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The Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK) is currently hosting a group of international PhD students in Gender Studies from institutions in Sweden, Hungary, and South-Africa.
Read the WAIT project's first dispatch from the field from social anthropologist and project leader of WAIT, Christine M. Jacobsen.
While most students at UiB have finished their exams and gone home for the summer, a new group of students are swarming the campus.
Shahram Khosravi from Stockholm University has recently published his newest ethnographic book, Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran.
In collaboration with the Department of Anthropology, SKOK invited Professor Lila Abu-Lughod from the University of Columbia to Bergen in the beginning of May 2017.
In a new article in the journal Ethnos, Christine M. Jacobsen, Head of Centre at SKOK, explores the role French secularism plays in the state's regulation of religion.
Visiting research fellow, social anthropologist Sandrine Musso, is affiliated with the ongoing research project WAIT - Waiting for an uncertain future: the temporalities of irregular migration.
SKOK is one of four institutions collaborating to create a research network composed of PhD students in gender research.
Historian and associate professor at SKOK, Hanne Marie Johansen, has studied the history of Norwegian divorce practices.
Doctoral candiate Kari Anne Drangsland is the last addition to the research stab at SKOK.
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.
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 is currently completing her bachelor's degree in Gender Studies at the University of Bergen.
"For this course you want to read the material and be prepared", exchange student Anna Tydén says.
Dutch anthropologist Anouk de Koning from Radboud University visited SKOK to talk about her ERC-financed project "Reproducing Europe".
This spring, students from the Bergen School of Architecture can participate in a workshop linked to the multidisciplinary WAIT project.
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.

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