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Introducing the Anthropology of Food (09.08.2019)
How do different food production systems impact the environment? How do food choices express class difference? What problems exist in the global food systems and what causes them? These are some of the questions raised in the new course theme within the con amore-courses at the Department of Social Anthropology; The Anthropology of Food.
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Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funds 2019 (13.05.2019)
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions. Deadline 14 June, 2019.
Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen and researchers in the Urban Enclaving Futures project doing field work in the streets of Maputo on January 2019.
An urban research project takes on the SDGs (15.04.2019)
How do enclaves that arise as cities within a city, impact on urban planning and the creation of liveable and sustainable cities for all citizens? This is one of the central themes in the research project Urban Enclaving Futures.
Professor Fredrik Barth
PhD Fellowship in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (12.04.2019)
Field work in Maputo at the opening of Urban Enclaving Futures Project, lead by Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen from University of Bergen (left in photo).
New perspectives on change in urban Africa (17.01.2019)
The cutting-edge Urban Enclaving Futures project used its first workshop to define how research can bring in social, cultural, spatial and further dimensions moving beyond classic economic understandings of urban development.
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New book: Mozambique on the Move (08.01.2019)
Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen at the Department of Social Anthropology is co-editor on a newly published book. "Mozambique on the move" is a multi-disciplinary exploration of Mozambique’s contemporary and historical dynamics, bringing together scholars from across the globe.
Dr. Scott and Prof. Smedal in front of Fredrik Barth roll-up
Celebrating Barth's work on cosmologies (29.10.2018)
Students, anthropologists and other invited guests had found their way to attend the Fredrik Barth Memorial Lecture 2018, held by Dr. Michael W. Scott.
PhD defence Hasan and Committee
Disputation at the Department of Social Anthropology (22.10.2018)
On October 19 2018 Mohammad Tareq Hasan defended his thesis.
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Exploring Urban Enclaving Futures in Africa (26.09.2018)
The new research project "Urban Enclaving Futures" seeks to explore enclaving in an African urban context. The project is led by Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen and kick-starts on October 1st 2018.
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Is ethnography in danger? (19.09.2018)
This was one of the topics discussed during Bergen Anthropology Day 2018, which gathered around 80 students, academics and researchers. Other relevant themes were the (ir)relevance of anthropology, as well as ongoing and new research projects.
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New Cooperation with a Georgian University (28.08.2018)
New cooperation project with Tbilisi State University will offer anthropology students mobility grants, new anthropology course and summer school on anthropological research methods.
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Well-represented Department at EASA 2018 (20.08.2018)
In August, the European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference was held in Stockholm. The Department for Social Anthropology was well-represented with a total of nine employees, among them also researchers from the Energethics project.
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Energethics researchers at EASA 2018 (20.08.2018)
In August, Energethics researchers participated in the EASA 2018 conference: Staying - Moving - Settling in Stockholm. We presented papers in the panels ‘Energy in Motion’ and ‘Globalized Workers and Trade Unionism’.
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Recent publications from the Egalitarianism researchers (09.08.2018)
The ERC Advanced Grant Egalitarianism: Forms, Processes, Comparisons is entering its final project year and several important publications have recently appeared.
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Study Social Anthropology! (31.07.2018)
The Department of Social Anthropology offers two exciting courses taught in English autumn semester 2022, and we welcome both international and Norwegian students to participate.
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First Energethics Publication Addresses Methodology (26.07.2018)
Energethics published their first article “Rethinking Access. Key Methodological Challenges in Studying Energy Companies” in the journal "Energy Research and Social Science". The article is available online.
Professor Annelin Eriksen, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen (UiB), photographed in July 2018.
The drama of cultural change (20.07.2018)
What happens when the basic values and social mechanism of society are challenged? And how does change influence how we view ourselves as human beings? This is at the heart of a new anthropological project at the University of Bergen.
Photo of the United Nations building in New York, with clouds and the sun reflecting. Used to illustrate article about science diplomacy.
Contributing towards science diplomacy at UN (02.07.2018)
At the annual High-level Political Forum at the United Nations, the University of Bergen will participate in workshops and side events. This to make sure that research and knowledge is heard as part of the 2030 Agenda.

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