PhD courses and seminars at HF

Working title: The Coast as argument: Rhetoric of time, place and affect in Norwegian salmon tax debate

This PhD-course in theory explores literature’s relation to society, focusing on three influential philosophers, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Jacques Rancière. It examines the ways in which literary works raise questions about subjectivity, experience, and freedom under various societal conditions, and considers how aesthetical and political questions intersect.

This PhD course is designed for those working in Ancient Philosophy. It offers students an opportunity to present their work in progress while critically examining and reflecting on the methodological approaches employed in their research.

This compulsory course for all PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities introduces foundational problems of knowledge-production in the humanities.