Events - Page 6
Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan (The New School, Parsons School of Design) will give a lecture on the occasion of his new book "Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains" (Columbia, 2023). Drawing on his award winning research, Çalışkan will present a radical insider view of how cryptocurrencies are created and traded on the ground, analyzing the emergence of the third fiat money in world history: Data Money.
Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan (The New School, Parsons School of Design) will give a lecture on the occasion of his new book "Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains" (Columbia, 2023). Drawing on his award winning research, Çalışkan will present a radical insider view of how cryptocurrencies are created and traded on the ground, analyzing the emergence of the third fiat money in world history: Data Money.
Marie Stilling is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks her midway evaluation.
Kristian Bjørkdahl er førsteamanuensis i retorikk ved Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, UiO. Han jobber med politisk retorikk i bred forstand, og er engasjert i prosjekter om norske og nordiske selvbilder, byråkratisk tekstproduksjon, sosiale bevegelsers ytringskultur, organisering av forskningskommunikasjon, m.m.
Han leder forskergruppen Tekst og retorikk, og deltar dessuten i UiO:Demokrati-gruppen Voicing Democracy. Han er styremedlem i Nordisk Retorikkforening og medredaktør av retorikkmagasinet Kairos.
In this talk, Associate Professor Tommaso Venturini (Center for Internet and Society) will discuss his current research, which focuses on the attention economy, its acceleration in online media and internet subcultures.
Master in Applied Information Technology with Specialisation in Learning and Communication Frauke Gerdes Rohden will be defending her dissertation "Exploring online conversations around science – data practices of informal online knowing spaces"
Kristin Asdal is invited to the Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, to give a lecture on the economization of the ocean and Nature-Made Economy.
Kristin Asdal will hold a workshop on "doing document analysis" and give a public lecture on Nature-Made Economy in Stuttgart.
Arnoldo Frigessi (UiO, INTEGREAT) is department head at the Oslo University Hospital and professor of statistics at the University of Oslo. He is director of the Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology. He leads the centre for research based innovation BigInsight (https://www.biginsight.no/), a consortium of partners from academia and the public and private sectors. From 2023, he will be the director of the centre of excellence Integreat- The Norwegian centre for knowledge-driven machine learning, funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Maja Hagerman is a Swedish writer and filmmaker based in Stockholm. She is currently finalizing a PhD on race biology and photography at the Centre for Nordic Studies, Helsinki university, Finland. She has previously written two monographs on racial research in Sweden in the 19th and 20 th century, published as independent research in archives and literary sources within the field of history of ideas. She was promoted honorary doctor at Uppsala university in 2012 and is today also a senior lecturer in arts at Dalarna Audiovisual Academy, Dalarna University, Sweden, where her focus is on historical documentary film production.
In this final seminar, Kari-Elisabeth Vambeseth Skogen will present the draft of her PhD thesis titled "The use of research in policy: A study of how civil servants engage with research knowledge".
Master in Technology and Society (STS) Sylvia Irene Lysgård will be defending her dissertation: "Statoil in the Canadian Oil Sands: Tar versus Oil and the Trouble of Storytelling".
Professor Andrew Barry (University College London) will present a paper on the idea of the project, empirically focusing on the Georgian hydropower plant construction project Namakhvani, which has been cancelled following protests.
Master in Political Sociology Tércio Ávila Pinho Filho will be defending his dissertation: "Contracting and Innovation in Megaprojects".
Hallvard Fossheim is Committee leader for the National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT) and Professor of philosophy at UiB.
Tone Druglitrø is a researcher at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo. She has over several years been concerned with experimenting with care as an approach and tool for studying values in science and policy with a specific focus on animal research. Based upon a combination of archive studies, laboratory ethnographies, and document-oriented studies, her work has traced the historical development of “skilled care” as an expertise in science, and analyzed the convergence of biological standardization, conservation and technical care in public health. She has also published on “procedural care” in licensing systems. She is currently exploring versions of care in cod immunology together with Kristin Asdal (TIK).
Stine Engen is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks her midway evaluation.
Lisa Scordato is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK). This seminar marks her midway evaluation.
On the occasion of Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse’s new book with MIT Press, Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital and the Great Economization of the Ocean, TIK is hosting a launch and lounge seminar.
On the occasion of Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse’s new book with MIT Press, Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital and the Great Economization of the Ocean, TIK is hosting a launch and lounge seminar.
Kristina Lyons visits the STS methods lab seminar 19th October
Professor Elin Lerum Boasson was a lead author in the sixth assessment report cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III Mitigation and is a member of the Swedish Climate Policy Council. She has published extensively on climate policy and politics, particularly on policy entrepreneurship, business influence, political steering, policy diffusion and the EU. Her work is primarily comparative and contributes to climate governance studies as well as to historical and sociological institutionalism. Boasson is deputy head of the Political Science Department at the University of Oslo and is also affiliated with CICERO, Center for International Climate Research. Her fifth book was published in 2021. The research project Accelerating Climate Action and the State: Getting to Net Zero (ACCELZ) - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV) (uio.no) is led by Boasson.
Master in Fundamental and Applied Linguistics and Master in Philological Education, Alina Kontareva will be defending her dissertation: "National Platforms in a Globalized World: Competitive Strategies and the Role of the State in the Case of Russian Digital Platforms".
Yael Friedman is a PhD fellow at the Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS), Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas. Her dissertation explores the concept of medical holism and its relation to pluralism ‘in’ science and ‘with’ science.