PhD Courses in Denmark

Department of Anthropology 

Date, time and venue
22 November 2024 from 11:45 to 14:45 (Optional lunch from 11:00-11:45), Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

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, Maria Louw will present her recent work on care, spectrality and possibility and reflect on what an imagistic approach may offer anthropology. PhD students will be invited to discuss the concepts in relation to their own work and reflect on the images (e.g. pictures, word-images, sound-images and dream-images) which stand out as particularly important in their own fieldwork and their potential to capture what may be important but not easily conceptualized.

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 lecturers
Maria Louw, Associate Professor in Anthropology at Aarhus University.

Course organizers

• Nina Charlotte Kramp
• Freja Bach Kristensen

Form

• PhD students present their projects in brief (45 min)
• Lecture followed by a question round on the following topics: Care, spectrality, possibility & the imagistic approach (90 min)
• Plenary discussion (45 min) with focus on student projects and questions

Language: English

ECTS: 0.5

Max. numbers of participants: 8.

Registration: Please register via the link in the box no later than 8 November 2024. Registration is closed.

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