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Apply for the interdiciplinary PhD-course at the Pandemic Centre! (31.05.2023)
In October, the Pandemic Center offers an interdisciplinary course for students on learning from the covid-19 pandemic. The course is primarily aimed at PhD candidates and will address a number of exciting issues in collaboration with some of the leading professionals at UiB.
Ingrid Halland’s keynote lecture ‘Towards Deep Surfaces’ at the symposium Living Prototypes at Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin (2022). Photo: Aedes Architekturforum
"Sustainability needs to look different" (16.05.2023)
Ingrid Halland is convinced that the materials of a more sustainable future cannot mimic the aesthetics belonging to the paradigms we must leave behind.
Smilende mann med brun blazer og rutete skjorte foran SV-fakultetet.
The Arctic Is a «Living Laboratory» According to Aaron Spitzer (04.05.2023)
Assistant professor at UiB, Aaron Spitzer says his «life’s work» has involved seeking to understand, and trying somehow to be useful to, Arctic peoples and places.
Manuel Insberg
‘I promise you my country will help you’ ‬- Promissory acts within the Norwegian refugee regime‬‬ (02.05.2023)
Promises play an integral part in refugee regimes of Western liberal democracies. They appear in political speeches, bureaucratic procedures, legal texts on asylum, or integration programs. In this IMER seminar, Manuel Insberg explores how promissory acts constitute the relationship between refugees and the receiving society and engender powerful images of the future, drawing on data from his... Read more
Hands on table
Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funding 2023 (27.04.2023)
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 for 2023-2024. Deadline 7 June, 2023.
Illustrasjon til artikkel om deklarasjon om Pandemi, mangfold og sosial ulikhet
Declaration on "Pandemic, diversity and social inequality" (18.04.2023)
During the conference on "Pandemic, diversity and social inequality" in Bergen in October, researchers started working on a declaration based on knowledge and experiences from the pandemic. The declaration has now been published and is open to read.
Statsraad Lehmkuhl
UiB events during One Ocean Week 2023 (11.04.2023)
On Saturday 15 April tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl returns to Bergen and this marks the start of the first annual One Ocean Week. The city centre of Bergen will be one big festival of ocean related events. This page shows the University of Bergen's activities during the week. All activities are free and open to all, except where otherwise indicated.
photos from German archives
Do Wars breed Nationalism? (11.04.2023)
Carlo Koos from the Department of Government is one of the authors of this new article published in American Political Science Review.
Professor Edvard Hviding (centre) from the University of Bergen with Vanuatu’s UN Ambassador Odo Tevi (right) and Solomon Yeo (left) from the activist organisation Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change.
Pacific youth action leads to UN resolution on climate change (31.03.2023)
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.
The river Nile
Discussing the frontlines of water at the United Nations (15.03.2023)
The University of Bergen’s proposal for a side event at the 2023 UN Water Conference has been chosen from among 1,300 submitted proposals as one of 200 official side events inside the UN headquarters. A small delegation is heading to New York for the conference.
Bergen-Sudan-markering
Celebrating 60 years of cooperation between Bergen and Sudan (08.03.2023)
On Wednesday, 8 March, the University of Bergen (UiB) organized an anniversary celebration of the academic collaboration between Bergen and Sudan. The celebration was held at the Department of Social Anthropology where the collaboration started 60 years ago.
Hakan G. Sicakkan PROTECT konferanse
Bringing recommendations on refugee protection to policymakers in Brussels (03.03.2023)
The international research project PROTECT has produced a set of policy recommendations on how to improve refugee protection. At an upcoming conference in Brussels, the recommendations will be showcased to leading figures within policymaking and civil society.
Bilde fra SDG-konferansen i Bergen 2023.
Need for a broader debate about radical change (14.02.2023)
For three days, people from more than 100 countries have contributed to the discussion about the sustainable development goals. But the program leaders of the digital conference asks if the debate is broad and radical enough.
A rear view of people with placards and posters on global strike for climate change
New master’s programme at the Department of Government (10.02.2023)
This autumn we offer a new and redesigned English master’s programme in Politics and Governance of Global Challenges
Rokkan Prize 2022
"Theoretically ambitious, methodologically rigorous, and empirically rich" - Vineeta Yadav wins the 2022 Stein Rokkan Prize (08.02.2023)
Vineeta Yadav’s exploration of the effect of religious parties on civil liberties earns her unanimous recognition from the 2022 Stein Rokkan Prize Jury, who commend its scope, originality and innovativeness and note its significant contribution to the comparative social science research.
Portrait of Arnald Puy
Uniquely interdisciplinary UiB researcher to take on substantial global challenge (27.01.2023)
With funding from the EU, UiB researcher Arnald Puy will study the deep uncertainties that condition our understanding of irrigation water withdrawals for agriculture.
Kunming-Montreal deal summary
Cheat sheet to the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework (25.01.2023)
In December 2022, two years after it was planned, 196 nations signed on to the historic Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF).
Participants SDG14 event in Cape Town as part of the One Ocean Expedition.
Bringing sustainable development to ocean science education (19.01.2023)
How do we transform the ocean science education of the future? In what way must teaching change to encompass this? These were a couple of the key questions discussed during a three-day event in Cape Town in mid-January 2023 as part of the One Ocean Expedition.

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