Cultural Encounters

Objectives

Cultural Encounters is an interdisciplinary research group where the members have various backgrounds including religious studies, history and anthropology. The research group work with issues related to encounters between people with different cultural and religious backgrounds. How have such encounters unfolded within different contexts in history? How do they take place in different contexts today? In addition, the research group addresses general issues related to the humanities, the place and role of history and religion in society.

The academic goal of the group is both to stimulate the individual researcher through discussion of manuscripts, and to initiate joint projects around cultural encounters. The research group is organizing a manuscript seminar, where both new and experienced researchers can present drafts and ongoing work during the writing process. In addition, we organize workshops and seminars. The members' article manuscripts, proceedings from workshops, seminars and conferences have been and are continuously published in journals, anthologies and books.

Many of the members contribute to the master's program «Cultural encounters», - a collaboration between the Department of History and the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Volda University College. Master's students and Ph.D. students are included in the research group's activities. The research group also invites international and national guest researchers to give presentations and lectures.
 

Activites

Manuscript seminars
4-5 meetings each semester
 

Workshops/seminars

Workshop: Refugees, Diasporas and Humanitarian Actors in the Eastern Mediterranean Regions, 1860-202029.-30. August. 2019

Seminar «Secularization, transnational revivals and local interaction, approx. 1850-2000 ». University of Bergen, November 21-22, 2019.

Photomethodical workshop, Fosnavåg 9-10 sept. 2021. Invited guests: Espen Ytreberg professor UiO, Sigrid Lien, professor of art history, UiB, Silje Dragsund Aase, PhD candidate, ViD, Stavanger
 

Anthologies  

«Space and place», Cappelen Damm academic, Kyrkjefag profile 2020 (eds. Knut-Willy Sæther and Anders Aschim)

Anthology from the seminar «Secularization, transnational revivals and local interaction, approx. 1850-2000 ». University of Bergen, 21 - 22 November, 2019. Published by Universitetsforlaget 2021 (eds. Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karina Skeie)

Members

Anders Aschim, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Atle Døssland, Volda University College (VUC)
Eirik Holmen, VUC
Jose Alejandro Huidobro-Goya
Chalak Kaveh, VUC
Arnfinn Kjelland, VUC
Harald Johannes Krøvel, VUC
Jonas Gamborg Lillebø, VUC (leader)
Åsmund Svendsen, VUC (leader)
Arnljot Løseth, VUC
Birger Løvlie, VUC
Ralph Meier, VUC
Inger Marie Okkenhaug, VUC
Sefik Peksevgen, VUC
Jostein Garcia de Presno, VUC
Madeleine Zetterlund Stenhammer, VUC
Knut-Willy Sæther, VUC
Harald Endre Tafjord, VUC
Elisabeth Teige, VUC 
Ola Teige, VUC
Margit Ystanes, VUC 
Øyvind Økland, VUC