Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion

Contact:

Telephone: (+47) 55 58 23 00
Fax: (+47) 55 58 96 54
E-mail: post@ahkr.uib.no

Office address: Øysteinsgate 3
Address: Postboks 7805, 5020 BERGEN, Norway

Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour

The Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion – AHKR – was established on 1st August 2007 as a result of restructuring at the Faculty of Humanities, uniting four highly profiled, well established and related disciplines. The Department aims to maintain and strengthen these academic identities, and create a basis for innovative interdisciplinary research and teaching. Seven cross-disciplinary research groups have been established at the department, and a wide range of studies and courses are taught.

Disciplines

New book

Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions

The book explores religions in historical and contemporary South Asia as an academic interdisciplinary field of research. Knut A. Jacobsen, Professor at AHKR is the editor.

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Ambivalence and Attraction

Alexander van der Haven, Associate Professor in Religious Studies, talks about placing forms of religiosity in a context that makes sense out of them.

Horizon 2020

International scholars to Bergen to conduct EU-funded research

Six European researchers have received EU funding for research residencies at the University of Bergen through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme. Four of the six grants go to research projects in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities.

Meet an employee

Global and transnational history - and the story of soybeans

Ines Prodöhl, appointed Associate Professor in history, focuses on economy, agriculture and industry in her research and teaching.

Book launch

Hinduism in Europe

The two volumes "Handbook of Hinduism in Europe" is the first academic study of Hinduism in all the countries of Europe. Knut A. Jacobsen, professor at AHKR is the editor of the volumes.