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It has been a year since Professor Svenn-Erik Mamelund and his team embarked on their CAS project on Indigenous people and severe influenza outcomes. We sat down with him to discuss the progress made and what the future holds.

Forecasting conflict intensity is a challenging exercise. Yet, it can save lives by enabling early warning systems. With the goal of improving the accuracy and certainty of forecasts, Håvard Hegre and the VIEWS team is launching a new prediction challenge.

Former project leader at CAS, Helge Jordheim, was recently awarded the ‘Gad Rausings pris för framstående humanistisk forskargärning´ for his innovative and influential research in the field of cultural history. Jordheim's research connects the past, present, and future by exploring how past concepts of nature, time, and politics can contribute to understanding current crises and dilemmas. We talked to project leader Helge about his time at CAS!

Former research fellows at CAS, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde and Andrew Simpson, have published a new comparative work based on their research during the CAS project 'Social Governance Through Legislation' back in 2021/2022.

Nord University joins 15 other Norwegian universities, university colleges and research institutions as they partner with CAS.

Meet Sigbjørn Løland Bore, one of the two Young CAS PIs for August 2023 to June 2025! Bore, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Oslo, will lead the Young CAS project ‘Can Ice be Described from First Principles?’.

Meet Maria Ingrid Teresa Olsson, the Young CAS PI for August 2023 to June 2025! Olsson, an associate professor at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN University), will lead the project 'Towards a New and Culturally Sensitive Understanding of Gender Inequality: Women and Men in Modern (Work) Life.'

A recent publication in the 'Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies' is based on the CAS project Reading and interpreting runic inscriptions: the theory and method of runology from 2013/2014.

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.