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.

13 February 2019

Alumni Spotlight: Marianne Elisabeth Lien

The 2015/16 CAS project leader is the alumna of the month for January 2019.

23 November 2018

Book release: 'Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations'

Members of the 2015/16 CAS project 'Arctic Domestication in the Era of the Anthropocene' release an anthology that challenges and expands the concept of domestication.

Dogs and humans' long-lasting relationship

"An engaging love letter to ethnography"

In The Times Literary Supplement CAS group leader Professor Marianne Lien's book Becoming Salmon, Aquaculture and the domestication of a fish is described as «...a masterly ethnographic study of mankind’s relationship with farmed fish».

NRK radio interview with CAS researchers

Listen to a radio interview with the CAS researchers behind the exhibition NyArktis, project leader Gro Ween and CAS group leader Professor Marianne Lien.

Nature/Nurture: a never-ending debate

– Downplaying the environment, epigenetics may reinforce the nature/nurture divide it is set to challenge, CAS fellow Professor Gisli Palsson argues as he publishes the book "Can science resolve the nature/nurture debate?".

Exhibition: sense a different Arctic

In the exhibition “NyArktis”, CAS researchers challenge portrayals of the Arctic as bare and without human’s presence, and experiment in new ways of presenting the region.

Where does nature end and culture begin?

Through different stories about ways of living in the Arctic, Professor Marianne Lien and her research group at CAS challenge what they see as the dominant understanding of relations among humans, animals, and landscapes. What is culture in the Arctic, if it is understood as cut off from nature?

Prestigious award to CAS fellow John Law