News archive for Faculty of Humanities

Meeting a foreign culture can be challenging, but for our alumni of the month Hope Corbin, studying in Norway was a great experience. 'Get involved' and 'listen to others' is Corbin's advice to students. Today she is an Associate Professor at the Western Washington University, but has returned to Bergen as a guest to work with colleagues on the Refugee Resilience Network project and to create... Read more

The Norwegian Institute of Athens now receive applications for their travel grant. Application deadline February 10.

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.

Social anthropologist and WAIT researcher Shahram Khosravi is currently carrying out fieldwork among irregular migrants in Stockholm.

Gil Sagi (Haifa University) will visit the Department of Philosophy from October 2nd to October 14th.

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.

Archaeologist Magnus M. Haaland received the award at peer-reviewed conference in Newcastle.