News archive for Faculty of Humanities

The French hijab controversies (27.04.2017)

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.

Magnus Matningsdal tek imot prisen som Årets Æresalumn 2017

Magnus Matningsdal awarded honorary alumnus status at the University of Bergen. (26.04.2017)

Magnus Matningsdal’s retirement as professor at the Faculty of Law in 1989 marks the beginning of some 2000 additional hours he has spent at the lectern in Dragefjellet. Today, the Supreme Court Justice will be awarded honorary alumnus status at this year’s Christie Conference.

Sandrine Musso visits SKOK in April (24.04.2017)

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.

International collaboration in gender research at SKOK (21.04.2017)

SKOK is one of four institutions collaborating to create a research network composed of PhD students in gender research.