Role-playing spices up studies at UiT (video)

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Role-playing spices up studies at UiT

Students from UiT delegated in mock United Nations debate. Tens of students take on the role of UN delegates in a faux UN Security Council meeting in order to experience on their own how the UN debates work. More than 20 countries have been represented by the students at the fake Security Council meeting that was held from the 6th [...]

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Utropia 08, Vår 2013

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Å skape et nært forhold

Det viktigste for å skape en etnografisk film er et nært forhold til menneskene du filmer med, mener Maria Isabelle Mikalsen, en student ved Visuelle Kulturstudier. Utropia snakket med Maria Isabelle Mikalsen – en student ved Visuelle Kulturstudier om sin eksamensfilm, What’s life without problems? I intervjuet kan man få vite om hva som inspirerte Maria til å lage filmen, [...]

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Diskriminerende fokus

Mediedekningen er dominert av nyheter om vennlige stater, de statene vi føler er mest lik oss selv, i dette tilfelle USA, mener Professor Toril Swan.     15. april 2013 var det flere bombeangrep i flere områder av Irak. Det var tjue enkeltangrep i Baghdad, Kirkuk, Hilla, Falluja, Nasiriya og Tikrit. Ifølge New York Times ble minst 37 mennesker drept [...]

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Students got Talent

Here comes a short photostory from last week. Have a look at a selection of those who wowed the audience at Bazinga!       The talent contest started with two Spanish students (David Isla and Ismael Muela Arek) who sang a song by Bongo Botrako. They also kept us entertained with music during the voting at the end. That [...]

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Utropia 07, Vår 2013

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Kunsten å engasjere seg!

Jeg hører ofte at kunst er fjernet fra realiteten. Det kan ikke være sant, siden det finnes flere og flere forestillinger og utstillinger med samfunnsengasjement. Selv i mai kan Tromsøpublikum ta del i teaterforestillinger som omhandler tukling med naturen, kildesortering samt utstillinger om miljø i Arktis og om kvinnenes situasjon i Afghanistan. Kunst har et stort potensiale til å påvirke [...]

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Sleep Tall

Three words to describe this LP: Hasty, Old-School and Straightforward. Haraball’s style hasn’t evolved much if you compare it to their 7’inches. It’s still the same hum: hasty straightforward, old-school Hardcore. It’s urban, cynical and bleak. The production is quite enveloping and warm, which goes surprisingly well with the rather noisy guitars. There aren’t many melodic hooks in here (besides [...]

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Frowns vs. Downs

Let us lose no time! “I Want your Downs” starts the whole thing off, with a breath-taking thrasher: a super straightforward song that, after a well-deserved break, gets even catchier; a song perfectly representative of Haraball’s sound indeed. “Terrible Two” comes in place number two and does some serious damage with its minute-and-a-half of incessant thrashing. “Random” is already one [...]