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.

12 December 2017

John Comaroff: Conflict and (Dis)order Among Tswana in Colonial and Postcolonial South Africa

John Comaroff, professor of African and African-American Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University, deconstructs myths about political structures in Southern Africa in this CAS Oslo seminar.

30 November 2017

CAS fellow wins ERC Consolidator Grant

Assistant Professor Andrew Teale, a participant in the project 'Molecules in Extreme Environments,' is recognised by the European Research Council as one of Europe's top scholars.

22 November 2017

Are There 'Good' Civil Wars?

CAS fellows involved in the research project 'The Nordic "Civil Wars" in the High Middle Ages in a Comparative Perspective' debate whether some civil wars can have positive consequences -- and whether they should even be called civil wars.

03 November 2017

Researching Something That Does Not Exist

Extreme chemistry may sound exciting to work with, but for most of us it can be very hard to grasp what researchers in such fields are actually working on. This is especially true if they are looking into the composition and properties of elements that do not exist on Earth.

12 October 2017

Dag O. Hessen: The Value of Nature

As part of Forskningsdagene 2017, CAS Oslo invited six current and former research fellows to give a 12-minute talk about science and values. In his talk, biologist Dag O. Hessen presents a range of ways to look at the value of nature.

12 October 2017

Call for Applications: CAS Projects 2020/21

The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Norway’s premier institute for excellence in interdisciplinary fundamental research, is now accepting project proposals for the 2020/21 academic year. Deadline: 15 January 2018.

10 October 2017

Book Release: 'Violent Reverberations: Global Modalities of Trauma'

Fresh, multidisciplinary perspectives are needed to understand the connections between culture and emotional distress, Professor Vigdis Broch-Due, scientific director of CAS, and her colleague Professor Bjørn Enge Bertelsen argue in a new book.

09 October 2017

Hans Jacob Orning on 'Ekko': Women in the Middle Ages

In an appearance on the NRK show Ekko, Hans Jacob Orning, professor of history at the University of Oslo and CAS Oslo research group leader, discusses whether historians have traditionally overlooked stories about women in the Middle Ages.

29 September 2017

CAS announces selection of 2019/20 research projects

The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) is proud to announce the three research projects selected for the 2019/20 academic year.