PhD Courses in Denmark

Dates and time: 7-8 October 2024, from 9:00 to 17:00, 9 October 2024, from 9:00 to 12:00.

Complex, multimodal forms of communication characterize our time. Digital and technological developments place new demands on communication and rhetorical studies and open new avenues for research and reflection. Privately owned platforms, algorithms, and AI are increasingly shaping the communication practices and agency of our age, just as the printing press, radio, television and the Internet have done and continue to do in different ways.

With the course theme “Rhetoric and Communication in Digital and Technological Transition” we want to foster discussions about the opportunities and challenges currently emerging in this context of digital and technological transition for rhetoric, media, and communication studies. This PhD course happens in conjunction with the Nordic Rhetoric Association Conference, focusing on the same themes. It features the conference keynoters as doctoral teachers, providing an occasion for PhD students interested in communication, rhetoric, and digitality, to dive deeper into the theoretical and methodological threads that will also thematize the conference event.

(See the conference website here for info: https://comm.ku.dk/research/rhetoric/calendar/nkrf9/)

To frame the course themes, we have four international experts collaborating in the teaching, that have each placed themselves at the forefront of communication and rhetorical research on topics related to rhetoric, communication, and digitality: Sine Just (Roskilde University), Alan Finlayson (University of East Anglia, UK), Damien Pfister (University of Maryland, USA), and Johanna Hartelius (University of Texas, Austin, USA). Each expert will lead a teaching block dedicated to a specific course theme: 1) How digital technologies are stifling public debate and potential interventions; 2) Digital culture wars and the far-right online power base; 3) Ecology and rhetoric after ubiquitous computation; 3) Text to image AI technologies and learning in transition.

At the end of the course all of four experts together will lead a joint workshop to help participants develop their own research projects at the light of the new theoretical and methodological tools introduced throughout the four thematic teaching blocks.

Course organiser: Pamela Pietrucci, Section of Rhetoric, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen.

Language: English

Max. numbers of participants: 20

ECTS: 1.5 ECTS for participation without paper presentation. 3 ECTS for participation with paper presentation.

Venue: Faculty of Humanities, South Campus University of Copenhagen.
7 October 2024 in room 4A.1.68 (Building 4A, first floor, room 68)
8 October 2024, kl. 9.00-17.00: Lokale 4A.1.60 (Building 4A, first floor, room 60)
9 October 2024, kl. 9.00-12.00: Lokale 4A.1.13 (Building 4A, first floor, room 13)

Course Fee: The PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities participates in Denmark’s national network for PhD courses. Participation in the course is free of charge for PhD students enrolled at participating Universities. PhD students from Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and PhD students enrolled at a university outside Denmark will be charged a course fee of DKK 3,000.

Registration: Please register via the link in the box no later than 15 August 2024. Registration is closed

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

Literature: TBA