Upcoming events
“Leading issues in development – A symposium on Progress, Conflict, and Distribution” organized by the Department of Economics, UiO, will take place at the ?The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters on the 5th of January 2026.
Job talk. Morten H?varstein is a postdoc at the Department of Economics, University of Chicago. He will present the paper "Substitution and income effects of labor income taxation”.
Job talk. Bence Bardóczy is a Senior Economist in the Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. He will present the paper "Monopsony Power and the Transmission of Monetary Policy."
Master Nhung Lu Rots at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation Engaged Buddhism and Environmentality among Buddhist Minorities in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)
Job talk. Carolina Kansikas is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Warwick. She will present the paper "Carbon and Coordination: Incentives and Local Institutions in Conservation Policy."
Master of Arts and Master of Public Policy Ari Mamshae will be defending his dissertation at the Department of Political Science:
Who Gets Appointed and Why? The Politics of Selecting Senior Civil Servants in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region
Cand. Polit. in Political Science Lisa Scordato?will be defending her dissertation "Public sector capabilities for resilience. Tensions between knowledge and action in crisis management".
NCMBM, as part of its International Seminar series, will be welcoming David Kent, from the University of York, and Julia Skokowa, from University Hospital Tübingen.
Job talk. Max Marczinek is a PhD (DPhil) student in Economics at the University of Oxford. He will present the paper "Labour Scarcity and Productivity: Insights from the Last Nordic Plague."
Master Chiara Arnavas at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation The Mafiazation of Land: Crime, the State, and Real Estate Capital in West Bengal, India for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)
Isabell Burmester presents her paper Whose legitimacy? The EU's external security role and Local Perceptions in Armenia and Moldova at the Tuesday Seminar on 13 January 2026.
Job talk. Marta Guasch-Rusi?olis is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. She will present the paper "Debt Without Investment."
Master of Science in Conflict Resolution Bintu Zahara Sakor will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:
Unlocking Africa’s Demographic Future: Youth Bulges, State Policies, and Pathways to Dividend and Political Stability
Job talk. Anders Yding is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at U.C. Berkeley. He will present the paper "The Macroeconomic Effects of Defense Spending News."
Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Kari-Elisabeth Vambeseth Skogen?will be defending her dissertation "Using research: Perspectives from inside policy organisations".
Job talk. Mikael M?kimattila is a PhD student in Economics at Aalto University. He will present the paper "Inequality-Aware Regulation."?
Lise Rye presents the paper Where to wriggle? Norwegian politicians’ presentations of autonomy within the EEA association at the Tuesday Seminar on 27 January 2026.
Michal Ovádek presents his paper Does the Court of Justice follow precedent? at the Tuesday Seminar on 10 February 2026.
Waltraud Schelkle presents the book-in-progress?From European integration to EU polity formation at the Tuesday Seminar on 24 February 2026.
Iver B. Neumann presents the book chapter World system collapse: Two precedents for a possible Anthropocene future, 1250-900 BCE and 350-800 CE at the Tuesday Seminar on 3 March 2026.
How do Indigenous political and legal traditions challenge western political theory and offer alternatives for governing land use and natural resources?
Muireann O'Dwyer presents her current research at the Tuesday Seminar on 12 May 2026.
Daniele Caramani presents his latest research at the Tuesday Seminar on 26 May 2026.
The 10th Nordic Conference for Rhetorical Research invites scholars to explore how rhetorical studies can be placed in the service of democracy.