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José-Víctor Ríos-Rull will hold a PhD course in Modern Macroeconomics: Heterogeneity and Fluctuations 

The Department of Economics invites you to a celebration of the master's students handing in their thesis autumn 2018 or spring 2019.

Jan Zielonka, Professor of European Politics at Oxford University, will discuss his latest book Counter Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat on 18 September 2018 at Fritt Ord.

In this public lecture, Rogers Brubaker will talk about the distinctive ways in which religion can inform political conflict and violence.

Who am I?' and 'Who are you? Professor Rogers Brubaker will give a public lecture based on his book Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities.

Professor Michael Zürn from the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) will present the main findings from his newly published book on the current crisis of global governance. 

PLATO's second PhD school will be staged in Vienna on 12-16 March 2018. Three days will be dedicated to research design, and two days to academic writing.

EUREX welcomes submission of abstracts for the workshop 'The role of expertise in policy-making – empirical scholarship and normative analysis'. The workshop will be held in Oslo 22-23 May 2018. Deadline for paper proposal: by Thursday 1 February 2018.

The first PhD school within the ARENA-coordinated PhD network PLATO is organised in Berlin. The event includes a three-day PhD course in legitimacy theory while two days are dedicated to Vitae's Effective Researcher programme.

Morten Egeberg and Åse Gornitzka offer a PhD course in ‘An Organizational Approach to Public Governance’ at the Department of Political Science in November 2017.

Application deadline: 14 September 2017

Johan P. Olsen holds the plenary lecture at the ECPR General Conference in Oslo on 7 September. 

Jon Elster is a new honorary doctor at University of Oslo and will hold the open lecture  On Anger in history. 

Department seminar: In addition to his honory doctor lecture, Jon Elster will hold an autobiographical lecture on the topic Marx and emotions.

Professor Emeritus in Political Science and founding director of ARENA Johan P. Olsen will present his latest book Democratic Accountability, Political Order, and Change at ARENA on 9 June 2017.

TIK is organizing a workshop for researchers and students who are interested in analyzing micro-level innovation data and/or combining analysis of innovation data with other kinds of firm-level data.

This open workshop is an accompaniment to the seminar Self tracking - good for you?, held on March 23rd.

Morten Egeberg and Åse Gornitzka offer a PhD course in ‘Organisation Theory Approaches to the Study of Public Policy and Administration’ at the Department of Political Science in November 2016.

Application deadline: 1 October 2016

Can political psychological scholarship improve understanding and policies?

The final workshop of the PADEMIA project will be held in Brussels on 19-20 September 2016.

As the referendum on 23 June approaches, there is a real possibility that a majority of British voters will vote in favour of leaving the European Union. What are the implications of the momentous decision – for Britain and for Europe? These questions were among those discussed at a panel debate organised by ARENA in cooperation with British Politics Society.

 Katrin Menke, PhD student from  the University of Duisburg-Essen visits the department this month.

Associate Professor Emma Engdahl, Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg