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.

Announcement of our YoungCAS project 2017: The post-antibiotic era

Antibiotic resistance is on the increase, with the consequence that infections that are harmless today may take lives in the future. This summer, a group of young researchers will gather at CAS for a project that aims to develop a new generation of anti-infective biomaterials for implantable devices.

Charred Memories: Ephemeral survivors in my uncle’s burnt-out home

According to Hein Bjerck, cognitive memories of things in a home cannot be inherited, because they do not reside in the things themselves, but in the relations among things and personal mindscapes.

Dust storms is a health killer, but disappeared from the public debate

Throughout time sand and dust storms have been a topic in Chinese historical records. Although they are widely understood as a “health killer” today, they have almost disappeared from public debate, scholar argues.

– Det er vanskeligere for kvinner å komme seg opp og fram i matematikken

Professor Berit Stensønes gir publiseringskrav og kvotering mye av skylda.

17 February 2017

Air pollution in China: Poor people likely to be worst off

CAS researchers expect that the rural population and poor migrants in cities will be the hardest hit when it comes to air pollution exposure. Professor Mette Halskov Hansen hopes that the CAS project she leads can help raise awareness and promote debate.

12 January 2017

Defining Things

How do you define an object if not by its composition or usage? Contemporary philosopher Graham Harman presented his Philosophy of Things in an open lecture at Litteraturhuset in Oslo.

05 January 2017

Life among Soviet ruins: – the past is still present

Most people in Northwestern Russia and on the Kola Peninsula live in apartment blocks constructed during the time of Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev; many of these apartments are in a serious state of decay.

09 December 2016

Room for interdisciplinary engagement

Written by Scientific Director Vigdis Broch-Due.

07 December 2016

‘Spaces of Spaces’

Every semester, CAS fellows are challenged to present their research to the other project groups at lunch-time seminars. For the pure mathematicians, having to explain their work to the uninitiated might be considered something of a challenge.