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Kjersti Fløttum from University of Bergen and Endre Tvinnereim from Uni Research Rokkan are co-authors of an article published in Nature Climate Change on 1 June 2015.
What you think about when you hear the words climate change (02.06.2015)
Using a new method, researchers in Bergen discovered that so-called climate sceptics are more ambivalent about climate issues than previously assumed. Their results have now been published in Nature Climate Change.
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How does the media portray poverty? (28.05.2015)
Research project studies how media uses language to construct and convey conceptions of poverty.
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Drop in 2015 (27.05.2015)
Everyone is welcome to drop in and enjoy a broad variety of Music presented by students and staff from The Grieg Academy, Dept. of Music, University of Bergen.
Gruppe fra Cambridge på ekskursjon til Lysekloster
The 9th Bergen-Cambridge Postgraduate Symposium in Old Norse Studies (12.05.2015)
Eurasian Chamber Orchestra
EURASIA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA – bringing together music students from Norway and Azerbaijan (07.04.2015)
"Eurasia Chamber Orchestra" is a project that stems from a year-long collaboration between The Grieg Academy – Dept. of Music and Baku Music Academy in Azerbaijan.
From a showing of Hearts and Minds in the CAVE2 VR environment at the Electronic Visualisation Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Interrogating Torture (05.02.2015)
Professor Scott Rettberg presents hybrid virtual reality project about battlefield torture at Human Rights Human Wrong Festival Documentary Film Festival in Oslo.
A man wearing an Oculus Rift visor and headphones experiences a work of electronic literature at ELO2014.
335 scholars and artists submitted proposals for ELO2015 (19.01.2015)
Bergen is the 2015 host of the international Electronic Literature Organization conference, and has received a record number of submissions from scholars and artists around the world.
Graphic outlines of European countries in yellow on a red background, used to illustrate article about the Research Group The Borders of Europe.
Researching the changing borders of Europe (20.11.2014)
Europe’s borders keep changing, both mentally and geographically. But where do Europe’s borders begin? Where do they end? What is the real centre of Europe? We asked the research group the Borders of Europe to provide us with some answers.
Hans Petter Solli
Patients with severe mental illness are motivated by music therapy (04.11.2014)
Tuesday November 25th Hans Petter Solli defends the PhD degree at the University of Bergen with the thesis: "The groove of recovery: A qualitative study of how people diagnosed with psychosis experience music therapy".
Et bilde av hvordan Wittgenstein Nachlass fremstår på Europeana
Wittgenstein and WAB at Europeana (28.10.2014)
A selection of Wittgenstein resources developed by WAB are now implemented in the Europeana database.
Lars Tuastad
Rock’s Role in Correctional Services (03.10.2014)
24th of October Lars Tuastad defends his dissertation about rock's role in correctional services. The Viva Voce will be held at the Grieg Academy, Department of Music, University of Bergen.
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The use of quantitative science for governance (25.09.2014)
Zora Kovacic is a visiting PhD fellow from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona who will stay three months at the SVT.
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Online registration is open for the GRS November course (02.09.2014)
The online registration for the autumn course is now open.
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The Art and Science of Improvisation (02.09.2014)
Welcome to an interdisciplinary research course at Stord in June 2015. The course is a collaboration between Grieg Research School, NAFOL (Nasjonal forskerskole for lærerutdanning) and Stord/Haugesund University College. The theme is improvisation.
Photo of a teacher walking amongst students in a school in Xuyi County, used as part of an article on Chinese-Norwegian relations in the UiB Magazine.
China’s history shapes the future (08.08.2014)
Norwegian emigrants have long traditions of making it in China. But what is needed to succeed in modern China?
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Workshop on Kant's Moral Philosophy (06.05.2014)
From Monday 12th to Wednesday 14th of May there will be a workshop on Kant's moral philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Sydnesplassen 12/13, room 2010. Open for all!
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The Study of Musical Experiences: Data collection, Interpretation and Analysis (02.05.2014)
Grieg Research School invites Ph.D. candidates and other researchers to the autumn 2014 course, which this time will focus on methods and methodology.
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New digital resources in philosophy from the Wittgenstein Archives (07.04.2014)
The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) recently published more than 1,000 secondary resources for Wittgenstein scholars in the form of books, papers and audio-visual material online. All resources are available Open Access and are a result of WAB's participation in the EU-funded project AGORA: Scholarly Open Access Research in European Philosophy.

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