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Anders Rubing WAIT
WAIT project engages with architecture students (16.02.2017)
This spring, students from the Bergen School of Architecture can participate in a workshop linked to the multidisciplinary WAIT project.
kjønn, migrasjon og tid
Teaching current research (18.01.2017)
The new course "Gender, Migration, and Time" at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research will give students direct insight into the current research from the WAIT project.
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A love affair with Iceland (22.12.2016)
Ramona Harrison was born in Austria, educated in the US and is employed in Norway. But her academic heart belongs to Iceland.
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Media language slows down fight against poverty (15.11.2016)
Latin American newspapers use a technical language when describing poverty. According to researcher Ana Beatriz Chiquito, this makes it more difficult to understand the causes and effects of poverty.
Photograph of the projected images in Alinta Krauth and Jason Nelson's installation "Bindings".
Digital Art and Literature at the University Library Café (10.11.2016)
In November and December visitors to the University Library will experience electronic literature and digital art created by Jason Nelson, the 2016/17 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at UiB, and his partner, Alinta Krauth.
Heated artefacts in silcrete made by Homo sapiens in the Middle Stone Age at Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa
Humans used fire earlier than previously known (19.10.2016)
Humans living in South Africa in the Middle Stone Age used advanced heating techniques that vastly improved living conditions during the era.
Andrea Bender
Combining psychology and anthropology (17.10.2016)
Andrea Bender combines psychology and anthropology to observe how our language and culture shape the way we perceive the world.
Photo of professor Koenraad De Smedt
Research across borders (30.08.2016)
Language resources are becoming more accessible for researchers throughout Europe.
Hjortland og Antonsen
Challenging the privileged status of logic (25.08.2016)
"Our aim is to strengthen the academic environment for philosophical logic in Norway."
Prestigious Award to Scott Rettberg's Hearts and Minds (17.06.2016)
Scott Rettberg and collaborators' VR narrative Hearts and Minds is the 2016 winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature.
Talking about climate (04.05.2016)
The film "Talking about climate" is produced by 1001 Films for the LINGCLIM project (English subtitles).
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Tunis meets Bergen (03.05.2016)
“I’m in love with Bergen”, says one of the five Tunisian exchange students that the Department of Foreign Languages has welcomed this spring semester.
Skjermbilde fra forsiden til Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy
Erbacher and Pichler write for the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (15.03.2016)
The current issue of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy (vol. 4, nr. 3, 2016) features papers by two of our department members: Christian Erbacher has written on 'Wittgenstein and His Literary Executors' and Alois Pichler has reviewed Mauro Engelmann's (who visited us as guest researcher in the fall of 2015) book Wittgenstein's Philosophical Development: Phenomenology, Grammar,... Read more
Anti-exceptionalism
Funding for project on philosophy of logic (26.01.2016)
The four-year project `Anti-Exceptionalism About Logic' has received a grant from the Norwegian Research Council in the category `Young Researchers'. The project leader is Ole Hjortland (Department of Philosophy), and the project will fund a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student.
Conference participants
Conference presentations - "The Human Side of Climate Change" - Oct2015 (27.10.2015)
The LINGCLIM project arranged a multidisciplinary conference on climate change in Bergen.
Bilde av en gammel filmfremviser
Latin American film series (24.08.2015)
Interested in films? Every Friday afternoon this semester, a Latin American film will be shown at UiB Global.
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How paintings influenced Shakespeare (24.08.2015)
Professor Stuart Sillars is offering a new way of looking at Shakespeare’s plays in his new book, Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination.
Screenshot from Fish Net Stockings.
A Festival of Electronic Literature: Open Events at ELO 2015 (19.07.2015)
Exhibitions and performances of electronic literature are open to the public as part of the 2015 international electronic literature conference and festival, ELO 2015.

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