Aktuelle forskningssaker
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Arkeolog knuser myten om «nakne buskmenn»
13. des. 2018 15:21
San-folket i Sør Afrika var slett ikkje nakne, men brukte klede, smykke, tatoveringar og lukt for å skape og oppretthalde sosiale relasjonar.
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Menneskerettigheter: Norden var ikke nødvendigvis en "barmhjertig samaritan"
3. des. 2018 15:07
– Det har lenge eksistert en forestilling om at Norden har vært en internasjonal pådriver for menneskerettigheter. Bildet er mer blandet enn som så, og vi bør spørre om hva som motiverte engasjementet, sier historiker Hanne Hagtvedt Vik.
Forskningsarrangementer
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China behind the Media
15. des. 2018 10:00
What does China look like behind the dominant media images? In this seminar, scholars who have spent years studying China’s political system and society debate the most important current developments. The seminar is free of charge.
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IKOS PhD Midway-seminar:"Polluted perspectives: Environmental troubles and popular opinion in China"
4. jan. 2019 10:15
We want to invite you to an open midway-seminar with our PhD-fellow in Chinese Studies Hedda Flatø. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Dali Yang from Department of Political Science, University of Chicago.
- Conceptual Engineering in the Ethics of War 11. jan. 2019 09:00
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PhD training: Knowledge Aims in Systematic Musicology 15. jan. 2019 10:15
Time and place for the course: 10:15-12:00 Tuesdays starting January 15, 2019, with 5 sessions spread out during the semester alternating with other PhD events (see updated schedule to be posted on the Musicology PhD web pages).
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Qualitative Interviewing in Area Studies: Digging out the “Deep Data” (PhD seminar 3 ECTS)
17. jan. 2019 09:00
How can qualitative interviewing enrich the study of social and political processes in area studies? Does the interview constitute a “personal sphere” — a realm of inter-subjective exchanges of perceptions, or is it a source that provides more than just situational information? How should information obtained through interviewing be organized and presented in a dissertation, and what is the analytical value of a “text-bite” in a larger body of text?
With Geir Flikke, Associate Professor, ILOS