News archive for Faculty of Social Sciences

Islamist movements and contentious politics in the Middle East draw a record number of students (15.07.2016)

Post doctor Teije Hidde Donker says his research and course is about a “hot topic” that also relates to the debate on terrorism and the threat of radicalism in Europe and Norway.

Masterkandidater fra sammenliknende politikk

Comparative Politics Strongly Represented at the Master Ceremony (06.07.2016)

The Master Ceremony 2016 hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences was held on Friday June 10th.

Two new articles from Jonas Linde (05.07.2016)

Jonas Linde, Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, has together with Stefan Dahlberg published two new articles.

The welfare front line in the twenty-first century (04.07.2016)

Kjetil G. Lundberg (UniReseach Rokkan Centre) og Liv Johanne Syltevik (Department of sociology) have published an article on everyday interaction in the front line of the Norwegian welfare state in Journal of Organizational Ethnography.

Kızılırmak is the longest river in Turkey and it is an important resource for both Statkraft and local farmers.

CSR in Turkey - Electricity or Rice? (01.07.2016)

Read the latest field report from the Energethics-project's case study in Turkey.

Kula Kula's pront page picture spring 2016

An Aussie Reflection of a Year in Bergen (01.07.2016)

- At UiB I felt much more as though I was being treated as belonging with the department I was studying in rather than just a student.

Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change (27.06.2016)

The University of Bergen offers a PhD course in connection with Bergen Exchanges 2016, organized by Centre on Law and Social Transformation (Chr. Michelsen Institute and Department of Comparative Politics). The course is held August 18th – August 26th.

Article on Mamata Banjeree (22.06.2016)

Kenneth Bo Nielsen recently published an article on the flamboyant Indian politician Mamata Banerjee in the book "India's Democracies".

Power, Resistance and Development in the Global South (20.06.2016)

Alf Gunvald Nilsen has published an article in the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (IJPCS)

Protrettbilder av Rolf Scott og Elias Bedasso

Disputations at the Department of Social Anthropology (14.06.2016)

In April and June this year two PhD scholars from the Department of Social Anthropology defended their thesis.

New Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics (14.06.2016)

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten has gaind promotion to professor.

Money Talks (14.06.2016)

NEW BOOK: Trusting and its Tribulations: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust (13.06.2016)

Vigdis Broch-Due and Margit Ystanes have edited new book.

Publication Prize to Georg Picot (10.06.2016)

Georg Picot, Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, receives the Publication Prize 2016 of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Lee Epstein in Bergen for rule of law seminar (09.06.2016)

Lee Epstein visited the University of Bergen this week for a seminar on rule of law organized by the Department of Comparative Politics and the Faculty of Law.

Paul Sniderman med medlemmer av DIGSSCORE

Paul Sniderman contributes to survey research (08.06.2016)

Professor Paul Sniderman, from Stanford University, is visiting the Department of Comparative Politics. The occasion is the establishment of DIGSSCORE, the University of Bergen’s major investment in digital social science.

Post-disaster community resilience in Nepal (03.06.2016)

On the 25th and 26th of April and 12th of May Nepal was struck by massive earthquakes. One year later we wanted to explore which farming systems fared better or worse after this natural disaster.

Communicating science through podcast (02.06.2016)

Lars Erik Berntzen is a former employee at the Department of Comparative Politics, and current Ph.D. candidate at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). Berntzen is, together with Jonas Bergan Dræge, making the podcast "Politikk og Røvere".

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