Previous events
Master Ingeborg Misje Bergem at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation ‘On est là’: The Yellow Vest Movement and the Crisis of Representation in France for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
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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.
Welcome to a talk by Dr. Monica Pearl (University of Manchester) on rage and generational tensions in recent cultural texts about the AIDS epidemic.
Join President of Moldova Maia Sandu for a discussion on Moldova's perspective on Russia's war against Ukraine and Europe's security.
Migration, superdiversity and conspiracy theories
Text development seminar in literature organized by Professor Tina Skouen at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme.
Emily J. Lordi (Vanderbilt) will give a lecture about the life and work of Whitney Houston in the "Word, Sound and Power" Lecture 2024.
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.
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Welcome to a discussion with Ukrainian museum professionals and a screening of the documentary "Izyum. Liberation."
Hemispheric and Global Dialogues on the Transnational American West
Master Samuel Klee at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation America’s Food Army: Carceral Labor and Community Power during World War II for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
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This methods course is aimed at doctoral researchers at the Faculty of Humanities, providing them with an introduction to statistical thinking as it can be applied in the humanities, and with pointers to further, more advanced-level statistical methods.
Text development seminar in literature organized by Professor Tina Skouen at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme. (Course full)
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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.
Master Bojidar Angelov Kolov at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation (Re)Constructing Sacred Statehood. The Orthodox Church and Great Power in Contemporary Russia for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Alexander Agadjanian, Alicja Curanović and Pål Kolstø will discuss Russian identity and religion in light of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Master Nora Dörnbrack at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Longitudinal Intra-Writer Variation in the Private Writings of Mary Ann (Wodrow) Archbald (1762–1841) for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
On the sidelines of Solya’s midterm evaluation: a half-day workshop on mood in Slavic (and Romance and Germanic).
Special guest: Marco Biasio (Univ. Verona), Solya’s evaluator.
Julie Hansen will discuss Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Eugene Vodolazkin's Laurus as examples of translingual literature.
How do we read novels translingually? What strategies and literary techniques characterise multilingual literary texts? How does multilingual literature (re-)shape the canon? What metaphors do bilingual authors use to conceptualise multilingualism?
At this workshop, we will discuss multilingual writing from Eastern Europe from different theoretical and historical perspectives.
Text development seminar in area studies organized by Professor Ljiljana Saric at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme.
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.
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.
How can we use drawings and graphic narratives to develop and communicate our research? The Border Readings group at ILOS has invited researchers and artists, guest researcher Kari Korolainen and ILOS researcher Fabian Heffermehl, to share with us their thoughts and experiences of using drawing and graphic storytelling to think about their research problems – and thinking with their research materials – in visual and bodily ways. Welcome to this open discussion, if you are interested in exploring these possibilities or already have experiences which you might share.
Join us for our final OSEH event where we explore issues of race, ethnicity, and gender, but also diverse ways of opening up environmental problems and possibilities in the academy and beyond. We are joined by acclaimed poet and nature writer Camille Dungy and prominent scholars in the environmental humanities, and there will be upcycled music, celebration and food.