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At the Faculty of Humanities you can work with some of Europe’s best researchers within the field of humanities and participate in exciting research projects.
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From 2024 to 2028 the Faculty of Humanities promotes four interdisciplinary research initiatives.
Research news
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If you want to know what is happening in the Middle East, the football stadium is the place to be
In the world’s most authoritarian region, football terraces have become an important arena for criticism of those in power, and for the struggle for freedom.
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“Literature is much more than what is on your bookshelf”
When we ask who reads, we should not only ask who reads novels. If we broaden our definition of literature, we are talking about a rather large audience, says a literary scholar.
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Back home in the U.S., he could find A without any problem
But when the music professor moved to Norway, he could no longer rely on his sense of pitch. The explanation may lie in sounds that most of us barely notice.
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The Vikings cultivated the past – but for different reasons than we thought
When we rowed like Vikings during the Football World Cup, we used our history to create a sense of togetherness. Not unlike how the Vikings themselves used their own past.
