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Why We Seek Them Out, and What Their Future Holds. Guest lecture by professor Brenden Rensink.

Comparing Indigenous Refugees in the North American Borderlands: Historical Lessons for Contemporary Crises.

Invited speaker Ben Black will present on the topic “Learning About Natural Chromosomes to Make New Ones”.

Department seminar. Kai Liu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. He will present the paper: "Understanding Program Complementarities: Estimating the Dynamic Effects of Head Start with Multiple Alternatives" (written with Marc K. Chan Antonio and Dalla-Zuanna).

Department seminar. Ingrid Mikkelsen Semb is a Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. She will present the paper: "Evaluating affirmative action when college applications are endogenous."

Department seminar. Lee Fleming is a Professor at UC Berkeley. He will present a paper: "Isolating the inter-personal mechanisms of absorptive capacity" (written with Benjamin Balsmeier and Sonja Lück). 

Department seminar. Laura Derksen is a researcher at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research in Oslo. She will present the paper: "Who Knows? The Effect of Information Access on Social Network Centrality" (written with Pedro CL Souza).

In this seminar, Professor Susan Erikson will use the World Bank's pandemic bond fiasco to offer new insights into how capitalism shapes pandemic preparedness and response.

Department seminar. Anders Humlum is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. He will present the paper: "Changing Tracks: Does Reskilling Help Disabled Workers Back to Work?" (written with Jakob R. Munch and Pernille Plato).

The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), the Network for Asian Studies (Asianettverket), the University of Bergen, and the Chr.  Michelsen Institute (CMI) are co-hosting the 2023 Nordic NIAS Council (NNC) / ASIANET Conference: "Consuming Asia - Systems and Structures of Consumption in Modern and Contemporary Asia"

Agata Bochynska (Open Research section, University of Oslo Library) will present and discuss assessment of transparency practices in linguistics and provide recommendations and solutions for increasing the transparency of linguistics research.

Philippe Huneman is a Professor at the IHPST (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques), Université Paris 1. He focuses on the philosophy of evolutionary biology and ecology. His
main interests are: the variety of evolutionary explanations; the relations between variation, selection, and drift; the issue of individuality in biology related to the “evolutionary transitions” program and the formal definitions of emergence; the philosophy of ecology and especially neutral theories in community ecology. Last books published: Why? The philosophy behind the question (Stanford University Press) and Death. Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology (Palgrave-McMillam). 

Note that exceptionally, the session will be held on a Friday, between 11:15 and 12:30. 

Department seminar. Kyle Herkenhoff is a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. He will present the paper: "Intergenerational Mobility and Credit" (written with J. Carter Braxton, Nisha Chikhale, and Gordon Phillips).

Zaad Mahmoud analyses the changing nature of political elites in West Bengal

Find out how CoMorMent's research on the links between mental and physical health can be translated into clinical practice at this webinar.

Chomsky, Russian, fake news, Old French. These are all keywords for the GAME ON workshop on June 13th.

Department seminar. Fernando Stipanicic Márquez is
a Postdoctoral Researcher at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. He will present the paper: "The Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from the Jet Age" (written with Stefan Pauly).

In this talk, Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand presents data from the underdescribed Austronesian language Patani.

Join us for a CIMS seminar and panel discussion on Rebel Governance and Kinship Groups in the Middle East and Africa

Can planetary health escape a technocratic tunnel vision on climate and health adaptation and contribute to contextualised, participatory policy actions that improve health equity? In this seminar, Dr. Remco van de Pas will unpack the planetary health paradigm.