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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.