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 researcher skills, 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.
All the mandatory, introductory courses will run, and building from these courses, the rest of the program is designed to allow ph.d.-candidates the freedom to choose between a varierty of topical courses in theories of knowledge and research ethics and design their own 3-5 ECTS course week (or less). We also offer some options in methods and researcher skills. The latter are normally non-credit activities.
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 25 February 2026, 12 PM, see individual courses for registration form.
Programme
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 half-day workshops.
Most of the courses are 1 or 2 ECTS credit courses.
There will be lunch every day from 12-13. We will also invite you to social activites a couple of evenings, so save some room in your diaries! A registration form for social activities will be distributed closer to the PhD week.
If you have questions about a particular course, please e-mail the contact person(s) indicated in the course description. Course pages will be published in mid-February 2026.
Monday 1 June
- Introduction to Theories of Knowledge in the Humanities
- Media Dissemination of Research – oral (day 1)
Tuesday 2 June
- How to Read and Write with AI
- Inherently Unethical? On the Requirement of Pursuing Truth and Understanding in an Ethically Sound Way
- Writing the “kappe” for Article-Based Dissertations in the Humanities
Wednesday 3 June
- Major Debates in Literary and Cultural Theory
- Introduction to Research Ethics
Social event after the program ends for the day. Save the day!
Thursday 4 June
- Real and Imagined Spaces: Global, Area, State and Local
- Image / Imaging / Imagination
- Avoiding Misunderstandings and Grudges: Planning Co-authorship Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary
Friday 5 June
- Media Dissemination of Research – oral (day 2)
- AI & Ethics
- Reading as Method
The Peer Review Process in Academic JournalsPostponed.