279 projects

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Making racism: Racial Relationships, Identity, and the State in Colonial Sudan, 1898-1956

The history of Sudan in 20th Century is often seen as one of struggle between the dominant ?Arabs? of the North and the subject ?African? inhabitants of the South. The seemingly intrinsic inability to come to terms with each other, as well as the centuries-old feeling of ?racism? of Northern Suda...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Vestland

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

EUI - 4. år - Shakos, slouch hats, and zouves

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Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

EUI - 4. år - Working Youth in Early Modern Europe

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Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - Caught in the middle: Experts on European Integration in the Norwegian Civil Service, 1960-1972

Throughout the 1960s Norway was one of four applicant countries trying to join the European Communities (EC). Three times Norway approached the EC, 1962, 1967 and 1970. The two first times Britain, and therefore Norway, Denmark and Ireland, was denied ent ry by French President Charles de Gaulle....

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Davvisámi mánáid giellaovdáneapmi [North Sami child language acquisition]

The DASAGO project investigates how children acquire North Sámi as their first language. It consists of three parts; I. The development of research material on Sámi child language, II. The study of structural properties of Sámi child language, and III. Knowledge exchange with relevant professiona...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Emergence of Non-Canonical Case Marking in Indo-European

Several languages of the world exhibit verbal predicates where the subject is not in the nominative case, but is instead marked in an oblique case, like accusative, dative or genitive. Remnants of such structures exist in English and Dutch, like e. methinks, meseems and d. me dunkt. In several ot...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Clouds and Concerts: Mediation and Mobility in Contemporary Music Culture.

Clouds and Concerts investigates the ways in which technological innovation in recent years has impacted how we listen to music, how music is distributed and how audiences experience live music. Streaming services, including WiMP (now TIDAL) and Spotify, and music festivals have undergone sweepin...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

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

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Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

An Ethical Reading and a Reading in Ethics. A Study of De la Gardie 4-7 fol

The main aim of this project is to discuss attitudes to knowledge in Old Norse medieval world. The main questions I will address are what is knowledge and how can it be attained. These questions, in epistemological theory, are traditionally seen as instru ctive of self-awareness and self-dentitio...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUROCORES - Communication in Context / Words in Worlds

The theoretical groundwork for the project was completed during the first two years. This resulted in three articles: one which has been published at a top journal (Cohnitz & Haukioja, "Meta-Externalism and Meta-Internalism in the Study of Reference, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2013), and ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

The Eighth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB8)

"International Symposium on Bilingualism" (ISB) regnes av mange som det ledende internasjonale forumet for diskusjon og spredning av forskningsresultater om to- og flerspråklighet. Vertskap for den åttende ISB-konferansen i 2011 er Institutt for lingvisti ske og nordiske studier (ILN) ved UiO, og...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Korrupsjon i Norge 1790-1830

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Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Causation in Science - An interdisciplinary study of causal processes

To find causes we need scientific methods. But which methods are best at picking out causation? It seems that, in order to find causes, we must have some prior knowledge of what causation is. While scientists deal with the concrete details, it is philosophers who consider in the abstract what it ...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Akershus

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Christian Krohg's Naturalism: Painting in the Light of Émile Zola's Méthode Expérimental

This project will investigate how Zola's naturalistic ideas were integrated into a painterly program by Christian Krohg (1852-1925) and how a naturalistic discourse was created in Scandinavian art in the 1880s. I claim that Krohg?s naturalism must be unde rstood as an art inspired by Zola and his...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Merchants and Missionaries. Norwegian encounters with China in a transnational perspective, 1890-1937

This project set out to explore a period of China and Norway´s shared past that has become largely forgotten by scholars and the public alike. Towards the turn of the 19th century, China and Norway were both part of what is believed to be the first global economy. However, the distance between th...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2017

Location: Vestland

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

The child and the book 2011

Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier ved Universitetet i Oslo har påtatt seg å arrangere The child and the book i Oslo 8.-10- april 2011. Norsk barnebokinstitutt er samarbeidspartner, og tar på seg åpningsarrangementet på Nasjonalbiblioteket fre dag 8. april, jamfør vedlagte program. Lø...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture

Briefly described, Place and Displacement investigates practices of displaying architecture in both historical and contemporary contexts, with cases drawn from full scale exhibits of architecture, through the trade in architectural oeuvres, to the construction of imaginary architectural museums. ...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

NIME 2011 - 11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

NIME2011 is an interdisciplinary conference gathering 200-500 participants from all over the world to share their knowledge and late-breaking work on new musical interface design. The conference is open to both scientific and artistic presentations. Par ticipants come from a number of different...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Archive in Motion.

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Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Den 27. nordiske historikerkonferanse - Tromsø - 11.-14. august 2011. Arrangementsansvarlig: Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap

For nordiske historikere er de nordiske historikermøtene store begivenheter. Møtene, eller konferansene, er anledninger der et stort antall av Nordens historikere møtes, diskuterer og lærer hverandre å kjenne. Historikermøtet går tilbake til 1905, da de t første ble arrangert, den gangen riktig...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Metonymy in Context and Communication

Imagine that you're working at a café. You're in the middle of the most hectic period of the day and several guests are waiting to be served their orders. While you're attending to a young couple, your colleague points out to you that 'The ham sandwich in the corner is getting restless'. Given th...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

4th International Conference on Digital Storytelling "create - share - listen" Lillehammer 5.-7. februar 2011

I samarbeid med Center for Digital Storytelling, Berkeley, California, arrangeres den 4. internasjonale konferansen om digital historiefortelling på Lillehammer 5.-7. februar 2011. Formålet med konferansen er: - å setter søkelyset på og utforske det øken de mangfoldet i bruken av digital histori...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Nasjon, region og landskap i norske jernbanedebatter 1840-1908. Doktorgradsprosjekt ved Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Nordeuropa-Institut

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Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Ukjent Fylke

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

The Second Nordic Conference of Linguistics

The Second Nordic Conference of Clinical Linguistics er en konferanse som tar sikte på å fremme utveksling av vitenskapelige resultater og nordisk samarbeid innenfor feltet klinisk lingvistikk og fonetikk, som har språk- og kommunikasjonsvansker som sitt hovedfokus. Konferansen arrangeres av Ins...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Frege and the Distinction between Science, Literature and Philosophy

So far, the project has had results within four areas: 1) A paper that focuses on questions concerning the status of Frege's philosophical writings (paper nr 1 in this report) has been submitted to an internationally renowned journal. Paper nr 2 in this report, a paper on Frege, Wittgenstein and ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2015

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Making of Europe. Visions of Europe in the American Marshall Plan Film Productions (1948-1954)

The research project on the Marshall Plan (MP) film propaganda campaign in postwar Europe 1948-1954 sought to establish how the US administration promoted its ?grand vision? of Europe and how the Europeans responded to these propaganda efforts. The aim was to generate a clearer understanding of t...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

Oppfølgingssymposium arkitektur.nå 1.oktober 2010

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Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo

HUM-Fagkomiteen for humaniora

EUI - 4 year grant - The ECA's battle against the militraization of American Foreign Aid

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Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUROCORESChants that Bind and Break: Reflections of Ideology and Identity in Offices for the Saints, from Carolingian to Early modern Europe

The NTNU-project «Chants that Bind and Break: Reflections of Ideology and Identity in Offices for the Saints, from the Carolingian era to Early modern Europe» (CBB) was performed 2010-2014 as part of the «EurocoreCode»-programme of the European Science Foundation. «EurocoreCode» aimed to describe...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage