News archive for Faculty of Humanities

With a critical eye on food security quantification (31.10.2019)

Thor Olav Iversen's doctoral project seeks to develop a critical framework for assessing food security quantification. We had a quick talk with the PhD candidate.

New Software from the "Coincidence Analysis" group (22.10.2019)

New CNA software published on the The Comprehensive R Archive Network.

New publication of the Toppforskproject "Coincidence Analysis" (22.10.2019)

Michael Baumgartner and Christoph Falk, Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Åslaug Ommundsen has researched Medieval manuscript culture in Norway.

Manuscripts that link Europe together (21.10.2019)

“I never tire of studying medieval manuscripts. Even though my source material is Norwegian, it is also fundamentally international. This gives the research a broader perspective and forces international cooperation”, Professor Åslaug Ommundsen says.

BSRS 2020: Actionable knowledge to meet global challenges (16.10.2019)

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organised as a virtual research school.

Neolithic studies from Bavaria to Bergen (02.10.2019)

Daniela Hofmann, newly appointed Associate Professor in archaeology, hopes that the Neolithic social structures can tell us something about the present.

Global and transnational history - and the story of soybeans (02.10.2019)

Ines Prodöhl, appointed Associate Professor in history, focuses on economy, agriculture and industry in her research and teaching.

What do we talk about when we talk about the weather in Bergen? (30.09.2019)

Kjersti Fløttum, head of the LINGCLIM research group, participated at a panel debate entitled "Apocalypse soon - or do the worries rain away?" as part of the National Science Week in Bergen.

Members of the project "UNGSPRÅK" after presentation in Murray Edwards College at the University of Cambridge

Exploring multilingualism and identity in Cambridge (30.09.2019)

MoMMs recently presented their research at an international conference

Mike Hulme held a guest lecture in Egget

“Still disagreeing about climate change … but what have we learned in 10 years?” (20.09.2019)

Professor Mike Hulme, University of Cambridge, held an open guest lecture on September 6, 2019. It is now available as a podcast.

DNN Conference and Exhibition (18.09.2019)

We are busy planning the Digital Narrative Network conference on 21st and 22nd November with an exhibition in the same week at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design. The conference will feature a keynote from N. Katherine Hayles, other special guests, and presentations of research from multiple faculties at UiB.

Well-Attended Seminar on Tools and Methods in Digital Philology (16.09.2019)

The two-day seminar Digital Approaches to Transcribing and Analysing Medieval Texts, which took place in Bergen on the 29th-30th August 2019, brought together academics from seven European universities to exchange knowledge about current research in the field of Digital Philology.

Documentation of Interactive Digital Narrative Lecture by Hartmut Koenitz (13.09.2019)

Hartmut Koenitz presented his lecture: 'Representation of Complexity – Interactive Digital Narratives Enabling Discourse for the 21st Century' organised by the Digital Narrative Network at the University of Bergen on September 12th 2019.

Recap: Databases in Search of Researchers (10.09.2019)

The start-of-semester event of the DHNetwork was well attended by a wide variety of students and staff across disciplines in the humanities faculty. Seven project leaders of databases and archives gave a lightning talk and were afterwards available for more in-depth questions.

Jill introducing Machine Vision to the group

Presented the Machine Vision database for the first time (28.08.2019)

Jill, Ragnhild and Linn Heidi introduced the database for the first time at Nordmedia in Malmø.

First Digital Narrative Network at Media City with guest Søren Pold (15.08.2019)

Documentation of the Digital Narrative Network's first event with guest lecture by Søren Pold: Meta Interface Character - Narrative as Critical Aspect.

#metoo (13.08.2019)

Postdoctoral fellow Redi Koobak is researching the #metoo moment in academia.

Nick Montfort, MIT Professor of Digital Media, Appointed Professor II at UiB Digital Culture (07.08.2019)

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Nick Montfort, Professor of Digital Media at MIT, to a two-year 20% position as Professor II with UiB Digital Culture. Montfort is noted both as a creative author of numerous and varied creative works and as a critic and theorist of digital media.

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