PhD Courses in Denmark

Date and time: Thursday, 16 May, from 11:00-15:00. (Lunch from 12:00-13:00).

Through a plenary session comprising a talk and an extended discussion, this course aims to facilitate critical reflection and discussion of working with concepts in contemporary anthropological theory.

In this course, Christian Vium will present his recent work on the concepts collaborative re-enactment, vernacular histories, and reframing colonial archives. Vium will show some of his audio-visual work and how it relates to his theorizing. In this course, Ph.D students will be invited to reflect on the stories that are central to their Ph.D projects and how they are (re)framed, (re)enacted, and evoked. This will serve as a basis for critical self-reflection and interesting group discussions on the potential for collaboration and immersion, as well as adding a new perspective on the relationship between epistemology, methodology, and multimodality, i.e. how theorizing is always linked to how we conduct our studies.

Academic Aim

• Knowledge of the presented concept, its related thematic and regional literature, as well as their disciplinary and theoretical antecedents.
• Critical evaluation of particular concepts from multiple perspectives, both in consideration of their applicability to the PhDs’ own projects and for anthropology more broadly.
• Increased proficiency in collegial theoretical debates and greater insight into contemporary dynamics and innovations in anthropological theory.

Target group
The course is explicitly concerned with anthropological theory and its relationship to anthropological work, as such its target group is primarily PhD fellows in anthropology or closely related disciplines.

Course lecturer
Christian Vium, Associate Professor in Anthropology at Aarhus University.

Course organizer: Anne Sofie Beer Nielsen (asn@anthro.ku.dk)

Language: English

ECTS: 0.5

Max. numbers of participants: 7

Course fee: DKK 1,200 per ECTS for PhD students from CBS.

Registration: Please register via the link in the box no later than 2 May 2024

Further information: For more information about the PhD course, please contact the PhD Administration (phd@hrsc.ku.dk).