2019
Tidligere
The thesis seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme. Organized by Professor Tina Skouen, ILOS.
Thesis seminar in area studies organized by Professor Ljiljana Saric at ILOS. The thesis seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme.
Workshop on academic English.
Guidelines - monograph or article-based thesis
Please sign up here by the end of 11 September
For those who sign up to present, the deadline for submitting texts is on the same date. Please send your texts to Tina Skouen, who will circulate them among the participants: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no
Note: We have a maximum of 4 Presenters for each seminar. Before you sign up, please check the current status and/or who has signed up for what. Usually, we need more people to register as Commentators - please volunteer!
This international seminar will explore how monstrosity is constructed in contemporary texts, practices, and discourses, particularly in relation to human and animal otherness.
As part of a day of outreach lessons for students at Oslo Katedralskole on exciting approaches to historical texts, UiO staff and students too are invited to go back to school and have a tour and discussion in the Oslo Katedralskole old school library. It is a chance to see the oldest library in Norway (with collections spanning nine centuries), and one of its most important historical book collections. Not to mention their Viking swords, magic spell book and skeleton.
This half-day seminar will address the political role that propaganda, television and drama played during critical moments in the history of the twentieth century in Spain - before, during and after Franco. The seminar is open to the public, and is organized in connection with Cristina Gómez Baggethun's midway assessment.
Academic writing in English with Gjertrud Stenbrenden (ILOS). For PhD fellows at the Faculty of Humanities. Four seminars (20 February, 20 March, 10 April, 13 June) - different topic each time! No need to sign up in advance.
For more information, contact: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no or gjertrud.stenbrenden@ilos.uio.no
NB! New date: 13 June: How to join a community of practitioners
- how to write e-mails to professionals
- how to approach secondary supervisors
- how to apply for research stays
- how to apply for (extra) funding
- how to disseminate your findings
Guidelines - monograph or article-based thesis
Please sign up here by the end of 29 May
For those who sign up to present, the deadline for submitting texts is on the same date. Please send your texts to Tina Skouen, who will circulate them among the participants: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no
Note: We have a maximum of 4 Presenters for each seminar. Before you sign up, please check the current status and/or who has signed up for what. Usually, we need more people to register as Commentators - please volunteer!
Guidelines - monograph or article-based thesis
Please sign up here by the end of 14 May 2019
For those who sign up to present, the deadline for submitting texts is also 14 May. Please send your texts to Ljiljana Saric, who will circulate them among the participants.
Note: We have a maximum of 4 Presenters for each seminar. Before you sign up, please check the current status and/or who has signed up for what. Usually, we need more people to register as Commentators – please volunteer!
One day workshop for PhD candidates and senior researchers on contextualist narratology, covering Queer/Feminist narrative theory, historicist narratology, and other identity- and context-based approaches.
3 ECTS for PhD candidates
Susan S. Lanser (Brandeis University) and Robyn Warhol (Ohio State University).
Deadline for abstracts (max. 300 words): 15 February 2019
Please submit your abstract to Tina Skouen.
Organizer: Tina Skouen in collaboration with Stockholm University
Guidelines - monograph or article-based thesis
Please sign up here by the end of 3 April
For those who sign up to present, the deadline for submitting texts is on the same date. Please send your texts to Tina Skouen, who will circulate them among the participants: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no
Note: We will schedule another seminar by demand. For each seminar, we have a maximum of 4 Presenters.
Academic writing in English with Gjertrud Stenbrenden (ILOS). For PhD fellows at the Faculty of Humanities. Four seminars (20 February, 20 March, 10 April, 15 May) - different topic each time! No need to sign up in advance. For more information, contact: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no or gjertrud.stenbrenden@ilos.uio.no
10 Apr: Ways of arguing
- how to write an engaging introduction
- how to present arguments for/against sth.
- how to present data clearly
A PhD seminar examining the rhythms of border-crossings in cultural and literary forms at the University of Oslo, 4-5 April 2019, with guests Kathryn M. Lachman and Wolfgang Müller-Funk.
With Bruce Barnhart, Assoc. Professor, ILOS, and Johan Schimanski, Professor, ILOS
Academic writing in English with Gjertrud Stenbrenden (ILOS). For PhD fellows at the Faculty of Humanities. Four seminars (20 February, 20 March, 10 April, 15 May) - different topic each time! No need to sign up in advance. For more information, contact: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no or gjertrud.stenbrenden@ilos.uio.no
20 March: Recognising other voices
- how to present secondary literature
- how to paraphrase, quote, refer to
- styles of referencing
- punctuation
Guidelines - monograph or article-based thesis
Please sign up here by the end of 4 March 2019
For those who sign up to present, the deadline for submitting texts is also 4 March. Please send your texts to Ljiljana Saric, who will circulate them among the participants.
Note: We have a maximum of 4 Presenters for each seminar. Before you sign up, please check the current status and/or who has signed up for what. Usually, we need more people to register as Commentators – please volunteer!
Guidelines - monograph or article-based thesis
Please sign up here by the end of 20 February
For those who sign up to present, the deadline for submitting texts is on the same date. Please send your texts to Tina Skouen, who will circulate them among the participants: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no
Note: We have a maximum of 4 Presenters for each seminar. Before you sign up, please check the current status and/or who has signed up for what. Usually, we need more people to register as Commentators - please volunteer!
Academic writing in English with Gjertrud Stenbrenden (ILOS). For PhD fellows at ILOS, ILN and Ibsen. Four seminars (20 Febr, 20 March, 10 Apr, 15 May) - different topic each time! No need to sign up in advance. For more information, contact: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no or gjertrud.stenbrenden@ilos.uio.no
20 Febr:
- introduction: general characteristics
- style level/register
- building vocabulary
- solving tasks together
One day workshop on abstract writing and journal publication with Josie Dixon. Submit your draft by 7 January 2019 to get feedback or bring some text along to the workshop. All participants will be asked to send a short paragraph outlining their research. Please send your materials by e-mail to Tina Skouen.
Organizer: Tina Skouen
How can qualitative interviewing enrich the study of social and political processes in area studies? Does the interview constitute a “personal sphere” — a realm of inter-subjective exchanges of perceptions, or is it a source that provides more than just situational information? How should information obtained through interviewing be organized and presented in a dissertation, and what is the analytical value of a “text-bite” in a larger body of text?
With Geir Flikke, Associate Professor, ILOS
Please sign up by Friday the 14th December