Overview
Text development seminars organised by ILOS require all participants to present a draft text and to comment on one of the texts presented by the other participants. We also expect all participants to read all submitted texts and to take part in the general discussion of each text, which follows on to the main commentary. For this seminar, participants are invited to submit a draft conference paper, and we will focus specifically on what is needed in a text that is meant to be read aloud.
The submitted texts should be of a length suited to a 20 minutes oral presentation, and need to be genuine drafts; texts that are in the making, not completed conference papers or papers that have already been presented. All submitted texts will be circulated within the group of participants one week ahead of the seminar to ensure that everyone has time to read them, and the course teacher will appoint one main opponent for each submitted text.
The duration of the seminar will depend on the number of PhD-candidates who register, but is set preliminary to 6 hours including a lunch break. We need at least 2 participants to run the seminar, and the maximum number of participants is 5.
Further information about text development seminars at ILOS can be found here: Text development seminars
Participation (presenting and commenting) yields: 2 ECTS.
Organisation of the seminar:
For each participant and submitted text, we will adhere to the same four-stage format:
- Presentation by the participant who submitted the text (timed at 20 minutes)
- Commentary by the main opponent (about 10 minutes)
- General discussion (about 10 minutes)
- Summary (about 5 minutes)
- Short break, and then a repeat of the above four stages for the next submitted text
Further information about the organisation of the seminar will be provided to registered participants once the deadline for signing up has passed.
To register
The deadline for signing up is 20 May.
Note that 20 May is also the deadline for submitting texts. Please send your text to: Professor Atle L. Wold: a.l.wold@ilos.uio.no
Professor Wold will also be happy to answer any queries you may have about the seminar.