Events

Michael Burawoy is a British, sociological Marxist, best known as author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalism – a study on work and organizations that has been translated into a number of languages – and as the leading proponent of public sociology.

The EUMARGINS is pleased to announce that our final conference on the 'Inclusion and Exclusion of Young Adult Immigrants' will take place on 14 September in Oslo, Norway. 

The Vilhelm Aubert Memorial Lecture 2011, organized by the Department of Sociology and Human Geography and the Institute for social research, will be given by Anthony Giddens.

He will lecture on The Future of Social Democracy

Sunnee Billingsley is a post-doctor at the University of Stockholm. She has worked on changes in fertility and mortality in the Russian population since the fall of communism. At AKS Billingsley will present a summary of developments within these important topics in recent decades. Do you know much about Russia? Probably not. Our biggest neighbour has been through enormous transformations in recent decades. The consequences: low fertility, high mortality.

Førsteamanuensis Arvid Fennefoss, ISS

Forsker Jørgen Svalund, Fafo

Jeremy Freese (Northwestern, USA) gjester AKS-seminaret i november 2010. Freese er professor i sosiologi ved Northwestern University i Chicago, og er kjent som den for tiden ledende ekspert på sosiologiens og samfunnsvitenskapens respons til utviklingen i moderne genetikk og sosiobiologi. Han har publisert en rekke arbeider i topptidsskrifter omkring dette og tilstøtende tema, og holder i den anledning et foredrag over dette på AKS-seminaret. 

Gianluca Manzo (Sorbonne, FR) gjester Oslo og ISS i oktober/november 2010. Han holder i den anledning et innlegg på AKS-seminaret med tittelen "Modelling Educational Stratification Mechanisms by Agent-based Models: an Application to French and Italian Data".

Hvordan utvikles ulikhet i utdanning over tid? Hvilke mekanismer er med? Hvordan samvirker disse mekanismene? Manzo bruker agentbaserte simuleringsmodeller til å gjenskape ulikhetsmønstre i Frankrike og Italia.

Til daglig er Gianluca Manzo forsker ved CNRS på Sorbonne i Paris.

Professor Ragnvald Kalleberg, ISS

Stadig senere fødsler og stadig mer komplekse familiemønstre er trekk ved utviklingen, ikke bare i Norge, men også USA og Storbritannia. Hvilke konsekvenser har senere fødsler og mer komplekse familiemønstre for barnas helse? Wendy Sigle-Rushton presenterer etarbeid om dette temaet på AKS-seminaret i oktober. Det er et samarbeid med Alice Goisis.

Stipendiat Julia Orupabo, ISF

Professor Morten Huse, Handelshøyskolen BI

Ingar Brattbakk (stipendiat, ISS) presenterer et arbeid med tittelen "Block, neighbourhood or district? The importance of geographical scale for neighbourhood effects".

Associate Professor Mitchell Stevens, Stanford University will hold the guest lecture PRESERVING KNOWLEDGE Thursday 27. May, 1.15 - 3.00pm.

Sørhaug og Kalleberg introduce a discussion of Michèle Lamont's new book - How Professors Think (Harvard UP 2009)

The discussion will be in Norwegian.

Research fellow Anne-May Melsom presents her work on gender segregation and sick leave.

The European Urban Research Association (EURA) Workshop, Oslo, 6.-7. May 2010

Hosted by: The Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR)

Professor Hans Joas gives the Vilhelm Aubert Memorial Lecture Wednesday May 5^th. The Seminar takes place May 4^th.

Peris Sean Jones NIBR/ISS opens.

Gianluca Manzo visits Oslo and ISS in April 2010. In connection with his visit he will be presenting his work at the Aks seminar entitled "Modelling Educational Stratification Mechanisms by Agent-based Models: an Application to French and Italian Data".

How is inequality in education formed over time? Which mechanisms play a part in this process? How do these mechanisms interact? Manzo uses agent-based simulation models to recreate patterns of inequality in France and Italy.

Gianluca Manzo is a researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.

Details to follow

Heidi Wiig Aslesen, BI opens. Stig-Erik Jakobsen will comment.

Ingar Brattbakk (research fellow, ISS) presents a work entitled "Block, neighbourhood or district? The importance of geographical scale for neighbourhood effects".

Jean-Pascal Daloz, University of Oxford/UiO, presents his new book - The Sociology of Elite Distinction: From Theoretical to Comparative Perspectives.

Anne Krogstad comments.