The Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger invites you to explore and challenge ideas across disciplines about the future of the region. Read more about the festival's contributors here.
Lilla Magyari (UiS)
Magyari is an associate professor in psychology. Since 2020, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at UiS' reading center.
Lilla Magyari is an associate professor of psychology at the Department of Social Sciences, and has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Reading Center at UiS since 2020. There she has worked with her MSCA-Project What do we learn from dialogues in fiction? (FictDial). This project looks at the role of dialogue in literary fiction in relation to the reading experience and whether we acquire social knowledge through reading literary dialogues.
Magyari's research examines empirical literature, reading, neurocognitive mechanisms in turn-taking conversation, as well as comparative studies of language comprehension.
Olga Lehmann (UiS)
Olga Lehmann is an associate professor of psychology and holds a PhD in cultural psychology and a postdoc in mental health work from NTNU in Norway.
Lehmann has studied clinical psychology in Colombia and Italy and is authorized to work as a psychologist in Norway. In addition, she holds a PhD in Cultural Psychology and a postdoctoral degree in Mental Health Work from NTNU in Norway. Lehman is also a certified instructor in Mindful Eating - Conscious Living (ME-CL) at the University of California San Diego, and has completed levels 1 and 2 of skills training for couples therapists at The Gottman Institute.
In addition to working as a psychologist, she gives lectures, retreats and workshops both in Norway and abroad, writes textbooks, articles and poetry, and is involved in innovation and leadership development. As a teacher, researcher and psychotherapist, she has been concerned with promoting mental health in various contexts, and has focused on promoting empathy, compassion, self-esteem, human connection and the meaning of life.
Her areas of expertise are: qualitative methods, humanistic-existential psychology, emotions, silence, grief, therapeutic writing, art and psychology.
Jan Erik Karlsen (UiS)
Jan Erik Karlsen er professor emeritus med lang erfaring innen blant annet økonomisk sosiologi, industriell økonomi og areidsmiljø.
Professor emeritus Dr. Oecon Jan Erik Karlsen has served several terms as Vice President of the Norwegian Chapter of International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA), board member of the ILERA International Executive Committee, President of the Stavanger Academy of Sciences and member of other academic and professional organizations and networks, including the World Futures Studies Federation. Professor Emeritus Karlsen has been project manager for major technology assessment projects for the European Commission and the Research Council of Norway and has been an advisor to the Norwegian government on both energy policy and foresight.
He is an expert in technology assessment methodologies as well as in system change and strategy studies focused on the broad energy sector, and has served as Norwegian delegate to the COST network on "Foresight Methodologies" 2003-2007 and was engaged as an expert on foresight studies on the large-scale EU program on "Addiction and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe" (2011-2016).
His current research interests include:
- Working life ideals and anomalies
- Foresight studies
- The addictive society
- Health, environment and safety
- Perceptions of post-normality
Cornel Maria Nesseler (UiS)
Cornel Maria Nesseler is an associate professor of economics.
Nesseler is a researcher at the University of Stavanger in Norway. Before coming to Stavanger, he worked at NTNU in Trondheim, the University of Zurich and the University of Amsterdam. Nesseler enjoyed visiting fellow researchers in St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Ciudad Real and Berkeley.
He focuses on field experiments and likes to use sport as a laboratory.
He has conducted research on e-sports, discrimination against Jews in Italy, and gender discrimination in football.
Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez (UZH)
Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez er postdoktor i Service and Operations Management ved Universitetet i Zürich
Gonzalez is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Business Administration at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). He holds a Ph.D. in Business and Economics from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain).
His main research areas are sport economics and management. He uses sport as a laboratory and relies on quantitative/experimental methods to analyze behavior and inform research and policy.
Much of it relates to participation and inequality. His latest projects rely on experimental methods to investigate ethnic discrimination, test the effectiveness of policies by governing bodies and identify gender bias. The aim is to provide organizations with evidence to make informed decisions.
Hulda Mjöll Gunnarsdóttir (UiS)
Hulda Mjöll Gunnarsdóttir is an associate professor at the Department of Social Studies.
