Recent publications
Art as Protest, Art as Refuge; What February 28th Left Behind
September 17, 2026
Mona Tahani is a visual artist based in Bergen who works in textile, printmaking, painting and wood carving, and also works separately as a cultural …
The Importance of Language and Oppressed Identities
September 17, 2026
Shwan Dler Qaradaki was born in 1977 in Suleimania, in Iraqi Kurdistan – the Iraqi part of the larger historical and cultural region of Kurdistan …
Art of Repression, Resistance, Memory & Reconciliation
September 17, 2026
On Thursday, August 20th, a group of researchers, scholars, and students gathered at Kunsthall 3, 14 to learn about and discuss art as a form …
“And so nowadays, the average face of the anti-gender, anti-rights movement could look like you guys”: Neil Datta and the anti-gender movement in Europe.
September 16, 2026
Neil Datta, the Executive Director and founder of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF), has worked in coordination with members of …
The Legal Mobilization of the Right Against Rights (Special issue of the Law & Society Review)
September 11, 2026
A special issue on The Legal Mobilization of the Right Against Rights, edited by Simón Escoffier, Leigh A. Payne and Gabriel Pereia, was published in …
Recent news
Book Review of “Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights”
May 15, 2026
"At a time when European welfare states deal with competing demands of state sovereignty, family autonomy and universal children's rights, the book offers an incisive …
Applications open for #BeEx2026 PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change”
January 7, 2026
Join the LawTransform/UiB Department of Goverment PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change” which is an integrated part of the …
The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. 80 years on
November 20, 2025
Blogpost by Dorothee Alberts When on 20 November 1945 the opening session of the International Military Tribunal (IMT)[1] was being held in Nuremberg by the four …
#BeEx2025 activist interviews and more
October 21, 2025
The CMI recap of the 2025 Bergen Exchanges, featuring interviews with some of our dear scholars: Satang Nabaneh, Ayo Sogunro, Reem Abbas, and Adrian Jjuuko and …
Check out the #BeEx2025 videos
October 3, 2025
The videos from the Bergen Exchanges 2025 are now available on YouTube. Check out the BeEx2025 playlist!