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.