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Mia Zamora is the 2017/18 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at UiB (18.01.2018)
Zamora is writing a book that incorporates her experiences teaching in Bergen: "I find teaching a very valuable part of my academic practice."
CALL FOR PAPERS – NARRATIVES IN THE CRIMINAL PROCESS (16.01.2018)
New Articles on the Baneheia Murders (16.01.2018)
Frode Helmich Pedersen with two new articles about the murder case
The Norwegian Institute at Athens fund: travel grant (08.01.2018)
The Norwegian Institute of Athens now receive applications for their travel grant. Application deadline February 10.
Places of silence at the edge of comfort (04.01.2018)
Read Kari Anne Drangsland's reflections on how silence and the lack of the ability to provide comfort to her informants is telling of the normative structures that shape irregular migrants' experience of waiting.
Alumni of the month: Olaug Nilssen (18.12.2017)
Olaug has written since she was 19 years old, she has always liked to write and wrote a lot over the years. At Heimly Folkehøgskule she sent a manuscript to a publisher – and suddenly she had become a published author. Nilssen has recently published the book, “Tung tids tale” - a story of how it is to be the mother of a child with autism.
Norwegian Music Meets Slovak (10.12.2017)
The project 'Norwegian music meets Slovakia' is part of the EU exchange program, and organized by the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava together with the Grieg Academy at the University of Bergen. The project is also supported by the Norwegian Embassy in Slovakia.
Three UiB researchers granted top EU funding (06.12.2017)
Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council for excellent research projects.
Millions to recruitment of excellent researchers at UiB (06.12.2017)
Three applicants have been granted the BFS Starting Grants 2017. In total, the projects, that covers the middle age, mathematics and the beginning of the universe, get more than 50 million NOK.
Tramspotting in Oslo (04.12.2017)
In the latest blog-entry from the WAIT-project, Marry-Anne Karlsen writes about how irregularized migrants' sense of waiting is produced, where it comes from, and how it is lived by following Ruth, an irregularized migrant in Oslo.
UiB professor ranked as most cited researcher in the world (20.11.2017)
Francesco d’Errico has been named as one of the world’s Highly Cited Researchers according to a new ranking published by prestigious Clarivate Analytics.
Waiting in Sweden (07.11.2017)
Social Anthropologist and WAIT-researcher Shahram Khosravi is currently carrying out fieldwork on irregular migrants in Stockholm. Read his field-report on their experience of waiting, and the effects that prolonged waiting has on asylum seekers.
– A proud day (30.10.2017)
UiB's new Centre of Excellence is officially open.
UiB in the world’s top ten (13.10.2017)
UiB is the eighth most quoted university in the world within humanities, according to a new ranking from Times Higher Education.
Gil Sagi (Haifa University) visits Bergen (03.10.2017)
Gil Sagi (Haifa University) will visit the Department of Philosophy from October 2nd to October 14th.
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”.
International PhD-students arrive in Bergen (20.09.2017)
The Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK) is currently hosting a group of international PhD-students in Gender Studies from institutions in Sweden, Hungary, and South-Africa. The students are part of a research project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Collaboration in Research and Higher Education (STINT).
Six PhD Courses on Global Challenges (18.09.2017)
This summer, we take on some of the biggest global challenges, from health and cultural heritage in a digital age, to ecology and ethics, food security, and rights as political tools.

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