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Kvinne med blondt, kort hår i svarte og mørkraude klede står framfor ein søyle og eit skilt for Senter for kvinne og kjønns-forsking og Senter for vitskapsteori
A valuable addition to gender research at UiB (21.10.2021)
Professor in philosophy at UiT, Annamari Vitikainen, is guest researcher at the Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK) in the academic year 2021-2022.
Front page of a book in turquoise and yellow, with the headline Postcolonial and postsocialist dialogues - Intersections, opacities, challenges in feminist theorizing and practice. as well as information about the editors
Sparking dialogues between postcolonial and postsocialist feminisms (03.06.2021)
UiB researcher Redi Koobak is one of the editors behind the new volume Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice.
Tekst på arabisk og bilete av Randi Gressgård
Microaggression in Arabic (30.04.2021)
The first journal for Arabic speakers in Norway, DER, includes in its latest issue a translated version of UiB researcher Randi Gressgård’s article about microaggression: Banging one’s head against the wall.
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PhD Candidate Noor Jdid to defend her Thesis on 5 February (02.02.2021)
PhD Candidate Noor Jdid, co-founder of IMER Junior Scholar Network, will be defending her thesis on Friday, 5 February.
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Who is the active citizen in Norway and Denmark? (28.01.2021)
On 5 February 2021, Noor Jdid will defend her PhD thesis at the University of Bergen. Her thesis is called “’Taking part in society the way I am.’ An exploration of active citizenship norms in Denmark and Norway.”
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How might irregular migrants «wait well”? (15.01.2021)
On 21 January 2021, Kari Anne Drangsland will defend her PhD thesis at the University of Bergen. Her thesis is called “Working to ‘Wait Well’. Exploring the temporalities of irregular migration in Germany."
Bokframside Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration
Waiting as analytical perspective provides new insight (06.11.2020)
Researchers from UiB’s WAIT project have published a new book about waiting as both a social phenomenon in migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes.
Ragnhild Muriaas Politics as profession
Politics as profession (01.10.2020)
Professor Ragnhild Muriaas at the University of Bergen started her working career as a DJ. Now she investigates what strings must be played in politics to make a footprint.
Bergen seen from Floien
Science and Society towards the Sustainable Development Goals (29.09.2020)
BSRS 2021 will be a fully digital PhD research school.
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Neurodiversity and gender (19.08.2020)
PhD candidate at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK), Emily Violet Maddox, writes about neurological conditions and how they interact with gender.
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Philosophical questions at the core of feminist theory (14.07.2020)
In a recent blog post, Claus Halberg summarizes his project’s starting point in feminist theory and posits that philosophical questions are at the core of feminist theory.
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Queer perspectives at SKOK (29.05.2020)
Pride 2020 is upon us, and in the Centre for Women's and Gender Research's (SKOK) research and teaching, you can find many exciting perspectives related to this year’s programme.
Shahram Khosravi on the pandemic and borders (18.05.2020)
In April, WAIT researcher Shahram Khosravi was interviewed about the pandemic and borders as part of a series of conversations called Four Rooms.
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Call for CMI-UiB Collaboration Funds 2020 (29.04.2020)
Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen have a long-standing agreement to strengthen development-related research in Bergen. We now invite applications for collaboration between our two institutions. Deadline 20 June, 2020.
Closed door with signs stating "We are closed" and "Covid-19"
How is the Covid-19 pandemic affecting migrants with precarious legal status? (15.04.2020)
In this blog we reflect on how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting migrants with precarious legal status in Europe, with a particular focus on Norway, Germany and France - countries in which we have been doing long term ethnographic fieldwork in the WAIT-project.
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Waiting for uncertain futures in pandemic times (15.04.2020)
Reflections from researchers at the WAIT project on the complexity of waiting in pandemic times.
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Ph.D Kari Anne Drangsland published in the journal Time and Society (10.01.2020)
Ph.D candidate Kari Anne Drangsland has published the article "Waiting as a redemptive state: The ‘Lampedusa in Hamburg’ and the offer from the Hamburg government" in acclaimed journal Time and Society.
arge Hebrew banner reads, “Don’t deport children.” Smaller sign reads, “Why do you want to deport me?”
"On the Deliberate Traumatization of Migrants’ Children” (11.12.2019)
In Israel, as in the United States, children have become pawns in government efforts to expel migrants -- despite clear evidence that arresting, detaining, and deporting children violates their human rights and has long-term traumatic effects. Policies like these demand our swift, strong, and emphatic condemnation.

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