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Cover denaturalizing difference
Book launch at the Department of Social Anthropology (30.11.2016)
Several staff members from the Department of Social Anthropology have edited and written chapters in new books. The latest release is "The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America", edited by Iselin Å. Strønen and Margit Ystanes.
Oil rig
Climate policy – yea or nay? Depends if your job pays the price. (29.11.2016)
Comparative politics professor Elisabeth Ivarsflaten finds fossil-fuel workers support renewable energy while opposing constraints on oil and gas.
Bergen Research Foundation ceremony in the University aula 2 December 2016, with recruiting research grant recipients from the University of Bergen.
Five young researchers funded millions (29.11.2016)
Five UiB scientists will receive over 100 million NOK from Bergen Research Foundation and the University of Bergen, who aim to lay the groundwork for world class research.
Portrait of Tord Austdal
Disputation at the Department of Social Anthropology (22.11.2016)
On 23 November Tord Austdal from the Department of Social Anthropology defended his thesis.
Ten flags at Comparative Politics
Ten nationalities now represented at Comparative Politics (18.11.2016)
- Diverse groups are more likely to succeed.
Lila Nath Sharma
Food production and forest exploitation can be combined (15.11.2016)
Researcher Lila Nath Sharma’s thesis shows that the conservation of biodiversity, food production and forest exploitation is possible to integrate in the same geographical area, but only by a broad environmental and biogeographic approach.
House from metal sheeting.
The aesthetics of earthquake reconstruction in Nepal (08.11.2016)
Questions of aesthetics and cultural identity add layers of complexity to the reconstruction process that cannot – and should not – be ignored.
On 3 November 2016, Oceania Dance Theatre and Pasifika Voices gave a festive performance in honour of the University of Bergen.
Global challenges, local consequences (07.11.2016)
Rector Dag Rune Olsen visited the University of the South Pacific to strengthen ties between Bergen and Fiji. Whilst in the Pacific, he also met with UiB exchange students.