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.

30 January 2024

Lunch Seminar at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters with former CAS Fellow Sine Halkjelsvik Bjordal

On January 23rd, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters hosted a 'lunch seminar' for its members, featuring a lecture by Sine Halkjelsvik Bjordal, a former fellow of the CAS project 'In Sync: How Synchronisation and Mediation Produce Collective Times, Then and Now', led by Helge Jordheim and Espen Ytreberg (both professors at the University of Oslo) in 2018/2019. In this seminar, Sine shared her insights on Norwegian stave churches.

25 April 2023

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.

26 June 2019

‘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?

21 January 2019

Project Update: 'In Sync: How Synchronisation and Mediation Produce Collective Times, Then and Now'

CAS fellows give an update on their project examining the connection between media and different forms of time.

11 September 2018

Meet the Project: 'In Sync: How Synchronisation and Mediation Produce Collective Times, Then and Now'

The 2018/19 CAS project in the social sciences will explore how different forms of media help create shared experiences and times.

08 August 2018

2018/19 CAS Projects: Religion, Media and Time, and Mathematics

The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) is welcoming a new cohort of scholars to Oslo as the 2018/19 academic year begins.