2026
Hvordan bedre rettssikkerheten for folk i møte med Nav?
Time and place: October 27 2026, 18:00, Scene Domus Bibliotheca
Presentations:
- Erik O. Eriksen, professor, ARENA Senter for europaforskning, UiO
- Andreas Eriksen, professor, Oslo-Met
- Fredrik D. Hjorthen, forsker, ARENA Senter for europaforskning, UiO
Comments:
- Ingunn Ikdahl, professor, Institutt for offentlig rett, UiO
- Christoffer Conrad Eriksen, professor, Institutt for offentlig rett, UiO
- Trond Eirik Schea, juridisk direktør, NAV
The ARENA Lecture: Enrico Letta on the Single Market in a geopolitical age
Time and place: October 19 2026, 16.00, Scene Domus Bibliotheca
Lecture:
- Enrico Letta, Dean of the IE School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs at IE University, former Prime Minister of Italy
Panel:
- Enrico Letta
- Linnea Lorentzen, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, UiO
- Craig Parsons, Professor, University of Oregon and ARENA Centre for European Studies
- Guri Rosén, Professor, Department of Political Science and ARENA Centre for European Studies
- Moderator: Pernille Rieker, Centre Director, ARENA Centre for European Studies
Hvordan unngå full krig i EU-debatten?
Time and place: October 7, 2026, 13.30. Scene Domus Bibliotheca
Presentation:
- John Erik Fossum, professor ved ARENA Senter for europaforskning, UiO
Panel:
- Maria Varteressian, statsviter og tidligere statssekretær i Utenriksdepartementet
- Johannes Bergh, forskningsleder for Politikk, demokrati og sivilsamfunn ved Institutt for samfunnsforskning
- Anne Elizabeth Stie, førsteamanuensis ved Universitetet i Agder
Arendalsuka: Norge og EU i endring: Når EØS blir utilstrekkelig
Time and place: August 12 2026, 13.00, Clarion Hotel Tyholmen
Panel:
- Maria Varteressian, Statsviter og tidligere statssekretær i Utenriksdepartementet
- John Erik Fossum, Professor, ARENA Senter for europaforskning, Universitetet i Oslo
- Pernille Rieker, Senterleder / Forsker I, ARENA Senter for europaforskning, Universitet i Oslo
- Jarle Trondal, Professor, Universitetet i Agder og ARENA Senter for europaforskning
- Ordstyrer: Kjetil B. Alstadheim, Politisk redaktør, Aftenposten
Arendalsuka: Fra marked til makt: Norges plass i EUs nye økonomiske sikkerhetspolitikk
Time and place: August 11 2026, 15.15, Grand Hotel Arendal
Panel:
- Espen Barth Eide, utenriksminister
- Guri Rosén, professor, Institutt for statsvitenskap og ARENA Senter for europaforskning ved Universitetet i Oslo
- Ulf Sverdrup, professor, Institutt for rettsvitenskap og styring ved Handelshøyskolen BI
- Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, instituttleder, Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo
- Ordstyrer: Frithjof Jacobsen, Politisk redaktør, Dagens Næringsliv
Is the EU replacing NATO?
Time and place: May 26, 2026 2:00 PM, Scene Domus Bibliotheca
Panel:
- Pol Morillas, Direktør for Barcelona Centre for International Relations- CIDOB, tidligere rådgiver for Europaparlamentet og koordinator for EUs utenriks- og sikkerhetspolitiske komité.
- Patrick Müller, Professor ved Wiens Diplomatiske Akademi og Universitetet i Wien
- Karolina Pomorska, Professor på Universitetet i Leiden
- Helene Sjursen, forsker 1 på ARENA Senter for europaforskning, Universitetet i Oslo.
- Moderator: Jan Erik Grindheim, professor på Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge.
Can Europe's political centre hold? The EU's challenge from right-wing populism
Time and place: May 6, 2026 8:00 AM–9:00 AM, Litteraturhuset, Oslo (Room Nedjma)
Panel:
- Manfred Weber, President of the European People’s Party and Chair of the EPP Group in the European Parliament
- Erna Solberg, Member of the Norwegian Parliament for the Conservative Party, and former Prime Minister of Norway
- John Erik Fossum, Professor, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
- Moderator: Pernille Rieker, Centre Director, ARENA
Symposium: Norway, the EU and European security and defence cooperation: What’s Next?
Time and place: Apr. 21, 2026 1:30 PM–3:30 PM, Litteraturhuset, Oslo (Room Skram)
Panel 1: Assuming greater responsibility for the security and defence of Europe: EU–Norway cooperation in an era of heightened security challenges
- Charles Fries, Deputy Secretary General for Peace, Security and Defence at the EEAS
- Diego de Ojeda, Head of Unit for Defence and Security at the Secretary General of the EU Commission
- Robin Allers, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies
- Pernille Rieker, Centre Director at ARENA Centre for European Studies
- Moderator: Tine Brøgger, ARENA
Panel 2: The EU, Norway and Arctic security: The High North in a changing European security landscape
- Claude Veron-Reville, Ambassador at Large - Special Envoy for Arctic Affairs
- Karsten Friis, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
- Elana Wilson Rowe, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and NUPI
- Moderator: Pernille Rieker, ARENA
2025
ARENA Lecture 2025: Federica Mogherini on the EU in a world of rivalry
How is the EU dealing with new security threats and changes to the geopolitical landscape and international order?