Hulda Mjöll Gunnarsdóttir is an associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Stavanger. She has a PhD in change management and researches emotional work in leadership and professional practice. She conducts research in the fields of leadership, child welfare and crisis management. Gunnarsdóttir has previously worked as a manager in the municipal sector and as a child welfare educator with vulnerable children and young people.
Kai Victor Myrnes-Hansen (UiS)
Kai Victor Myrnes-Hansen is a professor of restaurant and meal management at the Norwegian School of Hotel Management.
Kai Victor Myrnes-Hansen is a professor of restaurant and meal management at the Norwegian School of Hotel Management.
The theme of his session is how to use meals as a tool to prevent loneliness.
Siddharth Sareen (UiS)
Siddharth Sareen is Professor of Energy and Environment at the Department of Media and Social Sciences.
Siddharth Sareen is Professor of Energy and Environment at the Department of Media and Social Sciences, and Professor II at the Center for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen. He leads the Sustainability Transformation program area at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Stavanger, with a research project portfolio of over €10 million with partner institutions in Norway and abroad.
His research focuses on the management of energy transitions at multiple scales. He has worked as an environmental social scientist on a number of projects in seven countries since 2011. He teaches on the Master's program in Energy, Environment and Society.
His interdisciplinary background spans human geography, political ecology and development studies. Competitive research funders include the European Commission via Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020, the Research Council of Norway, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Innovation Norway, JPI Climate, Nordplus, UH-net West, the Peder Sather Center at UC-Berkeley, and institutional core funding.
Trude Furunes (UiS)
Trude Furunes is a professor of management and head of the Norwegian School of Hotel Management.
Trude Furunes is Head of Department at the Norwegian Hotel School (NHS) and Professor of Management. She is also editor of the international journalScandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism (SJHT), published by Taylor & Francis.
Lene Myong (UiS)
Lene Myong is a professor of gender studies and head of the Center for Gender Studies.
Lene Myong is a professor of gender studies and head of the Center for Gender Studies.
Her research projects include:
- 2017-2022: Loving Attachment: Regulating Danish Love Migration (LOVA) funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF).
- 2015-2019: A Study of Experiences and Resistance to Racialization in Denmark (SERR) funded by the VELUX-foundation in Denmark.
- 2011-2015: (Trans)Formations of Kinship: Travelling in Search of Relatedness (KinTra) funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF).
Bron Taylor (UF)
Bron Taylor is Professor of Religion, Nature and Environmental Ethics at the University of Florida.
Bron Taylor is Professor of Religion, Nature and Environmental Ethics at the University of Florida, and a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in Social Ethics from the School of Religion at the University of Southern California. His research involves both ethnographic and historical methods, and much of it focuses on grassroots environmental movements, their emotional, spiritual and moral dimensions, and their environmental, cultural and political consequences. He has been involved in a number of international initiatives promoting the conservation of biological and cultural diversity. His books include Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (2010), the award-winning Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (2005), Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy (2013) and Ecological Resistance Movements: Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism (1995), and Avatar and Nature Spirituality (2013). He is also the founding and current editor of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, and in 2017 received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.
SOUND - a scenic band project based in Stavanger
The band SOUND will perform with elements of free improvisation, spoken-word, fat bass grooves and catchy melodies.
SOUND is a scenic band project based in Stavanger. The band has an exciting line-up consisting of two vocalists, double bass, saxophone and dance. Here, dance and music are equal in both sound and visuals - as one unit. This creates a space where the performers can explore and play with the division of roles and interaction in the band.
Conveying emotions is central to the project. Through text, music and dance, they want to capture the nuances of the emotional life of an ordinary person, and with that comes vulnerability, anger and "sass". Inspired by musicians such as Beyoncé, Esperanza Spalding and John Coltrane, the music is a cross between jazz and pop, with elements of free improvisation, spoken word, spoken word
improvisation, spoken-word, fat bass grooves and catchy melodies. Check out their performance from Bjærgstedfestivalen at Loftet at TOU, November 2023 here!