{"id":1966,"date":"2011-10-28T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2011-10-26T10:57:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T09:57:37","slug":"conference-oslo-october-28th-to-30th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1966","title":{"rendered":"Conference, Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/scream.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1967\" title=\"scream\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/scream.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>Oslo has just over half a million inhabitants and is located at the head of a 70-mile long fjord.\u00a0It is\u00a0surrounded by forested ridges and I\u2019m told that it is straightforward to go skiing, kayaking or ice skating within the city.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly appears cheerier than a glance\u00a0at the work of local artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944)\u00a0might lead one to suppose.\u00a0He painted other images beside the famous one shown here. For instance he provided a mural for a local chocolate factory.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve come here to spend a weekend listening to papers and contributing to discussions in a forum entitled, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hf.uio.no\/iakh\/english\/research\/projects\/ffu\/univhist-2011\/programme\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.hf.uio.no');\">Rethinking Modern University History\u2019<\/a>. I hope to situate thedevelopment of The Open University within the wider context of the development of other universities and hear, among other contributions, a\u00a0paper about \u2018The Myth of Academic Dissertations\u2019, another intriguingly entitled: \u2018An Inside Job? The Problem of Reflexivity in University History and Higher Education Studies\u2019 and a third called \u2018Undoing the European University: The Bologna Process\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oslo has just over half a million inhabitants and is located at the head of a 70-mile long fjord.\u00a0It is\u00a0surrounded by forested ridges and I\u2019m told that it is straightforward to go skiing, kayaking or ice skating within the city. It certainly appears cheerier than a glance\u00a0at the work of local artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944)\u00a0might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,183,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-higher-education","category-history-of-the-ou","category-nations-and-regions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}