Calendar and events

Events related to departments and centres at the Faculty of Social Sciences. The calendar is not necessary comprehensive, but we try to display all events that are directed towards an English-speaking audience.

• 1 Sept. 2026, 13:00-14:00

  Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti, University of Geneva

  "Should we stop the COPs?" Seminar arranged by Environmental Economics Group

• 2 Sept. 2026, 9:30-10:45

  Michèle Belot, Cornell University

  The Value of Bonding at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment. CoLab Seminar arranged by Department of Economics

• 2 Sept. 2026, 13:00-16:00

  Meandering Through Labour Economics Mental Well-being, Misperceptions, and Milieu in the Labour Market

  PhD defence by Asker Nygaard Christensen

• 3 Sept. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  Crime Trends in Borderlands: Similarities and Differences Across Nordic Border Regions

  Talk by Professor Peter Lindström, Linnaeus University.

• 4 Sept. 2026, 10:30-12:00

  Pinchuan Ong, National University of Singapore

  "Assessing Hypothetical Scenarios for Estimating Labor Supply Responses: Evidence from a Pension Reform". CoLab Seminar arranged by Department of Economics.

• 4 Sept. 2026, 14:00-15:30

  Towards an anthropology of the missing: ethnographic encounters in post-Assad Syria

  Seminar with Charlotte Al-Khalili, Department of Anthropology.

• 8 Sept. 2026, 12:30-14:00

  Private Museums and the Cultural Legitimation of Wealth

  Seminar with Kristina Kolbe, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

• 10 Sept. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Adrian Lerche, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg

  “Lump of Labor? Employment Effects of Pension Reforms in Firms and Labor Markets” Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 11 Sept. 2026, 11:00-12:00

  SODAS Data Discussion I (Fall 2026)

  SODAS is delighted to host Arianna Pera and Anton Mynster Kronberg for the Fall 2026 Data Discussion series!

• 11 Sept. 2026, 13:00-16:00

  Preventive interventions for parents with mental disorders and their offspring

  PhD defence by Emilie Hestbæk Jacobsen

• 15 Sept. 2026, 12:30-14:00

  Interaction Rituals at Odds Yet in Concert: Sketches of a Research Program

  Seminar with professor Anders Vassenden, University of Stavanger.

• 15 Sept. 2026, 13:15-14:45

  Oren Danieli, Tel Aviv University School of Economics

  "Designing Anti-Poverty Policy Experiments from Observed Mobility Patterns". CoLab Seminar arranged by Department of Economics.

• 17 Sept. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  Youth between punishment and welfare

  Talk by PhD fellow Lea Brinkgaard, University of Copenhagen.

• 17 Sept. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  The Strategic Seductions of Cybercrime in 21st Century Geopolitics

  Talk by Professor Andrew Goldsmith, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.

• 17 Sept. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Sara Abrahamsson, Norwegian Institute of Public Health

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 18 Sept. 2026, 9:30-15:30

  Aesthetic Atmospheres

  Seminar.

• 22 Sept. 2026, 15:00-17:30

  Department Day at Sociology

  Department of Sociology invites to department day.

• 24 Sept. 2026, 12:30-14:00

  The New Nordic Wealth Elites and the Future of the Welfare State

  Seminar with Hanna Kuusela, University of Jyväskylä

• 24 Sept. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Sydney Constantini, Bocconi University & UBC

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 24 Sept. 2026, 17:30-19:30

  Exhibition opening: SOLID × A Name, Not a Number

  You are invited to the opening of The Social Life of Dead Bodies × A Name, Not a Number, a collaborative exhibition bringing together research on migration, forensic identification, death, and disappearance.

• 24 Sept. - 25 Sept. 2026

  The 6th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop

  Workshop taking place in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, on 24-25 September, 2026.

• 29 Sept. 2026, 12:30-14:00

  Meaning, Norms, and the Computational Turn: An Interpretive Approach to Text Analysis

  Seminar with Andrea Voyer, Stockholm University

• 1 Oct. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  Norwegian Nurses in the Service of the Third Reich: A Criminological Study of Atrocity Perpetration and Claims to Victimhood

  Talk with Lilli Wolland Blomberg, PhD Law, University of Edinburgh.

