News archive for Faculty of Humanities

Digging the past (23.06.2017)

The new Centre of Excellence at The University of Bergen aims to discover the past to understand the present.

Migration, trafficking and sex work (16.06.2017)

While most students at UiB have finished their exams and gone home for the summer, a new group of students are swarming the campus.

Dr. Mimi E. Lam wins Conservation Beacon Award (13.06.2017)

Dr. Mimi Lam has been named winner of the Society for Conservation Biology’s inaugural Conservation Beacon Award.

Logic as science (13.06.2017)

The first official workshop in the Anti-exceptionalist project was entitled `Logic as science'. The workshop gathered nine international speakers working in the philosophy of logic.

Tapping into the Sociolinguistic Realities in China (12.06.2017)

Guowen Shang, Associate Professor of Chinese language, is currently studying sign languages – not languages with signs, but on signs. “The language signs are everywhere in our environment, but the language choices on the signs are determined by a range of social, economic, psychological and political factors”. This inquiry is in accord with his academic commitment to the language policy and... Read more

Goldsmith turned archaeologist (08.06.2017)

UiB researcher Karen van Niekerk's road to (a Centre of) excellence.

The criminalization of young men in Iran (01.06.2017)

Shahram Khosravi from Stockholm University has recently published his newest ethnographic book, Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran.