All Science Studies Colloquium Series events

Robert Aronowitz is Professor, History and Sociology of Science, and the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies, and Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Bendik Hellem Aaby (IFIKK, UiO) does research in philosophy of biology and philosophy of action. His research concerns are, amongst other things, the role behavior plays in evolutionary theory, the attribution of agency to non-human organisms, and to what extent purposiveness can be adequately accounted for by evolutionary theory.

Hedda Hassel M?rch (H?gskolen i Innlandet) will give a talk for the Science Studies Colloquium Series. https://heddahasselmorch.com/research/

Tor Egil F?rland is Professor of History and Head of Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK) at the University of Oslo. He has published books and articles on strategic export controls during the Cold War; the student revolt of the 1960s; and historical theory, as in his most recent monograph Values, Explanation, and Objectivity in Historiography (Routledge, 2017).

Sune Dueholm M¨¹ller and Johan Ivar S?b? are associate professors at the Information Systems research group, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

Kristin Gjesdal is professor of philosophy at Temple University. Her scholarship covers philosophy of interpretation (hermeneutics), philosophy of art, and modern European philosophy. She is the co-editor of the recently published Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (both with Oxford UP). She is the author of three monographs (with Cambridge and Oxford University Presses) and the editor and co-editor of eight volumes in her areas of research. Her present work includes an introduction to the philosophy of Germaine de Sta?l (under contract with Cambridge UP) and the monograph ¡°How to be a Self? Four Lessons from Germaine de Sta?l¡± (under contract with Oxford UP). For more information, see her faculty website or this 3:16 interview.

Associate Professor Koray ?al??kan (The New School, Parsons School of Design) will give a lecture on the occasion of his new book "Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains" (Columbia, 2023). Drawing on his award winning research, ?al??kan will present a radical insider view of how cryptocurrencies are created and traded on the ground, analyzing the emergence of the third fiat money in world history: Data Money.

Carrie Friese¡¯s research is in medical sociology and science and technology studies, with a focus on reproduction across humans and animals. Her initial research focused on the use of assisted reproductive technologies for human reproduction in the context of infertility. She then explored the development of interspecies nuclear transfer (aka cloning) for endangered species preservation in zoos.

Building on her research, she am currently completing a book entitled ¡°More-than-human Humanitarianism: Care, Science and Inequity.¡± This book asks what laboratory animals look like through the lens of humanitarianism, and what humanitarianism looks like through the lens of laboratory animals in order to analyse the benefits and limitations of the logics and practices of relating that are not necessarily visible through rights-based discourses.

Kristian Bj?rkdahl er f?rsteamanuensis i retorikk ved Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, UiO. Han jobber med politisk retorikk i bred forstand, og er engasjert i prosjekter om norske og nordiske selvbilder, byr?kratisk tekstproduksjon, sosiale bevegelsers ytringskultur, organisering av forskningskommunikasjon, m.m.

Han leder forskergruppen Tekst og retorikk, og deltar dessuten i UiO:Demokrati-gruppen Voicing Democracy. Han er styremedlem i Nordisk Retorikkforening og medredakt?r av retorikkmagasinet Kairos.

Arnoldo Frigessi (UiO, INTEGREAT) is department head at the Oslo University Hospital and professor of statistics at the University of Oslo. He is director of the Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology. He leads the centre for research based innovation BigInsight (https://www.biginsight.no/), a consortium of partners from academia and the public and private sectors. From 2023, he will be the director of the centre of excellence Integreat- The Norwegian centre for knowledge-driven machine learning, funded by the Research Council of Norway.

Maja Hagerman is a Swedish writer and filmmaker based in Stockholm. She is currently finalizing a PhD on race biology and photography at the Centre for Nordic Studies, Helsinki university, Finland. She has previously written two monographs on racial research in Sweden in the 19th and 20 ^th century, published as independent research in archives and literary sources within the field of history of ideas.  She was promoted honorary doctor at Uppsala university in 2012 and is today also a senior lecturer in arts at Dalarna Audiovisual Academy, Dalarna University, Sweden, where her focus is on historical documentary film production.

Hallvard Fossheim is Committee leader for the National Committee for Research Ethics in Science and Technology (NENT) and Professor of philosophy at UiB. 

Tone Druglitr? is a researcher at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo. She has over several years been concerned with experimenting with care as an approach and tool for studying values in science and policy with a specific focus on animal research. Based upon a combination of archive studies, laboratory ethnographies, and document-oriented studies, her work has traced the historical development of ¡°skilled care¡± as an expertise in science, and analyzed the convergence of biological standardization, conservation and technical care in public health. She has also published on ¡°procedural care¡± in licensing systems. She is currently exploring versions of care in cod immunology together with Kristin Asdal (TIK).

Professor Elin Lerum Boasson was a lead author in the sixth assessment report cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III Mitigation and is a member of the Swedish Climate Policy Council. She has published extensively on climate policy and politics, particularly on policy entrepreneurship, business influence, political steering, policy diffusion and the EU. Her work is primarily comparative and contributes to climate governance studies as well as to historical and sociological institutionalism. Boasson is deputy head of the Political Science Department at the University of Oslo and is also affiliated with CICERO, Center for International Climate Research. Her fifth book was published in 2021. The research project Accelerating Climate Action and the State: Getting to Net Zero (ACCELZ) - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV) (uio.no) is led by Boasson.