Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society (PANSOC)
An OsloMet Centre of Research Excellence studying the societal aspects of pandemics
PANSOC will jointly organize this workshop with colleagues in Denmak and Switzerland. It will take place at Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway, 28-29 January 2027. Deadline for submission is 11 September 2026.
Read more here: Epidemics and Contagious Diseases: The Legacy of the Past | International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
Or download the CFP here: Call_for_paper_aftermath_pandemic_final.pdf
We are proud to announce that Maria Bekker-Nielsen Dunbar, former post-doc at PANSOC won 2nd prize in the poster award at Heidelberg Postdoc Symposium / DKTK YAC 2025 (June 27, 2025): Getting to Grippe With Influenza: An Investigation of Why the Disease Is Called That · DKFZ Event Managment System (Indico). The work she presented was partly done at PANSOC in 2023 and 2024.
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre will give this years PANSOC guest lecture at the Norwegian Academy of Science & Letters on Wednesday November 6th titled “Influenza virus: 1918-2024” (read more here: PANSOC Guest lecture: – Centre for Research on Pandemics & Society (PANSOC). As part of Garcia-Sastre’s visit in Oslo and as a “teaser” for his talk, he as also written an opinon piece that you can read here: The next big pandemic? Avian flu takes a worrying step closer to humans
Centre leader Mamelund will stay 5 weeks at University of Brisbane 1st of September to October 4th. Purpose of the stay is to learn more from our partners doing wet-lab studies including mouse models and studies of century old extra-respiratory tissues taken from victims of historical influenza pandemics (Prof. Kirsty Short). Mamelund’s sabbatical is funded by a CAS Alumni-Fellowship. This fellowship is something you can apply to get as a former recipient of a CAS project as the one Mamelund lead from 2022-23 – se more here: Social Science Meets Biology | CAS (cas-nor.no)
Centre leader Mamelund is invited to hold a keynote at OPTIONS XII in Brisbane, Australia 29 Sep to October 2nd: Keynote Speakers | OPTIONS XII 2024 | OPTIONS XII Event | OPTIONS 2024 Brisbane | Influenza Congress. You can download the whole program here: Options XII Program 3 July.xlsx
On November 6th, Dr. Adolfo García-Sastre (Mount Sinai, New York) will be giving a lecture at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters as a guest at Centre for Research on Pandemics
& Society (PANSOC) at OsloMet.
Would you like to participate? Please use this link to register: https://nettskjema.no/a/pansoc6nov
Our Centre leader, Prof. Svenn-Erik Mamelund, held a talk at the Letten Seminar of 2023 at the Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo on September 7. You can now watch the recordings of his talk here.
On January 12, Centre-leader at PANSOC, Svenn-Erik Mamelund, presented our CAS-project, “Social Science Meets Biology: Indigenous Peoples and Severe Influenza Outcomes” in the “Demography Today” series arranged by the Spanish National Research Council and the BBVA Foundation in Madrid. You can watch the recordings here.
