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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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Organise an event at Day Zero 2024 (28.09.2023)
We now welcome applications to host an event as part of Day Zero at the SDG Conference Bergen, 7 February 2024.
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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 season 1 (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’ shares 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.
WATCH: Optimized renewable energy supply for a sustainable Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) (01.09.2023)
Did you miss Gerard A Virgili's presentation on optimizing energy supply of a Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) to reduce the carbon footprint? Watch the presentation here!
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Update 3.5.4 of the cna R package released on CRAN (25.08.2023)
Mathias Ambühl and Michael Baumgartner released a new update of the cna R package on CRAN. The latest version is 3.5.4.
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CNA applied in Genetics in Medicine (25.08.2023)
Dean, M, Tezak, A, Johnson, S, ... Cragun, D. used CNA to identify factors differentiating cancer risk management decisions among females with pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants in PALB2, CHEK2, and ATM. Accompanied by a podcast with Deborah Cragun.
Åslaug Ommundsen in the archive(s)
Book fragments from the Middle Ages reveal their secrets (22.08.2023)
In the Nordic countries, tens of thousands of pages from liturgical books from the Middle Ages have been preserved. An international network of researchers has formed around the materials.
Image showing Francesco d'Errico with student Jasmin Culey looking at ochre
Ranked as number 1 (11.08.2023)
SapienCE scientist Francesco d’Errico is ranked as number 1 in Social Sciences and Humanities in Norway by Research.com.
Portrait of Associate Professor Ernesto Semán, University of Bergen
Q&A: Ernesto Semán (03.08.2023)
Historian Ernesto Semán recommends a visit to Buenos Aires for its energy, raves about Chilean TV series Los ’80, waxes lyrical about the mountains of Latin America, and bakes medialunas, an Argentine version of croissants, for his guests.

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