29 February-1 March 2024, University of Oslo
This workshop tries to bring together social scientists from the Nordic countries and elsewhere, to provide insight into whether the impact of genes on broader socio-economic and social-demographic outcomes depends on the social environments we are part of, such as socio-economic groups, schools, neighbourhoods, time periods or even countries. The core organizing team consists of Arno Van Hootegem, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Ruth Eva Jørgensen, Karri Silventoinen and Gaia Ghirardi.
The workshop is funded by NordForsk through the ReNEW research hub, UiO:Life Science through the AHeadForLife project and the European Research Council through the OPENFLUX project.
Contact: Arno Van Hootegem, a.van.hootegem@sosgeo.uio.no
Clare Hall, Cambridge, March 21–22, 2024
We live, today, largely in a world of projects. As recent scholarship has suggested, the project as such has come to embody the quintessence of our contemporary world as it has developed from the 1970s, described inter alia as that of neoliberalism, of post-industrial capitalism or of liquid modernity. But we also live in a world of failed projects, which urges historians to embark on empirical studies of ultimately ill-fated, large-scale projects in order to untangle the historical challenges associated with their management. This need is especially urgent for writers of the history of transnational integration, not least in macro-regions such as Europe or, on a smaller scale, the Nordic region, whose promotors boast about being proverbial world champions in the field of integration. Appraising the histories of failure may bring crucial understanding to the limits and possibilities of integration; yet they are often forgotten, being obscured by success narratives disseminated by presently active stakeholders, or by historians focusing on the tales of the victors.
This workshop will counter such tendencies in the historical research on transnational integration by welcoming and discussing new research on failed projects of regional integration in Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe. Within the framework of this workshop, we focus mainly on two types of failures, distinguished by how they have informed and impacted their historical contexts. The first of these are destructive failures, which have functioned or been perceived of as warning examples of transnational integration, indicating paths undesirable to take. Such failures may become obstacles for cooperation or integration by continuing to haunt plans and ambitions, both in the public sphere debates and in the planning processes of experts. The second category of failures are here dubbed productive failures, i.e. points of departure for compensatory measures, which have become drivers for other, different initiatives, of which there have been numerous examples in the history of Nordic and transnational integration. Both these categories provide us with glimpses of the future visions of the past, readable not least in the massive amount of work they produced. After all, failures are, just as much as successes, outcomes of intense interactions, and of an intensive knowledge production.
In this workshop, we propose to look beyond party politics and diplomatic history to lay bare valuable knowledge regarding the “hidden integration” of the transnational spaces, focusing on economic projects broadly conceived, from the infrastructures of the network industries to cross-border business ventures of media and entertainment.
Contact: Martin Johansson (martin.johansson@sh.se) and Andreas Mørkved (am2337@cam.ac.uk)
Helsinki, Location: Siltavuorenpenger 5, Athena building room 360, 26-27 April 2024,
This workshop delves into how the teacher educator's and student teacher’s might interact with generative AI, exploring how the evolving landscape of technology impacts this education and takes a deep dive into the topic, exploring the implications of artificial intelligence for teacher education.
April 26 09.00-12.00 (Helsinki time) also available via webinar.
Contact: Eyvind Elstad (eyvind.elstad@ils.uio.no)
Oslo, 19-19 April 2024
Contact: Unn Pedersen (unn.pedersen@iakh.uio.no)
Aarhus (Moesgård museum, Aarhus University), 29-30 May 2024
The purpose of the workshop is to facilitate the startup of a new network, and to start exchanging ideas and knowledge in order to build a platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Our academic aims will be to explore more nuanced understandings of how and why people move and migrate over short and long distances, to investigate how mobility creates, influences, and changes regional trajectories, and thereby to obtain deep-time understandings of migrations. The first workshop aims at challenging stereotypical images of gendered migrations and regionality, and will be organized around four strands:
Strand 1 The legacy of gendered migrations in the Nordic world
Strand 2 Theoretical and methodological approaches to gendered human mobility and migration. Perspectives from human geography and anthropology
Strand 3 Migrations and regional dynamics. Perspectives from science and GIS-based archaeology.
Strand 4 The evolvement of Nordic Bronze Age gender identities
Contact: Lene Melheim (a.l.melheim@khm.uio.no)
Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo, 30 May-2 June 2024
The international think-tank workshop is organized by UiO, the Hans Kilian und Lotte Köhler Centrum für sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Psychologie und historische Anthropologie Lehrstuhl für Sozialtheorie und Sozialpsychologie of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and Aarhus University.
30 researchers from the different Institutions, and several online participants, will have an intensive 4 days of discussion about the way psychological sciences can overcome the limits of epistemology universalism voicing the non-hegemonic traditions of knowledge production outside the Global North, and how to acknowledge the persisting consequences of colonialism on mental health.
If you are interested to join the online audience, please contact luca.tateo@isp.uio.no
Oslo, autumn 2024
Contact person: Eirinn Larsen (eirinn.larsen@iakh.uio.no)
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