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Jill Walker Rettberg smiling in front of the BBC offices.
Jill Walker Rettberg talking about her new book on the BBC (24.11.2023)
Machine Vision on radio: About the history of humans expanding our vision with technology, on Start the Week.
WATCH: Subsea Substations – Leveraging Existing Technology to Reduce Costs off Offshore Wind (17.11.2023)
Did you miss Arill Hagland's talk on OneSubsea Processing's plans for developing subsea substations for offshore wind parks? Watch it here!
Kjersti Fløttum and Øyvind Gjerstad
Announcing the CLIMLIFE report and a new leader for LINGCLIM (10.11.2023)
At the LINGCLIM meeting on Friday 10 November 2023, both the CLIMLIFE report and the new leader for the LINGCLIM research group were celebrated.
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Understanding language teacher psychology: The key to classroom life (30.10.2023)
The research group Multilingualism on My Mind has the pleasure and honour of hosting Professor Sarah Mercer, from the University of Graz, as our guest lecturer this semester!
Jenny Macalli, scientist at SapienCE Collecting data loggers inside Bloukrantz cave, February 2023
Decoding Past Climates through Dripstones (26.10.2023)
A recent study demonstrates how dripstones can be crucial for reconstructing past climates. The new approach can provide a detailed picture of the climate around early human occupations in South Africa.
WATCH: Webinar on European energy policy @ Bergen Energy Lab” by Rosita Zilli, EERA Senior Policy Officer (20.10.2023)
WATCH: European Electricity Market Design for the Future (17.10.2023)
Did you miss our half-day seminar on European Electricity Market Design for the Future, co-organized by Bergen Energy Lab / NHH Norwegian School of Economics? Watch the presentations here!
People twirling rings of fire
Precarious temporalities in rural Japan (11.10.2023)
On the surface, population decline in Japan is having a devasting effect on rural communities and their centuries-old traditions, which they take great care to preserve.
Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize in Literature (05.10.2023)
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 has been awarded to author Jon Fosse. Fosse is an honorary doctor and alumnus at the University of Bergen.
Image of SapienCE researcher Karen van Nierkerk excavating in Blombos Cave
New study shows signs of early creation of modern human identities (29.09.2023)
Our early ancestors were collecting eye-catching shells that may have been used as personal ornaments 100 000 years ago. The discoveries possibly also show the creation of identity that gradually, but radically changed the way we look at ourselves and others.
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The Ungspråk project with new insights about the link between multilingualism and intercultural competence (29.09.2023)
We are delighted to inform you that Irina Tiurikova publicly defended her Ph.D. thesis on September 22, 2023.
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Style, Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein (25.09.2023)
Alois Pichler has published an Element - “Style, Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein”, in the Cambridge Wittgenstein Elements series.
Helge Drange
How is the temperature increase for global warming calculated? (22.09.2023)
Climate scientist and LINGCLIM member Professor Helge Drange explains in an article for Energi og klima how we can calculate the increase in temperature due to global warming.
Participants: Emil Perron, Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Jørgen Pedersen and Eirik Fevang.
Panel discussion: DEGROWTH (22.09.2023)
On Wednesday 30 August 2023, Salongen - journal for philosophy and the history of ideas invited to a panel discussion with professors Mariel Aguilar-Støen (UiO) and Jørgen Pedersen (HVL) about "degrowth" at Litteraturhuset in Bergen. Research assistant for CLIMLIFE, Emil Perron, led the conversation together with Eirik Fevang on behalf of Salongen.
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A fatter gender and sexuality research (22.09.2023)
SKOK’s new PhD candidate, Sunniva Árja Tobiasen, will research gender and sexuality norms and how expectations of sexuality and gender have a bodily dimension.
Off Center podcast
Listen to Off Center (14.09.2023)
The Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) launched summer 2023 and its research projects have been set in motion. The podcast series ‘Off Center’ will share the research from CDN with an international audience.
WATCH: "Mer av alt – raskere". The Energy Commission's report (12.09.2023)
Did you miss this seminar, where member of the Energy Commission, Liv Monica Stubholt, presented some of the central element in the commission's report? Watch it here!
Top left: location of the site; top right: view of Porc-Epic Cave (photo: A. Herrero); bottom: ochre pieces found in the archaeological layers and analysed in the study
Tracing Early Human Cultural Evolution (11.09.2023)
SapienCE’s Francesco d’Errico and his international team have published their analysis of the largest known collection of Middle Stone Age ochre, which reveals how ochre use evolved over a period of 4500 years. The new study is essential to understand how complex cultures arose and diversified in human history.

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