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Ida Vikøren Andersen
Climate Change Retorics – Time to Get Serious? (26.11.2021)
On November 3rd, postdoctoral fellow Ida Vikøren Andersen participated in a panel debate on climate researchers' rhetorics, and media's role in the climate change debate. The panel debate was arranged by Bergen Global and was streamed on Zoom.
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Seasonal carving - a workshop with Year 13 high school children (18.11.2021)
How can enthusiasm and engagement be fostered in high school children?
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Multiple, uneven and relational time in ethnographic research (11.11.2021)
In the following, we want to reflect on what it means for interdisciplinary studies of migration to understand time as multiple, uneven, and relational.
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7 short reflections on interdisciplinarity (11.11.2021)
In this blog post, anthropologist at the University of Bergen (UiB), Christine M. Jacobsen, reflects on interdisciplinarity across law and anthropology in migration studies.
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Questioning the Rules of Evidence (11.11.2021)
A social scientist’s perspective on the legal theories of immigration detention reviews.
Kvinne med blondt, kort hår i svarte og mørkraude klede står framfor ein søyle og eit skilt for Senter for kvinne og kjønns-forsking og Senter for vitskapsteori
A valuable addition to gender research at UiB (21.10.2021)
Professor in philosophy at UiT, Annamari Vitikainen, is guest researcher at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK) in the academic year 2021-2022.
St. Sunniva – irsk dronning, norsk vernehelgen
St. Sunniva – Irish Queen and Norwegian Patron Saint (14.10.2021)
St. Sunniva has had an impact on Norwegian history, literature and art from the Middle Ages until today. A magnificent newly published book explores different aspects of the Sunniva character.
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Researchers have a responsibility to help stop the pollinator crisis (11.10.2021)
In a recent editorial, UiB professor Jeroen van der Sluijs and co-editors encourage entomologists to join other scientists, legislators and policymakers in addressing and countering pollinator decline.
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New publication of the CNA group (01.10.2021)
Michael Baumgartner and Christoph Falk published a paper entitled "Configurational Causal Modeling and Logic Regression" in Multivariate Behavioral Research (2021): https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2021.1971510
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New publication of the CNA group (01.10.2021)
Martyna Swiatczak's paper entitled "Towards a neo-configurational theory of intrinsic motivation" was published in Motivation and Emotion (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-021-09906-1
Young people
Norske ungdommar er glade og stolte over å vere fleirspråklege (27.09.2021)
Kven kan kalle seg fleirspråkleg? Det ville vi lære meir om i Ungspråk-prosjektet.
Extreme Weather
"Exit Earth – Extreme Weather Warnings" (24.09.2021)
Kjersti Fløttum and Ida Vikøren Andersen held two presentations at the interdisciplinary seminar "Exit Earth – Extreme Weather Warnings" at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (UiB), 16th September 2021.
Higher Education in Light of Climate Change
"The Emerging Climate Emergency: What Now for University Education?" (24.09.2021)
On 16th September 2021, PhD candidate Runa Falck participated in a panel debate at UiB's Bergen School of Global Studies, which has climate change as one of its five main pillars.
Vadim Kimmelman
Vadim Kimmelman selected for the Young CAS Fellow programme (23.09.2021)
Linguist Vadim Kimmelman is one of two young, outstanding researchers in Norway who will participate in the Young CAS Fellow programme. He will do research on sign linguistics and whole‐entity classifiers.
Portrett av C. Mauder
Soldiers, Sultans, Missionaries, and Renewers in the Islamic World (17.09.2021)
Christian Mauder, Associate Professor in the Study of Religions with Specialization in Islam, and a specialist in the dynamic history of the world of Islam.
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Affected by seasons: spirits in relation to seasons (17.09.2021)
“I find winters really depressing, just don’t know what to do with myself,” a high school student shared with me.
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New Book Publication: Aesthetic Apprehensions (2021) (09.09.2021)
Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silence and Absence in False Familiarities (2021) by Lene Johannessen and Jena Habegger-Conti (editors).
PhD defense by Raees Calafato will take place on 17 September 2021
Raees Calafato's PhD defense (08.09.2021)
Raees Calafato will defend his doctoral dissertation “Multilingual pedagogy in Norway and Russia" on 17.9.2021 at the University of Bergen for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

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