News archive for Faculty of Humanities

Acquiring intercultural competencies at UiB: New course at the Department of Foreign Languages (31.05.2023)

Against increasingly diversified migration in our globalized societies, intercultural competencies have become a progressively relevant set of skills in the national and international job market.

Showcasing Fascinating Discoveries about Early Modern Human Behaviour (26.05.2023)

The SapienCE Early Human Behaviour Exhibition offers a unique opportunity to explore fascinating discoveries and insights into the behaviours of our early, shared, ancestors.

CNA applied in "Editor's Choice" article of Translational Behavioral Medicine (22.05.2023)

Laura J Damschroder et al. (2022) conducted a Coincidence Analysis of obesity treatment options within the Veterans Health Administration, which was selected "Editor's Choice" by Translational Behavioral Medicine.

Photo of participants in the CLIMLIFE project group.

Living with climate change conference 8-9 May 2023 (16.05.2023)

The Living with climate change conference took place on 8-9. May 2023 with over 100 participants from 19 countries, and over 50 paper presentations. THE FIRST DAY OF THE CONFERENCE IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE AS A VIDEO RECORDING HERE.

View of the University aula and the video projection of Andrew Revkin's keynote video.

Living with climate change conference: Journalist and scholar Andrew Revkin on climate change (16.05.2023)

8-9 May 2023 the CLIMLIFE research project at the University of Bergen organised the international conference Living with climate change. Journalist and scholar Andrew Revkin gave a wholehearted keynote on climate communication, journalism and on connecting people.

Podcast: Prof. Kjersti Fløttum in Science4Impact (16.05.2023)

Professor Kjersti Fløttum interviewed by the podcast Science4Impact about how willing we are to live climate-friendly lives.

Emil Perron at the Areopagus, in front of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

Interview: Everyone could benefit from looking up (16.05.2023)

Research assistant at the CLIMLIFE research project, Emil Perron, has been interviewed by På Høyden about the preparing the conference Living with climate change conference at the University of Bergen 8-9 May.

Ingrid Halland’s keynote lecture ‘Towards Deep Surfaces’ at the symposium Living Prototypes at Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin (2022). Photo: Aedes Architekturforum

"Sustainability needs to look different" (16.05.2023)

Ingrid Halland is convinced that the materials of a more sustainable future cannot mimic the aesthetics belonging to the paradigms we must leave behind.

Illustration image of scyscrapers in sunny weather surrounded by green fields and energy related symbols

WATCH: Emerging clean energy technologies (16.05.2023)

Did you miss Dhayalan Velauthapillai's BEL Lunch seminar presenting on research on nanomaterials for solar cells, Hydrogen and energy storage applications at Western Norway University of Applied Science? Watch it here!

Version 0.3.1 of `frscore` is released (03.05.2023)

A new version of the `frscore` extension package for `cna` is now available on CRAN.

Guest Lecture (01.05.2023)

We are pleased to inform you that Dr. Elizabet Arocena Egaña from University of the Basque Country will give a lecture titled "Students’ language achievements, teachers’ beliefs and the use of multilingual resources in Basque schools" on May 12, 2023. You are welcome to attend this event.