The event, titled “Kva skjer med demokratiet?” (What’s happening with democracy?), took place at the University of Oslo’s new venue, Domus Bibliotheca. Eivind Engebretsen presented the research project “Medisinsk kunnskap og demokratiske rettigheter i debatten om abort” (MEDRA), part of UiO:Demokrati’s initiatives. The project focuses on analysing how medical knowledge is utilized in debates about abortion laws in the United States, Ireland, and Argentina. These democratic nations showcase the complexity of democracy in relation to abortion legislation, and the project involves corpus-based analysis of a wide range of texts, utilizing the Oslo Medical Corpus developed in collaboration with Genealogies of Knowledge. MEDRA is one of four research projects supported by UiO:Demokrati, which aims to contribute to interdisciplinary democracy research from 2023 to 2030.

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