PhD Courses in Denmark

Oceans of Art I; 28-29 November 2023, 9:00-16:00; 1.5 ECTS
Oceans of Art II; 28-29 May 2024; 9:00-16:00; 1.5 ECTS

These two 2-day workshops will introduce current approaches in humanities and artistic research to what has been called the world's largest object, Ocean. The ocean occupies 72% of the earth's surface and is changing faster than ever before due to human activity. While the ocean is the subject of ecological concern, research, and climate activism on behalf of the planet, with overfishing, seabed mining and increasing pollution as the main threats, it is also - and always has been - a source of life, imagination and reverie, a medium for human and non-human movement, transportation and exchange, and a political and economic arena. Building on recent decades' focus on the sea as an object of humanities research - sometimes referred to as the "blue humanities" or “blue cultural studies” - and as a trope in art, the workshop will use art historical, artistic and other practice-based studies from recent years as a starting point for discussions on how a rethinking of the wet element can contribute to changing the subject, radius of action and potentially the impact of art studies.

Oceans of Art I; 28-29 November 2023, 9:00-16:00
This is the first of two workshops on the role ocean research and Ocean as object in art studies. The workshop will center on the legacy of ocean studies and its impact on art studies and new research practices.

ECTS: 1.5 ECTS for participation in Oceans of Art I
Registration: Please send an email to Christian Hald Foghmar (christianfo@hum.ku.dk) no later than 14 November 2023

Oceans of Art II; 28-29 May 2024, 9:00-16:00, 1.5 ECTS
This is the second of two workshops on ocean studies as an inspiration for new research topics and methodologies in art studies. This workshop will focus on oceans and water as starting points for new ways of thinking about the body, consciousness, and human/non-human relations.

ECTS: 1.5 ECTS for participation in Oceans of Art II
Registration: Please send an email to Christian Hald Foghmar (christianfo@hum.ku.dk) no later than 14 May 2024

Academic aim
- To discuss and appraise recent research in art history, visual culture studies and artistic practice concerning the ocean as a poetic and pictorial trope as well as a political topic.
- To introduce new methodologies in art studies drawing upon feminism, ocean studies, social and human geographies of the sea, marine history etc.

Target group
PhD students at all stages of their research project dealing with interdisciplinary approaches to art studies.

Language
English.

Course organisers and instructors
Main organiser : Mikkel Bogh, Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studier,, University of Copenhagen.
Co-organiser: Christian Hald Foghmar (christianfo@hum.ku.dk), Academic officer, Department of Arts and Cultural Studier, University of Copenhagen.

Max. numbers of participants
20 per module.

Further information
For more information, please contact one of the course organisers.

Literature, Autumn 2023

“INTRODUCTION Enter, Wet”
Book Title: For All Waters Book Subtitle: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes
Author(s): Lowell Duckert Published by: University of Minnesota Press. (2017)
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1n2txs0.4

“Oceans as the Paradigm of History”
Author(s): Prasenjit Duara
Theory, Culture & Society 0(0) 1–24 ! The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions
http://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420984538

“Of other seas: metaphors and materialities in maritime regions”
Author(s): Philip E. Steinberg
To cite this article: Philip E. Steinberg (2013) Of other seas: metaphors and materialities in maritime regions, Atlantic Studies, 10:2, 156-169, To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2013.785192

“Wet ontologies, fluid spaces: giving depth to volume through oceanic thinking”
Author(s): Philip Steinberg and Kimberley Peters
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2015, volume 33, pages 247– 264 Received 3 July 2014; in revised form 18 October 2014; published online 9 March 2015
http://doi.org/10.1068/d14148p

“Swim your ground: Towards a black and blue humanities”
Author(s): Jonathan Howard To cite this article: Jonathan Howard (2023) Swim your ground: Towards a black and blue humanities, Atlantic Studies, 20:2, 308-330,
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.2015944

“Rhythm”
Chapter 2 in “A Poetic History of the Oceans - Literature and Maritime Modernity” p 172-201
Author(s): Søren Frank
Textxet studies in comparative literature, volume 98
https://sorenfrank.academia.edu/research

‘Production in View: Allan Sekula’s Fish Story and the Thawing of Postmodernism’
Author(s): Bill Roberts
in Tate Papers no.18
https://www.tate.org.uk/research/tate-papers/18/production-in-view-allan-sekulas-fish-story-and-the-thawing-of-postmodernism

“Baltic Art Center - Artists' Role in an Age of Climate Crisis”
Podcast: https://naarca.art/2023/04/28/testing-grounds-episode-4-baltic-art-center-artists-role-in-an-age-of-climate-crisis-now-available/

Literature, Spring 2024

“Hydrofeminism on the Coastline: An Interview with Astrida Neimanis”
Author(s): Neimanis, A., & Bezan, S. (2022). Anthropocenes – Human, Inhuman, Posthuman, 3(1): 8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/ahip.1363

“Imagining Water in the Anthropocene”
Author(s): Neimanis, Astrida. Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Environmental Cultures. Environmental Cultures. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 15 Sep. 2023.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474275415

“How to swim without water: swimming as an ecological sensibility”
Chapter Author(s): Rebecca Olive Book Title: Living with water Book Subtitle: Everyday encounters and liquid connections Book Editor(s): Charlotte Bates, Kate Moles Published by: Manchester University Press. (2023) Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv37mk1tw.23

“Production in View: Allan Sekula’s Fish Story and the Thawing of Postmodernism”
Author(s): Bill Roberts
in Tate Papers no.18
https://www.tate.org.uk/research/tate-papers/18/production-in-view-allan-sekulas-fish-story-and-the-thawing-of-postmodernism

“Baltic Art Center - Artists' Role in an Age of Climate Crisis”
Podcast: https://naarca.art/2023/04/28/testing-grounds-episode-4-baltic-art-center-artists-role-in-an-age-of-climate-crisis-now-available/