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Dr. Julien Gagneur, Professor in Computational Molecular Medicine at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, will present his research on "Detecting and predicting aberrant splicing in human and Species-aware DNA language modeling."

This talk by Alessandro Iandolo examines the USSR's involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and political inspiration for the first post-independence governments in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. 

Department seminar. John Van Reenen is Ronald Coase School Professor at the London School of Economics and Digital Fellow, Initiative for the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT). He will present the paper: "Ray of Hope? China and the Rise of Solar Energy".

MSc Gugsa Nemera Germossa at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Re-organising in-hospital Pain Management: Evaluation of a Novel Nurse-Based Pain Management Programme in an Ethiopian University Medical Centre” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med. Kristina Malene Ødegaard at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Heart Failure in Norway: Incidence, prevalence, and compliance to pharmacotherapy: Insights from Norwegian nationwide health registries” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

MultiLing Colloquia A & B 2023

Christopher Siwicki (The Norwegian Institute in Rome)

On embedded questions – Experimental data and a theoretical account

M.Sc. Ann Louise Lie at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Unpacking the politics of global public-private partnerships in global nutrition governance: Understanding the influence of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement (SUN)” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

In this talk, professor of philosophy, Alejandra Mancilla, asks who should be the political representatives in a place with no human inhabitants, namely, Antarctica. While the Antarctic Treaty has been celebrated as a successful legal instrument for the protection of the continent, some have criticized its elitist nature and demanded a more democratic system of governance. But, should only humans be part of this arrangement? Why not penguins and maybe icebergs too?

Giuliano Sidro (Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, UC Berkeley)

Master Jorunn Sofie Randby at Institute of Basic Medical Sciences will be defending the thesis “Promoting public health through implementation of school meal guidelines in Norway: Adherence monitoring, practice determinants and implementation strategies” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

The workshop is part of the project “Rethinking the Soviet experiment: Ukrainian and Russian perspectives” (RSE) which brings together scholars of 20^th c. Soviet culture and society who had to flee the ongoing war in Ukraine and its catastrophic aftermath. RSE is being organized as a cooperation between the University of Oslo, the Humboldt University in Berlin, and the University of Belgrade and aims to provide opportunities of networking and intellectual exchange for Ukrainian, Russian, and Ukrainian-Russian scholars who are currently based in Europe.

Sponsored by Circle U (European University Alliance).

If you wish to participate in the first workshop, please contact the organizers.

Camille Coye (Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure, Paris) is a visiting researcher at the Super Linguistics research group. She works on animal communication.

Join us at Eilert Sundts hus, this Friday, for a CIMS seminar with Serap Saritas, on 'Islamic Financial Securities: The Case of Turkey', followed by a Q&A led by Einar Wigen, Professor in Turkish Studies.

Valentina Orrù (University of Pavia)

Department seminar. Rafael Dix-Carneiro is an Associate Professor of Economics at Duke University. He will present the paper: "Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks" (written with Kirill Borusyak and Brian K. Kovak).

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.

The coarse structure of the left periphery: towards a new model of the clause

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  

Based on long-term engagement with the Provençal case, this talk by James Costa (Professor, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle) explores why language revitalization often fails.

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.