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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.
Mother Afica welcome home Exhibition from Blombos
Recreating the lives of our ancestors (11.11.2019)
New digital technology makes it possible to recreate the lives led by our ancestors 100,000 years ago.
Lars Johnson with powerpoint showing an N-gram in the background
Recap: Workshop on Mining Nasjonalbiblioteket (05.11.2019)
Last week, special guest Lars Johnsen gave a workshop for the DHNetwork on how to use data the National Library of Norway as a source for computational analysis. The varied groups of participants from the humanities, social sciences and university library learned to use different tools to analyze textual data in Jupyter Notebooks.
Charless Ess lectures while gesturing to his powerpoint on Ethical pluralism and cross-cultural awareness.
Recap: Talks and Workshop on Internet Research Ethics (05.11.2019)
In a well-attended afternoon, Charles Ess and Eva Payne gave talks about the state of the art of research ethics followed by a closed workshop session for students and researchers using social media data in their projects.
Meeting of two research groups
MoMM meets TYPOlex to talk about languages, multilingualism and… humour (05.11.2019)
MoMM met the research group TYPOlex from Copenhagen Business School.
SDGs
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.
Rlogo
New Software from the "Coincidence Analysis" group (22.10.2019)
New CNA software published on the The Comprehensive R Archive Network.
BJPS
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.
Stacking rocks
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. 
Portrett av Daniela Hofmann
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.
Portrett
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.
Panel participants
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.
N. Katherine Hayles at a conference
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.
The Old Norwegian Homily Book
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.
Hartmit Koenitz
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.

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