News archive for Faculty of Humanities

Star experiences and gym-hall aesthetics (31.03.2014)

Kari Holdhus has just finished her Ph.D. project on school concerts. She has been looking at the questions "how do school concerts work", and "what is the quality".

The palaces of Saint-Petersburg’s suburbs (28.03.2014)

Ekaterina Skvortcova will give an outline of the three main ensembles in the suburbs of Saint-Petersburg – Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk.

Prominent Wittgenstein experts visit Bergen in 2014 (10.03.2014)

Two of the foremost experts on Wittgenstein's philosophy visit the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen this year.

Seminar on Human Rights - A philosophical perspective (07.03.2014)

Human Rights is a thriving endeavor in the corridors of courthouses, in political arenas, and in the halls of academia. Even in academia, however, it is usually reserved for Law Schools and departments of Political Science.

Dr. Zhaou Shouhui outside the Department f Foreign Languages.

New perspectives on Chinese Studies in Bergen (07.03.2014)

- Many of the students have chosen Chinese studies from a strong personal interest, but they will have to think about job prospects as well, says the new associate professor of Chinese, Dr. Zhao Shouhui. He believes the relationship between Norway and China will grow closer in the future, and that the job market will benefit from this.