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Living in Hong Kong is to witness history as it unfolds. The city was handed over from the British Crown to the Chinese Communist Party in 1997, and is globally known as a skyscraper-lined economic powerhouse. It is also the site of intense political struggle. The talk brings together two Hong Kong activists who have shaped historical events and an historian who has studied them.
How can active student engagement in research improve the quality of education? Learn from colleagues at King’s College London and the University of Oslo.
In February 2022, UiO adopted a very ambitious climate and environmental strategy. A first draft of an action plan accompanying the strategy has been submitted for consultation, and we invite you to an open debate meeting!
Can we expect future generations to take part in the public debate when hate speech and anti-democratic extremism are spreading at record speed on the internet and in social media? Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St?re and Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier will join young Norwegian politicians, survivors of terrorist attacks and German social commentators for a discussion on this issue.
The 2021 Anders Jahre Main Award for Medical Research goes to Professor Poul Nissen and the 2020 Main Award goes to Professors Jiri Bartek and Jiri Lukas. The 2021 Young Researcher Award goes to Professor Barbara van Loon and the 2020 Award goes to Professor Niklas Bj?rkstr?m.
Should we allocate more resources to interdisciplinary environmental research? Reduce air travel by half? Let climate and the environment permeate all study programs? Employees and students are invited to have their say and put their mark on UiO's new climate and environmental strategy.
Open lectures by C. Jessica E. Metcalf and John-Arne R?ttingen. The topics are the ecology and evolution of hosts and pathogens, and translating science to policy – the case of pandemic preparedness and response.
The University of Oslo’s North-South Committee is holding a panel debate on the role of South perspectives in UiO’s input to the Government’s Long Term Plan for Research and Higher Education (LTP). The North-South Committee’s role is to highlight cooperation with the global South.
Easter will be different for everyone this year, also for our students. As an encouragement we are wishing the students Happy Easter with an online concert. With us we have Kristian Kristensen, better known as “the guy with the voice”.
Through the rise of YouTube and Facebook, our online behavior has become a commodity that is bought and sold. Algorithms are made in a way to make us addicted, and we are fed increasingly more extreme content to keep us tuned in.
PRIO and the University of Oslo (Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages) invite you to a seminar about the role of social media and protest, particularly during the Arab Spring.
The two speakers at the Kristine Bonnevie lectures for 2019 will be the German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize-winner Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, and the Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel Prize-winner May-Britt Moser. Moser's lecture will be a multimedia concert lecture together with the Trondheim Soloists. This event is part of the University of Oslo's Annual Festivities 2019.
In collaboration with the Academy of Opera (KHiO), UiO invites you to a summer concert with young opera singers at "Young in the Aula".
The Austrian composer Joseph Haydn lived at a time when nature touched all aspects of life, and together with Creation (1798), the Four Seasons (1809) is one of his most ambitious works.
Georg Friedrich Handel's first oratorio from 1707 is about temptations that Beauty (Belezza) is exposed to by Pleasure (Piacere), while Time (Tempo) and Desillusion (Disiganno) give good advice.
UiO and Oslo Symphony Orchestra invite to a concert with one of our foremost young bassoonists.
UiO and the Fagerborg Music Festival 2019 invite to a concert with the theme "Unheard of!" The audience will experience works by John Cage, Hjalmar Borgstr?m and Ludwig van Beethoven. Eldbj?rg Hemsing is the evening's soloist, and Terje Boye Hansen is the conductor.
We welcome you to two open lectures! Spencer C. H. Barrett on "Plant sex and the foundations of evolutionary biology", and Anja C. Andersen on "The importance of scientific integrity". This event is part of the University’s annual celebration.
We welcome you to two open lectures! Meave Leakey on "Milestones in the story of us – why and when did we come to be?", and Alan Alda on "Getting beyond a blind date with science". This event is part of the University’s annual celebration.
Open for all! Speakers: Corina E. Tarnita from Princeton University and Jan M. Nordbotten from Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen. This event is part of the University’s annual celebration.
Georgina Mace: "How should we value nature in a human-dominated world?". James Wilsdon: "The science and art of scientific advice"
The author, philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci will give a lecture on: "The relationship between science and philosophy". Hopi Hoekstra from Harvard University will tell us about: "Digging for genes that affect behavior". The Kristine Bonnevie lectures on evolutionary biology is part of the University’s annual celebration.
This year at the annual Kristine Bonnevie lectures, the geneticist and popular science author Steve Jones from University College London will tell you "What sex really means". Eugenie C. Scott from The National Center for Science Education will draw on her long experience in defending science education in the U.S., and explain why communicating science is so important in her lecture "Defending evolution - and some other sciences". The Kristine Bonnevie lecture on evolutionary biology is part of the University’s annual celebration.
Speakers: Cori Bargmann and Carl Zimmer. The Kristine Bonnevie lecture on evolutionary biology is part of the University’s annual celebration.
Speakers: Elizabeth Hadly, Richard Dawkins and Jim Al-Khalili