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WAIT kick off Paris
Kick-off seminar in Paris (15.03.2017)
WAIT researchers and network partners met for the first time to present, discuss and share ideas about the research that lies ahead and to kickoff the WAIT-project.
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With a gendered perspective on the rule of law (08.03.2017)
What do you learn when you sign up for gender studies? Why is it important to study gender? What can you do with a bachelor in gender?
Erika på jobb ved Byarkivet i Bergen
From feminism to eugenics (01.03.2017)
Erika is currently completing her bachelor's degree in Gender Studies at the University of Bergen.
KVIK206
Research and critical thinking inspire students (24.02.2017)
"For this course you want to read the material and be prepared", exchange student Anna Tydén says.
Anouk de Koning presenterer prosjektet Reproducing Europe
Reproducing Europe: Seminar on ethnography and comparison (20.02.2017)
Dutch anthropologist Anouk de Koning from Radboud University visited SKOK to talk about her ERC-financed project "Reproducing Europe".
Anders Rubing WAIT
WAIT project engages with architecture students (16.02.2017)
This spring, students from the Bergen School of Architecture can participate in a workshop linked to the multidisciplinary WAIT project.
kjønn, migrasjon og tid
Teaching current research (18.01.2017)
The new course "Gender, Migration, and Time" at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research will give students direct insight into the current research from the WAIT project.
Bilde av forsker
A love affair with Iceland (22.12.2016)
Ramona Harrison was born in Austria, educated in the US and is employed in Norway. But her academic heart belongs to Iceland.
Newspapers
Media language slows down fight against poverty (15.11.2016)
Latin American newspapers use a technical language when describing poverty. According to researcher Ana Beatriz Chiquito, this makes it more difficult to understand the causes and effects of poverty.
Photograph of the projected images in Alinta Krauth and Jason Nelson's installation "Bindings".
Digital Art and Literature at the University Library Café (10.11.2016)
In November and December visitors to the University Library will experience electronic literature and digital art created by Jason Nelson, the 2016/17 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at UiB, and his partner, Alinta Krauth.
Heated artefacts in silcrete made by Homo sapiens in the Middle Stone Age at Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa
Humans used fire earlier than previously known (19.10.2016)
Humans living in South Africa in the Middle Stone Age used advanced heating techniques that vastly improved living conditions during the era.
Andrea Bender
Combining psychology and anthropology (17.10.2016)
Andrea Bender combines psychology and anthropology to observe how our language and culture shape the way we perceive the world.
Photo of professor Koenraad De Smedt
Research across borders (30.08.2016)
Language resources are becoming more accessible for researchers throughout Europe.
Hjortland og Antonsen
Challenging the privileged status of logic (25.08.2016)
"Our aim is to strengthen the academic environment for philosophical logic in Norway."
Prestigious Award to Scott Rettberg's Hearts and Minds (17.06.2016)
Scott Rettberg and collaborators' VR narrative Hearts and Minds is the 2016 winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature.
Talking about climate (04.05.2016)
The film "Talking about climate" is produced by 1001 Films for the LINGCLIM project (English subtitles).
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Tunis meets Bergen (03.05.2016)
“I’m in love with Bergen”, says one of the five Tunisian exchange students that the Department of Foreign Languages has welcomed this spring semester.
Skjermbilde fra forsiden til Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy
Erbacher and Pichler write for the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (15.03.2016)
The current issue of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (vol. 4, nr. 3, 2016) features papers by two of our department members: Christian Erbacher has written on 'Wittgenstein and His Literary Executors' and Alois Pichler has reviewed Mauro Engelmann's (who visited us as guest researcher in the fall of 2015) book Wittgenstein's Philosophical Development: Phenomenology, Grammar,... Read more

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