Revisit #BeEx2025

Scholars, activists, legal professionals, and artists from around the world joined the 2025 Bergen Exchanges, a five-day international conference exploring the intersections of law, power, and resistance. Hosted across Bergen’s vibrant cultural venues, the Exchanges feature cutting-edge debates, keynotes, roundtables, exhibitions and social gatherings. See the full program for the 2025 Bergen Exchanges:🗓️ Check out […]

Recent publications

Art as Protest, Art as Refuge; What February 28th Left Behind 

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  

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

  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.

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)

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”

"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”  

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

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

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

The videos from the Bergen Exchanges 2025 are now available on YouTube. Check out the BeEx2025 playlist!