Research at the Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities offers research expertise within several fields, providing a solid basis for teaching.
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The faculty has four departments and two centres covering more than twenty disciplines.
- Department of Foreign Languages
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Archaeology, History, Culture studies and Religion
- Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic studies
- Centre for Women’s and Gender Research
- Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities
The research is distributed across the faculty's departments and centres. It takes place in research groups or as individual projects linked to national or international networks with internal or external funding. Furthermore, there are several major research projects bridging the disciplines and combining expertise from various backgrounds in specific areas of interest. The research is disseminated through the faculty's teaching subjects, in scientific publications and through external activities.
The research is carried out in a wide range of languages, both our own language, the largest European languages, and more distant languages such as Arabic, Japanese and Chinese. History, religious studies, cultural studies and digital culture explore important aspects of social life in a long-term perspective from the Stone Age to the present day. Literature, art and theater are inalienable parts of our cultural heritage that must constantly be conveyed and processed from new perspectives.
