About TBLR

TBLR

The Norwegian researcher training school ”Text Image Sound Space (TBLR) – Analysis, Interpretation, and the Exchange of Theories and Ideas” was founded in 2004 as a joint venture between the aesthetic disciplines at UofBergen, NTNU/Trondheim, UofAgder/Kristiansand and UofTromsø. At present, UofBergen has the national leadership, as well as its own local branch. In Bergen, it is the researcher training school of choice for those PhD-candidates working on aesthetics at the Faculty of Humanities and for part of those at Infomedia (at the Faculty of Social Sciences). Unless they abstain, all of these are automatically enrolled into the TBLR.

Our work includes seminars about dissertation-writing and about different topics relevant to those working within the fields of aesthetics. Local master classes are also held. The TBLR collaborates with several other international researcher training schools, such as Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies (CDS), Georg Brandes Skolen (Copenhagen), Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and others. The members of the TBLR have the opportunity of applying to participate in courses arranged by these. Further information can be found on the home page of the national branch of the TBLR. Participation in our seminars, locally as well as nationally, is free of charge. This includes both course materials, food and lodging, where neccessary. The candidates only have to pay for transportation and airfares.

PhD-students from the UofBergen, from the affiliated member universities of the TBLR, as well as other interested parties, please contact anders.gullestad@lle.uib.no to enroll in our seminars or if you have any questions and/or suggestions, for example regarding topics relevant to you as well as possible keynote-speakers. New participants are kindly asked to fill out and submit the following form. This to ensure that we are up to date on the candidates and their projects, and that we have correct e-mail addresses to them and their supervisors. It will also better enable us to plan ahead for coming seminars, both locally and nationally.