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Pål Csaszni Halvorsen

Pål Csaszni Halvorsen

Job title
  • Associate Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 48, 0167 Oslo
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 38 289
E-mail
  • pal.c.halvorsen@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Pål Csaszni Halvorsen has a PhD in sociology, and currently works on a project about cultural life in Norway during the German occupation (1940-1945) and treatment of writers in the purge after the occupation.

Halvorsen is responsible for two courses that are taught in English at OsloMet; BIBV3040 - Digital media and culture, og MBIB4890 - Digital cultural heritage. He also holds lectures on media and sociology of literature in other courses. Halvorsen supervises BA- and MA-students.

Halvorsen has been visiting researcher at the Center for Cultural Sociology ved Yale university (2017-2018) and at Eötvös Lorand University (ELTE) in Budapest (2024). His research has been published in Poetics, Gender and Education, Journal of Youth Studies og Nordic Journal of Cultural Policy.

He has served as the president for the Norwegian Sociological Association (2024-2026), and chairman for the Norwegian Journal of Sociology (2024-2026).

Research methods: Mostly qualitative methods, text analysis, participant observation, interviews and focus group interviews.

Field of study

Sociology of culture   Sociology of literature   Social theory   Class analysis

Research groups

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni (2026). Litterært landssvik. Forfatterne som ble etterforsket i landssvikoppgjøret. ISBN: 9788245053166. 334 p. Fagbokforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.55669/oa7912

Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni (2026). The House Before the Dark Set in. Norwegian Writers’ Constructions of Reality in Five Novels, 1930–1940. 21 p. De Gruyter Brill.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111703886-009

Hjellbrekke, Johannes; Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni ; Jakobsen, Kjetil Ansgar; Arneberg, Sofie (2025). Literary practices, capital structures and political position-taking: The Norwegian writers during World War II. Poetics. Vol. 109.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2025.101981

Jakobsen, Kjetil Ansgar; Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni (2024). Special issue: ‘Authoritarianism and culture’. Acta Sociologica. Vol. 67.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993241232810

Halvorsen, Pål (2024). Egalitarian Consecration. The making of egalitarian Norway and historical elite institutions. ISBN: 9788245049459. 149 p. Fagbokforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.55669/oa3702

Halvorsen, Pål ; Ljunggren, Jørn (2020). A new generation of business masculinity? Privileged high school boys in a gender egalitarian context. Gender and Education. Vol. 33.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2020.1792845

Halvorsen, Pål (2020). A sense of unease: elite high school students negotiating historical privilege. Journal of Youth Studies. Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2020.1844169

Halvorsen, Anne; Halvorsen, Pål (2019). Managerial responses to expectations about innovation in municipal welfare services. Støkken, Anne Marie (Ed.). Tjenesteutvikling ved ulike former for samarbeid. p. 45-60. Fagbokforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4981589

Halvorsen, Pål (2019). Egalitarian Criticism. How Norwegian Literary Critics Conceive and Communicate Quality. Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidsskrift (NKT). Vol. 22.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2660439



These publications are obtained from Norwegian Research Information Repository. The list may be incomplete.

Dissemination

Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni (2026). Are there elite schools in Norway? A sociological account. Are there elite schools in Norway? A sociological account. HVL.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5505968

Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni (2026). Sosiopodden - Livet som sosiolog - Pål Csaszni Halvorsen.
https://doi.org/https://open.spotify.com/episode/6

Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni (2026). "Rettsoppgjøret er et misfoster som ikke kan avlives". Om Landssvikoppgjøret og kvinnelige forfattere. Ord og vold: Forfattere mellom demokrati og diktatur 1933-1952. Ord og vold.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5366807

Arneberg, Sofie; Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni ; Johnsen, Lars Gunnarsønn Bagøien (2025). En sosiopolitisk maskinlesning av norsk mellomkrigslitteratur, 1920-1945. DHKO 2025 : Infrastruktur og grensesnitt. Universitetet i Innlandet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5277734

Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni (2025). Contemporary Hungarian Society. Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism. Nordisk Østforum.
https://doi.org/https://tidsskriftet-nof.no/index.

Berg, Ida Uppstrøm ; Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni ; Larsen, Håkon (2025). Kunstsilo & Tangensamlingen – betydningen av filantropi for et offentlig kunstmuseum. 12th Nordic Conference on Cultural Policy Research. OsloMet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3559503

Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni (2025). The Norwegian NS–writers. Legal purges and moral reckoning in the field of literature. Words and Violence . Words and Violence.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3432111

Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni (2025). Åsmund Sveen. Norsk oversetterleksikon.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3909038

Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni (2025). The Duty of Writers during War. How Writers were Prosecuted in the Purges after World War II in Norway. Nordisk litteratursociologi (NOLS) 2025 – Litteratursamhällets förvandlingar. University of Helsinki.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5034710

Halvorsen, Pål Csaszni (2025). Ejlert Bjerke. Norsk oversetterleksikon.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4083160



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