Events - Page 5

Marta Lourenço is the present director of the National Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon (MUHNAC).

Sociologist Marion Fourcade gives a guest lecture at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture on Tuesday, September 3rd, on the occasion of her being appointed honorary doctor at UiO 2024.

On the occasion of Professor Marion Fourcade (UC Berkeley) being appointed honorary doctor at the University of Oslo (UiO), TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture organizes a workshop with Fourcade on the topic: Valuations, economy and the digital: How to work and study the contemporary economy.

Robert Northcott is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London.

Tanja Knaus is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks her midway evaluation.

In this final seminar, Hanne Castberg Thee Tresselt will present the draft of her PhD thesis titled “Precision Vaccines and Educated Immune Systems: The shaping of immune systems through immunological practices”

IST 2024 is hosted by the TIK Centre for technology, innovation and culture at the University of Oslo, in collaboration with SINTEF,  the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the INTRANSIT and NTRANS research centers and the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Robert Aronowitz is Professor, History and Sociology of Science, and the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

Cecilia Rikap (University College London) will hold a seminar on intellectual monopoly and corporate power. 

John Law (Professor Emeritus at the Open University) and Lucy Suchman (Professor Emerita at Lancaster University) will participate in an open dialogue on whether there is a particular STS in the Nordics, and their collaborative work with people from TIK and UiO.

Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies, and Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Ulrike Felt's (University of Vienna) presentation will focus on the 'twin transition' as a buzzword in European policy discourse, and draw on the research project Innovation Residues - Modes and Infrastructures of Caring for our Longue-durée Environmental Futures. 

Ulrike Felt (University of Vienna) will visit TIK to present her work on the left-behinds of innovation activities such as nuclear waste, microplastcis and data/digital waste, and invites us to think about responsible innovation from the perspective of the residues and our capacities to care for them.

Bendik Hellem Aaby (IFIKK, UiO) does research in philosophy of biology and philosophy of action. His research concerns are, amongst other things, the role behavior plays in evolutionary theory, the attribution of agency to non-human organisms, and to what extent purposiveness can be adequately accounted for by evolutionary theory.

Johan Söderberg (University of Gothenburg) will visit TIK on the occasion of his and Maxigas recent book, Resistance to the current: The dialectics of hacking (MIT Press, 2022).

In this final seminar, Kjersti Aalbu will present the draft of her PhD thesis titled “Data politics in the governance of greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping”

Hedda Hassel Mørch (Høgskolen i Innlandet) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series. https://heddahasselmorch.com/research/

Professor Milena Nikolova (University of Groningen) will present her research on worker motivations, work meaningfulness, and work orientations. 

Tor Egil Førland is Professor of History and Head of Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK) at the University of Oslo. He has published books and articles on strategic export controls during the Cold War; the student revolt of the 1960s; and historical theory, as in his most recent monograph Values, Explanation, and Objectivity in Historiography (Routledge, 2017).

Sune Dueholm Müller and Johan Ivar Sæbø are associate professors at the Information Systems research group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

Kristin Oxley is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK). In the seminar, she will present the draft of her PhD thesis.

Kristin Gjesdal is professor of philosophy at Temple University. Her scholarship covers philosophy of interpretation (hermeneutics), philosophy of art, and modern European philosophy. She is the co-editor of the recently published Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (both with Oxford UP). She is the author of three monographs (with Cambridge and Oxford University Presses) and the editor and co-editor of eight volumes in her areas of research. Her present work includes an introduction to the philosophy of Germaine de Staël (under contract with Cambridge UP) and the monograph “How to be a Self? Four Lessons from Germaine de Staël” (under contract with Oxford UP). For more information, see her faculty website or this 3:16 interview.

I mars blir havøkonomien tema på Litteratur på Blå når Kristin Asdal, Tone Huse, Ellen Krefting og Kaja Lønne Fjærtoft møtes til samtale med utgangspunkt i Asdal og Huses aktuelle bok, Nature-Made Economy.