Hubro
Hubro is the University of Bergen's own magazine, with external readers as its most important target group.
The magazine contains articles on research and also information about university events and occasions. 9000 copies are printed 4 times a year.
Subscription is free of charge.
In this magazine we want to show the research process, and also give scientists/researchers the opportunity to discuss different topics. The general public, teachers, the press, politicians, trade and industry, are all important target groups for Hubro.
The magazine is in norwegian, and you can visit the homepage at: hubro.uib.no
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High speed evolution along the Norwegian coast
Evolution in the ocean is going on before our very eyes, and overfishing must take its share of the blame for the reversal of thousands of years of development.
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60 years without a country
Since 1950, UNRWA has served as a state within a state for Palestine refugees. The refugees continue to assert their right to return, no matter how hopeless this may seem.
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Condemned to eternal torment
If your skin is worn away in hell, you get a new one so that you can be tormented even more. There is no time out in the Islamic hell. The idea of hell is found in many religions and it is used, among other things, as a weapon by the clergy.
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The feminist movement in Islam
It is in the Middle East that today’s fight for women’s rights is being waged. With Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex in one hand and the Koran in the other, feminists are fighting against polygamy and for women’s rights
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Tomboys who became feminists
They started off climbing trees and went on to tear down the gender barriers. Many of the feminists of the 1970s grew up as ‘tomboys’.
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Armenian stories of exodus
Armenians were driven from their homes in 1915 and spread all over the world. Memories of the genocide are kept alive by the women through cooking and handicrafts.
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Religious minorities finding their own identity
‘Whiteness’ symbolises secularity. ‘Non-whiteness’ symbolises religiosity, often Islam.
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America’s united principles
In the USA there are some basic principles on which all the country's immigrant groups can agree. Immigration is far from straightforward, however.
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Letting the slave narrative go
A new literary genre has emerged since the 1960s; the new slave narratives. Unlike the old slave narratives, they are written by black writers.
