oslo.
David Grimaldi (University of Oslo)
Department seminar. Karl Harmenberg is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "Cost-effective fiscal stabilization."
In the second Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture, Matthew Chrulew, a writer and researcher from Boorloo/Perth, will talk about behavioural and cultural change among animals exposed to human activity.
Department seminar. Morten O. Ravn is a Professor at University College London. He will present the paper: "Foreign Portfolios and Domestic Business Cycles with Heterogeneous Agents".
Kristin Oxley is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK). This seminar marks her midway evaluation.
J?rg Rüpke (Erfurt)
Amina Sije?i? Selimovi? at the Faculty of Theology will defend her doctoral dissertation: “Am I One of the People? Perception, Position and Role of Women Theologians within the Islamic Community of Bosnia-Herzegovina” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).