News archive for Faculty of Humanities

Picture of Nathan Hopson in front of Sydneshaugen skole

Research must be shared, says prize winner (18.02.2025)

Nathan Hopson is awarded the Faculty of Humanities' Dissemination Prize 2024. In addition to being a popular and engaging lecturer in Japanese studies, he has hosted more than 60 podcast episodes on Japan-related books in the series New Books in Japanese Studies.

Image of Stefan Riedener Assosiate professor at DEpartment of Philosophy UiB and winner of Young Researcher's Prize 2024

Stefan Riedener wins Young Researcher’s Prize 2024 (13.02.2025)

“I experience this prize as an enormous encouragement to believe in the things I am doing, and a profound motivation to try and continue my work,” says the award winner who hopes to one day write something that can have a real impact on how we live our lives.

Seven EU-funded postdocs to Bergen (12.02.2025)

The University of Bergen (UiB) will host another seven international research fellows after a very successful application round in this year’s competition for MSCA funding from the EU. The grants will fund the researchers' stay at UiB for two years.

SEAS postdoctoral fellows at a workshop in autumn 2024.

UiB’s SEAS programme gets Ocean Decade status (07.02.2025)

The SEAS programme at the University of Bergen was recently endorsed as an Ocean Decade Action. It becomes the university’s second Action as part of the United Nations Ocean Decade.

Joe Tabbi on the book launch of "Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism"

Call for contributions for special issue “Celebrating Joseph Tabbi and 30 Years of electronic book review” (07.02.2025)

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.