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Kaleidoskop is a festival that focuses on important events, life changes and critical perspectives. By presenting different points of view from both academia and other active social actors, the festival aims to create and develop new ideas and opportunities.
Here you find relevant resources for study and research in the humanities.
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Professor Merja Stenroos has been awarded the most prestigious grant from the EU, the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. It is the first time a UiS research project has been awarded a grant from the ERC.
This research groups mission is to promote a sense of mattering and belonging where people can connect to a sense of meaning and purpose in ways that also contribute to the common good at a societal and global level.
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A portable, low-magnetic MRI machine gives researchers an indication of whether a child is going to follow typical or atypical cognitive development. The results will be used to implement measures adapted to each individual child.
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The library now gives you access to a new online resource for students in history and related fields.
Reflections from the Green Transitions Fellows at The Greenhouse 2022
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The Greenhouse was established as a research group in 2017 and quickly distinguished itself worldwide as a leading professional environment for environmental humanities. On its fifth anniversary, The Greenhouse is moving on, now as a research centre at UiS.
Information about our current research projects and research networks
A delegation from The University of Havana visited UiS to discuss Norwegian/Cuban conference and how to increase the numbers of Norwegian exchange students to Cuba and vice versa.
A digital exhibition chronicles the reintroduction of beavers in Scandinavia 100 years ago.
The project shall improve the quality and internationalization of education in social work and sociology at the partner institutions, through student and staff mobility between Cuba and Norway in both directions.
Why are Vikings and the Norse past increasingly popular?
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UiS employee Roderick Dale had hardly imagined that he would contribute to making video games when he studied Old Norse literature and Viking history. Now he has translated dialogue in the game Assassin's Creed Valhalla into Norse.
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Two years, up to four different countries, several class committees, two births and a pandemic. The MFamily class of 2020 have shared a lot and had many learning experiences. Maria Martinsson believes it has made them more resilient and flexible.
This research program area is aimed at preparing better graduate and postgraduate candidates.
This and much more was discovered by Gunnar Nerheim when he dived deep into the history of the first Norwegians in Texas.