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UiS post-doctoral researcher Daniel Bowman writes about John Joseph Mathews’s 1934-novel Sundown, and the use of automobiles as signifiers of national identity.
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Ruth A. Morgan discusses her book Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice
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Charlotte Wrigley attends 'Thinking Through Permafrost' workshop
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Chatterjee elected on the Executive Committee of the International Committee for the History of Technology
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Greenhouse Research Talk Series panel discussion by Magne Drangeid, University of Stavanger, Marion G. Stavsøien NTNU in Trondheim, and Per Esben Svelstad, NTNU in Trondheim.. Hybrid event.
Hulda Garborgs hus and online
"A plague of weasels and ticks: animal introduction, ecological disaster, and the balance of nature in Jamaica, 1870–1900" by Matthew Holmes.
"Earth Ice Bone Blood" by Charlotte Wrigley.
We invite scholars and researchers to contribute to a research workshop retreat exploring the imperial continuities within the North Sea's extractive activities.
The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities can help you develop your project.
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Professor Dolly Jørgensen has won funding to research the links between cultural heritage and petrocultures and their connections to green transitions.
22 August 2024 to 23 August 2024 at the University of Stavanger, Norway.
This research initiative aims to shed light on imperial logics and practices of extractive activities in the North Sea during the 20th and 21st century.
The research group FLUENT approaches multilingualism from a variety of perspectives by investigating child and adult first, second and third language acquisition and development.
FLUENT means "FLerspråklig Utvikling og Endring i Nyere Tid" (multilingual development and change in society today).
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.
In the fall of 2022, University of Stavanger welcomed 12 guest researchers and artists from across the world to engage with each other and the UiS community in a semester-long exploration of the meanings of green transitions. Each fellow gave a talk to present their project and contributed to an international conference on green transitions.
Information about our current research projects and research networks
How can we understand animals as being at home with human-built infrastructure?
Mezzosoprano Bettina Smith, Professor of singing at the Faculty of Performing Arts, University of Stavanger, is during the spring of 2022 initializing her project highlighting women in the arts.
The artistic research dance project All Tomorrows Parties by Brynjar Åbel Bandlien aims to investigate the impact that the HIV and Aids pandemic had on the Norwegian dance scene, the performing arts and cultural life in 1980s and 1990s.
Radioactive Waste Spatialities, Materialities and Societies in the Nordic Region, 1960s to 1990s
The UNESCO Chair is a collaboration between The University of Stavanger and the Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) with a purpose to enable leadership, innovation and anticipation in support of the delivery of UN’s Sustainable Development Goals - and beyond - through the application of futures literacy.
Here you find relevant resources for study and research in the humanities.
This research group is dedicated to the theoretical and empirical study of social and spatial justice from a cross-disciplinary perspective.
The PlaySpace (PS) editorial team now calls for new submissions dedicated to artistic research focusing on decolonization.
A digital exhibition chronicles the reintroduction of beavers in Scandinavia 100 years ago.
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With her latest book " The Future of the Self: Understanding Personalization in Childhood and Beyond ", Natalia Kucirkova addresses the opportunities, but also the threats, implied by a personalized reality.
The PhD programme in artistic research provides for the three research disciplines dance, music and documentary film.
Why are Vikings and the Norse past increasingly popular?
We congratulate Professor Bettina Smith on her new release. Together with pianist Jan Willem Nelleke, Smith has released the CD "The Artist's Secret" with works for song and piano, written by female composers.
This page contains A Corpus of Middle English Local Documents, with all accompanying materials
This page contains the Middle English Grammar Corpus (MEG-C) and its accompanying materials (Manual and Catalogues).
MELD is a text corpus consisting of local documents: administrative texts and letters that can be related to specific locations. It is intended as a resource for linguists and historians alike, and for anyone interested in the everyday life of people in late medieval England.
This and much more was discovered by Gunnar Nerheim when he dived deep into the history of the first Norwegians in Texas.
NoRS-EH is an interdisciplinary initiative that aims to reinforce and strengthen the
contribution of Norwegian humanities scholars to environmental research and the
great global challenges that we currently face.
The Queer Research Group organizes seminars addressing current research topics and projects under development, mainly based at institutions in Norway, but with transnational and interdisciplinary reach.
Now you can do a Minor in Gender Studies at UiS. The minor is a 30 ECTS in-depth study programme consisting of three courses that critically engage with contemporary questions about power, (in)equality and discrimination.