Posts Tagged ‘humanities’

My November 2011 paper on the Humanities available in Norwegian

Posted on 19 December 2011

On November 22, I gave a paper on the value of the humanities at Forskningspolitisk seminar organized by Forskerforbundet in Oslo. All the papers from the seminar are now available online. I include the pdf of my own manuscript here: Moi_Verdien av humaniora November 2011. A short version of my own paper was published in Morgenbladet on December 2, 2011, under the title “Å lage det som er vanvittig vakkert” (“To make something insanely beautiful.”) You can download a pdf file here.

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22 November 2011

The Value of the Humanities

Toril Moi will speak about the value of the humanities at a seminar about research funding organized by Forskerforbundet (the Norwegian Association for Researchers) in Oslo on Tuesday 22 November. For more information about this seminar, which will begin with a talk by Tora Aasland, the current Minister for Knowledge, click here.

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Article about the humanities (in Norwegian)

Posted on 8 November 2011

I have uploaded my article about the different position of the humanities in Norway and in the United States. Click here to download a pdf file. This essay is written in Norwegian.

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Defense of the humanities in Aftenposten

Posted on 2 April 2011

Click here to read (in Norwegian) my essay in defense of the humanities: “Forsvar for humaniora” published in Aftenposten on March 31, 2011.

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Interview in Klassekampen (Oslo)

Posted on 20 March 2011

Click here for a link to the interview (in Norwegian) with the newspaper Klassekampen (Oslo) published 17 March 2011.

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16 March 2011

The University of Oslo, Norway

On March 16, Toril Moi will give a talk at Vitenskapsteoretisk Seminar, at the University of Oslo entitled “Hvorfor må vi (stadig) forsvare humaniora?” (Why must we (constantly) defend the humanities?). The talk will take place at 14:15 - 16:00, in Auditorium 2, Helga Engs Hus, Blindern.

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