Previous events

2012

• Workshop 5 - 7 January: Objectification, Measurement and Standaization

2011

•  Conference: India as a global power 3-4 October 2011
•  Seminar: Transformation and friction in globalizing India
• Guest lecture: Lars Gule, Centre for the Study of Professions Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science. Title of the lecture: Right-wing radicalism in Norway in the context of the events of 22nd July 2011
• Guest lecture: J. Craig Jenkins, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University. title of the lecture: Globalization and political contention: The effects of media and civil society
• Guest lecture: Terhi Rantanen, London School of Economics. 22 March. Title of the lecture: Under the ash cloud: Globalization, Communicative Modernity and Cosmopolitanization
• Guest lecture: Kristin Braa, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. 18 January. Title of the lecture: Sustainable Mobile Health Information Infrastructures in Low Resource Settings

2010

• Conference: National conference on CSR (corporate social responsibility) 1 -2 December
• Conference: Can and should all countries become democracies?  30 September - 1 October
• Guest lecture: Renée Marlin-Bennett, Johns Hopkins University, USA. 12 March 
  Title of the lecture: I hear the world tweeting and other themes for a virtual polis: Rethinking democracy in the global infoteck world

2009

• PhD and postdoc Seminar, February 2009
• PhD and postdoc seminar December 2009
• Guest lectures 2009
• Conference: Islamic Resurgence in the Age of Globalization: Myth, Memory, Emotion

2008

• Conference: Globalisation: Nation States, Forced Migration and Human Rights
•  Debate: an fundamentalists be democratized? On June 20th 2008 a public debate meeting on the topic "Can fundamentalists be democratized?" was organized jointly by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Globalization Programme, NTNU. State Secretary Raymond Johansen discussed issues relating to dialogue and fundamentalists with researchers representing different disciplines: Jennifer Bailey (political science), Ulrika Mårtensson (religion studies) and May Thorseth (philosophy). For a report on the discussion see the article in Universitetsavisa and the summary prepared by the MFA.
• PhD and postdoc seminar, December 2008