2022
National Political Science Conference
Time and place: June 15, 2022 12:00 PM – June 17, 2022 12:30 PM, Georg Sverdrups hus, Blindern
The Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo (UiO) welcomes you to the National Political Science Conference 2022.
This conference is an annual meeting place for political scientists at Norwegian universities, university colleges, and research institutions. Uploading and presentation of a paper is required of participants. An important purpose of the conference is to allow young and senior scholars to present, and receive feedback on, scholarly works intended for publication in journals or as book chapters, in Norwegian or English.
Plenary session
This year’s plenary session is about the parliamentary elections 2021, with presentations by Associate professor Jørgen Bølstad (UiO), Professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (University of Bergen) and Professor Anders Todal Jenssen (NTNU). Chair of the plenary discussion is Professor Bjørn Erik Rasch (UiO).
Working groups
The conference is organized in four working groups, divided by section and chaired as indicated below. Prospective participants indicate their preferred group, as well as the title of their paper and a short abstract (up to 250 words) when signing up for the conference. Papers may be written in Norwegian or English, but presentation and discussion will be in English if one or more participant has insufficient command of Norwegian as working language. Every participant will be tasked with the opponent role for at least one paper. Links for sign-up and uploading/downloading of papers are given below.
1. International Politics: The group invite submissions of both theoretical and empirical work that address broad questions in international relations, focusing on the functions and output of international organizations, processes of internationalization and globalization, issues of security policy and international conflicts, as well as other related topics.
Group leaders: James Cameron and Kristin Ven Bruusgaard
2. Comparative Politics: The group invites submissions to the field of comparative politics, broadly understood. This includes but is not limited to topics such as political behavior (e.g. public opinion, media, parties, voters and their interactions), institutions and regimes (e.g. governance, democratization, autocratic politics), and contentious politics (e.g. civil wars, protests, social movements).
Group leaders: Felix Haass, Peter Egge Langsæther and Martin Søyland
3. Public Policy and Administration: The group invites submissions of both theoretical and empirical work on all aspects of public policy and public administration. This includes (but is not limited to) the functioning of national, regional or local political and administrative institutions as well as attitudes towards, design of, or consequences of public policies.
Group leaders: Jens Jungblut and Kristoffer Kolltveit
4. Political Theory: The group welcomes paper submissions in the fields of normative political theory/political philosophy, the history of political thought, and the philosophy of the social sciences. We welcome papers from a variety of methodological perspectives.
Group leader: Fredrik D. Hjorten
Programme
15 June
- 12.00-13.00: Arrival and registration
- 13.00-14.00: Lunch
- 14.00-15.45: Plenary session: Parliamentary election 2021
- 16.15-18.00: Working groups
- 19.00-23.00: Festive dinner, Sentralen, Øvre Slottsgate 3
- Aperitif from 19.00, dinner from 20.00.
16 June
- 09.00-13.00: Working groups
- 13.00-14.00: Lunch
- 14.00-18.00: Working groups
17 June
- 09.00-11.30: Working groups
- 11.30-12.30: Lunch
2021
7th Annual Environmental Politics and Governance Conference 2021
Time and place: June 23, 2021 – June 25, 2021, online
The University of Oslo will host the 7th Annual Environmental Politics and Governance Conference on June 23-25, 2021, building on the success of previous conferences in Seattle, Zurich/Gerzensee, Bloomington, Stockholm, and Santa Barbara as well as the 2020 online conference.
The corona situation remains highly uncertain here in Oslo. The Norwegian authorities has announced that the strict rules for entry into Norway will remain in place for some more months. Given this situation, it has been decided to move this year’s EPG conference online.
The program will be announced by the end of April, and more information will follow in due course. The conference will take place on 23-25 June, with three sessions per day. Each conference day will last 3.5 hours, starting at 01.00 GMT.
2020
EPG 2020 Online: 6th Annual Conference of Environmental Politics and Governance
Time and place: June 24, 2020 – June 26, 2020, online
We are pleased to announce that, following an initiative from Mark Buntaine, the 2020 EPG conference will be arranged online.
Programme:
Day 1: Wednesday June 24
Chair: Jon Hovi
- Session 1: Business and the Natural Environment
- Alexander Pfaff, Duke University
- Lily Hsueh, Arizona State University
- Ellen Holtmaat, London School of Economics
- Session 2: Carbon Taxes
- Azusa Uji, Kyoto University
- Matto Mildenberger, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Session 3: Climate Equity and Confict
- Cesar B. Martinez-Alvarez, UCLA
- Vally Koubi, ETH Zurich
- Mari Helliesen, University of Bergen
- Andreas Duit, Stockholm University
Day 2: Thursday June 25
Chair: Katrin Pakizer
- Session 1: Environmental Politics in China and India
- Rama Hohana (Mohan) Turaga, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
- Xun Cao, Pennsylvania University
- Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Session 2: Renewable Energy, Green Growth, and Decarbonization
- Jonas Schmid, Universität Bern
- Jonas Nahm, John Hopkins University
- Alexander Gard-Murray, Harvard University
- Session 3: Framing and Policy Support
- Federica Genovese, University of Essex
- Lukas Fesenfeld, ETH Zürich
- Michael Tomz, Stanford University
- Tobias Böhnmelt, University of Essex
Day 3: Friday, June 26
Chair: Mark Buntaine
- Session 1: International Regimes
- Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit, Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo
- Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, Wageningen University
- Vegard Tørstad, European University Institute, Florence
- Session 2: Environment Policy Process 1
- Francesca Vantaggiato, King's College London
- Dennis Kolcava, ETH Zürich
- Manny Teodoro, Texas A&M
- Session 3: Environment Policy Process 2
- Morgan Higman, Florida State University
- Kai Schulze, Technische Universität Darmstadt
- Katrin Pakizer, ETX Zürich
- Michael Rose, Leuphana University of Lueneburg
2018
NATO and Norway - Towards the Brussels Summit
Time and place: Feb. 5, 2018 8:15 AM – 11:00 AM, University Aula, Karl Johans gate 47
This year's Leangkollen Security Conference will be held on the 5th and 6th of February, and is titled "A Diverging West? External Forces and Internal Crises".
The 2018 Conference will be opened by the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg. The two other speakers for the opening session, NATO and Norway - Towards the Brussels Summit, are the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ine Eriksen Søreide, the Norwegian Minister of Defence, Frank Bakke-Jensen.
This year's conference will focus on the current external and internal security challenges facing Europe and the Western Community. As we are witnessing the rise of other players and changing dynamics on the international arena, we ask to what extent this is challenging the Post-War Liberal Order and Western cohesion? Will Europe’s unity survive Brexit and manage competing interests among EU members? Will President Trump’s “America first” strategy change the United States’ global position and damage transatlantic security cooperation? What role should our institutions play in an increasingly uncertain world and are they able to provide feasible solutions? These and more questions will be debated during our two-day conference.