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Ukraine, sensing, mass migration and transhumanism: Open courses autumn 2023 (20.04.2023)
Do you want to learn more about how anthropology approaches technology that will make us immortal? Or about how our senses – sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch – can be experienced differently in different cultures? Do you want to understand how Eastern Europe as a region is affected by the war in Ukraine? Or how about gaining in-depth insight into how people who must flee from their home... Read more
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New PhD candidate at Sampol (20.04.2023)
Erick Alvarez Barreno is the department's newest PhD candidate
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- Careful feeding the AI beast (20.04.2023)
- As long as we don't know more about how Big Tech use the information we share with them, we should be careful about feeding the AI technology with potentially sensitive material, writes experts from the department in an op-ed published in Medier24.
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Declaration on "Pandemic, diversity and social inequality" (18.04.2023)
During the conference on "Pandemic, diversity and social inequality" in Bergen in October, researchers started working on a declaration based on knowledge and experiences from the pandemic. The declaration has now been published and is open to read.
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Do Wars breed Nationalism? (11.04.2023)
Carlo Koos from the Department of Government is one of the authors of this new article published in American Political Science Review.
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Populations express confidence in their child protection system (30.03.2023)
New article in the prestigious Journal of Social Policy: PhD candidate Mathea Loen and Professor Marit Skivenes finds that a majority of populations in Czechia, England, Finland, Norway, Poland, and Romania express confidence in their child protection system.
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Birgit Kopainsky, Pei Shan Loo, and Ismay Bax awarded at the International System Dynamics Conference 2022 (22.03.2023)
Several members of the System Dynamics Group at University of Bergen received prestigious awards from the System Dynamics Society at the International System Dynamics Conference 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Annual report 2022 (22.03.2023)
Interested in reading about what happened at CET in 2022? Our Annual Report for 2022 is now ready for download.
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Guest lecturer from the European Commission (20.03.2023)
The students in EUR105 received a visitor from the European Commission.
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Skivenes presented NOU on legal protection in child welfare services (17.03.2023)
On March 20th Professor Marit Skivenes presented NOU 2023: 7 on legal protection in child welfare services.
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Anthropology on Air: listen now to the new departmental podcast (14.03.2023)
Anthropology on Air (AoA), a new podcast from the Department of Social Anthropology, launches 15.03.2023.
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Celebrating 60 years of cooperation between Bergen and Sudan (08.03.2023)
On Wednesday, 8 March, the University of Bergen (UiB) organized an anniversary celebration of the academic collaboration between Bergen and Sudan. The celebration was held at the Department of Social Anthropology where the collaboration started 60 years ago.
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The Oxford Handbook of Child Protection Systems (06.03.2023)
This handbook, edited by Jill Duerr Berrick, Neil Gilbert and Marit Skivenes, is the largest to date overview of child protection systems across the world. The book describes and analyzes the ways in which 50 countries from every continent, except Antarctica, have developed measures for the protection of children in need of protection against maltreatment prescribed in the UNCRC.
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WATCH: Energy Informatics (06.03.2023)
Did you miss professor Ahmad Hemmati's presentation on Energy Informatics? Watch it here!
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Bringing recommendations on refugee protection to policymakers in Brussels (03.03.2023)
The international research project PROTECT has produced a set of policy recommendations on how to improve refugee protection. At an upcoming conference in Brussels, the recommendations will be showcased to leading figures within policymaking and civil society.
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WATCH: Layout and yaw optimisation of an offshore wind farm (27.02.2023)
Wind energy has a very high potential for improvement, especially with regard to wake effects of the turbines within large wind farms. This work focuses the emphasis on potential of aerodynamically optimized wind park layouts and wake steering through yaw angle control.
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WATCH: Introduction of FME HyValue – Norwegian Centre for Hydrogen Value Chain Research (20.02.2023)
Did you miss Jonas Solbakken and Velaug Myrseth Oltedal's presentation of HyValue? Watch it here!
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New master’s programme at the Department of Government (10.02.2023)
This autumn we offer a new and redesigned English master’s programme in Politics and Governance of Global Challenges

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