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ESOP seminar. Jack Mountjoy is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University and an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He will present a paper entitled "The Returns to College(s): Estimating Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education", co-authored by Brent Hickman.

Welcome all to this open lecture with Professor Cybele Raver, New York University.

We are very pleased to announce a guest lecture by Tamar Herzig, Associate Professor of Early Moderne European History at Tel Aviv University. The lecture is open for everyone

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our lives. However, modern AI shows remarkable, unpredictable and mysterious non-human behaviour when replacing human activity, and this is not at all understood. Professor Anders Hansen from the University of Cambridge gives a talk on the mysteries of AI.

Professor Georgina Born (Oxford, UK) will give a seminar lecture on Time, the Social, and the Material, as they mediate musical genre.

ESOP seminar. Trond Vigtel is a PhD student at UiO and Ragnar Frisch Centre. He will present a paper entitled "Flexible Pensions and Labor Force Withdrawal".

Professor Geoffrey Bowker, UCI-Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences, is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series.

ESOP workshop.

ESOP seminar. Debraj Ray is a Professor of Economics at New York University. He will present a paper entitled "Games of love and hate", co-authored by Rajiv Vohra.

This lecture is free and open to anyone interested, hosted by Centre for Digital Life Norway.

ESOP seminar. Peter Arcidiacono is a Professor of Economics at Duke University. He will present a paper entitled "Equilibrium Grade Inflation with Implications for Female Interest in STEM Majors", co-authored by Thomas Ahn, Amy Hopson and James Thomas.

NCMM group leader will present her research as part of Oslo Science Park's 'Food for Thought' series

How does the private sector strategically use poor quality data for its own benefit? In this talk, Linsey McGoey discusses how weak evidence-based policy can paradoxically be a powerful tool in the political economy of global health.

Professor Tom Shakespeare is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Shakespeare is trained in social and political sciences at Cambridge University, and has taught and researched at the Universities of Sunderland, Leeds, Newcastle and East Anglia. From 2008-2013 he was a technical officer at the World Health Organisation. Currently Shakespeare is chair of Light for the World - UK, and vice-chair of Light for the World International, see https://www.light-for-the-world.org/.

The seminar is open for everyone!

In my talk, I will reflect the perspective and results of the research project and network 'kakanien revisited' as a contribution of an exemplary field of area studies in cultural research. 

In a first step, I will describe all the tools the group has adapted from postcolonial studies: the subversion of the relation between centre and periphery, heterogeneity and identity, the relation between culture and power, the narrative of culture and civilisation, gender aspects, the construction of the 'own' other. In a second part, I will discuss the differences between post-colonialism and post-imperialism, also with regard to the process of nation building. Finally, I will refer to the imperial traces in Austrian literature of the 20th century, e.g. in Roth, Canetti, Musil, Broch, Zweig and others.  

Reference: Wolfgang M¨¹ller-Funk: The Architecture of Modern Culture. Towards a narrative theory of culture. Boston-Berlin 2012.

ESOP seminar. Alessandro Sforza is an Assistant Professor at University of Bologna. He will present a paper entitled "Shocks and the organisation of the firm: who pays the bill?".

ESOP seminar. Tommaso Valletti is the Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission. He will present a paper entitled "Trends in market concentration and market power".

Professor Nenad Ban, of  ETH Zurich, will give the talk: "Protein synthesis: from ribosome assembly to targeting of membrane proteins". The seminar is the first in a series on biological single particle cryo-electron microscopy.

Professor Susan Owens is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Susan Owens is Emeritus Professor of Environment and Policy at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She has researched and published widely in the field of environmental governance, focusing on policy processes in modern democracies and in particular on the role of knowledge, evidence, ideas and expertise in policy formation and change.

The seminar is open for everyone!

ESOP seminar. Gerard Roland is a Morris Cox Professor of Economics at the University of California Berkeley. He will present a paper entitled "The deep historical roots of modern culture: a comparative perspective".

The talk draws on his forthcoming book The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and Doctor.

Jessie Fillerup, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Richmond and research fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, will give a seminar lecture entitled " Musical Temporality in Theatrical Magic Shows".