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€2 million to study the cultural effects of machine vision (19.01.2018)
Jill Walker Rettberg has received ERC funding for aesthetic and cultural research on everyday machine vision. The project will launch in August 2018, and runs for five years.
Photograph of Mia Zamora holding an iPad in a library.
Mia Zamora is the 2017/18 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at UiB (18.01.2018)
Zamora is writing a book that incorporates her experiences teaching in Bergen: "I find teaching a very valuable part of my academic practice."
Long distance view of Bergen with snow.
CALL FOR PAPERS – NARRATIVES IN THE CRIMINAL PROCESS (16.01.2018)
Baneheia: Tredje stampe
New Articles on the Baneheia Murders (16.01.2018)
Frode Helmich Pedersen with two new articles about the murder case
Parthenon
The Norwegian Institute at Athens fund: travel grant (08.01.2018)
The Norwegian Institute of Athens now receive applications for their travel grant. Application deadline February 10.
Park in Hamburg
Places of silence at the edge of comfort (04.01.2018)
Read Kari Anne Drangsland's reflections on how silence is telling of the normative structures that shape irregular migrants' experience of waiting.
Tram in Oslo
Tramspotting in Oslo (04.12.2017)
In the latest blog entry from the WAIT project, Marry-Anne Karlsen writes about how irregularized migrants' sense of waiting is produced.
Stockholm
Waiting in Sweden (07.11.2017)
Social anthropologist and WAIT researcher Shahram Khosravi is currently carrying out fieldwork among irregular migrants in Stockholm.
Åpningsseremoni
– A proud day (30.10.2017)
UiB's new Centre of Excellence is officially open.
Gil Sagi (Haifa)
Gil Sagi (Haifa University) visits Bergen (03.10.2017)
Gil Sagi (Haifa University) will visit the Department of Philosophy from October 2nd to October 14th.
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.

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