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It’s Thursday, October 30th. The time is 8:00 AM, and outside the HF building, a lively group of 28 students from Langhaugen Upper Secondary School is gathered. The students are ready for action. They’ve been hired as language assistants to give international students in the NOR-INTRO program the opportunity to speak Norwegian with native speakers before their exam. The payment for today’s work... Read more
On Thursday, October 23, Norskkursa organized "Norwegian Evening" at Ad Fontes.
This autumn, the Norwegian courses at UiB are organizing a language café for all levels once a month.
Remnants of medieval books were coincidentally discovered at Bergen Cathedral School - a high school located in the city center of Bergen. The findings will now be documented and analyzed by the international research project CODICUM.
"Curious Norway" visited the center to ask about us, our research and what digital narratives actually are.
We are delighted to announce that Jason Nelson has been promoted to full Professor at the University of Bergen's Digital Culture department.
Joseph Tabbi is the founder of electronic book review, which is now celebrating 30 years of continuous publication, making it one of the first scholarly open access journals on the web.
Woollahra Digital Literary Award in digital innovation given to Alinta Krauth.
Åslaug Ommundsen from the University of Bergen, along with three Nordic research partners, has been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant to investigate how books and literary networks shaped Northern Europe between 1000 and 1500 CE.   
The podcast enters its third season, sharing the research from CDN.
Combining the extensive reach of crowd-sourced platforms with the rigor of peer-reviewed academic databases to document electronic literature in Wikidata.
Mini-conference on sign linguistics gathers researchers from UiB and several other universities.
Stories are no longer exclusively a human domain.
Florence Walker and Emma Husa wins – and several others nominated.
"The Humanities are a necessity for our development as people and on a societal scale," says Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, the newly appointed Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Humanities.
Professor Jill Walker Rettberg receives an ERC Advanced Grant to see how narrative archetypes influence the future of artificial intelligence.

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