45 projects

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FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

ARCREATE. An Archaeology of Creative Knowledge in Turbulent Times

What happens to technological knowledge and daily practice in times of turbulence, social stress and extraordinary mobility? Are craftspeople and their network connections challenged, or is their creativity rather nourished by turbulence? ARCREATE is driven by a deep discomfort with archaeology...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Labor Entanglements across the Atlantic: US-Scandinavian Activism, Networks and Visions for Society in the Twentieth Century

Scandinavia and the USA are often portrayed as contrasts, characterized by separate historical developments. Scandinavia seems to differ most from American society with its post-war development towards regulated capitalism and a large welfare state, a development often attributed to the strong Sc...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Voices on the Edge: Minuscule Texts in Early Medieval Latin Culture (c. 700–c. 1000)

Early medieval Latin Europe lacked easy access to writing materials such as paper. Parchment, the main medium of written culture, was quite expensive. Thus, readers and scribes often used blank spaces in early medieval manuscripts to make casual records, copy excerpts, and record small texts that...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Dressed in Stone. Interpreting hunter-gatherer rock art of South Africa through the bodily practice of dress.

The San hunter-gatherers of South Africa, are well known as makers of the beautiful rock art still found in various regions of the country. Although sophisticated artists, the historical San have often been portrayed as poor and, for some reason, naked people. 'Dressed in stone' aims to reunite ...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Relics of Nature: An Archaeology of Natural Heritage in the High North

What is natural heritage? And what is a sustainably curated nature? The answers to these questions appear both obvious and farfetched. Nature, and by extension natural heritage, is mostly defined as something essentially ?natural? and beyond human impact. Yet, the way natural heritage features i...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

ClimateCultures. Socionatural entanglements in Little Ice Age Norway (1500-1800)

What happened the last time Nordic societies encountered rapid climate change? How did people react when they faced challenges similar to the ones we are confronting today? This project looks at the most recent period of major climatic shifts, the Little Ice Age (1500-1800). It reconstructs the c...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Poor Little Belgium and the Greater War. The Commission for Relief in Belgium and the Humanitarian Mobilization of the World, 1914-1919.

Why are we concerned with the suffering of distant strangers? Why do we give millions to alleviate the distress of those who we have never met? And why do we care intensely for some while the suffering of others goes unnoticed? The project explores these questions with regard to one of the widest...

Awarded: NOK 0.98 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Cult, Memory, and Civic Identity in Kalydon

The project Cult, Memory, and Civic Identity in Kalydon has: - despite the pandemic managed to develop a good international collaboration and thus create an opportunity for the development of a larger research project with specialists within the field of Classical Archaeology concerning studies ...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Image, Imitation, Indulgence. Netherlandish Art and Devotional Practices in Denmark-Norway c.1400-1600

The around sixty late medieval Netherlandish carved altarpieces preserved in Scandinavia comprise valuable information about the development of workshop practices, styles, forms and iconography. Testifying to the so-called "infinite variety" of such altarpieces, the ones in Scandinavia also add t...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Oversettelse av 3 artikler for bokmanuskriptet Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography

Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography brings up to date and renews the debate on two major themes in the philosophy of history which in the last decades have been overshadowed by the linguistic turn and the interest in narrativity. Part I of this book is concerned with the tens...

Awarded: NOK 60,000

Project Period: 2016-2017

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Gangs, Brands and Intellectual Property Rights: Interdisciplinary Comparative Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs and Luxury Brands

In 2010, Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, the most famous and powerful outlaw motorcycle club in the world, operating in more than fifty countries across the world, sued Alexander McQueen for trademark infringement. This case brought to light the Hells Angels obsession with the protection of their i...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Nordic Civil Wars in the High Middle Ages from a cross-disciplinary and comparative perspective

The background for the project was that we wanted to approach the Civil War era in the history of the Nordic countries (c. 1130-1260) with new questions and perspectives. First, we believe that previous research had exaggerated the destructive aspects of medieval conflicts and wars. Recent resear...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Using the Past in the Past. Viking Age Scandinavia as a Renaissance?

The use of the past today as well as in the Viking Age takes place materially as well as as reference points. The project examines how the past was used in Viking Age societies. Simultaneously, the focus has been on why the past was so actively used by various social groups. In particular the rel...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2022

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Copper in the Early Modern Period. A Comparative Study of Work and Everyday Life in Falun and Røros.

This project examined developments at Scandinavia's two largest copper mines in the early modern period - Falun in Sweden and Røros in Norway. We investigated living standards and organizational changes, and found, inter alia, that living standards in Røros improved later than in Norway more gene...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Oversettelse Unn Pedersens bokmanus I smeltedigelen: Finsmedene i vikingtidsbyen Kaupang

Formålet med prosjektet er å oversette Unn Pedersens monografi I smeltedigelen: Finsmedene i vikingtidsbyen Kaupang, antatt til utgivelse på Aarhus universitetsforlag som Into the melting pot: Non-ferrous metalworkers in Viking-age Kaupang. Monografie n blir fjerde bind i Kaupang Excavation P...

