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This conference brings together an international team of scholars in a collaborative effort to investigate historical bodies in relations of comparisons and negotiations, to engage in dialogue beyond disciplinary boundaries.

In this talk, professor of design history Dr. Kjetil Fallan, explores design interventions at, and in the wake of, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972. What can design activism tell us about the conference's influence on future political decision-making? Or about the development of environmental thinking and ecologically informed design ideology in Scandinavia?

Ole Jacob Madsen (f. 1978) er utdannet psykolog og filosof og jobber som professor i kultur- og samfunnspsykologi ved Psykologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo. Hans forskning har særlig omhandlet hvordan psykologien utgjør et meningsrammeverk for det moderne menneskets liv. Han har tidligere utgitt bøkene Den terapeutiske kultur (2010/2017), "Det er innover vi må gå" (2014), Generasjon prestasjon (2018), Livsmestring på timeplanen (2020) og Skolevegringsmysteriet (sammen med Gaute Brochmann) (2022). 

Welcome to this seminar with Tumaini Malenga from The African Institute for Development Policy, Malawi.

Tuesday series: Let's talk about microbiomes – Fernanda Petersen.

MD Rishav Koirala at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Exploring outcome of trauma in terms of mental illnesses and inflammatory markers in a clinical population in Nepal” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Annual Oslo SDG Initiative conference in collaboration with Norad

MD Itai Schalit at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Accelerometer-based monitoring of left ventricular assist device: tromboembolism and pump thrombosis detection in HeartWare HVAD” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Msc Eva Birgitte Aamodt at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Brain Imaging Markers of Decline in Cognitive Ability After Stroke” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Polar expedition souvenirs at Nordiska museet: a re-narration of objects.

Master of Health Sciences Bih Hycenta Chendi at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Host biosignatures as diagnostic tools for Tuberculosis in low and high endemic regions” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

SPARK Norway Educational Forum are monthly open meetings organized by UiO:Life Science and SPARK Norway partners.

Cand. med. Ketil Slagstad at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “On the Boundaries of Care: The Ephemerality of Transgender Medicine in the Welfare State, Scandinavia 1951–2001” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand. med. Miriam Sjåstad Langseth at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in coronary artery disease. Prognostic value and roles in atherothrombosis” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

This conference will bring together leading ageing researchers from around the world working on molecular, cellular, individual and societal levels of ageing.

MSc Farhat Fatima at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Gastric bypass versus sleeve gastrectomy in type 2 diabetes: Effects on remission of type 2 diabetes and beta cell function” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Cand.med/MD Javier Luzon at Institute of Clinical Medicine will be defending the thesis “Applying emerging 3D visualization technologies to macro and micro anatomical datasets, for the improvement of operative planning, performance and outcomes in colon cancer surgery” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

In this talk, Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Lesley Green, will draw on current Anthropocene scholarship in the environmental humanities and social sciences to suggest four approaches to strengthening trans-disciplinarity engagement between social and natural sciences. 

MD Nayla Cristina do Vale Moreira at Institute of Health and Society will be defending the thesis “Risk of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes: a cross-sectional study from North-eastern Brazil” for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Professor Ewan Birney, CBE FRS FMedSci, Deputy Director General, EMBL & Director, EMBL-EBI will give a public talk and guest lecture followed by a Q&A session. The session is hosted by Inge Jonassen, UiB & Kjetil Taskén, OUH/UiO.

Professor Ewan Birney will give a public talk and guest lecture at the Radium Hospital in Oslo.