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Mike Hulme held a guest lecture in Egget
“Still disagreeing about climate change … but what have we learned in 10 years?” (20.09.2019)
Professor Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge, held an open guest lecture on September 6, 2019. It is now available as a podcast.
N. Katherine Hayles at a conference
DNN Conference and Exhibition (18.09.2019)
We are busy planning the Digital Narrative Network conference on 21st and 22nd November with an exhibition in the same week at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design. The conference will feature a keynote from N. Katherine Hayles, other special guests, and presentations of research from multiple faculties at UiB.
The Old Norwegian Homily Book
Well-Attended Seminar on Tools and Methods in Digital Philology (16.09.2019)
The two-day seminar Digital Approaches to Transcribing and Analysing Medieval Texts, which took place in Bergen on the 29th-30th August 2019, brought together academics from seven European universities to exchange knowledge about current research in the field of Digital Philology.
Hartmit Koenitz
Documentation of Interactive Digital Narrative Lecture by Hartmut Koenitz (13.09.2019)
Hartmut Koenitz presented his lecture: 'Representation of Complexity – Interactive Digital Narratives Enabling Discourse for the 21st Century' organised by the Digital Narrative Network at the University of Bergen on September 12th 2019.
Recap: Databases in Search of Researchers (10.09.2019)
The start-of-semester event of the DHNetwork was well attended by a wide variety of students and staff across disciplines in the humanities faculty. Seven project leaders of databases and archives gave a lightning talk and were afterwards available for more in-depth questions.
Jill introducing Machine Vision to the group
Presented the Machine Vision database for the first time (28.08.2019)
Jill, Ragnhild and Linn Heidi introduced the database for the first time at Nordmedia in Malmø.
Søren Pold
First Digital Narrative Network at Media City with guest Søren Pold (15.08.2019)
Documentation of the Digital Narrative Network's first event with guest lecture by Søren Pold: Meta Interface Character - Narrative as Critical Aspect.
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#metoo (13.08.2019)
Postdoctoral fellow Redi Koobak is researching the #metoo moment in academia.
NIck Montfort portrait
Nick Montfort, MIT Professor of Digital Media, Appointed Professor II at UiB Digital Culture (07.08.2019)
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Nick Montfort, Professor of Digital Media at MIT, to a two-year 20% position as Professor II with UiB Digital Culture. Montfort is noted both as a creative author of numerous and varied creative works and as a critic and theorist of digital media.
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Scott Rettberg won the Hayles award for "Electronic Literature" (06.08.2019)
The 2019 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature was awarded to UiB professor Scott Rettberg, for his monograph Electronic Literature.
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ELO 2019 speakers from Bergen (06.07.2019)
Seven current and nine past members of the Bergen Electronic Literature research group are speaking at the Electronic Literature Organization conference in Cork, Ireland in July.
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What is FEMSAG? (27.06.2019)
Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow Claus Halberg tells us what he is working with.
group of attendants at mesaninen, listening to the introduction of the event
Recap: Lightning Presentations of PhD Projects (13.06.2019)
A festive end-of-term event concluded the first semester of the DHNetwork. PhD students from various fields and departments in the humanities presented their use of digital methods.
Workshop at Solstrand Hotell
Developing the database (11.06.2019)
The Machine Vision database was the topic of our last workshop at Solstrand Hotel and we are getting closer to a data set that will give us more detailed information on Machine Vision in everyday life.
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Adapting yr.no for Mali (07.06.2019)
During their agricultural season, the farmers of Mali highly rely on timely rainfall. A new collaboration project adapts the weather service yr.no for the rainy season in Mali.
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(Infra)structures of security and resilience (05.06.2019)
What is PhD candidate Anders Rubing's research all about?
Recap: Curatorial Media and the Conundrum of Credibility -- Fulbright Lecture by Chris Ingraham (03.06.2019)
Concluding his Fulbright year in the Digital Culture research group at UiB, Chris Ingraham gave a lecture on algorithmic culture based on a section of his forthcoming book.
Cover of the journal "Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie", and picture of Kristian Larsen and Franz Knappik and titles of their poublications in the journal
High level publications from Bergen philosophers (29.05.2019)
In this year's first edition of the journal "Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie" one of the highly regarded journals in the history of philosophy both Franz Knappik and Kristian Larsen are contributors.

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