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Advanced Course in Theories of Knowledge: Scholars in the humanities generate knowledge for society in a variety of ways and engaging with several disciplines when doing so can sometimes yield particularly novel, path-breaking research. This advanced course in theories of knowledge critically examines the virtues and limits of working across disciplines.

This compulsory course for all PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities introduces foundational problems of knowledge-production in the humanities.

Researcher skills: Crafting Compelling Narratives, Designing Impactful Slides, and Delivering Convincing Talks

The PhD week program offers introductory and advanced courses in theories of knowledge, research ethics and methods, as well as writer's hours and skills-oriented courses and workshops - and social events.

How do young researchers write clear and well formulated research descriptions? How do they get funding for their research projects? This one-day workshop aims to provide young researchers with the necessary tools to write competitive applications and get funding.

How and why do researchers disseminate knowledge to a general, non-specialist audience? The course offers hands-on training of communication skills for a general public, as well as a reflection on non-academic media outlets as arenas for research dissemination. This is one of two versions of the HF media dissemination course, and this particular course trains oral communication, e.g. radio, podcast, TV etc.

PhD workshop with Dr. Ricarda Stegmann and Professor Einar Wigen.

Text development seminar in literature organized by Professor Tina Skouen at ILOS. The text development seminar is a compulsory component of the PhD programme.

During the inaugural seminars, PhD candidates at IMK present and get feedback on their project description.

Working title: Teens on TikTok: Exploring the mediatised social worlds of teenagers

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Religious Studies Deva Nandan Harikrishna. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Associate Professor Deonnie Moodie from the Department of Religious Studies, University of Oklahoma

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.

Welcome seminar for new PhD candidates and their supervisors at the Faculty of Humanities.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in China studies Minh Khai Mai-Thi. To comment on the candidate's work, we have invited Associate Professor TJ Hinrichs from Department of History at Cornell University.

What does the digital shift mean for historians? This workshop explores some of the key methodological questions historians encounter when we start using digital tools to answer historical questions. It will also provide training in using digital source materials.

A PhD course on methods for reasoning focused on argumentative and logical analysis

This PhD course grabs the bull by the horns and challenges participants to seriously engage with theory (ideas/principles to explain a practice or account for a situation) and method (planned procedure to pursue knowledge), and highlights the connections between them. We also discuss ethical problems in historical research. This is a 5 ECTS course.

The seminar invites PhD fellows to reflect on the emic-etic relationship in their own text

Working title: Women leaders and gender performativity: Perceived credibility in times of crisis, scandal, or when put up for debate

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural Studies Ingrid Kvalvik Sørensen. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Assistant Professor Anne Brædder from the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University 

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)

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.

During the inaugural seminars, PhD candidates at IMK present and get feedback on their project description.