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Francesca Refsum Jensenius, professor at the University of Oslo and one of our Young CAS PIs, embarked on a significant endeavor this month as she conducted her inaugural workshop at CAS. Immersed in the intricacies of democracy in India, Francesca's project, "Democracy's Reach: Political Representation and Elections in India," addresses pressing challenges to democratic governance, aiming to illuminate critical issues and foster collaborative solutions.

The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) have recently concluded an agreement for the Nordic Fellowship Program. The program aims to support scholars in the humanities and social sciences from Swedish research institutions who wish to spend a year at CAS.

Ida-Marie Høyvik, an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), spent the last two weeks of February at CAS for her research stay.

This month, one of our Young CAS Principal Investigators (PIs), Gaute Linga, a researcher at the University of Oslo, hosted his first Young CAS workshop at CAS.

One of our network institutions, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), is currently inviting applications for its NIAS Fellowship Programme.

We celebrate the publication of "The Sociology of Translation and the Politics of Sustainability: Explorations Across Cultures and Natures," a collaborative work emerging from the CAS project "The Body in Translation" led by professors John Ødemark and Eivind Engebretsen back in 2019/2020.

Exciting news for history enthusiasts!