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Statkraft head office seen from Lysaker train station.
Branding 'Pure Energy' as CSR (12.04.2018)
Ingrid Müftüoglu has been to Statkraft's headquarters in Oslo where she examined how CSR is articulated and performed.
How to Study 'Norden' in its Global Context?
How to Study 'Norden' in its Global Context? (12.03.2018)
Energethics researcher Ingrid Müftüoglu attended the Nordic Challenges Conference in Helsinki 7-9th of March 2018, where she presented the project and a paper on reporting practices in Norwegian energy companies.
Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands
Mare Nullius: Professor Edvard Hviding awarded Toppforsk grant (05.02.2018)
Social anthropologist Edvard Hviding is one of three University of Bergen researchers to receive five years of major funding from the prestigious Toppforsk programme, awarded by the Research Council of Norway, for his project Mare Nullius.
Gunnar Håland 80 år
Professor Gunnar Håland 80 years - a personal greeting from Khartoum (25.01.2018)
The first doctorate of UiB’s Faculty of Social Sciences was awarded to Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed at the Department of Social Anthropology. His relationship with Professor Gunnar Håland started when he accommodated this "European" who was looking for a place to stay during a Sudan visit in the 1960s. Read Professor Ahmed's celebration of Gunnar here.
Feltarbeid sosant
Study Social Anthropology! (18.12.2017)
The Department of Social Anthropology offers two exciting courses taught in English spring semester 2022. No previous requirements are needed and we welcome both international and Norwegian students to participate.
Instituttleder Ståle Knudsen og foredragsholder Madeleine Reeves
Celebrating this year's Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture (06.11.2017)
Students and staff from the Department of Social Anthropology, and invited guests attended the Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture 2017 given by Dr. Madeleine Reeves from the University of Manchester.
Casino Rio
Bergen Group for Research on Human Futures (01.11.2017)
The future - the orientation towards a time yet to come - is fundamental for understanding contemporary global society. Read more about the researchers here.
Disputas Mads Solberg
Disputation at the Department of Social Anthropology (26.10.2017)
On 26 October 2017 Mads Solberg from the Department of Social Anthropology defended his thesis.
Bergen Anthropology Day 2017 Ståle Knudsen
Engaged Anthropologists at Bergen Anthropology Day (28.09.2017)
Ongoing research and a new journal engaged academics when The Department of Social Anthropology and the anthropologists at Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI) hosted the very first Bergen Anthropology Day.
Students on Vidden
BSRS 2018: Global Challenges (18.09.2017)
Front cover Grassroots Politics
Grassroots politics in Chávez' Venezuela (07.09.2017)
Associate Professor Iselin Åsedotter Strønen's new monograph "Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture. The Revolutionary Petro-State" offers an in-depth understanding of grassroots struggles, state transformations and social change during the Chávez-years in Venezuela.
Book cover Dialogues on development
Conversations on Dependency Theory (21.06.2017)
PhD Candidate Maria Dyveke Styve has co-edited a newly released e-book that explores the relevance of dependency theory today. Read more and access the e-book here.
Thor Erik Sortland
Disputation at the Department of Social Anthropology (14.06.2017)
On 16 June Thor Erik Sortland from the Department of Social Anthropology defended his thesis.
PACIFIC PARTNERS: UiB's Jarl Giske (left) and USP's Rajesh Chandra launching a unique joint marine chair at the UN Ocean Conference in New York, thus strengthening the ties between the two universities.
Bergen and Fiji expand partnership (08.06.2017)
The University of Bergen and the University of the South Pacific announced the establishment of a joint marine chair at a reception during the UN Ocean Conference.
Solomon Island
The Global Anthropology of Climate Change (06.06.2017)
Climate change is said to be the greatest global challenge of our time, but it is also a contested topic. How do we talk about these issues - from everyday life to the meetings of policy makers - and what are the consequences? Join the course SANT285 if you want to engage in discussions about climate change in a post-factual world.
From the performance Moana: the Rising of the Sea at Oseana Art Centre in Os, south of Bergen, in 2015.
UiB expands collaboration in the Pacific (01.06.2017)
At the United Nations Ocean Conference in the first week of June 2017, anthropologist Edvard Hviding established new partnerships between Norway and the Pacific island nations in marine and climate research.
Social scientists Ståle Knudsen, Siri Gloppen and Hakan G. Sicakkan (from left) at the launch of the University of Bergen focus area, Global Challenges, in the University Aula on 15 May 2017.
New focus area successfully launched (15.05.2017)
The Faculty of Social Sciences contributes strongly within all three pillars of the focus area Global Challenges: global health, inequality and migration.
Bruce Kapferer
Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons (28.04.2017)
Egalitarianism and Experimentation in a new Global Reality. Read about the Egalitarianism Project here.

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