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Guidelines - monograph or article-based thesis

Please sign up here by the end of 3 April

For those who sign up to present, the deadline for submitting texts is on the same date. Please send your texts to Tina Skouen, who will circulate them among the participants: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no

Note: We will schedule another seminar by demand. For each seminar, we have a maximum of 4 Presenters.

Academic writing in English with Gjertrud Stenbrenden (ILOS). For PhD fellows at the Faculty of Humanities. Four seminars (20 February, 20 March, 10 April, 15 May) - different topic each time! No need to sign up in advance.            For more information, contact: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no or gjertrud.stenbrenden@ilos.uio.no

10 Apr: Ways of arguing

• how to write an engaging introduction
• how to present arguments for/against sth.
• how to present data clearly

In my talk, I will reflect the perspective and results of the research project and network 'kakanien revisited' as a contribution of an exemplary field of area studies in cultural research. 

In a first step, I will describe all the tools the group has adapted from postcolonial studies: the subversion of the relation between centre and periphery, heterogeneity and identity, the relation between culture and power, the narrative of culture and civilisation, gender aspects, the construction of the 'own' other. In a second part, I will discuss the differences between post-colonialism and post-imperialism, also with regard to the process of nation building. Finally, I will refer to the imperial traces in Austrian literature of the 20th century, e.g. in Roth, Canetti, Musil, Broch, Zweig and others.  

Reference: Wolfgang Müller-Funk: The Architecture of Modern Culture. Towards a narrative theory of culture. Boston-Berlin 2012.

A PhD seminar examining the rhythms of border-crossings in cultural and literary forms at the University of Oslo, 4-5 April 2019, with guests Kathryn M. Lachman and Wolfgang Müller-Funk.

With Bruce Barnhart, Assoc. Professor, ILOS, and Johan Schimanski, Professor, ILOS

Academic writing in English with Gjertrud Stenbrenden (ILOS). For PhD fellows at the Faculty of Humanities. Four seminars (20 February, 20 March, 10 April, 15 May) - different topic each time! No need to sign up in advance. For more information, contact: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no or gjertrud.stenbrenden@ilos.uio.no

20 March: Recognising other voices

• how to present secondary literature
• how to paraphrase, quote, refer to
• styles of referencing
• punctuation

Lecture by Till Dembeck, University of Luxembourg

Guidelines - monograph or article-based thesis

Please sign up here by the end of 4 March 2019

For those who sign up to present, the deadline for submitting texts is also 4 March. Please send your texts to Ljiljana Saric, who will circulate them among the participants.

Note: We have a maximum of 4 Presenters for each seminar. Before you sign up, please check the current status and/or who has signed up for what. Usually, we need more people to register as Commentators – please volunteer!

Guidelines - monograph or article-based thesis

Please sign up here by the end of 20 February

For those who sign up to present, the deadline for submitting texts is on the same date. Please send your texts to Tina Skouen, who will circulate them among the participants: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no

Note: We have a maximum of 4 Presenters for each seminar. Before you sign up, please check the current status and/or who has signed up for what. Usually, we need more people to register as Commentators - please volunteer!

Academic writing in English with Gjertrud Stenbrenden (ILOS). For PhD fellows at ILOS, ILN and Ibsen. Four seminars (20 Febr, 20 March, 10 Apr, 15 May) - different topic each time! No need to sign up in advance. For more information, contact: tina.skouen@ilos.uio.no or gjertrud.stenbrenden@ilos.uio.no

20 Febr:

• introduction: general characteristics
• style level/register
• building vocabulary
• solving tasks together

One day workshop on abstract writing and journal publication with Josie Dixon. Submit your draft by 7 January 2019 to get feedback or bring some text along to the workshop. All participants will be asked to send a short paragraph outlining their research. Please send your materials by e-mail to Tina Skouen.

Organizer: Tina Skouen

Please sign up here by Friday 30 November

How can qualitative interviewing enrich the study of social and political processes in area studies? Does the interview constitute a “personal sphere” — a realm of inter-subjective exchanges of perceptions, or is it a source that provides more than just situational information? How should information obtained through interviewing be organized and presented in a dissertation, and what is the analytical value of a “text-bite” in a larger body of text?

With Geir Flikke, Associate Professor, ILOS

Please sign up by Friday the 14th December

Lecture by Erika Mihálycsa (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj)

Lecture by Gabriele Iannàccaro, University of Milano-Bicocca