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Fredag 20. april 2012

• 11:00 Islamism and Uprising: Egypt and Syria, Universitetet i Oslo, P. A. Munchs hus (HF), Seminarrom 454

  Prof. Salwa Ismail visits Norway Salwa Ismail, Professor of Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, U.K. is a leading international scholar on Islamism in the contemporary Middle East. She is the author of two acclaimed books, Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism (I. B. Tauris 2003), and Political Life in Cairo’s New Quarters: Encountering the Everyday State (Universityof Minnesota Press 2006), and is currently writing a book on violence …

Fredag 9. april 2010

• 18:00 Filosofisk fredagsseminar: Substans eller prosedyre?, Universitetet i Oslo, P. A. Munchs hus (HF), Seminarrom 454

  FILOSOFISK SUPPLEMENT inviterer til FILOSOFISK FREDAGSSEMINAR: Ingrid Hødnebø holder foredraget Substans eller prosedyre? Kan vi oppnå universelle standarder for sosial rettferdighet? Hvordan kan vi oppnå universelle standarder for sosial rettferdighet? Og er det i det hele tatt filosofiens rolle å sette slike standarder? Kan filosofiens krav om abstraksjon og allmenngyldighet forenes med det å løse faktiske problemer, som for eksempel fattigdom og nød? Kan man fra et feministisk og maktkritisk …

Tirsdag 16. juni 2009

• 09:30 Workshop: Metarepresentation and non-literal language use, Universitetet i Oslo, P. A. Munchs hus (HF), Seminarrom 454

  Verbal communication is full of uses of language which are non-literal: metaphor, metonymy, over- and understatement, sarcasm, irony, pretence and the presentation of points of view other than our own. A basic capacity for metarepresentation underlies all our communicative acts and in this workshop we explore the extent to which non-literal language use requires higher levels of metarepresentation. Programme: Monday, 15 June 9.30 Opening remarks 9.45–11.00 Greg Currie: ‘Orienting narration to …

Mandag 15. juni 2009

• 09:30 Workshop: Metarepresentation and non-literal language use, Universitetet i Oslo, P. A. Munchs hus (HF), Seminarrom 454

  Verbal communication is full of uses of language which are non-literal: metaphor, metonymy, over- and understatement, sarcasm, irony, pretence and the presentation of points of view other than our own. A basic capacity for metarepresentation underlies all our communicative acts and in this workshop we explore the extent to which non-literal language use requires higher levels of metarepresentation. Programme: Monday, 15 June 9.30 Opening remarks 9.45–11.00 Greg Currie: ‘Orienting narration to …