PhD Courses in Denmark

Department of Anthropology 

Date and time: 4 September 2026 from 10.00-14.00

The seminar Feminist and Critical Phenomenology will explore the field of feminist and critical phenomenology, charting its historical trajectory and recent developments. It addresses central areas and concepts in feminist and critical phenomenology, such as lived embodiment, intercorporeality and intersubjectivity, situated subjectivity, norms and normality, identity and otherness, race, gender, sexuality and sexual difference. It introduces the methodological and conceptual framework of phenomenology and addresses how this has been and is taken up and critically developed in feminist and critical phenomenology.

Cours lecturer: Lisa Käll, Professor, Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Stockholm University.

Course organisers:
Amalie Skovengaard, PhD student, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
Sohayla Khaled, PhD student, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

Programme:
10:00–10:15: Framing and introductions
10:15–11:00: Lecture by Lisa Käll
11:00–12:30: Group discussion
12:30–13:00: Lunch break
13:00–13:45: Plenary discussion and collective feedback
13:45–14:00: Final remarks

Course preparation: Please come to class prepared to engage with the central themes and concepts of feminist and critical phenomenology through the readings. Choose one concept (e.g., lived embodiment, situated subjectivity, intercorporeality, or otherness) that you find relevant to your own research interests and be prepared to discuss how it might inform or challenge your research perspective.

ECTS: 0.5 ECTS for participation including preparation

Max. number of participants: 12

Course fee: The PhD School at the Faculty of Social Sciences participates in Denmark’s national network for PhD courses. This course is free of charge for PhD students enrolled at a one of the participating PhD schools (PhD students enrolled at a Danish University, except from Copenhagen Business School). Other PhD students will be charged a course fee of DKK 1,200 per ECTS for participation in the course (PhD students enrolled at Copenhagen Business School or at a University outside Denmark).

Registration: Please register via the link in the box no later than 24 August 2026.

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

Literature:

Compulsory Readings

Al-Saji, Alia. “Feminist Phenomenology”, The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, eds. Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader and Alison Stone (Routledge 2017), 143-154.

Guenther, Lisa. “What is Critical Phenomenology”, 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, eds. Gail Weiss, Ann V. Murphy and Gayle Salamon (Northwestern UP 2020), 11-16.

Guenther, Lisa. “Six Senses of Critique for Critical Phenomenology”, Puncta. Journal of Critical Phenomenology 4:2 (2021), 5-23.

Oksala, Johanna. “What is Feminist Phenomenology? Thinking Birth Philosophically”, Radical Philosophy 126, (2004), 16-22.

Rodemeyer, Lanei. “A Phenomenological Critique of Critical Phenomenology”, Phenomenology as Critique, eds. Andreea Smaranda Aldea, David Carr and Sara Heinämaa (Routledge 2022), 95-112.

Salamon, Gayle. “What’s Critical about Critical Phenomenology”, Puncta. Journal of Critical Phenomenology 1:1 (2018), 8-17.