2021

The Colloquium for Science Studies (Forumet for vitenskapsteori) organizes a seminar where recipients of the Colloquium's scholarship will present results of their works. 

Offentlig foredrag som markerer ?pningen av den 8. norske konferansen i vitenskapshistorie. Mer informasjon her.

Public lecture at the opening of the 8th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science. Language: Norwegian. More info in Norwegian here.

Gry Oftedal, Senior Lecturer and Head of Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS), Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo.

Sophia Efstathiou is a Researcher (Forsker) at the Programme for Applied Ethics, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is currently leading the international KLIMAFORSK project MEATigation: Towards sustainable meat use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation (2020-24), and the Norwegian participation in the H2020 project ISEED: Inclusive Science and European Democracies (2021-24).  

Emma Vikstr?m has a PhD in education and is currently working as a researcher and lecturer in the teacher training programme at ?rebro University, Sweden. Her research interests lie in the fields of the history of education and history of ideas and focus on historical change regarding educational goals and means. She will be presenting some parts of her recently published thesis on eugenics and education in Ellen Key¡¯s work. 

Dr. Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr., is visiting the Science Studies Colloquium Series. Roberts is Director of Columbia University¡¯s Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences. He writes, teaches, and lectures widely on African-American history, medical and public health history, urban history, issues of policing and criminal justice, and the history of social movements.

The seminar is open for everyone!

Craig Callender is Professor of Philosophy and Founding Faculty and Co-Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of California, San Diego. He also sits on the Freedom and Responsibility in Science Committee of the International Science Council, Paris and the Faculty of The John Bell Institute, Hvar, Croatia. Before moving to San Diego, he worked in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He works in many areas of philosophy of science. His book What Makes Time Special? (Oxford University Press, 2017) won the 2018 Lakatos Award.

In Performing Indigenous Health Research in a Multiethnic Landscape: The Population-based Study on Health and Living in Regions with Sami and Norwegian Populations - the SAMINOR Study Ann Ragnhild Broderstad, head of SAMINOR, will be discussing the upcoming third SAMINOR survey, in the broader context of how the modern history of indigenous groups has created both distinct needs for focused health-research and distinct considerations in such research. Prof. Broderstad is academic director of the Centre for Sami Health Research at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, in addition to her role with the Department of Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway.

Thomas Pradeu is CNRS Senior Investigator in Philosophy of Science embedded in a biology lab, ImmunoConcept (CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux, France), Co-PI of the Conceptual Biology & Medicine Team, Coordinator of the PhilInBioMed international network, & was PI of the ERC-funded IDEM project (2015-2020). His research is in philosophy of biology, with a focus on biological individuality, immunology, cancer, and the microbiota. His book, The Limits of the Self: Immunology and Biological Identity (OUP, 2012), received the Lakatos Award.

Ma?l Lemoine is Full Professor in Philosophy of Medical Sciences, Univ. of Bordeaux, France, embedded in a biology lab, ImmunoConcept (CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux, France), Co-PI of the Conceptual Biology & Medicine Team. He is a philosopher of medicine, with a focus on the definition of health and disease, ageing, cancer, and precision medicine.