News

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

07 October 2019

Meet the project: Do we really need grammatical gender?

‘For second language learners, gender is notoriously hard’, CAS project leader Terje Lohndal says. Half of the world’s languages manage without this grammatical category, so what is it good for?

03 October 2019

Meet the project: What are the preconditions for evolution?

Why and how do organisms evolve, and can they adapt and survive climate change? Christophe Pélabon and Thomas Fredrik Hansen work on some of the most fundamental questions about life on earth.

30 September 2019

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters new partner of the Young CAS Fellow programme

CAS is pleased to announce that the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA) will contribute with financial and academic support to the Young CAS Fellow programme.

18 September 2019

Announcing the 2021/22 CAS projects

Archaeology, medieval law, and chemical physics. CAS is excited to announce the projects for the academic year of 2021/22.

09 September 2019

CAS Alumnus Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay receives prestigious ERC stipend: ‘CAS helped me prepare to be prepared’

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay is one of seven researchers in Norway receiving the prestigious ERC Starting Grant. He says that CAS freed up time and offered an environment that prepared him for what would be the toughest interview he ever faced.

Are you a researcher under the age of 40? Apply for Young CAS Fellow!

The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) is now accepting applications for Young CAS Fellow 2020/21.

Alumni Spotlight: Nils Christian Stenseth

The renowned biologist argues that universities have a lot to learn from CAS.

Making “demise” a topic in religious studies

The topic of demise has increasingly been captured by the natural sciences, Michael Stausberg says, referring to the collapse of insects and species: ‘We seem to forget that something similar is happening in the realm of culture’.

‘No community can survive without synchronisation’

CAS fellows argue that the world needs synchronisation more than ever in order to save the planet. What is it, and how does it work?