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Madhab Prasad Bhusal
Obituary Madhab Prasad Bhusal (13.05.2015)
We are deeply sad to announce the loss of Madhab Prasad Bhusal, who took his M.Phil. degree at Department of Geography from 2005-2007.
Franklin Furlong at one of The University of Washington (UW) Men's Basketball team's matches. The accompanying husky dog is the school mascot of UW.
Franklin Furlong at Comparative Politics (06.05.2015)
A project of audio podcasts brought Franklin Furlong to the Dep. of Comparative Politics as visiting scholar.
Prof. Alan T. Wood outside the Department of Comparative Politics
Alan T. Wood at Comparative Politics (06.05.2015)
The history of China and the world and the natural evolution of Democracy are in prof. Alan T. Wood’s focus while visiting the Dep. of Comparative Politics.
Cox og Nilsen
Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Laurence Cox: Social Movements and the Neoliberal Crisis (04.05.2015)
Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Laurence Cox have contributed three major posts about their book on Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism
Flåmvassdraget.
Changes and transitions in Western Norway (29.04.2015)
Academic staff from every strand of the geography discipline at the Geography department met in Flåm to take a closer look at the damages caused by the big flood last autumn, and to survey the reconstruction of the protected watercourse in the Flåm valley.
Alf G. Nilsen
Subalterns and the State in the Longue Durée: Notes from "The Rebellious Century in the Bhil Heartland" (23.04.2015)
Alf Gunvald Nilsen has recently published an article in Journal of Contemporary Asia. The article is part of a special issue that investigates popular resistance and political protest in India, both historically and in the contemporary context.
Noregs Høgsterett
Diversity just for show? (14.04.2015)
The level of diversification among justices of the Norwegian Supreme Court has been mapped by professors William Shaffer, Erik Waltenburg (Purdue University) and Gunnar Grendstad, professor at The Department of Comparative Politics.
Ny artikkel av Jonas Linde
Corruption and Political Support in Iceland (07.04.2015)
How did the banking crisis affect Icelanders’ political support and perception of corruption? Gissur Erlingsson, Richard Öhrvall (Linkøping U.) og Jonas Linde (Sampol) gives you the answers in a recently published paper.
Lively discussions
The Material and Social Intimacies of Waste Infrastructures (20.03.2015)
Money Talks: Media, Markets,Crisis
Money Talks: Media, Markets, Crisis (20.02.2015)
Part of the Changing Media, Changing Europe series
Ny publikasjon
The Media Welfare State (20.02.2015)
The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era comprehensively addresses the central dynamics of the digitalization of the media industry in the Nordic countries.
Maurice Bloch asked us to address the Big Questions.
Thinking Big: Maurice Bloch on 'An evolutionary approach to the beginnings of "religion" and the collapse of states' (17.02.2015)
Professor Katrine Løken
Youngest female Professor in Economics in Norway (17.02.2015)
Katrine Vellesen Løken (31) from the Department of Economics at the University of Bergen is now the youngest female Professor in Economics in Norway ever.
Bergen Group in Kuressaare 17.May 2014
NORD+ 2015 Nordic-Baltic Field Course (12.02.2015)
We have been invited to take part in NORD+15 field course in Estonia-Latvia 3rd-16th May. The field course is based in Pärnu, Estonia with excursion and field work in Western Estonia and Latvia.
Michaël Robert Tatham/International Studies Quarterly
New Article: The Matthew Effect in the EU (09.02.2015)
In a new article, Michaël Tatham finds that the influence of demographically heavier and supranationally well-networked regions is greater than that of smaller regions. This is, however, conditioned by an indirect effect of the level of decentralisation.
Illustrasjon
Syriza’s victory and the twilight of Neoliberalism (03.02.2015)
Last week's Greek electoral earthquake has left in its wake a wave of hope that an alternative to neoliberalist orthodoxy is possible. Laurence Cox and Alf Gunvald Nilsen examine the prospects of further breakthroughs elsewhere in Europe.
Plakat
How learning and processes of becoming are shaped and enacted in retail apprenticeship in Norway (23.01.2015)
PhD canidate Kaja Reegaard has published an article in the latest issue of Vocations and Learning.
PhD Candidate Kuber Prasad Bhatta.
Temporal changes in the plant species composition along elevation gradient of Nepal Himalaya (19.01.2015)
Changes in spatial patterns of the plant species across globe are the ecological fingerprints of climate - and landuse - change on all but mostly the mountain plant communities including the Himalayas.

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