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Forsidebilde av boken L'édition critique à l'ère du numérique

Anthology about critical textual editions in the digital age (25.01.2018)

A collaboration between French and Norwegian scholars has resulted in an anthology on digital critical editions, edited by Daniel Apollon and two French colleagues.

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€2 million to study the cultural effects of machine vision (19.01.2018)

Jill Walker Rettberg has received ERC funding for aesthetic and cultural research on everyday machine vision. The project will launch in August 2018, and runs for five years.

Alumni of the month: Hope Corbin (19.01.2018)

Meeting a foreign culture can be challenging, but for our alumni of the month Hope Corbin, studying in Norway was a great experience. 'Get involved' and 'listen to others' is Corbin's advice to students. Today she is an Associate Professor at the Western Washington University, but has returned to Bergen as a guest to work with colleagues on the Refugee Resilience Network project and to create... Read more

Photograph of Mia Zamora holding an iPad in a library.

Mia Zamora is the 2017/18 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at UiB (18.01.2018)

Zamora is writing a book that incorporates her experiences teaching in Bergen: "I find teaching a very valuable part of my academic practice."

CALL FOR PAPERS – NARRATIVES IN THE CRIMINAL PROCESS (16.01.2018)

New Articles on the Baneheia Murders (16.01.2018)

Frode Helmich Pedersen with two new articles about the murder case

The Norwegian Institute at Athens fund: travel grant (08.01.2018)

The Norwegian Institute of Athens now receive applications for their travel grant. Application deadline February 10.

Places of silence at the edge of comfort (04.01.2018)

Read Kari Anne Drangsland's reflections on how silence is telling of the normative structures that shape irregular migrants' experience of waiting.