Previous events
Welcome to the Spring Semester Graduation Ceremony!
Join us for an exciting seminar with Andreas Nordlander, who will be presenting material from his upcoming book on natural teleology.
Welcome to this Guest Lecture by Professor Leo Lefebure, Georgetown University. Respondent is Rev. Unapane Pemananda Thero, University of Hong Kong and REDI alumni at the Faculty of Theology, UiO.
Welcome to the book-launch of The Nag Hammadi Codices as Monastic Books and Parabiblica Coptica!
A crucial topic concerning migration is its many causes. In what ways is climate change and crisis factoring in human displacement? Who is expected to respond to the climate crisis?
Welcome to the Oslo Lectures in New Testament and Early Christian Studies (ONTEC) with Cecilia Wassen, professor of the New Testament at Uppsala University.
One of the pioneers of the field now known as ‘Lived Religion’, Meredith McGuire, claims that attention to sensory experiences are of key importance when trying to understand how religion actually is lived.
Welcome to the Fall Semester Graduation Ceremony!
Panel conversation in the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023 awarded to Narges Mohammadi.
Which are the positions, reflections of Christian churches in the current European migration context? How is theology responding to the permanent mobility of people trying to enter “Fortress Europe”?
The wordplay Po/et(h)ics captures the interrelatedness of ethics and aesthetics. Dorothea Erbele-Küster shall explain this concept along the lines of Psalm 34 by emphasizing the role sensory perceptions and emotions play in the text and in the reception process.
According to biblical texts, our relationship to the world, to others, to God and to ourselves is anchored in our human corporality and vulnerability. The lecture explores the fundamental role of the body for conceptualizing the anthropology of the Hebrew Bible. Insights from cultural anthropology and also phenomenological philosophy will be considered.
Welcome to the launching of the book Complexities of Spiritual Care in Plural Societies.
Parables of Jesus in the Third Reich: Antisemitic Bible Adaptation in the Volkstestament (Die Botschaft Gottes, 1940).
The candidates will each give an introductory lecture to the Faculty's master's course "Gender Perspectives on Religion and Theology".
Welcome to the Spring Semester Graduation Ceremony!
Master Farhan Akram Shah at the Faculty of Theology will be defending the thesis "Muhammad Iqbal and the Openness of the Future. God, the Human Self and Eco-Theology in a Cosmos of Perpetual Becoming" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Doctoral candidate master Farhan Akram Shah at the Faculty of Theology will give a trial lecture on the given topic: “Mohammed Iqbal’s Understanding of Khudi and its relation to the Islamic theological/philosophical tradition”
Cand. theol Jon Petter Heesch at the Faulty of Theology will be defending the thesis "The Spirituality of the “Sichtungszeit”, as expressed in the thirty-four homilies on the Litany of the Wounds." for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Cand. theol Jon Petter Heesch at the Faulty of Theology will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "Is Zinzendorf a Lutheran theologian? A critical discussion in history and present"
Which are the positions, reflections of Christian churches in the current European migration context? How is theology responding to the permanent mobility of people trying to enter “Fortress Europe”?
Amina Siječić Selimović at the Faculty of Theology will defend her doctoral dissertation: “Am I One of the People? Perception, Position and Role of Women Theologians within the Islamic Community of Bosnia-Herzegovina” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Doctoral candidate Amina Siječić Selimović will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "Islamic feminisms and Islamic university theology: what do they do and how to use them in theorizing embodiments of gender and leadership in Islam".
Anita Aba Ansah will defend her doctoral dissertation: Lord, Sit with me a Little Longer: A Study of Women’s Leadership and Gender Empowerment in the Charismatic Renewal Groups of the Mainline Churches in Ghana" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the Faculty of Theology
Doctoral candidate Anita Aba Ansah will give a trial lecture on the given topic: "Charismatic movements and feminist theologies in Africa. A critical approach"