Research events

This methods course is aimed at doctoral research fellows at the Faculty of Humanities, providing them with a general overview of various approaches to discourse analysis and a more detailed introduction to (Multimodal) Critical Discourse Analysis. The emphasis is on how discourse analysis can be used in various humanities projects.

California as Scandinavia's Founding Myth of America.

Come and listen to a number of guests who will be visiting ILOS in week 38.They will give public presentations on Tuesday morning, 15 September.

This PhD-course sets out to explore the links between spirituality and reading. Perspectives from theology, religious studies, literary studies and distributed cognitive science are put together to understand different kinds of spiritual and narrative technologies of self-transformation.

Guest seminar by Dr Jessica Cox, Brunel University of London.

The term “close reading” long functioned as a shorthand for methodology in literary studies. Recently, scholars have begun interrogating what close reading entails and what alternative methods usefully challenge and expand upon it. This course provides participants an opportunity to engage with and reflect on methods of reading.

This advanced course in Theories of Knowledge addresses the role the construction of real and imagined geographical spaces plays for the knowledge we establish through research in (primarily) area studies and history. In an age of supposed globalisation, we invite PhD-candidates to reflect on the ways in which their own project is delineated geographically and the impact this has on their research.

Master Mari Wærner Wesenberg at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Metalinguistic Feedback in Multilingual Education: A Multimethod Study on Teachers’ Practices and Students’ Comprehension for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

This advanced course in theories of knowledge foregrounds the development of major debates within literary and cultural theory. The aim is to enable PhD Fellows to articulate and perhaps defend more persuasively the theoretical assumptions upon which their own PhD projects are based.

Master Solomeia Bagautdinova at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her thesis Pseudo-imperatives in Russian: a proposal for a unifying approach for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Cand.philol. Christina Sandhaug at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Supplied, Aplied, Digested, and written: Textual Representation of Spectacle in Printed Court Masques, 1603-1613 for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Lukas Lehner at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation Interim Lovers: Love, Perception and Media in Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1809) for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Mathias Skogly Russnes at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation Making sense of semantic prosody: An investigation of semantic transfer, register-sensitivity and categorisation through the lens of polysemy for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

In this lecture, Viktoria Sereda examines how war-driven displacement reshapes memory and belonging in displaced people and host communities.

Text development seminar in literature organised by Associate Professor Rasmus Vangshardt at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme.

European thinkers begin to specify anthropology as an independent field of study in the course of the Enlightenment. 

Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) will be in discussion with Alexandra Effe about her two new books published this year, Southern Imagining: a literary and cultural history of the far southern hemisphere, and Ice Shock: a love story. 

The Word, Sound and Power Workshop 2026 will be held at the University of Oslo on the 28th of April. The workshop will take place on the 12th floor or Niels Treschows hus, from 11am to 5pm. Lunch included. All welcome!

Master Maria Buyko at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Limits to inferences: Studies on negative evidence in pragmatics for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

In this presentation, Jules Sergei Fediunin will show that Russia’s demographic agenda has evolved in accordance with the Putin regime’s authoritarian consolidation and ideological tightening

This four-week course is open to doctoral fellows from HF and SV but HF fellows will be prioritised. The language of instruction is English.

In this talk, Andriy Danylenko explores how the varieties of modern Ukrainian have developed and changed, and what this means for the language today

In this lecture, Andriy Danylenko will provide a historical background to the current language situation in Ukraine

Text development seminar in literature organised by Associate Professor Rasmus Vangshardt at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme.