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.
Emily J. Lordi (Vanderbilt) will give a lecture about the life and work of Whitney Houston in the "Word, Sound and Power" Lecture 2024.
Text development seminar in literature organized by Professor Tina Skouen at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme.
Welcome to a talk by Dr. Monica Pearl (University of Manchester) on rage and generational tensions in recent cultural texts about the AIDS epidemic.
Taking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Pascale Casanova’s field-defining La République mondiale des lettres ( The World Republic of Letters, 1999) as its point of departure, this conference seeks to decentralize the praxis of cultural reading and literary critique that the notion of Paris as the world capital of literature represents. Drawing inspiration from a host of decolonial projects that seek to renegotiate the terms in which we understand the world—a process that Walter Mignolo terms “epistemic delinking”—we seek to examine trans-peripheral and counter-hegemonic cultural infrastructures that flourished despite, in resistance to, and in the aftermath of colonial domination. This project is historical, but also oriented toward the present and, crucially, dedicated to rethinking the epistemic assumptions that undergird the study of literature and associated forms of cultural production in the present.
Text development seminar in area studies organised by Professor Atle L. Wold at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme.