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This intensive three-day PhD course examines contemporary geopolitics through strategically deployed material relations and evolving forms of deliberate reciprocity and asymmetry between China and other actors in a shifting world order.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Study of Religion Linda Gustavsson, who is working on a project with the title "Ethno-political Contestations on Festival Grounds in the Indian Himalayas. A Study of Religious Change Among the Limbu in Sikkim". 

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Middle Eastern Studies Iman Afify, who is working on a project with the title "Ideologies in Stone: Antiquities and The (Re)Production of The Egyptian Nation-State". 

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History and Museology Ingrid Eskild, who is working on a project with the working title "Scales of Life: Instruments, Ideograms, and the Nineteenth-Century Scientific Imagination". 

Text development seminar organized by the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. PhD students at the Faculty of Humanities must attend at least two text development seminars as part of their educational component.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in the Study of Religion Marianne Friisberg Larssen, who is working on a project with the working title "The Sacred at Risk: The Protection of Sacred Landscapes in Sápmi". 

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Study of Religion Olav Børreson Fossdal, who is working on a project with the title "Witnessing Faith: The Evolving Role of Witnesses in Norwegian Conversion-based Asylum Claims". 

Advanced course in Research Ethics: Course participants will enhance their understanding of how to protect human subjects in various kinds of field research and navigate the ethical dilemmas that may arise

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History and Museology Elise Matilde Malik, who is working on a project with the title "Curating the Ground: Enacting with soils in contemporary exhibitions". 

This theory course introduces some of the common applications of “discourse”, “power” and “class” in the social sciences and humanities. Convenors: Kathinka Frøystad and Roar Høstaker.

Text development seminar organised by the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme. 

This short, field-based course is designed to provide students with a hands-on introduction to ecosemiotics as a research paradigm. The course is aimed particularly at PhD and early career researchers with an interest in transdisciplinary and humanities-led environmental research who want to strengthen their practical field research skills.

This fall we welcome four new PhD students at IKOS. Please join us for a kickoff seminar where they will present their research projects and the methods, sources and analytical optics they plan to make use of.

In this course, we will explore the state and potential future of geopolitical developments under the influence of a rising China, and how this influence is being felt around the globe.

In this course, PhD fellows are acquainted with the ethical dilemmas and controversies arising from four interpretative approaches.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History and Museology Solveig Marie Siem, who is working on a project with the title "Collecting, Connecting, and Cultivating Life. Frederik Christian Schübeler’s Botanical Collections and the Co-Production of Interdisciplinary Knowledge with  Volunteer Experiment Hosts".

For the last couple of decades, a lot of humanities scholarship have been scaling up. Scholars have approached their objects of study at larger scales, both temporally and spatially. In a sense, this represents a break with much postwar humanities, in which scale has not really been an issue.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History Anna Pauline Grøgaard. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Henning Laugerud,  University of Bergen.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Environmental Humanities Erik Nordnes Einum. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Heather Anne Swanson, School of Culture and Society, at Aarhus University.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History and Museology Eva-Johanna Nilsson. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor of Museum Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, Alice Stevenson

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Middle Eastern Studies Jonathan Jonsson. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies Dr. Christian Junge from Philipps Universität, Marburg.

Text development seminar organised by the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme. 

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History and Museology Cristian Torres Gutierrez. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor of Art History and History Daniela Bleichmar from the University of Southern California.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History Greta Karoline Heien. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Senior lecturer Annelie Drakman from Stockholm University.