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Jørgen Lorentzen
Jørgen Lorentzen (born 4 November 1956) is a Norwegian literary scholar and independent film producer. His research has focused on the representation of men and masculinities in literature, film and popular culture. He became known to a broad audience through his participation in the TV program ''Hjernevask'' in 2010. He was employed as a researcher at the Centre for Gender Research in Oslo until 2013, and has since been a freelance researcher and documentary film producer. In collaboration with his wife, film director Nefise Özkal Lorentzen, he has produced several independent documentaries on Turkey and has also become known in Norway as a critic of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Erdoğan's government and a commentator on Turkish political developments. Career Lorentzen studied literature and worked as a journalist and editor at a publishing company during his early career. In 1997 he earned a doctoral degree in literature with the dissertation ''Mannlighetens muligheter'' on male cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klassekampen
(Lit. translation: ''"The Class Struggle"'') is a Norwegian daily newspaper in print and online. Its tagline is "The daily newspaper of the Left". The paper's net circulation was 33,265 in 2022, and it has around 111,000 daily readers on paper (160,000 on Saturdays). This makes it the third largest Norwegian print newspaper, based on readership. Chief editor from 2018 is Mari Skurdal. It started out in early 1969 as a monthly periodical published by a group of Oslo-based Marxist-Leninists, with Pål Steigan as a key founder and Anders M. Andersen as the first editor. Part of the alternative media landscape of the era, it promoted the positions of the Workers' Communist Party (AKP; founded 1973) and its predecessors. became a weekly in January 1973, a bi-weekly in January 1976 and finally a daily newspaper in April 1977. It was the official organ of the AKP until April 1991. Its mission statement now describes itself as "revolutionary socialist." As with most Norwegian newspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stig Frøland
Stig Sophus Frøland (born 31 July 1940) is a Norwegian professor of medicine. He was born in Sør-Odal Municipality as a brother of Dag Frøland. He took the dr.med. degree in 1973 and specialist qualification in internal medicine in 1980, later also in infectious diseases in 1983. He has served as chief physician at Rikshospitalet from 1986 and professor at the University of Oslo from 1993 to his retirement. He was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav in 2012. He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick University in Christiania was establis .... References 1940 births Living people Norwegian infectious disease physicians Academic staff of the University of Oslo Oslo University Hospital people Members of the Norwegian Academy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottar Brox
Ottar Brox (30 August 1932 – 16 February 2024) was a Norwegian authority in social science and a politician for the Socialist Left Party. He was professor of sociology at the University of Tromsø from 1972 to 1984, and later associate professor while working as head of research at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in 2019. Life and career Brox graduated as an agronomist from Norwegian College of Agriculture (NLH, now the Norwegian University of Life Sciences) in 1957, took history and sociology at the University of Oslo in 1959 and 1960 and a Doctor of Science degree from NLH in 1970. Brox was a member of parliament for Troms in the period 1973–1977. He was not re-elected in 1977. On the local level he has been a member of Bergen city council 1971–1972 and Oslo city council 1991–1995. Brox wrote a wide range of popularized science literature and partici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trond Amundsen (biologist)
Trond Amundsen (born 7 February 1957) is a Norwegian biologist, and a professor of biology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He specializes in ethology. He is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. He has also been very active in disseminating knowledge about behavior, ecology and evolution to the general public, and in general public discourse on research, and in 2018 he was awarded NTNU's prize for research dissemination. Career Amundsen earned his PhD in biology at the University of Oslo in 1994 and became an associate professor at Department of Biology at NTNU in 1991. He became full professor of biology at NTNU in 1998. His research studies animal behavior in an ecological and evolutionary perspective, focusing on how the animals' behavior is adapted to their physical, biological and social environment. He has especially worked with issues related to parental care, life history and above all sexual selection, namely how an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Campbell (academic)
Anne C. Campbell (1951 – 26 February 2017) was a British academic and author specializing in evolutionary psychology. Her research was largely concerned with sex differences in aggression between men and women. She was professor of psychology at Durham University. Research In the 1980s Campbell studied female violence through ethnographic work with female gang members in New York, providing an account of how they came to accept casual killings, firebombings, and the warfare and violence of the streets. She subsequently investigated social representations of aggression: the different explanations that men and women offer for their own aggression. Campbell found that women are more likely than men to exhibit inhibitory control of aggression; when aggression is acted out, women tend to excuse it as a loss of self-control, whereas men tend to justify it as a means of imposing control over others. Campbell's 1999 'Staying Alive' paper proposed an evolutionary explanation for sex di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Baron-Cohen