• 2 Oct. 2026, 11:00-12:00

  SODAS Data Discussion II (Fall 2026)

  We are delighted to host Sergey Belmestnykh and Benjamin Kohler for the Fall 2026 SODAS Data Discussion series!

• 7 Oct. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Paula Calvo, Arizona State University

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 8 Oct. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  From the container to the contained: Carceral Geographies and Migrant Identity in Refugee Graphic Novels

  Talk by Associate Professor Bidisha Banerjee, University of Hong Kong.

• 9 Oct. 2026, 14:00-15:30

  Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces

  Talk with Bidisha Banerjee.

• 12 Oct. - 16 Oct. 2026

  Models of Consciousness 2026

  Five day conference.

• 20 Oct. 2026, 12:30-13:30

  Social Media Ecologies of Crime: Algorithmic Convergence Spaces and Criminogenic Opportunity Structures Online

  Seminar with Kristoffer Magnus Bjerre Aagesen, PhD student at Department of Sociology.

• 20 Oct. 2026, 13:00-14:00

  Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg

  "Externality Shifting. Seminar arranged by Environmental Economics Group

• 22 Oct. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  Meta-analysis of psychological interventions aimed at reducing corruption tolerance

  Talk by PhD student Ardian R. Afandi, University of Copenhagen.

• 22 Oct. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Sarah Necker, Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior an Inequality (CEBI)

• 27 Oct. 2026, 12:30-13:30

  Labour migration, divergent business strategies and change in national models

  Seminar with Jens Arnholtz, Associate Professor, FAOS.

• 29 Oct. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Gisle Natvik, Norwegian Business School

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 3 Nov. 2026, 12:30-14:00

  Welcomed or Walled Out? Right-Wing Attitudes and Refugee Policies in Sweden, Germany, and Poland

  Seminar with Pieter Bevelander, professor at Malmö University, Sweden.

• 3 Nov. 2026, 13:15-14:45

  Mikkel Mertz, Rockwool Foundation

  “TBA”. CoLab Seminar arranged by Department of Economics

• 5 Nov. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Anders Jensen, Harvard University

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 12 Nov. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Ying Shi, Syracuse University

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 17 Nov. 2026, 12:30-14:00

  From Ressentiment to Radicalisation: Towards an Integrative Framework.

  Seminar with Mikko Salmela, Senior Researcher in Political Science and Practical Philosophy, University of Helsinki.

• 19 Nov. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Peter Haan, Frei Universität Berlin & DIW

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 26 Nov. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  On the origins of Nordic penal exceptionalism

  Lunch seminar with Professor Peter Scharff Smith.

• 26 Nov. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 27 Nov. 2026, 14:00-15:30

  Dotted Journeys

  Seminar with Nina Khamsy, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

• 3 Dec. 2026, 12:00-13:00

  Building the Boundary: Prison Renovation, Porosity and Carceral Borders

  Talk by Professor Dominique Moran, University of Birmingham. Part of CCC Lunch Seminars.

• 3 Dec. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Andreas Fuster, Swiss Finance Institute

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 8 Dec. 2026, 12:30-13:30

  Why third-generation assimilation may stall: The role of second-generation union patterns

  Seminar with Jesper Fels Birkelund, Assistant Professor Tenure Track at the Department of Sociology.

• 8 Dec. 2026, 13:00-14:00

  Florian Diekert, University of Augsburg

  "TBA". Seminar arranged by Environmental Economics Group

• 10 Dec. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Anne Gielen, Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 15 Dec. 2026, 12:30-13:30

  The ethical foundation of the social: Unpacking the phenomenology of the interaction order’s moral constraints

  Seminar with Jonas Toubøl, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology.

• 17 Dec. 2026, 14:15-15:30

  Sevgi Yuksel, New York University

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior an Inequality (CEBI)

• 22 Apr. 2027, 14:15-15:30

  Kathrine B. Coffman, Harvard Business School

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)

• 27 May 2027, 14:15-15:30

  Molly Schnell, Northwestern University

  Seminar arranged by Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)