Webpages tagged with «Social Science»

The Return of Nationalism

Professor Craig Calhoun, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University, USA 

Course dates: 22 - 26 July 2019

Limitation: 25 participants

Main disciplines: Sociology, Political Science

A total of 202 students participated in the Oslo Summer School 2013.

A total of 244 students participated in the Oslo Summer School 2018.

Public Space: People, Power, and Political Economy

Professor Don Mitchell, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University, Sweden

Course dates: 30 July - 3 August 2018

Comparative Policy Studies: Theories, Methods, and Emerging Issues

Professor Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA & Graduate Institute of International Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

Course dates: 30 July - 3 August 2018

Questions about the 2018 course program and the application procedures may be directed to Senior Executive Officer Tron Harald Torneby.

The Oslo Summer School celebrated its 25th year in 2017, and we included two anniversary panels as part of the program.

25th Anniversary panels

In total, 188 PhD students, researchers and advanced MA students from all over the world attended the Oslo Summer School in 2015.

Lecture Schedule and Social Events for the 2019 Course Program.

Click on the course titles to read complete course presentations.

Foundation, History, Main Objectives and Target Groups

The 21st Century Europe entails challenging processes of integration and disintegration. Integration radically challenges the social cohesion of old and new societies. European social science has so far largely been confined to the nation-state level.

But it is now, more than ever, crucial that social scientists are able to study the differential impacts of processes of integration and fragmentation. For such a purpose, comparative studies and methodology provide the obvious point of departure for any social scientist who wish to take the complexity of the European challenges seriously.

The Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies provides PhD and postgraduate courses at a highly professional and international level. It was initiated in 1992 to further international contact among students and researchers working within comparative social sciences and social science methodology.

Over the years, a number of distinguished scholars and lecturers within the various fields of social sciences accepted our invitation to teach a doctoral course at Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies.

Lectures, Assignments and ECTS Credits

- Our courses comprises 20 hours of lectures over the course of five days (Monday to Friday).

- The courses are at a postgraduate/PhD-level, and the language of instruction for all courses is English.

- The lectures will be held at the University of Oslo, Blindern Campus.

- Courses that require the use of computers will combine ordinary lectures with computer workshops.

- Those who are admitted to the program will receive an extended course curriculum and parts of the required readings in advance.