Global Moments are breakthrough events that change peoples lives and futures. They are developments that call for significant adaptations leading to new forms of cooperation or conflict. In this project, Historians, Anthropologist, and Archeologists from Norway, Palestine and the USA will pursue research projects centred around a common objective of exploring selected Global Moments in the history of the Levant, and the way in which peoples identities and traditions have been affected by inter-cultural encounters.

The researchers at this project, lead by Leif Manger, had their second annual workshops in Bergen and at Voss, March 26th - 29th 2007.  These pictures are from that workshop, showing some of the GML participants. 

Professor Gunnar and Randi Håland receive prestigious research award from the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture. The award is distributed as a reward for brilliant research within the comparative research in human culture for a periode of five years. Professor Gunnar and Randi Håland receives this award for the periode 2006 - 2010.

The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, founded in 1922, is an independent research institution sponsoring research in the areas of comparative linguistics, folklore, religion, ethnology, archaeology and ethnography.

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