Time and place: Nov. 4, 2025 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, Scene Domus Bibliotheca
Panel:
- Andreas Kravik
- Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide
Forskerrollen i en polarisert verden
Time and place: Sep.19, 2025, Scene Domus Bibliotheca
Panel:
- John Erik Fossum, professor, ARENA Senter for europaforskning, UiO
- Anine Kierulf, førsteamanuensis, Institutt for offentlig rett, UiO
- Cathrine Thorleifsson, førsteamanuensis, Sosialantropologisk institutt, UiO
- Carl Henrik Knutsen, professor, Institutt for statsvitenskap, UiO
- Ordstyrer: Pernille Rieker, senterleder, ARENA Senter for europaforskning, UiO
ARENA på Arendalsuka: Trump og geopolitisk tilspissing: Hva betyr det nye EU for Norge?
Time and place: 12. aug. 2025 17:15 – 18:15, Grand Hotel Arendal
Panel
- Utenriksminister Espen Barth Eide
- Pernille Rieker, Senterleder og Forsker 1, ARENA Senter for europaforskning, Universitetet i Oslo
- Øyvind Svendsen, Seniorforsker, NUPI
- Guri Rosén, Førsteamanuensis, Insitutt for statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo
- Ordstyrer: Kjetil B. Alstadheim, Aftenposten
Hvilket Norge i hvilket Europa?
Time and place: Mars.17, 2025, Scene Domus Bibliotheca
- Velkommen: Pernille Rieker
- Presentasjoner:
- John Erik Fossum (ARENA)
- Jarle Trondal (ARENA/Universitetet i Agder)
- Panelsamtale:
- Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide (leder for Utenriks- og forsvarskomitéen på Stortinget, og tidligere utenriksminister)
- Merethe Dotterud Leiren (CICERO)
- Marianne Riddervold (ARENA/NUPI)
- Ulf Sverdrup (Handelshøyskolen BI)
- Ordstyrer: Christina Kullmann Five
2024
ARENA’s 30th anniversary conference:
30 years of studying Europe
Time and place: Nov. 21, 2023, Scene Domus Bibliotheca
Panel debate: Norden in Europe
- Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister of Norway
- Lisbeth Kirk, founder of EUobserver
- Jóhanna Jónsdóttir, Iceland's Deputy Ambassador to the UK
- Göran von Sydow, director of SIEPS
- Henri Vogt, professor of political science at the University of Turku
- Moderator: Guro Rosén, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
Contested EU Foregin Policy in an Era of Geopolitics with Helene Sjursen, Research Professor
Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Postfactual Age with Martin Moland, Post-doctoral Fellow
The Politics of European and American Single-Market Governance from Trym Nohr Fjørtoft, Post-doctoral Fellow
Egalitarian but not Equal: Sectoral Wage Formation and Gendered Wage Differentials with Ines Wagner, Research Professor
Public Trust in Contemporary Europe: Trusting the Antitrust with Elena Escalante Block, Post-doctoral Fellow
The multilevel administrative state: Gaps, findings, future needs with Jarle Trondal, Professor
Compliance in complex institutional orders and Principled justification with Andreas Eriksen, Researcher
Enforcing the rule of law: What can the European Union do to prevent rule of law deterioration from within? with Daniel Naurin, Professor and Centre Director of ARENA
The Representative Disconnect: Diagnosis and Strategies for Rectification with John Erik Fossum, Professor
2022
ARENA Lecture 2022 with Espen Barth Eide:
What Does EU Climate and Environmental Policy Mean for Norway?
Time and place: Nov. 30, 2022 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM, Wergeland, House of Literature
2021
ARENA Lecture 2021 with Adam Bodnar:
Towards 'Polexit'? The rule of law crisis in Poland and the existential crisis of the European Union
Time and place: Nov. 11, 2021 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Wergeland, House of Literature
Introduction by Daniel Naurin
2017
Partnerforum: Økonomers innflytelse i offentlig politikkutforming
Time and place: May 22, 2017
- Velkommen: Cathrine Holst, ARENA og Partnerforums sekretariat
- Johan Christensen, Universitetet i Leiden: Økonomers innflytelse i offentlig politikkutforming
- Kort kommentar ved Einar Lie, Universitetet i Oslo
- Kort kommentar ved Ådne Cappelen, SSB
- Diskusjon inkludert spørsmål fra salen: ordstyrer Cathrine Holst
2016
ARENA Lecture 2016 with Børge Brende
Time and place: Sep. 13, 2016 2:30 PM, Aud. 1, Eilert Sundts hus
2012
1814 Lecture: Jan-Werner Müller
Introduction by Olav Mestad