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Bj?rn Hofmann (UiO, NTNU Gj?vik) er professor i medisinsk filosofi og etikk ved Senter for medisinsk etikk ved Det medisinske fakultet ved Universitetet i Oslo og ved Institutt for helsevitenskap ved NTNU Gj?vik. Han er utdannet innen teknologifag, id¨¦historie, filosofi og etikk. Hofmann forsker og underviser innenfor medisinsk filosofi, helsefaglig etikk, vitenskapsteori, helsetjenesteforskning og teknologivurdering. Han er s?rlig opptatt av h?ndtering av teknologi generelt og av etiske aspekter ved helseteknologi spesielt. Hofmann har blant annet skrevet boken Hva er sykdom? i tillegg til en lang rekke vitenskapelige artikler og han deltar aktivt i samfunnsdebatten om ulike sider av helsetjenesten.

RSG Norway invites you to a panel discussion on career opportunities for bioinformaticians in and beyond academia

Prof. Sofian Audry, from University of Quebec in Montreal, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.

How do consulting firms influence global health politics? In this seminar, Assistant Professor Tine Hanrieder will present research on consulting firms' role in WHO reform and discuss how it raises new questions about WHO's convening power.

In this talk, professor of design history Dr. Kjetil Fallan, explores design interventions at, and in the wake of, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm 1972. What can design activism tell us about the conference's influence on future political decision-making? Or about the development of environmental thinking and ecologically informed design ideology in Scandinavia?

Ole Jacob Madsen (f. 1978) er utdannet psykolog og filosof og jobber som professor i kultur- og samfunnspsykologi ved Psykologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo. Hans forskning har s?rlig omhandlet hvordan psykologien utgj?r et meningsrammeverk for det moderne menneskets liv. Han har tidligere utgitt b?kene Den terapeutiske kultur (2010/2017), "Det er innover vi m? g?" (2014), Generasjon prestasjon (2018), Livsmestring p? timeplanen (2020) og Skolevegringsmysteriet (sammen med Gaute Brochmann) (2022). 

Welcome to this seminar with Tumaini Malenga from The African Institute for Development Policy, Malawi.

This conference will bring together leading ageing researchers from around the world working on molecular, cellular, individual and societal levels of ageing.

In this talk, Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Lesley Green, will draw on current Anthropocene scholarship in the environmental humanities and social sciences to suggest four approaches to strengthening trans-disciplinarity engagement between social and natural sciences. 

Professor Ewan Birney, CBE FRS FMedSci, Deputy Director General, EMBL & Director, EMBL-EBI will give a public talk and guest lecture followed by a Q&A session. The session is hosted by Inge Jonassen, UiB & Kjetil Task¨¦n, OUH/UiO.

In this Global Health Unpacked seminar, pandemic expert Dr. Clare Wenham will discuss the proposed pandemic treaty and why it might not make the world better equipped to tackle future global health crises.

Breakfast seminar with Professor Brian Ganson from Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town.

How has our understandings of relations between soil, plants, and fungi have changed over time? In this lecture, professor of anthropology Dr. Michael J. Hathaway will explore the role of fungal mycelium in engaging the soil matrix.

Finnur Dells¨¦n is a Professor II at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, in addition to being full-time Professor at the University of Iceland, Reykjav¨ªk. Most of his research interests are in philosophy of science and epistemology (including formal and social epistemology), with various related interests in philosophy of logic, metaethics, and the history of philosophy. His most recent work is on scientific and philosophical progress, the social epistemology of science, and how to make explanation-based inferences.

Harvard Professor David Ludwig will talk about the Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity. In the panel: Professor J?ran Hjelmes?th and Associate professor Frode A. Norheim.

The environment is having a massive impact on music, changing what music is and how it comes to be, not just what it is about or how it sounds. In this lecture, Dr. Kyle Devine, professor of musicology at UiO, presents the nuances in this Great Recomposition, and the importance of overriding our defaults. 

Desmond McNeill, political economist, is Professor emeritus and the former director of Senter for Utvikling og Milj? (SUM) at UiO. His main academic interests are governance, sustainable development, research and policy, and interdisciplinarity.

Welcome to this seminar on China's role in Africa and Latin America.

?ystein Linnebo is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. His main research interests are in the philosophies of logic and mathematics, metaphysics and the philosophy of science. He is particularly interested in questions concerning ontology, individuation, essence, reference (especially to abstract objects), necessity and of necessary truths. He has recently published two books, Philosophy of Mathematics (Princeton University Press, 2017) and Thin Objects: An Abstractionist Account (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Dr. Katie Overy, senior lecturer at University of Edinburgh, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series.