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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.
The Bergen-Cambridge Postgraduate Symposium in Old Norse Studies (12.05.2015)
North Europeans resisted farming (16.04.2015)
North Europeans resisted adaption of farming and herding when these practices arrived in Europe about 8,000 years ago, according to a new study conducted by a team including Archaeology Professor Francesco d’Errico at the University of Bergen.
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.
Post-normal science in practice (11.03.2015)
In December 2014 SVT organized a mini-symbosium focusing on post-normal science. If you are interested to see more of the symposium, please follow the links at the right of this side.
Medieval history researcher wins prestigious Nordic award (10.03.2015)
Professor Emeritus Sverre Håkon Bagge has been awarded the Gad Rausing Award for his research on Europe’s medieval history. He receives one million Swedish kroner as part of the award.
SKOK researcher with special issue: The Ethics of Biomedical Tourism (05.03.2015)
Donna McCormack, postdoctoral fellow at SKOK is co-editing the journal Somatechnics special issue on the ethics of biomedical tourism. In this special issue the ways bodies and their parts materialise as valuable resources that can be exchanged, sold or even disposed of is critically analysed.
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.
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.
UiB archaeologist featured in National Geographic (13.01.2015)
In its January 2015 edition, National Geographic magazine has a 22 page article, Origins of Art, showing the research of UiB archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood.
World’s oldest engravings discovered in Java (04.12.2014)
According to a new study of freshwater shells from the Indonesian island of Java, early hominins created geometric engravings 450,000 years ago.
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.
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".
Wittgenstein and WAB at Europeana (28.10.2014)
A selection of Wittgenstein resources developed by WAB are now implemented in the Europeana database.
The sex change commission in Ukraine (24.10.2014)
Phd. fellow at SKOK, Nadzeya Husakovskaya has published an article on transgender citizens in Ukraine, in the UK based independent digital commons OpenDemocracyRussia
Podcast from TRACKS kick-off in Bangladesh (16.10.2014)
Podcast from kick-off workshops in Bangladesh
Putin’s Digital Russia (14.10.2014)
The internet has changed Russia. But President Putin is tightening the grip on online freedom of expression.
The Organisation of the Palmyrene Caravan Trade (07.10.2014)
Eivind Heldaas Seland

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