PhD Week Fall 2024

The PhD week program offers introductory and advanced courses in theories of knowledge, research ethics and methods, as well as writer's hours and skills-oriented courses and workshops - and social events.

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Welcome to the Faculty of Humanities' PhD Week! The academic program includes the compulsory introductory courses in theories of knowledge and research ethics, and various advanced courses in theories of knowledge, research ethics, and methods. There are also workshops and courses in various researcher skills, writer's hours, and social events.

Registration

The program is designed for PhD candidates and postdocs at HF. Many courses and events are relevant for candidates and PhDs from other institutions, and all courses and activities are open to everyone, but HF's candidates are given priority.

Please do not register for more activities than you have time to prepare for. The PhD Week is organized every semester to ensure that you have several opportunities to participate and enable you to spread out your course work throughout your project period.

Registration for courses opens early in the second month of every semester. HF-candidates will be notified via e-mail when registration opens, see individual courses for registration form.

Program 

All courses, workshops, and writer's hours sessions take place in Sophus Bugges hus. Academic courses run from 9-16. Researcher skills training are normally two or three hour long workshops. 

There will be coffee each morning in Café Niels and lunch every day at Eilert Spiseri from 12-13. We will also invite you to an evening social activity on Thursday, so save room in your diaries! A registration form will be distributed to registered participants closer to the PhD week.

Most of the courses are 1 ECTS credit courses. Credits are not given for writer's hours and only for a few of the skills- and tools oriented courses/workshops.

If you have questions about a particular course, please e-mail the contact person(s) indicated in the course description.

Monday 2 

Introduction to the Theories of Knowledge in the Humanities* (FULLY BOOKED)

Theories of knowledge: Feminism in the Humanities (FULLY BOOKED)

CV-writing for early-career researchers, 9-12

Manage your references smarter and faster (Zotero beginner), 13-16

Tuesday 3 

Media dissemination of research, day 1 (FULLY BOOKED)

Philosophy of science for PhD candidates in linguistics (CANCELLED)

Methods: Text mining with python code and web applications

Theories of knowledge: Doing social sciences as a humanities scholar

Wednesday 4          

Introduction to Research Ethics** (FULLY BOOKED)

Methods: Structure and Analysis in Philosophical Dissertations 

Methods: Discourse analysis (FULLY BOOKED)

Researcher skills: Writing the “kappe” for article-based PhD-dissertations in the humanities, 9-12

Researcher skills: Parties you shouldn't miss: Playing a role at academic conferences, 13-15

Thursday 5 

Ethics in fieldwork

Major debates in literary and cultural theory

Writer’s hours, 9-12

Researcher skills: Avoiding misunderstandings and grudges: Planning co-authorship cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary, 13-15

Literary scholar Emma Helene Heggdal gives the first Gold Medal Lecture at the Faculty of Humanities, 15:30-16:00

Dinner 

Friday 6 

Media dissemination of research, day 2

Inherently unethical? On the requirement of pursuing truth and understanding in an ethically sound way (FULLY BOOKED)

Theories of knowledge: Real and Imagined Spaces: Global, area, state and local (FULLY BOOKED)

Get ahead with your research assistant tool (Zotero), 9-12

* Introduction to Theories of Knowledge will also be offered on 18 November 2024.

** Introduction to Research Ethics will also be offered on  20 November 2024.

Published Mar. 5, 2024 10:28 AM - Last modified Aug. 11, 2026 2:53 AM