News from the Faculty of Humanities

The research group on Names and Identities, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies organises an international seminar on Names and Identities on Friday 16 November 2007, in Auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrup's Building, Blindern Campus.

For full programme, information on participants, directions on how to reach the venue etc. please see the link below.
:: Programme - Names and Identities

Department of Cultural and Oriental Studies receives as their guest lecturer Prof. Sakamoto Hiroko (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan). Professor Hiroko lectures on the topic:
"Representation of the Modern Girl in Shanghai Cartoon Magazines, 1920s-1930s" on Friday 16. november, 16.15-18 in P.A.Munch's building, Seminar room 2.

For the full text of this news item, see Guest Lecture announcement below.
:: Guest Lecture Announcement

What is Media Aesthetics? Perspectives on a new research field. This was the title of a recent conference organised by the cross-disciplinary research project Media Aesthetics at the University of Oslo.

Distinguished professor, N. Katherine Hayles from UCLA is among the first researchers to have discussed what literature means in a digital age. The leading American thinker and Avalon professor of Humanities at Northwestern university Samuel Weber is known for having brought the philosopher Walter Benjamin into the tv age. The philosopher and director of the Department of Cultural Development at the Centre Georges-Pompindou Bernard Stiegler is known for his research on the relationship between the human and technology.


:: Abstracts from programme

The pioneer feminist musicology researcher, professor Susan McClary from UCLA has accepted the position as part-time professor at the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo. She held her inauguration lecture "Why Study Gender in Musicology" in September 2007. She has become renowned for introducing a gender perspective to the study of music. Her book Feminine Endings can be said to have revolutionised musicology by investigating body, gender and sexuality in music ranging from Carmen to Madonna.
:: Susan McClary on UCLAs web pages

This conference was organised as a series of talks between leading peacemakers from the US and Europe and leading researchers in the field. The conference was organised by the Forum for Contemporary History and the Norwegian Academy of Science, and among the guests were
Mr. Jan Egeland, UN special adviser
Mr. Peter Galbraith, former American ambassador to Croatia
Mr. Samuel Lewis, former American ambassador to Israel
Mr. Wolfgang Petritsch, former high commissioner for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Harold Saunders, former Deputy Secretary of State
Lord Owen and Mr. Thorvald Stoltenberg, former leaders of the international conference on former Yugoslavia

The conference had economic support from the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Norwegian Ministry of Defence and the Nobel Institute.

The PROGRAMME for the Faculty of Humanities International Partner Days is now ready and we are very pleased that many of our cooperating partners have registered for the event.

The event takes place prior to the start of the EAIE conference in Trondheim.
:: EAIE conference

Professor John Durham Peters from University of Iowa and assoc. professor Anna McCarthy from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University are international keynote speakers at the 20 years' anniversary conference "Axis and Allies" of the Department of Media and Communication, 30 and 31 August 2007.

See the conference programme for a full list of Norwegian and other national contributors to the conference.
:: Outlines of keynote address
:: Full conference programme

The faculty's Centre of Excellence - Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature - at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas is announcing its official opening on 29 August 2007. The inaugural lecture will be held by Professor John Perry, who is Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.
:: CSMN Inaugural lecture details
:: CSMN
:: Professor John Perry
:: More on professor John R. Perry

The Norwegian Research Council has given Associate professor Dag Trygve Truslew Haug at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas the status of Outstanding Young Investigator (YFF), and thereby has provided funding for him to work on his project "Pragmatic Resources In Old Indo-European Languages".

The project is concerned with comparing the original Greek text of the New Testament with translations (from Greek) to older Indo-European languages: Latin, Gothic, Armenian and Church Slavonic with special focus on their structuring of information using linguistic devices.

On 12 June 2007 professor emeritus Kåre Langvik-Johannessen was awarded the royal order "Kommandeur in de Kroonorde" (Commander of the Order of the Crown) at the Belgian embassy for his long-standing efforts to make Dutch-language culture known in Norway.

On 21 June 2007 professor Cathrine Fabricius Hansen was awarded the title of honorary doctor at the Faculty of Languages and Literatures at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. She received the doctorate for her innovative research within German tempus and modus linguistics and for her significant contributions to translation theory. Earlier she has also received the Norwegian Nansen prize for excellent academic research, the DAAD's Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm prize (2002) and the Konrad Duden prize of the city of Mannheim (2004).
:: Faculty of Languages and Literatures, LMU
:: Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen homepage
:: Order of the Crown (Belgium)