Previous events
Master Ulf Holmen ved Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og historie vil forsvare sin avhandling Myndighetene eller stormaktene? De skandinaviske fascistpartiene og forspillet til 9. april 1940 for graden doctor philosophiae (Dr.philos).
How to write a high-quality PhD dissertation in history? In small groups, students present and discuss their own PhD writing with peers and faculty. This workshop is held in conjunction with the Norwegian History Days 2024.
Cand.philol. Lars Morten Fuglevik at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation An Archaeology of Consuming Passions: Household Pottery and Urban Commensal Strategies in Early and High Medieval Oslo for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Professor Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University) presents Reconciling Democracy and Capitalism: The Transition to General Laws in the US and Beyond.
What is the role of history in society? How may historical knowledge and insight help contemporary societies deal with major political and social issues that fundamentally challenge their perspectives and self-understanding? And more precisely, how can historians and historical insights contribute when societies confront painful and difficult aspects of their own histories and contemporary life?
How do young researchers write clear and well formulated research descriptions? How do they get funding for their research projects? This one-day workshop aims to provide young researchers with the necessary tools to write competitive applications and get funding.
The fourth and final Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture by Laura Mai, Postdoctoral Researcher at Tilburg University.
Master Anna Marie Skråmestø Nesheim at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Performing rights: Authors, performers, managers, and machines in the age of technological innovation, 1890s–1950s for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Our third Welcome to the Anthropocene Lecture will be given by Alison Sperling, Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University.
The conference Intellectual Properties in Colonial and Postcolonial History is a 2-day event hosted by the Africa Museum in Tervueren, on the outskirts of Brussels. The goal of the conference is to examine the history intellectual properties and other systems of knowledge in colonial and post-colonial regimes.
The second Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture of 2024 will be led by Dr. Rahul Ranjan, writer and Assistant Professor of Climate/Environmental Justice at the Department of Human Geography, University of Edinburgh.
The first Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture of the year will be given by Professor Britt Kramvig and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Tarja Salmela at the Department of Tourism and Northern Studies, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway.
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What does the digital shift mean for historians? This workshop explores some of the key methodological questions historians encounter when we start using digital tools to answer historical questions. It will also provide training in using digital source materials.
This PhD course grabs the bull by the horns and challenges participants to seriously engage with theory (ideas/principles to explain a practice or account for a situation) and method (planned procedure to pursue knowledge), and highlights the connections between them. We also discuss ethical problems in historical research. This is a 5 ECTS course.
The Cultural Heritage Day is a day for dialogue and inspiration for everyone who studies and works with cultural heritage.
Master Isak Roalkvam at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Computational modelling of the coastal Mesolithic in south-eastern Norway for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Hallvard Nikolai Bruvoll at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation The Emergence of Social Hierarchy in Prehistory: Application of Fractal Analysis on Archaeological Settlement Plans for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Rahmat Hashemi at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation No Peace in Sight?: The United States and the Complex Case of Afghanistan,
1978-2020 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Master Ingeborg Fossestøl at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation The Press and the Reading Public: Literary Cultures in Late Ottoman Istanbul for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
A talk by Elena Kochetkova, Associate Professor in Modern European Economic History at the University of Bergen.
Advanced course in Research Ethics: This doctoral course explores the complex legal and ethical challenges related to academic freedom, personal dignity and the right to privacy that arise when studying and writing about the lives of people. Throughout this course, doctoral fellows and faculty in the humanities will share their own research experiences, shedding light on the various problems they encounter and the solutions they chose when disseminating their findings.
We are pleased to announce Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, University of Cambridge, as the speaker for the fourth Gutorm Gjessing Lecture Series with the lecture "What does theory bring to our understanding of the prehistoric household/house?".