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Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funds 2020 (29.04.2020)
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 20 June, 2020.
Runa Falck and Kjersti Fløttum
CLIMLIFE (27.04.2020)
New research project within the LINGCLIM group.
Water irrigation
Will irrigation be the next limit to growth? (22.04.2020)
New research suggests that current models critically underestimate the uncertainties when predicting future irrigated areas.
Portrett av van der Haven
Ambivalence and Attraction (20.04.2020)
Alexander van der Haven, Associate Professor in Religious Studies, talks about placing forms of religiosity in a context that makes sense out of them.
Closed door with signs stating "We are closed" and "Covid-19"
How is the Covid-19 pandemic affecting migrants with precarious legal status? (15.04.2020)
In this blog post, four researchers connected to the WAIT project reflect on how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting migrants with precarious legal status in Europe.
Illustration image with map and numbers
Waiting for uncertain futures in pandemic times (15.04.2020)
Reflections from researchers at the WAIT project on the complexity of waiting in pandemic times.
Blombos Cave
SapienCE Annual Report 2019 is out (01.04.2020)
The report provides an insight to our exciting activities taking place throughout the calendar year.
Henshilwood outside Blombos Cave
Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (18.03.2020)
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has elected Professor Christopher Henshilwood as new member.
Bokomslag på okergul bakgrunn
Philosophy as Drama - Plato's Thinking through Dialogue (09.03.2020)
The authors of" Philosophy as Drama" show that any interpretation of these works must include the literary and narrative dimensions of each text, as much as serious the attention given to the progression of the argument in each piece.
SapienCE scientists are experimenting with heat and fire in SA
Experimenting with heat and fire (24.02.2020)
The archaeologists who found the world's oldest man-made drawing are back in the South African fields in search of new discoveries. Follow their day-to-day blog and see what happens when they experiment with heat and fire to get a better understanding of how humans lived 100 000 years ago.
Industrirobot ved et samlebånd
How Artifacts Acquire Agency: Towards a Philosophy of Automation (10.02.2020)
Mark Young, who defended his PhD thesis in the department recently, has been awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Postdoctoral EU Fellowship. The primary objective of his project is: to develop a new philosophical approach to the study of automation that recognizes the essential role played by human operators.
Children playning with water
Reflections on the first six project months on the Coromandel (02.02.2020)
Below you can read Dr Paul Schneider's reflections on the first six months of the project in Coromandel, New Zealand.
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Kari Anne Drangsland published in the journal Time and Society (10.01.2020)
Ph.D candidate Kari Anne Drangsland has been published in acclaimed journal Time and Society.
Rhizomes plant
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are (08.01.2020)
New research proves that our ancestors cooked starchy rhizome 170 000 years ago. The study also implies that the food was shared as a social act around the fire.
Utsiktsbilde Blombos Cave
Inside Henshilwood’s Cave (30.12.2019)
The archaeologists who found the World's oldest man-made drawing are back in Blombos Cave in search of new discoveries. Professor Henshilwood welcomes us to the cave to show us his team at work as they dig for clues that can tell us how early humans lived.
multi'coloured figures
Future English Teachers’ Thoughts on Multilingualism (23.12.2019)
Do student teachers feel prepared to teach English in multilingual classrooms? Synne Nordlie investigated student teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism in her fresh master’s thesis.
Uncertainty in Science: The Policy-Maker’s Perspective (27.11.2019)
New dissemination video from the MAGIC project on what happens when there is uncertainty and the science is not complete.
Taina bucher lectures while gesturing at her powerpoint slide displaying two algoritmically created portrait 'photographs'
Recap: talks and workshop “how to do research on algorithms when you’re not a programmer” (12.11.2019)
Last week, we ended our semester with a full-day event on approaches to research algorithms without going into the code. Experts Ysabel Gerrard and Taina Bucher each gave a lecture and, in the workshop afterwards, participants discussed their ideas and obstacles on the ways in which they research algorithms.

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