Upcoming Activities 

PROCEED DIRECTLY TO TBLR’s MAIN WEBPAGES.

They are more detailed and comprehensive and always updated.

You will find them immediately by clicking  HERE (Norwegian) and HERE (English).

Stay posted and check back frequently to the main webpages for further details and updates. From the Summer of 2011 only TBLRs main webpages will be updated.

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NEW AESTHETIC PhD-COURSES FOR CANDIDATES AND THEIR SUPERVISORS IN NORWAY AND ABROAD,

AND SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS ABROAD FOR AESTHETIC PHD-STUDENTS – REMAINING SPRING, SUMMER, AND EARLY AUTUMN ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Posted 13th June 2011: PhD-seminar "Philology and Literary Studies", on 29th and 30th of September 2011. For detailed outline, click HERE. Enlistment as soon as possible to jakob.lothe@ilos.uio.no or to kirsti.sellevold@ilos.uio.no.

Posted 23rd May 2011: PhD-paper session day, also for candidates within the aesthetic disciplines, on 27th October 2011 (you can als take part in the ensuing conference 28th till 30th October), both arrangements organized by the Norwegian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies during its annual meeting, this time in Tromsø. Deadlines for enrollments: 15th June 2011 and/or 1st September 2011. Read the organizing committee's link closely for all instructions and guide-lines HERE. Also check TBLR's main page at http://www.folk.uib.no/hlils/TBLR-B/BergenE.htm.

Posted 23rd May 2011: The French-Norwegian Centre (CFN) in Paris announces up to 5 PhD (and possibly postdoc) scholarship grants of NOK 16,000 per person per month for a scholarly research stay in France during 2011. Those rewarded will have their travel expenses covered as well receive as a handsome supportive coverage for housing, meals and extra expenditures – with tax-deduction exemption. Also PhD-candidates affiliated with the TBLR will be eligible. Application deadline: 15th June 2011. For full details, terms, instructions, guide-lines and contact persons, read the complete entry on TBLR's main page: http://www.folk.uib.no/hlils/TBLR-B/BergenE.htm, or directly in CFN's letter of invitation HERE. 

Posted 23rd May 2011: There are for the remaining Spring term 2011and for the Summer of 2011 still available places at aesthetic PhD-researcher training courses organized by TBLR's closely associated cooperative partner, the Copenhagen Doctoral Porgramme in Cultural Studies, Literature, and the Arts (Cultlitart). Check entries on TBLR's main webpage, or directly with Cultlitart. Contact Person: Kirsten Zeuthen, University of Copenhagen, phone 00 45 35 32 35 11; cell 00 45 28 75 82 11 – e-mail: cds@hum.ku.dk. Beware of application deadlines. 

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--> PhD-seminar on “GENRE” (org. UiO), in Paris, 14th-15th April 2011 – NB: Application deadline 17^th Febr. 2011

Just in from TBLR’s associated collaborative partners within PhD-training at the University of Oslo - the announcement listed below:

Up to 5 spaces for TBLR-candidates are hereby announced to be applied for at the PhD-seminar organized by the PhD-programme of UiO for UiO’s PhD-candidates on the scholarly topic “Genre”, in Paris 14th-15th April 2011 - but at the same time Oslo kindly offers up to 5 spaces at the seminar to TBLR-registered PhD-candidates (that is, from the Universities of Bergen, Tromsø, NTNU, Agder og Stavanger). Oslo informs that the principle is "first come, first served", and that the final appl. deadline is 17^th February 2011. Therefore, act immediately in case your are interested.

 

Dear PhD-candidates,

In collaboration with the PhD-programme at the Faculty of Humanities, UiO, you are hereby invited to take part at the PhD-seminar in Paris 14th-15th April 2011. Topic focus for the seminar is Genre, and the seminar will be organized at he Centre franco-norvégien en sciences sociales et humaines, FMSH, located centrally in Paris.

