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ESOP seminar. Helmut Rainer is a Professor of Economics at the University of Munich. He will present a paper entitled "More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth", co-authored by Christina Felfe, Martin Kocher, Judith Saurer and Thomas Siedler.

Professor Frank Sobott, Chair of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry at the Astbury Centre, University of Leeds, will give the talk titled, "Dynamic protein structure: from protein disorder to membrane pores"

Maria Witek (Birmingham) will lecture on "Musical Groove: Effect on pleasure, body-movement and the brain".

ESOP seminar. Vasiliki Skreta is a Professor at University College London. She will present a paper entitled "Mechanism Design with Limited Commitment: An Information Design Approach", co-authored by Laura Doval.

Dr. Jane Maienschein is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Maienschein is University Professor, Regents’ Professor, President’s Professor, and Director of the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University.  She is also a Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where she heads the project funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation on “Putting History and Philosophy of Science to Work with the Life Sciences.” Maienschein has served as president of the History of Science Society and of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Author of Embryos Under the Microscope and Whose View of Life?, she is also (co)editor of a dozen volumes including most recently Visions of Cell Biology and The Ark and Beyond.  

Dr. Mika Rämet, of PEDEGO research unit, University of Oulo, Finland, will give a talk titled, "Zebrafish as a model to study Mycobacterial infection". 

Dr. Jochen Markard will hold a talk reflecting on the emerging research topics in the field of energy transition studies.

ESOP seminar. Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management at the University of California, Berkeley. He will present a paper entitled "The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts and the Eurozone Crisis", co-authored by Philippe Martin and Todd Messer.

Ankur Garg, PhD, will give a talk titled, "Structural and functional analysis of ribonuclease ZC3H12C mediated regulation of immune responses"

Lecture by Gabriele Iannàccaro, University of Milano-Bicocca

ESOP seminar. Attila Lindner is an Assistant Professor at University College London.

Melissa Lane is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and the Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. An associated faculty member in the Princeton Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy, she researches and teaches in the area of the history of political thought, with a special expertise in ancient Greek thought, and in normative political philosophy, including especially environmental ethics and politics.

The seminar is open for everyone!

Marieke Kuijjer, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. School of Public Health, will give a talk titled: "Understanding cancer using integrative network models"

Samir Okasha is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Okasha is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Bristol. His research is focused around philosophy of biology, evolutionary theory, epistemology and philosophy of science.He is a winner of Lakatos Award for his book Evolution and the Levels of Selection.

The seminar is open for everyone!

ESOP seminar. Joseph Harrington is the Patrick T. Harker Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He will present a paper entitled "Collusion through Coordination of Announcements", co-authored by Lixin Ye.

Join us for the screening of Pili, a feature length drama set in rural Tanzania reflecting the life a poor, HIV-positive single mother of two children. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Sophie Harman, producer of the film and researcher in International Relations/Global Health (QMUL).

ESOP seminar. Claudia Steinwender is an Assistant Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. She will present a paper entitled "Spinning the web: The impact of ICT on trade in intermediates and technology diffusion", co-authored by Réka Juhász.

In this seminar drawing from a combined epidemiological and ethnographic study, Dr Freya Jephcott (Queen's College Cambridge), will unpack the consequences of involving different types of actors, both national and international, in the response to a mysterious outbreak in Ghana (2012). Come and join us for an interesting discussion!

ESOP seminar. Francesco Decarolis is an Associate Professor at Bocconi University. He will present a paper entitled "Past performance and procurement outcomes", co-authored by Giancarlo Spagnolo and Riccardo Pacini.

The lecture will be delivered in English and is open to anyone who might be interested.

Workshop at UiO, 26-27 April 2018

CAN A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED APPROACH ACCELERATE REDUCTION OF UNDERNUTRITION AND OBESITY?

The seminar is open to everybody and free of charge, but registration was required for lunch order. Registration is now closed, but you are welcome to join the seminar without lunch. 

Tenured associate professor Richard Dawid is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Dawid is professor of philosophy of science at Stockholm University. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna. After some years as a phyisicist at the TU Munich and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he switched to philosophy in 2000. He worked as a philosopher of science at the University of Vienna and the MCMP Munich before coming to Stockholm in 2016. 

ESOP seminar. Niels Johannesen is a professor at the University of Copenhagen. He will present a paper entitled "Tax evasion and inequality", co-authored by Annette Alstadsæter, and Grabiel Zucman,