Upcoming events

Which issues are addressed by area studies-scholars doing research on contemporary politics, and what characterises an area studies approach to politics?

We are pleased to welcome you to this seminar, where historian Idriss Jebari will share insights from his forthcoming book. 

Department seminar. Mikkel Mertz is a Research Economist at the ROCKWOOL foundation research unit. He will present the paper "Direct and Indirect Effects of a Housing Policy on Neighborhoods, Residential Mobility, and Inequality" (written with Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landers?).

In this final seminar, Benjamin Donald Smith will present the draft of his PhD thesis.

Jos¨¦ Alem¨¢n Ba?¨®n (Stockholm University) will present his work on lexicosemantic prediction in native speakers of English and Swedish-speaking learners of English 

Jacob Schreiber is a visiting scientist at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology at the Vienna BioCenter. His talk is entitled:"Understanding and designing regulatory DNA using machine learning".

Department seminar. Hans K. Hvide is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Bergen. He will present the paper "Text as data: applying LLMs to a procurement setting" (written with Anantha Divakaruni).

Tokhir Pallaev is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks his midway evaluation. 

Department seminar. Kevin Bryan is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Department seminar. Aarushi Kalra is a PhD candidate in Economics at Brown University. She will present the paper "Hate in the Time of Algorithms: Evidence on Online Behavior from a Large-Scale Experiment".

In this talk, Professor Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor University, USA) will compare Russia¡¯s covert intervention in 2014 with its full-scale invasion in 2022.