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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.
Book cover Aesthetic Apprehensions
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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Coromandel Writers Group (06.09.2021)
What’s in a name? For the Coromandel Writers Group, it is everything. This group of highly motivated local writers covers all topics having to do with the Coromandel.
Kjersti Fløttum and Climate Director Stina Oseland
Presentation at the Climate Departement of the Municipality of Bergen (05.09.2021)
On August 27th 2021, Kjersti Fløttum was invited to speak at the Climate Departement of the Municipality of Bergen, to present results from the recent school survey on lifestyle in light of climate change.
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MOMM at AILA World Congress 2021 (02.09.2021)
MOMM took part at the AILA World Congress 2021. For those who have missed this event and would like to learn more about multilingualism, presentations from our research group are available online.
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Seasonal experience & expertise on the Kūaotunu Peninsula (30.08.2021)
Since embarking on fieldwork earlier this year, I have been periodically collecting photos from the beaches of the Kūaotunu Peninsula where my research is based.
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Reading Group and Lectures on Medieval Administration (27.08.2021)
We would like to invite you to join a new, cross disciplinary research group, Law and Culture in the Pre-Modern North, formed at LLE by the project “Transformations of Medieval Law”, run by Helen Leslie-Jacobsen, Patrick Farrugia, and Julián Valle.
The Centenary of the Chinese Communist Party
The Centenary of the Chinese Communist Party (26.08.2021)
This autumn six outstanding and internationally renowned historians will share their knowledge and insights into the Chinese Communist Party and its history.
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Making a primstav of today - part II (26.08.2021)
This spring we ran the primstav exercise again, this time with a local 7th grade school class we have collaborated with and followed for one school year
High-level summit at the University of Bergen: Global counter-terrorism after 22 July (20.08.2021)
What can society and global organizations do better to stop right-wing extremist radicalization and terrorist content online?
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New Software from the "Coincidence Analysis" Group (20.08.2021)
New CNA software published on The Comprehensive R Archive Network.
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New publication of the CNA group (16.08.2021)
Martyna Swiatczak's paper on "Different algorithms, different models" was published in Quality & Quantity (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01193-9
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CLIMLIFE researchers contributed to online conference «Climate Change Temporalities» (15.08.2021)
Kjersti Fløttum and Solveig Lygren gave talks at UiB's conference «Climate Change Temporalities», 11th -13th August 2021.
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In the Sultan’s Salon (08.07.2021)
The book "In the Sultan’s Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516)" presents the first study of an Islamic court of Egypt as a centre of scholarship, religion, and politics.
Rapport – CLIMLIFE-skoleundersøkelse
Research Report – CLIMLIFE school survey: Young people's perspective on climate and lifestyle (04.07.2021)
After a successful implementation of its school survey on climate and lifestyle in spring 2021, the CLIMLIFE-research group has now published a first research report.
Beth Velliky researching orcher for her ROSA project
How iron-rich rocks shaped us into modern humans (25.06.2021)
One of the earliest forms of symbolic behaviour is the use of ochre. A new SapienCE project will explore how iron-rich rocks shaped the lives of early modern humans along the coast of South Africa.
Presentasjon og paneldebatt på Litteraturhuset i Bergen
How do young people from Bergen relate to climate change, lifestyle, shame, and the Corona pandemic? (18.06.2021)
Against the background of the annual Climate Festival in Bergen (Klimafestivalen § 112 - Bergen), the CLIMLIFE research group arranged an event at Litteraturhuset i Bergen on Monday, 7th June, to present and discuss selected results from a recently conducted school survey on climate and lifestyle.

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