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FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Birds & Beasts: Shaping Events in Old Russian

The Birds & Beasts project has been successful. A very important factor for the analysis of the history of Russian is building electronic corpus resources, i.e. digitalized and searchable collections of Old and Middle Russian texts. Our corpus, TOROT (Tromsø Old Russian and OCS Treebank) contains...

Awarded: NOK 8.9 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Arctic Modernities

Since the late nineteenth century the circumpolar Arctic has undergone a process by which it has become incorporated in global modernity via natural science, technology, tourism and international politics. However, little research has so far been done on the impact of modernisation/modernity on ...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SHP-Strategiske høgskoleprogram

New turns in arctic winter tourism: Adventuring, romanticising and exoticising, and demasculinising nature?

18 national and international researchers have studied the challenges and potentials of increasing winter tourism to arctic destinations in northern Europe. The goal has been to increase the understanding of tourists' experiences, interactions between tourists, guides and nature-based destination...

Awarded: NOK 13.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Norwegian Polar Politics 1870-2014

The project will be administrated from the Department of History and Religious Studies at the University of Tromsø, and will draw on competence and the international network which has been accumulated through more than 15 years of research on polar histor y. It will address the major historical ...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Norwegian and Sami support for the the World Council of Indigenous Peoples

My research in Norway would allow me to complete two essential chapters of my dissertation on the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP), as well as improve the entire work generally. The first chapter would compare the support of two international development agencies - the Canadian Inter...

Awarded: NOK 83,000

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Årskonferansen i Norsk Antropologisk Forening, 3.-5. mai, 2013 - Representasjon

Norsk Antropologisk Forenings årskonferanse er den eneste nasjonale fagkonferansen i sosialantropologi som samler alle norske antropologer. Konferansen i 2013 arrangeres av Institutt for arkeologi og sosialantropologi ved Universitetet i Tromsø. Hovedtema for konferansen er ?Representasjon?. Det...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

DOCAM'13: en internasjonal dokumentforskerkonferanse

Dokumentasjonsvitenskap startet opp som fag ved UiT i 1996. Faget bygger på tradisjonen til de europeiske dokumentalistene (Paul Otlet og Suzanne Briet), men er også en videreutvikling og en reaksjon på det som har skjedd i store deler av verden fra 1960- tallet og fremover, nemlig en teknologisk...

Awarded: NOK 0.14 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Ruin memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past

Gjennom sitt forskningsopphold på Stanford Archaeology Center ønsker søkeren å bearbeide og publisere resultat fra sitt internasjonale forskningsprosjekt "Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past". En viktig milepel he r er ferdigstillingen av en antologi som ...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Wh-movement within Echo Questions: a comparative analysis of English, Spanish and Russian- Mobile researcher: Ekaterina Chernova, Spain

It is well known that crosslinguisticaly echo questions (EQs) -which are pronounced in immediate response to a surprising or partially heard utterance (U)- present considerable challenges to standard theories of syntax of non-EQs since they appear to coun ter-exemplify general claims about questi...

Awarded: NOK 67,500

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Transitivity Alternations in English and Norwegian: Experimental Investigations

NORWEGIAN SENTENCE PROCESSING IN THE SPOTLIGHT It has been reported in the literature that people reading sentences correctly anticipate a `gap´ in the next set of words coming up when they hear a question word like who/hvem or what/hva at the beginning. This effect has been shown clearly for...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Norges litterære stormaktsperiode

The last part of the 19th Century saw a remarkable expansion of Norwegian and Scandinavian literature and from the 1890s the foremost contributions to this literature had even become world literature. The point of departure for this project is Henrik Ibsen and the main concern is to investigate t...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Experiences of place and movement among reindeer herders in Norway and Siberia Mobile researcher: Evelyn Landerer, UK

I study the cultural implications of changes in movement in relation to reindeer herding contrasting indigenous reindeer herding people in Norway (Sami) with those (Evenki) in a remote region in Eastern Siberia who primarily walk on foot. I follow the mov ement of both groups of indigenous people...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Socioeconomic significance of developmental projects in Northwest Russia: the INsiders' POINT of View

Background: This project was conceived in the context of an expected launching of large-scale extractive activities, focused on the Shtokman natural gas field. Dynamic: The shelving of Shtokman made us, among other effects, to turn to the transport infrastructural sector,including major reconstru...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Mobile Lifestyles: Perspectives on Work Mobilities and Gender in the High North

Mobile men and women comprise a considerable component of the work force. While much literature and debates exist on theories of migration, their relevance, merits and challenges, work mobilities of a more circular and temporal nature: long and short-distance commuting, seasonal migration, and wo...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORRUSS-Nordområdene og Russland

