Tag: PhD

From Lotta Strandberg’s email:

Dear all,

Please distribute this information among your PhD candidates.

PhD course Narrative Possibilities: Human rights and the art of storytelling (2,5 ects) in Drammen in June 22-23.6.2023.

https://www.usn.no/forskning/doktorgradsutdanning/pedagogiske-ressurser-og-lareprosesser/kurs-og-emner-i-pedagogiske-ressurser-og-lareprosesser/

The course description is attached but here is a brief description of the content: 

Human rights is a profoundly interdisciplinary topic, approachable from a broad variety of

scholarly perspectives and susceptible to a range of methodological approaches. Following

the ‘narrative turn’ that has exerted such influence across academia in recent decades, this

course has two core aims: to investigate the ways in which the study of narrative is uniquely

equipped to illuminate dimensions of human rights issues less easily accessible to other

modes of textual representation; and to explore how storytelling practices condition our

understanding of the world, and, by extension, scholarly engagements with human rights

issues within and beyond the humanities. Beyond the specific domain of human rights, the

course addresses the broader question of why it is important for scholars and students who

deal with different aspects of the human existence – historians, psychologists, lawyers,

social scientists, and medics, to name a few – to have an understanding of the fundaments

of narrative theory, and explores a variety of answers to this increasingly salient question.

The deadline for registration is 14 April.

From the description at the UiA website:

“Ecocriticism, that is, research focusing on the relation between literature, culture, and the environment, is a rapidly growing field both internationally and within Norway. As an environmental humanities discipline, ecocriticism contributes to interdisciplinary environmental research from the perspective of literary and cultural studies.

Ecocriticism is, however, a very diverse field that draws upon theoretical approaches from many different directions. This course will introduce participants to a variety of theories that relate nature and the environment to literature and culture and ask how these theories can be utilized for ecocritical research. The lectures included in the course will both provide a general overview of ecocritical theory and insights into many of the most recent developments within ecocriticism, such as cognitive econarratology, empirical ecocriticism, theories of risk and resilience in the study of environmental narrative, environmental justice and postcolonial ecocriticism, material ecocriticism and critical plant studies, as well as ecocritical pedagogy and literature education. The course also includes a discussion of the place of ecocriticism within the environmental humanities and of how multi-, inter-, or transdisciplinary ecocritical research can – or should – be.

The thematic course lectures will be held by internationally established researchers in ecocriticism and related fields. The course will generally have a strong focus on the combination of ecocritical theory and practice, and thus on the applicability of the theoretical approaches presented and discussed to the practical analysis of literary and filmic texts and genres. It will also provide a platform for participants to discuss and receive feedback on the theoretical aspects of their own projects.”

More information here.