News about EU financed research

How did people in the Middle Ages think about the relationship between food and health? With funding from the EU, Claire Burridge will shed new light on this question.

Historian Kasper Eriksen will investigate how transnational adoption shaped, and was shaped by, Scandinavian diplomacy, foreign policy, and human rights discourse.

Aike Peter Rots will study some of the most popular deities in the world, how people relate to them, and changes in their surrounding environments.

Archaeology professor David Keith Wright receives prestigious funding to investigate how people and climate have shaped landscapes and biodiversity across Africa and Arabia.

Should we use artificial intelligence to generate synthetic DNA? Philosopher Anna Smajdor receives prestigious funding to address this question.

A new EU-funded project will investigate what happened when Latin and the Latin alphabet encountered local Scandinavian vernacular languages and runes.

How did state censorship influence literature under the dictatorships of Salazar and Franco in the 20th century? Does this legacy live on today? These questions will be explored in a new EU-funded project.

Thomas Kjeller Johansen's new EU-funded project will explore the ancient philosophers' perspectives on how mathematics can account for the natural world.

Half of the UiO's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral grants went to HF in this round.

HF attracts research talent in the competition for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellowships. “The faculty gains important new perspectives, and we see the diversity in humanities research”, says Dean Frode Helland.

Love, monsters and indigenous languages ​​are among the topics that will be investigated at HF ​​in the years to come. The faculty rejoices over new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions scholarships.

That which can influence our attention can hold great power. Now Sebastian Watzl gets funding from the European Research Council to study how and why this happens.

Catherine Bradley has been granted funds from the European Union to trace the history of a single musical moment across 500 years.