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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

Shahram Khosravi from Stockholm University has recently published his newest ethnographic book, Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran.

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.

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.

Historian and associate professor at SKOK, Hanne Marie Johansen, has studied the history of Norwegian divorce practices.

DICTUM is a basic research project focused on the technical core of Plato’s philosophy, that is, his conception of dialectic, the method that distinguishes philosophical inquiry from other kinds of inquiry.

What do you learn when you sign up for gender studies? Why is it important to study gender? What can you do with a bachelor in gender?

"For this course you want to read the material and be prepared", exchange student Anna Tydén says.