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17.11.2026   Feature.RSS.TimeLabel 13:00 - 14:00

DIAS Event: Exploring and Strengthening Democracy: Interdisciplinarity, Innovation, Cooperation by Tore Rem

Professor Tore Rem, University of Oslo

About the event
Tore Rem will present the work currently undertaken by the large interdisciplinary research initiative UiOlaughemocracy (University of Oslo), which has been in existence since 2023. He will talk about why and how UiOlaughemocracy came about, what the 12 research groups do, and how the initiative functions as a laboratory for interdisciplinarity. Rem will also share ways in which the initiative has led to new forms of engagement between research and society, and how it has created popular arenas for discussing the contemporary challenges of democracy.

About the speaker
Tore Rem (b. 1967) is director of UiOlaughemocracy and Professor of literatures in English at the University of Oslo. He has published extensively on British and Scandinavian 19th- and 20th-century literature, book history, world literature, and life writing, and is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.  

The event is hosted by Anne Marie Mai