ARCtic Urban SUStainability in Russia

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

DEMOS-Demokratisk og effektiv styring, planlegging og forvaltning

De-collectivisation of Decision-Making and the Decline of a Local Mandate

This Project adreses two hyptheses in the field of municipal leadership practices: First, the idea that leadership is becoming increasingly person-focussed and "de-collectivized". Second, that the room for manouvre is shrinking as a result of increasing central government regulations, leaving the...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2018

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Protracted Reformation in Northern Norway

The Protracted Reformation in Northern Norway The overall objective of the project is to gain new insights into the progress and effects of the long-term processes of transition which were triggered off by the Reformation in northern Norway and the adjoining parts of northern Fennoscandia - in...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Thought-Provoking Female Characters in Ibesen's Plays, kinesisk spesialist 2012

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Awarded: NOK 7,000

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Kinesisk spesialist 2012: A study of the Implicit Poetics of Ibsen's Late Drama

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Awarded: NOK 7,700

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Samer, makt og demokrati ti år etterpå.

I 2003 ble antologien Samer, makt og demokrati utgitt. Arbeidet inngikk i et større prosjekt i regi av Makt- og demokratiutredningen. Utgangspunktet var opprettelsen av Sametinget som demokratisk organ, beslutningstager og talerør overfor norske myndighet er. Samer hadde også oppnådd formell stat...

Awarded: NOK 29,999

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SAMKUL-Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger

Multicultural Arctic Cities: Changing symbolism and new realities

The aim of the project is to establish a new research network to promote cross-disciplinary understanding of the Arctic, and in particular the role of arctic cities. The network will arrange workshops and seminars with the aim of elaborating new approache s and perspectives on the arctic, and as ...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUM-Fri prosjektstøtte humanistiske fag

Arrangement av The XIIIth International Ibsen Conference ved Universitetet i Tromsø 18.-23. juni 2012

Universitetet i Tromsø, Fakultet for Humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning, skal i samarbeid med Senter for Ibsen-studier, UiO, og The International Ibsen Committee, arrangere The XIIIth International Ibsen Conference i Tromsø 18.-23. juni 2012. Denne konferansen er den viktigste arenae...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksling Norge-Tyskland

Riddles of the atmosphere. Knowledge gaps between sky and earth

The project's aims are twofold: to extend the already existing research network on the aurora borealis at the University of Tromsø (established in 2008) and to prepare a proposal together with the University of Hanover on the history of the scientific and cultural appropriation of sky phenomena....

Awarded: NOK 44,992

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ISPHUM-ISP - Humaniora

Justice in Conflict

Justice in conflict is critically assessing some pressing contemporary conflicts concerning pluralism, democracy and justice from the perspective of political philosophy and normative theories of justice. The aim is to develop theoretical frameworks and c onceptual tools suited to address questio...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

DEMOS-Demokratisk og effektiv styring, planlegging og forvaltning

The challenges of building trust: Reputation and brand management in municipalities

The trend of reputation and brand management in Norwegian municipalities is extraordinary in an international context. Government-sponsored learning programs, consultancies, the media and researchers have given the trend significant attention. Inspired by comparable initiatives in the private sec...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Ruin memories: nettsted og utstilling

Ruin Memories-prosjektets nettsted - ruinmemeories.org - framstår i dag som et aktivt og godt besøkt nettsted. Gjennom denne prosjektsøknaden ønsker vi å videreutvikle ruinmemories.org gjennom tre satsinger: 1) utvikle stedet til en sentral kanal for form idling av egen og annen relatert forsknin...

Awarded: NOK 81,519

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

LATIN-AM-Latin-Amerika-programmet

Indigenous and Creole Subjects in Latin America. Homogenization, Negotiation and Subversion (16th.-18th. c.)

Latin American studies in Norway have a predominant focus on contemporary issues and circumvent the study of the periods when these conflictive societies were generated (the Colonial Period) and above the moments in which Latin-Americas countries adquiere d the status of Modern Nations (Independe...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

P-SAMISK-Program for samisk forskning

Landscape and Resource Management in interior Arctic Norway 2500 BC - AD 1000

LARM-prosjektet har som mål å frambringe ny kunnskap om dynamikk, variasjon, kontinuitet og endring i landskapsbruk og ressursforvaltning i det indre, nordlige Sápmi 2500 f.Kr. - 1000 e.Kr. De indre delene av Nord-Norge er et av de sentrale områdene for s amisk kulturutøvelse. Til tross for dett...

Awarded: NOK 33,206

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KULVER-Kulturell verdsetting

Border Aesthetics Dissemination 2011-2012

The research project Border Aesthetics (19458/V12), part of the KULVER Assigning Cultural Values research programme, aims to investigate how changing perceptions of borders relate to shifting practices of aesthetic evaluation through both theoretical refl ections and a sequence of interlocking ca...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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