PhD Courses in Denmark

Date and time: 12 June 2025 from 9:00 to 12:00

This course explores the growing anthropological and phenomenological interest in haunting and spectrality, offering PhD students an opportunity to engage critically with these concepts as they pertain to questions of memory, absence, suffering, temporality, and the unseen. Often described as "hauntological" approaches, these frameworks have gained renewed relevance in contemporary anthropology.

Through discussion of key theoretical texts and ethnographic examples, we will ask: How do ghosts, absences, and the uncanny shape lived experience and perception? How might haunting serve as a method for grasping what resists representation—such as histories of violence, displacement, or silenced subjectivities? And how can these themes inform, complicate, or illuminate our own research practices and ethnographic encounters?

Academic Aim:

1. Introduce recent theoretical developments on haunting and spectrality within phenomenology and anthropology
2. Provide tools for reflecting on how these concepts relate to participants' own fieldwork and PhD projects
3. Facilitate an open, critical, and interdisciplinary conversation around the methodological and ethical implications of engaging with the spectral

Target group: Open to all PhD students in Anthropology and related disciplines.

Course lecturers: Roberts Desjarlais, Department of Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College.

Course organizer: Rebecca Solovej, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

Programme: TBA.

Language: English

ECTS: 0.5

Max. numbers of participants: 7

Course fee: A course fee of DKK 1,200 per ECTS will be charged to PhD students at the CBS.

Registration: Please register via the link in the box no later than 19 May 2025.

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

Literature: TBA for the students accepted in the course