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MEITS meets Multilingualism on My Mind (03.01.2019)
Research partners from Cambridge University visited Bergen.
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Multilingualism on My Mind is on our mind (10.12.2018)
The research group Multilingualism on My mind was successfully launched on November 23.
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Late style in Argentine literature (28.09.2018)
Soledad Marambio is a new postdoctoral fellow connected to the project “Historicizing the ageing self”. She will work with the late writings of three Argentinian authors.
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The Legacy of '68 (15.05.2018)
On 10–11 May the Research Group for Radical Philosophy and Literature (LLE) organized a seminar at the Norwegian Institute in Rome on the legacy of 1968 in conjunction with the Research group for Subjectivation and Late Modernity (FoF), with Maurizio Lazzarato, Frida Beckman and Franco Berardi as our invited keynotes.
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Analysing the Cameroonian Climate Discourse (12.02.2018)
”I wanted to do something relevant that could serve a purpose and reach people outside of the field of linguistics. I do not want to do linguistics just for the sake of it”.
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Humanities scholars attract foreign researchers to Bergen (01.02.2018)
Thanks to EU funding, the Digital Culture, Archaeology, Philosophy and Theory of Science researchs groups will welcome new international researchers to their team. These groups at the Faculty of Humanities received five out of seven Marie Curie grants awarded to UiB.
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In Search of the Ageing Self (26.09.2017)
Gunn Inger Sture is a new PhD candidate affiliated with the project “Historicizing the ageing self”. Her PhD project has the working title “Marcel Proust – time metaphors, memory and ageing”.
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Implementing Norwegian Language Policy in China (17.08.2017)
How can the Norwegian two-form solution serve as a source of inspiration for resolving language conflicts in China?
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Tapping into the Sociolinguistic Realities in China (12.06.2017)
Guowen Shang, Associate Professor of Chinese language, is currently studying sign languages – not languages with signs, but on signs. “The language signs are everywhere in our environment, but the language choices on the signs are determined by a range of social, economic, psychological and political factors”. This inquiry is in accord with his academic commitment to the language policy and... Read more
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Media language slows down fight against poverty (15.11.2016)
Latin American newspapers use a technical language when describing poverty. According to researcher Ana Beatriz Chiquito, this makes it more difficult to understand the causes and effects of poverty.
Talking about climate (04.05.2016)
The film "Talking about climate" is produced by 1001 Films for the LINGCLIM project (English subtitles).
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Tunis meets Bergen (03.05.2016)
“I’m in love with Bergen”, says one of the five Tunisian exchange students that the Department of Foreign Languages has welcomed this spring semester.
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Conference presentations - "The Human Side of Climate Change" - Oct2015 (27.10.2015)
The LINGCLIM project arranged a multidisciplinary conference on climate change in Bergen.
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Latin American film series (24.08.2015)
Interested in films? Every Friday afternoon this semester, a Latin American film will be shown at UiB Global.
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How paintings influenced Shakespeare (24.08.2015)
Professor Stuart Sillars is offering a new way of looking at Shakespeare’s plays in his new book, Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination.
Kjersti Fløttum from University of Bergen and Endre Tvinnereim from Uni Research Rokkan are co-authors of an article published in Nature Climate Change on 1 June 2015.
What you think about when you hear the words climate change (02.06.2015)
Using a new method, researchers in Bergen discovered that so-called climate sceptics are more ambivalent about climate issues than previously assumed. Their results have now been published in Nature Climate Change.
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How does the media portray poverty? (28.05.2015)
Research project studies how media uses language to construct and convey conceptions of poverty.
Graphic outlines of European countries in yellow on a red background, used to illustrate article about the Research Group The Borders of Europe.
Researching the changing borders of Europe (20.11.2014)
Europe’s borders keep changing, both mentally and geographically. But where do Europe’s borders begin? Where do they end? What is the real centre of Europe? We asked the research group the Borders of Europe to provide us with some answers.

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