News archive for Faculty of Humanities

SapienCE scientists are experimenting with heat and fire in SA

Experimenting with heat and fire (24.02.2020)

The archaeologists who found the world's oldest man-made drawing are back in the South African fields in search of new discoveries. Follow their day-to-day blog and see what happens when they experiment with heat and fire to get a better understanding of how humans lived 100 000 years ago.

International scholars to Bergen to conduct EU-funded research (12.02.2020)

Six European researchers have received EU funding for research residencies at the University of Bergen through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme. Four of the six grants go to research projects in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities.

How Artifacts Acquire Agency: Towards a Philosophy of Automation (10.02.2020)

Mark Young, who defended his PhD thesis in the department recently, has been awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Postdoctoral EU Fellowship. The primary objective of his project is: to develop a new philosophical approach to the study of automation that recognizes the essential role played by human operators.

Reflections on the first six project months on the Coromandel (02.02.2020)

Below you can read Dr Paul Schneider's reflections on the first six months of the project in Coromandel, New Zealand.