Research Group for East Slavic Languages, Societies and Cultures
The research group for East Slavic Languages, Societies and Cultures is a cross-faculty research group with a core group affiliated with the Department of Foreign Languages, UiB. The group builds on research milieus, competences and networks that were developed through two NRF-financed FRIPRO projects 2005–2008 and 2009–2013 led by Ingunn Lunde. The group has members from the Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at UiB, as well as national and international networks.
About the research group
The group serves as an active platform and community for research, PhD education, project development, collaboration, and dissemination in fields related to the multilingual and multicultural East Slavic region and adjacent areas of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Since 2022, several members of the group have focused primarily on Ukraine, with particular emphasis on Ukraine’s language, history, and literature, including projects on language policy, literature in wartime, a cultural history of Ukrainian, among other topics.
The group has regular working seminars with discussions of paper, article or proposal drafts, journal club meetings, organizes guest lectures, workshops and public events, and engages in research dissemination for various audiences.
People
Group manager
Ingunn Lunde Professor, Departmen of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen
Johanne Kalsaas PhD Candidate, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen
Group members
Kåre Johan Mjør Senior Research Librarian, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Irinia Anisimova Lecturer, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen
Martin Paulsen Head of Department, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen
Kyle Lohse Marquardt Professor, Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen
Elina Troscenko Adviser, Research and Doctoral Education, Faculty of Social Sciences/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
Dinara Yangeldina Guest Researcher, Centre for Women's and Gender Research, University of Bergen
Irina Tiurikova Guest researcher
Susanne Bygnes Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen
Stephen Richard Amico Associate Professor, The Grieg Academy – Department of Music, University of Bergen