Previous events

During the inaugural seminars, PhD candidates at IMK present and get feedback on their project description.

Working title: Teens on TikTok: Exploring the mediatised social worlds of teenagers

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Religious Studies Deva Nandan Harikrishna. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Associate Professor Deonnie Moodie from the Department of Religious Studies, University of Oklahoma

This four-week course is open to doctoral fellows from HF and SV but HF fellows will be prioritised. The language of instruction is English.

Welcome seminar for new PhD candidates and their supervisors at the Faculty of Humanities.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in China studies Minh Khai Mai-Thi. To comment on the candidate's work, we have invited Associate Professor TJ Hinrichs from Department of History at Cornell University.

What does the digital shift mean for historians? This workshop explores some of the key methodological questions historians encounter when we start using digital tools to answer historical questions. It will also provide training in using digital source materials.

A PhD course on methods for reasoning focused on argumentative and logical analysis

This PhD course grabs the bull by the horns and challenges participants to seriously engage with theory (ideas/principles to explain a practice or account for a situation) and method (planned procedure to pursue knowledge), and highlights the connections between them. We also discuss ethical problems in historical research. This is a 5 ECTS course.

The seminar invites PhD fellows to reflect on the emic-etic relationship in their own text

Working title: Women leaders and gender performativity: Perceived credibility in times of crisis, scandal, or when put up for debate

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural Studies Ingrid Kvalvik Sørensen. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Assistant Professor Anne Brædder from the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University 

This methods course is aimed at doctoral researchers at the Faculty of Humanities, providing them with an introduction to statistical thinking as it can be applied in the humanities, and with pointers to further, more advanced-level statistical methods.

Text development seminar in literature organized by Professor Tina Skouen at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme. (Course full)

Text development seminar in area studies organised by Professor Atle L. Wold at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme.

During the inaugural seminars, PhD candidates at IMK present and get feedback on their project description.

During the inaugural seminars, PhD candidates at IMK present and get feedback on their project description.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History studies Zsolt Györegy. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Lisa Voigt from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Environmental studies Nhung Lu Rots. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Researcher Arve Hansen at Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo

Working title: How YouTube plays a part in youths search for group membership and identity

Text development seminar in area studies organized by Professor Ljiljana Saric at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme. 

Get a fundamental understanding of how to use Python programming and an introduction to simpler tools such as Voyant and DH-Lab apps to text mine corpora. 

Are we post-truth? If so, what does it mean, and how did it happen? What is the complicity of the humanities in bringing us to this point? What are our epistemic responsibilities now?

Advanced course in methods: This is part two of a two part course on texts in historical contexts. Each course can be taken independently, but it is strongly recommended to take both.