Awarded: NOK 84,000

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Oslo

GRUNNLOV-Grunnlovsjubileet 2014

FRANCO-NORDIC SYMPOSIUM PARIS 3.-5.NOVEMBER 2014

The symposium will unite Nordic and French historians discussing themes of common interest in Nordic history, ranging from the medieaval kingship to present-day "Nordic model". The main focus of the conference will be on the transition from autocratic rul e to constitutional rule and democracy, f...

Awarded: NOK 90,938

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

After the Black Death: Painting and Polychrome Sculpture in Norway, 1350-1550

The 'After the Black Death' project (ABD) was launched in 2010 and funded from mid-2014 to the end of 2018. Funding allowed an international network to focus on late-medieval folding altarpieces, shrines and sculptures from Norwegian churches. Efforts concentrated especially on circa 25 objects t...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2019

Location: Oslo

SANCOOP-South Africa - Norway research co-operation on climate, the environment og clean energy

Historical ecology and state formation in the Shashi-Limpopo region of southern Africa: a cross-disciplinary approach

The overall aim of the project is to enhance our knowledge of Mapela Hill in the Shashi-Limpopo region of southern Africa and its role in the rise of socio-political complexity and state formation. The project seeks to integrate data from the disciplines archaeology, archaeometry, history, anthro...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Oslo

GRUNNLOV-Grunnlovsjubileet 2014

Historiedagene 2014

Historiedagene 2014 er en konferanse som vil gå over tre dager, 20. - 22. juni 2014. Den vil bli arrangert i Georg Sverdrups hus på Blindern i Oslo som et samarbeid mellom HIFO(Norske historikerforening) og IAKH (Institutt for arkeologi, konservering og h istorie. Konferansen åpner med en hoveds...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Oslo

GRUNNLOV-Grunnlovsjubileet 2014

Experiences of War and Nationality in Denmark-Norway, 1807-1815

Manuskriptet er fordelt på følgende kapitler: Prologue: Denmark-Norway and the Ideology of Patriotism Chapter 1: The Bombardment of Copenhagen Chapter 2: Denmark-Norway's War with Sweden Chapter 3: Naval and Economic Warfare Chapter 4: Internal Changes an d External Threats Chapter 5: End Games C...

Awarded: NOK 96,000

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

ERC-Garipzanov: Graphicacy and Authority in Early Europe: Graphic Signs of Power and Faith in the Early Middle Ages (c. 300- 1000)

The project's major publications have developed the concept of graphicacy, defined in the principal investigator's programmatic article (2015) as a mode of communication of abstract information by means of non-figural graphic devices that can be traced back to the pre-modern age--a communicative ...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Norsk økonomisk politikk etter 1905

Jeg søker med dette om støtte for oversettelse av innholdsfortegnelse, innledning og tre kapitler fra nevnte bokmanus. Manuskriptet er fullført fra min hånd, og det vil bli publisert av Universitetsforlaget sent i dette halvåret. Kontaktpersoni forlaget er forlagsredaktør Ingrid Ugelvik. Min p...

Awarded: NOK 38,338

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Gendered Integration? Jewish Women's Encounters with Scandinavia, 1900-1940

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Oslo

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Negotiating Space, Arranging the Land: Mapping in the Nordic Countries, 1740 until today

This project is concerned with the cultural importance of mapping for the development of society. More precisely, the project explores how changing perceptions of "nature", of topography and landscapes shape the practice of mapping and cartographic work, and vice versa: how people´s relation to ...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Meetings Make History. Hunters' Rock Art and Lands of Identity in Mesolithic Northern Europe.

"Meetings Make History. Hunters' Rock Art and Lands of Identity in Mesolithic Northern Europe" is a research project aiming to understand the total corpus of Mesolithic rock art on the Scandinavian Peninsula. Mesolithic rock art mainly contains two ways of depicting animals. Either in form of...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2017

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Constructing a "People's Community": The Dual Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion in National Socialism

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

GRUNNLOV-Grunnlovsjubileet 2014

1814-grunnloven - historisk virkning og sosial forankring

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

GRUNNLOV-Grunnlovsjubileet 2014

Det globale i det lokale og det lokale i det globale - konstitusjon, menneskerettigheter og interessekamp.

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Korrupsjon i Norge 1790-1830

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

From the New Left to the Far Left: West Germany and the United States 1967-71

Between 1967 and 1971 most of the new left movements of the 1950s and 60s went into a period of crisis and eventual self-dissolution. This rather abrupt process in turn proved the conception of an extremist far left, which was to become the stalwart featu re of leftist political action in the 197...

Awarded: NOK 55,000

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

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