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Gunn Inger Sture
In Search of the Ageing Self (26.09.2017)
Gunn Inger Sture is a new PhD candidate affiliated with the project “Historicizing the ageing self”. Her PhD project has the working title “Marcel Proust – time metaphors, memory and ageing”.
STINT stay-in residency
International PhD students arrive in Bergen (20.09.2017)
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.
Students on Vidden
BSRS 2018: Global Challenges (18.09.2017)
Magnus Mathiesen Haaland
PhD candidate wins best student paper award (14.09.2017)
Archaeologist Magnus M. Haaland received the award at peer-reviewed conference in Newcastle.
Two irregular migrants under a highway bridge in Vintimiglia
Waiting at the borders of Europe (08.09.2017)
Read the WAIT project's first dispatch from the field from social anthropologist and project leader of WAIT, Christine M. Jacobsen.
Photo of Ms Yang Yang
Implementing Norwegian Language Policy in China (17.08.2017)
How can the Norwegian two-form solution serve as a source of inspiration for resolving language conflicts in China?
Jill Walker Rettberg
Rewarded for her Snapchat Research Stories (04.07.2017)
Professor Jill Walker Rettberg studies how humans use technology and what it means to us as a culture.
Scene fra filmen "Becky's Journey"
Migration, trafficking and sex work (16.06.2017)
While most students at UiB have finished their exams and gone home for the summer, a new group of students are swarming the campus.
Portrett av kvinne
Dr. Mimi E. Lam wins Conservation Beacon Award (13.06.2017)
Dr. Mimi Lam has been named winner of the Society for Conservation Biology’s inaugural Conservation Beacon Award.
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Logic as science (13.06.2017)
The first official workshop in the Anti-exceptionalist project was entitled `Logic as science'. The workshop gathered nine international speakers working in the philosophy of logic.
Photo of Guowen Shang
Tapping into the Sociolinguistic Realities in China (12.06.2017)
Guowen Shang, Associate Professor of Chinese language, is currently studying sign languages – not languages with signs, but on signs. “The language signs are everywhere in our environment, but the language choices on the signs are determined by a range of social, economic, psychological and political factors”. This inquiry is in accord with his academic commitment to the language policy and... Read more
Blombos
Goldsmith turned archaeologist (08.06.2017)
UiB researcher Karen van Niekerk's road to (a Centre of) excellence.
Shahram Khosravi
The criminalization of young men in Iran (01.06.2017)
Shahram Khosravi from Stockholm University has recently published his newest ethnographic book, Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran.
Narrative Crimes Solstrand 2017
New Perspectives on “Narrating Crimes” (30.05.2017)
The first worshop organized by the Narratology of Criminal Cases project brought new perspectives on how crimes are narrated both in legal contexts and in the broader culture.
Bilde av Lila Abu Lughod
Full house when Lila Abu-Lughod visited Bergen in May (10.05.2017)
In collaboration with the Department of Anthropology, SKOK invited Professor Lila Abu-Lughod from the University of Columbia to Bergen in the beginning of May 2017.
Veiled women
The French hijab controversies (27.04.2017)
In a new article in the journal Ethnos, Christine M. Jacobsen, Head of Centre at SKOK, explores the role French secularism plays in the state's regulation of religion.
Magnus Matningsdal tek imot prisen som Årets Æresalumn 2017
Magnus Matningsdal awarded honorary alumnus status at the University of Bergen. (26.04.2017)
Magnus Matningsdal’s retirement as professor at the Faculty of Law in 1989 marks the beginning of some 2000 additional hours he has spent at the lectern in Dragefjellet. Today, the Supreme Court Justice will be awarded honorary alumnus status at this year’s Christie Conference.
Sandrine Musso
Sandrine Musso visits SKOK in April (24.04.2017)
Visiting research fellow, social anthropologist Sandrine Musso, is affiliated with the ongoing research project WAIT - Waiting for an uncertain future: the temporalities of irregular migration.

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