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arge Hebrew banner reads, “Don’t deport children.” Smaller sign reads, “Why do you want to deport me?”
"On the Deliberate Traumatization of Migrants’ Children” (11.12.2019)
In Israel, as in the United States, children have become pawns in government efforts to expel migrants -- despite clear evidence that arresting, detaining, and deporting children violates their human rights and has long-term traumatic effects. Policies like these demand our swift, strong, and emphatic condemnation.
Ted Porter
Ethics of Quantification - podcast with Prof. Ted Porter (06.12.2019)
PhD candidate Thor Olav Iversen talked to the acknowledged Professor Theodore Porter about the history of numbers in science and society, governing by privatized algorithm and many other things.
Uncertainty in Science: The Policy-Maker’s Perspective (27.11.2019)
New dissemination video from the MAGIC project on what happens when there is uncertainty and the science is not complete?
Ole&Pål
Debutant scholarship for new book on logic and argumentation (21.11.2019)
Taina bucher lectures while gesturing at her powerpoint slide displaying two algoritmically created portrait 'photographs'
Recap: talks and workshop “how to do research on algorithms when you’re not a programmer” (12.11.2019)
Last week, we ended our semester with a full-day event on approaches to research algorithms without going into the code. Experts Ysabel Gerrard and Taina Bucher each gave a lecture and, in the workshop afterwards, participants discussed their ideas and obstacles on the ways in which they research algorithms.
Mother Afica welcome home Exhibition from Blombos
Recreating the lives of our ancestors (11.11.2019)
New digital technology makes it possible to recreate the lives led by our ancestors 100,000 years ago.
Lars Johnson with powerpoint showing an N-gram in the background
Recap: Workshop on Mining Nasjonalbiblioteket (05.11.2019)
Last week, special guest Lars Johnsen gave a workshop for the DHNetwork on how to use data the National Library of Norway as a source for computational analysis. The varied groups of participants from the humanities, social sciences and university library learned to use different tools to analyze textual data in Jupyter Notebooks.
Charless Ess lectures while gesturing to his powerpoint on Ethical pluralism and cross-cultural awareness.
Recap: Talks and Workshop on Internet Research Ethics (05.11.2019)
In a well-attended afternoon, Charles Ess and Eva Payne gave talks about the state of the art of research ethics followed by a closed workshop session for students and researchers using social media data in their projects.
Meeting of two research groups
MoMM meets TYPOlex to talk about languages, multilingualism and… humour (05.11.2019)
MoMM met the research group TYPOlex from Copenhagen Business School.
SDGs
With a critical eye on food security quantification (31.10.2019)
Thor Olav Iversen's doctoral project seeks to develop a critical framework for assessing food security quantification. We had a quick talk with the PhD candidate.
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New Tools for Transnational Analysis in Postgraduate Intersectional Gender Research (23.10.2019)
International project will strengthen the employability of doctoral candidates doing gender research.
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New Software from the "Coincidence Analysis" group (22.10.2019)
New CNA software published on the The Comprehensive R Archive Network.
BJPS
New publication of the Toppforskproject "Coincidence Analysis" (22.10.2019)
Michael Baumgartner and Christoph Falk, Boolean Difference-Making: A Modern Regularity Theory of Causation, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Åslaug Ommundsen professor i middelalderlatin
Manuscripts that link Europe together (21.10.2019)
“I never tire of studying medieval manuscripts. Even though my source material is Norwegian, it is also fundamentally international. This gives the research a broader perspective and forces international cooperation.”
Stacking rocks
BSRS 2020: Actionable knowledge to meet global challenges (16.10.2019)
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BSRS 2020 was organised as a virtual research school. 
Marginalia
Bergen Medieval Forum, Autumn 2019 (02.10.2019)
The Autumn lecture series has begun!
Portrett av Daniela Hofmann
Neolithic studies from Bavaria to Bergen (02.10.2019)
Daniela Hofmann, newly appointed Associate Professor in archaeology, hopes that the Neolithic social structures can tell us something about the present.
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Global and transnational history - and the story of soybeans (02.10.2019)
Ines Prodöhl, appointed Associate Professor in history, focuses on economy, agriculture and industry in her research and teaching.

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