The number of TBLR PhD-candidates is limited to 5, and PhD-candidates who would like to participate, should immediately respond to Kirsti Sellevold, kirsti.sellevold@ilos.uio.no

in accordance with the "first come, first served”-principle--that is, as soon as possible, and at the latest by 17th February 2011. Working language at the seminar will be English. The doctoral students are hereby encouraged to enlist with presentations (length: 20', plus 10' for discussion). Preliminary title should be submitted in connection with your application/enlistment.

Genre is a debated, current and central notion both in literary studies and in other aesthetic disciplines, and various aspects of the concept will be highlighted during the seminar. The comprehensive seminar programme will be submitted ample time.

The doctoral students will have most of the hotel expenses covered; further, all Paris course meals will be covered. The PhD-candidates must, however, cover their travel costs by way of their own personal operating budgets as PhD-students (cheap airfares!). The intention is to travel to Paris on Wednesday13th April in the afternoon/evening, and to have two full seminar days on the 14th and the 15^th of  April.

With kind regards,

Jakob Lothe

(Leader of the LIK-track of the PhD-programme at The Humanist Faculty, UiO)

Here forwarded by Lars Sætre (Leader TBLR-National)

 

 

 

--> PhD-course/researcher course on "BODY IMAGES" (org. NTNU), w/ Lisa Cartwright, Adele Clark and André Gunthert, in Paris, 11th-13th April 2011 – NB: Application deadline 20th Febr. 2011

We here pass on the announcement (w/ links) of a PhD-course/researcher course with topic focus “Body Images”, to be organized in Paris 11th-13th April 2011, with Merete Lie and Aud Sissel Hoel (NTNU) as organizers. Pay attention to the appl. deadline, which is 20^th Febr. 2011. Link, with all info on contents, organization, scholars, participation, terms and enlistment procedures are to be found here. Pdf-versions are to be found here: Course Description, Registration form.

--> PhD-courses Spring/Summer 2011: Copenhagen Doctoral Programme in Cultural Studies, Literature and the Arts:

We here pass on announcements from our associated collaborative partner at the University of Copenhagen, Frederik Tygstrup, and the programme that he is director of at the UofC: Copenhagen Doctoral Programme in Cultural Studies, Literature and the Arts.

These are announcements and descriptions of and enlistment procedures for PhD-courses during Spring term/Summer 2011. Check the link for further info, click here. 

Overview: Spring 2011:

Modernity, Critique, and Humanism: Conference, California State University.Los Angeles, 12-13 February

Collective Futures – Organizing Critical Experience: European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism and Creativity. Organized by Goldsmiths College London, Interart Studies Berlin and Copenhagen Doctoral Programme. London, 3-5 March

Contested Spaces – Witness, Memory, Affect: Organized by Copenhagen PhD Programme in Cultural Studies, CréArt Doctoral Program, Université de Paris X and Research Architectures, Goldsmiths College. Copenhagen, 17-19 March

Samtidskunstens vidensformer og kunstens interventioner: Organized by Det Danske Forskerskolekonsortium i Kultur, Litteratur og Kunstfag. Keynote speakers: Irit Rogoff, Charlotte Klonk, Arild Fetveit, Lilian Munk Rösing. Sandbjerg Gods, 21-25 March

Literature and Emotions Conference: Organized by the Section of Comparative Literature. Keynote speakers: Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, and Winfried Menninghaus. Copenhagen, 24-25 March

Aesthetics and Politics: Annual conference of The Nordic Society of Aesthetics in collaboration with Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen and the Royal Danish Academy of Art. Keynote speakers: Sara Danius, Esther Leslie, and Peter Osborne. Copenhagen, May 26-28

Memory and/in Practice: Postgraduate Seminar in Cultural Memory Studies. Organized by Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, University of London, and Danish Network for Cultural Memory Studies. Copenhagen, 3-4 June

European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism and Creativitystrong>: Copenhagen, 16-18 June

Fictonalization: Joint Doctoral Seminar, Copenhagen – Lund, 23 June