News

Here, we publish articles about the Centre and its activities, as well as interviews with our scholars about their time at CAS and the progress and results of their research.

Helge Jordheim holding a seminar at CAS

23 February 2023

Helge Jordheim awarded The 'Gad Rausings pris' 2023

Helge Jordheim, a former project leader at CAS, has been awarded the ‘Gad Rausings pris för framstående humanistisk forskargärning´ for his innovative and influential research in the field of cultural history. Jordheim led the research project 'In Sync: How Synchronization and Mediation Produce Collective Times, Then and Now' together with professor Espen Ytreberg in 2018/2019.

Portraits of Sigbjørn Løland Bore and Maria Olsson.

17 February 2023

Introducing the Young CAS projects for August 2023 – June 2025

Sigbjørn Løland Bore and Maria Ingrid Teresa Olsson are the two new early-career scholars selected for the Young CAS programme.

31 January 2023

Alumna of the Month: Liv Ingeborg Lied

Liv Ingeborg Lied, professor at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society (MF), served as project leader at CAS back in 2020/2021 together with professor Marianne Bjelland Kartzow. Their project, 'Books Known Only by Title: Exploring the Gendered Structures of First Millennium Imagined Libraries', delved into the largely unexplored category of "books known only by the title" in texts from the first millennium, focusing specifically on postulated books associated with female figures from the biblical narrative.

09 December 2022

Meet the Project: Representation theory – Combinatorial aspects and applications

Steffen Oppermann and Aslak Buan, both professors at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), are co-leading the CAS-project “Representation theory – Combinatorial aspects and applications” this year. Their project is about representation theory, which studies nonlinear algebraic structures by representing their elements as linear transformations of vector spaces.

Cathrine Holst and her co-PI Jakob Elster.

01 December 2022

Cathrine Holst: Alumna of the Month

Our alumna of the month is Cathrine Holst. Holst is a professor of sociology at the University of Oslo (UiO) and led the CAS project ‘What is Good Policy? Political Morality, Feasibility, and Democracy (GOODPOL)’ together with fellow UiO faculty member Jakob Elster back in 2020/2021.

25 October 2022

Meet the Project: Social Science Meets Biology: Indigenous People and Severe Influenza Outcomes

For 27 years, Professor Svenn-Erik Mamelund has been studying the demography of epidemic diseases, mainly focusing on the influenza pandemic Spanish flu, which killed between 50 and 100 million people. We sat down with the group leader to learn more about his CAS project.

05 October 2022

Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN) partners with CAS

CAS is excited to announce our new partner institution!

05 October 2022

Alumni Spotlight: Hans Jacob Orning

‘It is very rare to have the opportunity to concentrate so much on one project with a group of people as what CAS allows. For us, I think it would be safe to say that the fruits of CAS are materialising along two lines – the books we produced there, and the spinoffs that only now are starting to pop up.’ Hans Jakob Orning, professor of history at UiO and a former CAS project leader, said when thinking back at his year at the centre.

19 September 2022

Introducing the Young CAS Fellows 2023/2024

Victor Greiff and Benjamin Schneider are the two new early career scholars selected for the Young CAS Fellow programme.