Research events

ISS will host the second Winter Seminar in Human Geography  in Oslo, inviting social geographers from all over the country to academic discussions and socializing.

In this breakfast seminar in the Cities and Societies series, Professor Harald Rohracher from Linköping University will give a presentation based upon  material from three Swedish cities which have set up ‘smart city’ experiments and pilot projects.

How does architecture contribute to the production of truly public spaces in the city today? What types of knowledge are needed, and are today's planning and decision-making processes suited for the design of socially inclusive public spaces in the city? Whose city is it really?

Jens Richter from Estudio Herreros will give the introductory talk to this Cities and Society seminar, followed by a panel discussion with invited architects and urban scholars.

Master i samfunnsgeografi og migrasjonsstudier Cathrine Talleraas vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor) ved Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi.

Institutionalising transnationalism: The national welfare system’s encounter with people who lead transnational lives

Book talk on "Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach" (Oxford University Press, 2019) with Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Dustin Avent-Holt (Augusta University). The event is open to all.

Master i sosiologi Mats Lillehagen vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor) ved Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi.

Entering the mainstream? Cultural and socioeconomic dimensions of immigrant assimilation

Master i sosiologi Edvard Nergård Larsen vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor) ved Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi.

Equally Unequal? Measuring and Contextualising Ethnic Discrimination in European Labour Markets

Who are the Finnish top earners, where does their money come for, and what do they think of the society? In her talk, Academy Research Fellow Hanna Kuusela (Tampere University) discusses the different ways in which the Finnish top earners legitimise their own position at the top while undermining some of the basic characteristics of the Nordic model. The talk describes the different cultures of the rich inheritors, managers, and entrepreneurs belonging to the 0.1% of earners in Finland, and demonstrates how the top earners construct moral boundaries vis-à-vis their imagined others: the unemployed, the civil cervants, and the workers. Finally, the talk analyses how their processes of class-making are intertwined with the critique of the welfare state, its taxation, the tripartite cooperation, and also the entire democratic system.

Master i sosiologi Daniel Arnesen vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor) ved Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi.

Nonprofit Advocacy Reconfigured? Resource Mobilization, Political Opportunity and Organizational Change

In cooperation with UiO: Energy and the Science Library, we invite you to this Cities & Society seminar, with lunch. The main speaker will be Timothy Kevin Richardson, professor in urban planning at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Kendra Strauss from Simon Fraser University will give this year's Tschudi memorial lecture at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography.

Cand. Polit. i sosiologi Anette Brunovskis vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor) ved Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi.

Illuminating and blinding. The searchlight effect of human trafficking policies on anti-trafficking practice

 Welcome to the next seminar in the series Cities & Society. Christian Schmid from ETH Zürich / Future Cities Laboratory Singapore will present first results of the research project “Territories of Extended Urbanization” that explores and analyses a range of very different case studies across the globe.         

A Sociology for the 21st Century

How do we tackle issues of climate change in a rapidly changing world? What role do people have in the transformation to a sustainable society? AdaptationCONNECTS welcome anyone interested in these issues to the launch of Climate and Society: Transforming the Future.

Master of Science in Sociology Plamen Akaliyski will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D. (philosophiae doctor) at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography. 

Cultural Diversity and Change in Post-Cold War Europe

Master i sosiologi Ola Røed Bilgrei vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor) ved Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi.

Drugs and Community on the Internet - A Study of Drug Trends, Risk Management and Trust in Online Drug Communities

This is the last in a series of six open trial lectures by nominated candidates to a position as associate professor of sociology. All invited to attend!

This is the fifth in a series of six open trial lectures by nominated candidates to a position as associate professor of sociology. All invited to attend!

MPhil i utviklingsstudier med fordypning i geografi Mette Strømsø vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d. (philosophiae doctor) ved Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi.

Beneath the waves of nationalism: How ordinary people living in Norway (re)produce the nation in everyday life

Welcome to the next event of the Cities & Society seminar series: The Slow Violence of Displacement on the Gentrification Frontier by Phil Hubbard, Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London.

This is the fourth in a series of six open trial lectures by nominated candidates to a position as associate professor of sociology. All invited to attend!

This is the third in a series of six open trial lectures by nominated candidates to a position as associate professor of sociology. All invited to attend!