Events

Workshop with Beatrice Johannessen, 15th of October 2026, 14:15-16:00

This year the Department of Sociology and Human Geography turns 30, and we would like to invite employees and students to join the birthday celebration! There will be hot dogs, vegetarian treats, a DJ and music, and there will be drink vouchers for the first guests!

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, we are pleased to welcome Christopher Bail for an anniversary lecture on The Future of Computational Social Science.

Workshop with Håvard Lunde Helgesen, 15th of September 2026, 14:15-16:00

The annual conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction will take place from June 16th - June 19th in beautiful Oslo, Norway. This is the main European conference designed to foster interaction, learning, and camaraderie among leading scholars in symbolic interactionism and grounded theory. The conference theme is "situations, power, and persuasion," reflecting important recent trends in scholarship and public life.

University of Oslo's Department of Sociology and Human Geography will host this event, in association with the Norwegian Microsociology Network. 

The 2026 Aubert Lecturer is distinguished sociologist Loïc Wacquant. Known for his extensive interdisciplinary work on urban marginality, ethnoracial domination as well as the making of the penal state, Wacquant has redefined understandings of prison systems, urban societies, inequality and ethnicity.

Are you a student or working with maps and geographic data? Don’t miss this open guest lecture with John Nelson at the University of Oslo

"What is Sociological Critique?"

Welcome to the course on presentation and interview techniques. Learn how to present your research in an accessible manner, sharpen your message, and gain confidence in interview situations.

In a world characterised by acceleration, alienation, and democratic crisis, sociologist Hartmut Rosa explores what is needed to create a society defined by resonance.

"Isaac Reed’s Power in Modernity is perhaps the most important social theory book published in a generation"

Back to the 70s: How "Old" Ideas Within Peasant Studies Can Help Us Understand the Recent Jihadist Uprising in the Sahel

See the recorded event

"The Urban Geopolitics of Memory: War, Destruction and Reconstruction in Cities"

Asset managers increasingly own more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, especially urban life. What are the implications of "asset manager society" on urban living?

Seminar with Ines Wagner, Research Professor, ARENA, University of Oslo 

Trond Petersen will give a lecture on the occasion of his honorary doctorate at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Social Science.

How can financial mechanisms adapt or reconfigure capitalist orthodoxies towards socially just outcomes in urban sustainability transitions?

Individual perceptions and experiences, rituals, institutions, and the law.

Individual perceptions and experiences, rituals, institutions, and the law.

Workshop with Lars Klemsdal, 21th of May 2024, 14:50-16:00

Workshop with Beatrice Johannessen, 23th of April 2024, 14:15-16:00

Velkommen til vinterseminaret i samfunnsgeografi! Seminaret er åpent for studenter og vitenskapelig ansatte på universiteter og høyskoler, i tillegg til andre som ser nytten av samfunnsgeografi i eget arbeid. Årets tema er "infrastruktur".