International Forum Oslo
The Monthly Meeting Committee is proud to invite Forum members and guests to a talk by Dr Ross Wetherby, researcher in ecology and natural resource management at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences at Ås outside Oslo. He has published extensively on the subject and has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University […]
Mr Jon Westborg holds a Master of Philosophy from the reputed Cranfield School of Management in the UK. Before entering the world of diplomacy, he worked for the Lutheran World Federation, Save the Children Norway, the Strømme Foundation and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). From 1996 to 2003, he served as the Norwegian […]
Kjell Magne Bondevik Monday, April 25 Mr Bondevik is a Norwegian Lutheran Minister and well-known politician. As leader of the Christian Democratic Party, he served as the Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, the longest tenure since World War II. Currently, Bondevik is President of the Oslo Center for […]
The Monthly Meeting Committee is proud to announce the speaker for September, Dr Eystein Hoddevik, who is pathologist working at the University Hospital of Oslo. He holds a PhD in molecular biology and neuroscience. Dr Hoddevik has lived abroad – in France, Scotland, Germany and Sweden – and has experience from the Navy, emergency wards, […]
Nuclear Weapons and their Humanitarian Consequences Since 2019, Dr Anja Lillegraven has been the managing director of Norske leger mot atomvåpen (Norwegian Physicians Against Atomic Weapons), the Norwegian branch of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Dr Lillegraven holds an MA in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo. Before engaging in […]
The Monthly Meeting Committee is proud to invite our members for a presentation by Dr Ross Wetherbee, researcher in ecology and natural resource management at the Faculty of Environmental Science and Nature Management at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) at Ås. Dr Wetherbee has a PhD in Ecology and Natural Resource Management from […]
The Monthly Meeting Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to the traditional pre-Christmas meeting. According to tradition, we are planning a raffle this year, so we ask each member to please bring a small, wrapped gift. The raffle tickets will be sold at the door by VIPPS. The proceeds of the raffle this year […]
Why are hytter (chalets or secondary homes) - so important to many Norwegians? And what may we learn about Norwegian kinship and Norwegian families from studying their beloved and contested secondary homes? Almost half of all Norwegians have access to at least one hytte, making secondary homes more common in Norway than in most other […]
Tove Romsaas Wang, former Director General of Save the Children Norway and a registered nurse, has been a long-time NGO worker. She has a Master in International Health from John Hopkins University in 1982. After a short career at Rikshospitalet and a mission for the UN and WHO in Jemen in the 70s, she became […]
Dr Ingebjørg Tonne on Children and Multilingualism Dr Ingebjørg Tonne, Centre for Multilingualism at the University of Oslo, will speak about children and multilingualism. Her doctoral thesis (2001) is a contrastive linguistic analysis of specific features of Norwegian, Spanish and English. Dr Tonne teaches second language acquisition, in particular pupils’ text development, multilingual aspects of […]
Ms. Lisa Ann Cooper on her Work in Norway In 1987, when Lisa Ann Cooper was 25, she met with explicit racism for the first time in her life. With a new job in New York City, she needed a suitable apartment and asked a lodging rental agency to find one, only to be told […]
September 4 Odd Gunnar Skagestad Author and former Norwegian diplomat, Odd Gunnar Skagestad will give a talk on “Russia after Putin”. The talk is based on his new book with the same name where he discusses the question of what kind of country Russia will be once its authoritarian and warlike leader leaves the […]
‘Why do women live longer than men?’ Professor emeritus Karen Helene Ørstavik from the Institute of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oslo will talk about this interesting and somewhat complicated topic.
The Monthly Meeting Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to the traditional Christmas meeting. According to tradition, we are planning a raffle this year, so we ask each member to please bring a small, wrapped gift. The proceeds of the raffle this year will be donated to Fattighuset. Fattighuset is a charitable self-help organization […]
‘Animal spirits, Shamans and Monkey for dinner: Living with theChewong in the jungle of Malaysia’ Professor Emeritus and International Forum member Signe Howell will talk about her research with a small group of hunter-gatherers deep in the tropical rain forest of Malaysia. Her initial fieldwork lasted 18 months and she has subsequently visited them many […]
Monday, May 6 Christofer Unger Solheim Artificial Intelligence will transform the world as dramatically as Internet has done. Christofer Unger Solheim, Executive Chairman of Sigmai Limited, is a Norwegian serial entrepreneur and co-founder and former CEO of Sigma News Ventures. He started as a project manager in the oil and gas sector, developing models to predict expenditure, […]
SEPTEMBER MONTHLY MEETING Monday, September 2 Justice Tore Schei The Norwegian Supreme Court Tore Schei is a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway and will talk about the Court and the way it functions. Justice Schei retired in 2016 after having served at the Supreme Court for 30 years. During his 13 […]
‘The Crisis of Trust Everywhere - and in Norway in Particular’ Nina Witoszek (Fitzpatrick) is a Polish-Irish-Norwegian writer and research professor at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) in Oslo. She grew up west of Krakow in Poland, where she as a student was involved in an oppositional group. She fled Poland in […]
DECEMBER CHRISTMAS MEETING December 2 at 18:00 The Monthly Meeting Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to the traditional Christmas meeting. As is custom, we are planning a raffle, so we ask each member to please bring a small, wrapped gift. The proceeds of the raffle this year will be donated to Doctors Without […]
JANUARY MONTHLY MEETING Monday, January 6 Dr. Fanny Duckert: ‘The fabulous 50s’ Dr. Duckert is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. She specialises in clinical adult psychology and organisational psychology. In addition to media exposure, her research fields include health and lifestyle, early treatment of alcohol addiction, as […]
Monday, March 3. Farida Ahmadi ‘What can be done with the ongoing globalization of pain, insecurity, radicalization, multiculturalism and war?’ Originally from Kabul, social anthropologist Farida Ahmadi has studied the complex tapestry of peace and conflict in Afghanistan. During the Soviet occupation, she was jailed twice. Since 1991, Norway has been her home. She writes […]
