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Øyvind Aase and Emil Perron in conversation at Litteraturhuset.
Salongen: A conversation between Øyvind Aase and Emil Perron about philosopher Arild Haaland (26.04.2024)
On Thursday 18 April 2024, doctoral fellow and editorial member of Salongen - nettidsskrift for filosofi og idéhistorie, Emil Perron, met author Øyvind Aase at Litteraturhuset in Bergen for a conversation about the philosopher Arild Haaland.
Port-au-Prince at sunset.
On Haiti, politics and literature in French: stories from the life of Emil Perron (26.04.2024)
Doctoral scholar Emil Perron's text about his time in the Caribbean country of Haiti is now available online for free. Haiti is a country full of artistic wealth and will to live, with a great literary heritage, but it is also a country that these days is going through great trials.
Filosof og doktorgradsstipendiat Emil Perron.
Philosophy week: Conversations about the value and role of philosophy (16.04.2024)
"Philosophy week" provided space for conversations and reflection on philosophy and work opportunities, relevance to life and relevance to society.
Professor emerita Kjersti Fløttum and PhD candidate Emil Perron.
Research dissemination for the municipalities' climate network in Hordaland (16.04.2024)
What motivates people to make climate-friendly choices?
Professor emerita Kjersti Fløttum and associate professor Øyvind Gjerstad.
Research dissemination for the municipalities' climate network in Sogn og Fjordane (16.04.2024)
What motivates people to make climate-friendly choices?
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The Humanities do so much for us (14.04.2024)
"The Humanities are a necessity for our development as people and on a societal scale," says Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, the newly appointed Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Humanities.
Jill Walker Rettberg
ERC wants to see what shapes the stories AI tells us (08.04.2024)
Professor Jill Walker Rettberg receives an ERC Advanced Grant to see how narrative archetypes influence the future of artificial intelligence.
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New paper on data imbalances in CNA (22.03.2024)
Martyna Swiatczak and Michael Baumgartner investigate the conditions under which data imbalances are problematic for the performance of Coincidence Analysis (CNA).
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New R package for drawing causal Hypergraphs (22.03.2024)
Christoph Falk, Mathias Ambühl, and Michael Baumgartner released a new R package called causalHyperGraph on CRAN. It draws causal Hypergraphs from solution formulas of the CNA method.
Langes gate, Bergen, glasshuset
We live here now! (20.03.2024)
The Center for Digital Narrative has moved into their new spaces in Langes gate.
Group of people gathres looking like ancient people
A Call for New Perspectives on Cognitive Evolution (26.02.2024)
A recent study at SapienCE calls for a more nuanced approach to understanding the evolution of human cognition, arguing that research on the mental abilities of humans – in the present and the past – needs to incorporate cultural and cognitive diversity more explicitly.
Off Center – a podcast from the Center for Digital Narrative, season 2
Listen to Off Center season 2 (14.02.2024)
The Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) launched summer 2023 and its research projects have been set in motion. The podcast series ‘Off Center’ shares the research from CDN with an international audience.
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Wolfgang Hottner receives Young Researcher’s Prize 2023 (08.02.2024)
Wolfgang Hottner’s work on the role of inorganic materiality around 1800 poses new challenges for the research on the literature and aesthetics of the period. Now Hottner is awarded the Young Researchers Prize 2023 for his exceptional work and achievements.
CDN Director, Scott Rettberg
The Economist on "Cyborg authorship" and collective writing (05.02.2024)
Professor Scott Rettberg comments on collaborating with machines in literature.
Book cover for Changing Seasonality - a modernist house, several seasons in the back- and foreground
Seasons they are a-changing (01.02.2024)
A rich and accessible new book from University of Bergen researchers and collaborators asks readers from all backgrounds to rethink what seasons mean to them.
Bokomslag til bøkene til Dobson, Parikka, og Walker Rettberg.
Panel discussion on machine vision (30.01.2024)
A recording of event with books of Dobson, Parikka and Walker Rettberg.
Photo showing power poles in front of a few blocks of flats under a blue sky.
Energy Perspectives 2023 (26.01.2024)
This seminar was not recorded but a similar presentation by chief economist Eirik Wærness along with much more information, can be found at the Energy Perspectives webpage at Equinor.com, see the right hand column for links.
Image from the de hoop exhibition showing insights into the lifestyles and behaviours of early humans.
We are all one (23.01.2024)
A new SapienCE exhibition has opened in South Africa. The 'Origins of Early Southern Sapiens Behaviour” showcases unique archaeological discoveries offering visitors a distinct cultural experience in the heart of the De Hoop Nature Reserve.

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