Forsknings­arrangementer

Master Ariadne Kostomitsopoulou Marketou ved Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie vil forsvare sin avhandling A matter of Colour: Pigment production on late Hellenistic Kos through the material remains of a 1^st  c. BCE workshop for graden philosophiae doctor (ph.d).

In this webinar, Barbara Bramanti, associate professor of Physical Anthropology at the University of Ferrara, Italy, will present some of the major outcomes of a multidisciplinary ERC-research project (“MedPlag: The medieval plagues: ecology, transmission modalities and routes of the infections”), and reconsider dynamics behind pandemics.

How to write a high-quality PhD dissertation in history? The first writing workshop this year will be organized by the University of Agder. The  workshop will focus on how to write effective introductions to chapters and articles. Then, in small groups, students present and discuss their manuscripts and projects with peers and faculty. This will be an online course.

Surveillance is increasingly used to sate the public’s curiosity for a window into the ‘secret lives of wild animals’. Citizens can now track their local wildlife through trail cameras connected to their smartphone, and they can follow live data streams offering minute-by-minute close-ups of wildlife nests 24/7. In this talk, Erica von Essen, Ph. D. and researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, asks: what does this digitalization of wildlife mean for human-wildlife relations?