Sir Simon Philip Baron-Cohen (born 15 August 1958) is a British clinical psychologist and professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Cambridge. He is the director of the university's Autism Research Centre and a Fellow of Trinity College. In 1985, Baron-Cohen formulated the mindblindness theory of autism, the evidence for which he collated and published in 1995. In 1997, he formulated the prenatal sex steroid theory of autism, the key test of which was published in 2015. In 2003, he formulated the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory of autism and typical sex differences, the key test of which was published in 2018. He has also made major contributions to research on autism prevalence and screening, autism genetics, autism neuroimaging, autism and vulnerability, autism intervention and synaesthesia. Baron-Cohen was knighted in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to people with autism. In 2023, he was awarded the Medical Research Council (MRC) Mille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Eia
Harald Meldal Eia (born 9 February 1966) is a Norwegian comedian, and sociologist. In recent years, Eia has also made TV-documentaries and written books. Eia became a household name in Norway in the mid-90s and has since then been one of country´s most well-known comedians. Life and career Eia was born in Bærum. He graduated with a Candidate's degree in sociology at the University of Oslo in 1992, with the thesis ''Lidende ledere og kompetente kalkulatører. Næringslivsfolks symbolske kamper'', which in English translates as ''Suffering leaders and competent calculators. The symbolic struggles of business people.'' Together with Bård Tufte Johansen, he has been author of, and participated in, several successful Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation comedy TV series, such as '' Lille Lørdag'' (1995), Åpen Post (1998–2002), '' Uti vår hage'' (2003), '' Team Antonsen'' (2004), '' Tre brødre som ikke er brødre'' (2005), '' Uti vår hage 2'' (2008), and Storbynatt, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair
Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair (born 19 March 1970) is a Norwegian psychologist and Professor of Personality Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is married to Tonje Westgaard Kennair, and they have three children together. He was director of the Department of Psychology from 2009 to 2013. His research interests include clinical psychology and evolutionary psychology, and he is widely known for participating in public debate, including the NRK TV series ''Hjernevask'' in 2010. He has conducted research on treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder, anxiety Anxiety is an emotion characterised by an unpleasant state of inner wikt:turmoil, turmoil and includes feelings of dread over Anticipation, anticipated events. Anxiety is different from fear in that fear is defined as the emotional response ... and depression, and on jealousy, sexual behaviour, sexual harassment and hormonal influence on sexual behaviour. References Living people 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female Genital Mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision) is the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for non-medical reasons. Prevalence of female genital mutilation, FGM prevalence varies worldwide, but is majorly present in some countries of Africa, Asia and Middle East, and within their diasporas. , UNICEF estimates that worldwide 230 million girls and women (144 million in Africa, 80 million in Asia, 6 million in Middle East, and 1-2 million in other parts of the world) had been subjected to Female genital mutilation#Types, one or more types of FGM. Typically carried out by a traditional cutter using a blade, FGM is conducted from days after birth to puberty and beyond. In half of the countries for which national statistics are available, most girls are cut before the age of five. Procedures differ according to the country or ethnic group. They include removal of the clitoral hood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circumcision
Circumcision is a procedure that removes the foreskin from the human penis. In the most common form of the operation, the foreskin is extended with forceps, then a circumcision device may be placed, after which the foreskin is excised. Topical or locally injected anesthesia is generally used to reduce pain and physiologic stress. Circumcision is generally electively performed, most commonly done as a form of preventive healthcare, as a religious obligation, or as a cultural practice. It is also an option for cases of phimosis, other pathologies that do not resolve with other treatments, and chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs). The procedure is contraindicated in cases of certain genital structure abnormalities or poor general health. The procedure is associated with reduced rates of sexually transmitted infections and urinary tract infections. This includes reducing the incidence of cancer-causing forms of human papillomavirus (HPV) and reducing HIV transmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
