News archive for Department of Social Anthropology

The Habitable Air project introduces a new pilot study to identify, monitor, and measure community-level emissions. The pilot study, led by Dr. Kerry Chance, will employ air quality sensors placed in key household and institutional sites.

(versão em português abaixo) Se invita a investigadores académicos a presentar una propuesta para una presentación académica para la conferencia de lanzamiento de ENMARINE, que tendrá lugar en Bergen los días 26 y 27 de octubre de 2023. Es la primera de un total de tres conferencias organizadas como parte del proyecto “Sostenibilidad ambiental, economías marinas y desigualdades socioeconómicas de... Read more

This week, more than 70 PhD students from all over the world assemble in Bergen for the annual Bergen Summer Research Schools—for the first time since the pandemic.

A doctoral fellowship in social anthropology is available at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway.

On 29 March the UN General Assembly passed a resolution put forward by Vanuatu to provide an advisory opinion on UN member states obligations in protecting the rights of current and future generations from the adverse effects of climate change.

Read the latest updates on the OceanStates front in our research blog.

Freya focalised a set of concerns—mass extinction, accelerating icemelt, species hierarchy—which have come, in part, to exemplify the Anthropocene epoch.

How is a local community developed and operated, with hundreds of homes and economic enterprises close together - in an area where none of the residents own or have legal control over the land? The neighbourhood of Ruga in Accra, Ghana is an example of how inhabitants and small-business owners together are changing and shaping the urban landscape to the benefit of the people living there.