Events

A lecture by David M. Buss, with comments by comedian and sociologist Harald Eia and criminologist Vibeke Ottesen.

The Science library will be streaming a live webcast

Anthony Barnosky, Professor at the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California at Berkeley, has led work on a report on the condition of the Earth. Its conclusion is: “Human quality of life will suffer substantial degradation by the year 2050 if we continue on our present path". Barnosky presents the report and opens the debate.

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Professor Anne Glover, the European Commission's first Chief Scientific Adviser, holds a chair in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Aberdeen, and was Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland prior to her 2012 appointment as Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission.

Announcement of the winner of the Abel Prize 2013: The Science Library will be streaming a live webcast of the announcement from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

On March 14th the Science Library in Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus celebrates its first birthday!

But that is not all. March 14th is also Vilhelm Bjerknes' 151st birthday and international π-day (3.14). It is also open day  at UiO for secondary school students. Quite a party!

Curious about energy issues? You can satisfy your curiosity at the Energy Day! University of Oslo is inviting all students interested in energy to participate on March 7^th in four different sessions and learn more about the dilemmas facing us.  

Lecture by Brian Wynne

The Science library will be streaming a live webcast of the lecture

Two of Norway's most distinguished musicians play works by Jean Sibelius and Johannes Brahms.

The Science library will be streaming a live webcast of the lecture

Darwin Day is an annual event for everybody interested in science. Speakers: Adam Rutherford, Christina Richards, Tatum Simonson and Richard Myers

Horn quintet from Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra plays works by Jaques Ibert, Ragnar Danielsen, Malcolm Arnold and Olav Berg.

Folk musicians at heart, Valkyrien Allstars have managed to shake not just the leg, but also the emotions of its ever-growing audience. The harding fele trio plays both traditional and modern, eclectic folk music.

Unikor is the university staff choir. Get into the Christmas mood as the choir sings wonderful carols.

The Science library will be streaming a live webcast of the lecture: ub.uio.no/live

The lecture will share the experiences of a Nobel Prize winning medical scientist whose basic research included an international series of collaborations.

The lecture is open for everyone.

Poverty and deprivation affect large numbers of people in our world today. Are we we morally obliged, as global citizens, to express solidarity with the poor in distant lands?

Speaker: Dan Banik

The Science library will be streaming a live webcast of the lecture.

Roberto Kolter, professor of microbiology at the Harvard Medical School, will lecture on chemical conversations among microbes and how microorganisms may react on current global change. The lecture is open for everyone.

Is democratic participation something that can be learned and therefore taught?

Speaker: Janicke Heldal Stray

October 24 is United Nations day, to celebrate that in 1945 the United Nations was born to promote peace, friendly relations and human rights for all peoples. But the United Nations is not stronger than its member states, and recent history has shown its weakness in reaching its goals.

Speaker: Halvor Moxnes

Global environmental change poses unprecedented challenges to humanity, and we increasingly hear calls for ecological citizenship, global governance, and new ways of viewing the world.

Speaker: Karen O'Brien

Does the idea of “global citizenship” inspire the age of ecomodernity? Are cosmopolitan inhabitants of the global village joining their forces to save the planet - and humanity - from peril?

Speaker: Nina Witoszek

A renewed nation state, based on a more inclusive conception of who "we" are, may be the possible answer to challenges presented by globalization processes.

Speaker: Knut Kjelstadli

Top chess players selected by the Norwegian Chess Federation are coming. Only a few days after the Istanbul World Chess Olympiad. Perhaps one of the winners will show up?

What happens when chess players make, and literally "play", music? What does "check mate" sound like? A chess board with electronic sensors that registrer the movements and turn them into music. This was the idea behind the 1968 classic Reunion by John Cage.

The song cycle "Silent Songs" was written by young Norwegian composer Therese Birkeland Ulvo and will be performed for the first time by soprano Silje Aker Johnsen. Not to miss.

Hans Rosling can make complicated facts and stats sound like music to your ears. Now the world-renowned Swedish professor is coming to Blindern to kick off the autumn Global Citizen lecture series. His talk "Fact Based World View" is open to the general public.