Previously offered PhD courses

This course introduces idiodynamic research methods as a way to capture individual, moment-by-moment experiences that traditional group-based approaches often overlook. Students will gain hands-on experience with innovative data collection tools and explore how these methods can reshape research in the Humanities.

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This course examines hegemony as an analytical tool for understanding power, ideology, and cultural dominance. It traces the concept’s development from classical theories to contemporary debates, with applications in areas such as state formation, gender relations, post-colonial studies, and education.

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This course explores ideas and theories of totalitarianism from the 1920s to the present, focusing on the relationship between totalitarian regimes and totalizing tendencies in modern thought, history, and art. Drawing on thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Adorno, and Benjamin, it examines how ideology shapes reality and how literature, philosophy, and art can both reflect and resist totalizing modes of thought.

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In the course, Linguistic Ethnography and its contributions to research on language – particularly multilingualism – and identity in educational and other social contexts is introduced, discussed and problematized. Moreover, central theoretical and methodological principles are discussed as well as points of
departures for ethnographic research.

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Kursen ger en översikt över samtida teori inom det litterära fältet, med fokus på ett urval av de olika teoretiska vändningar som skett inom litteraturämnet från 1960-talets språkliga till dagens ontologiska vändning. 

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Language is used in a (social) context for various purposes, e.g. to lie, mislead other people or to tell the truth. The course explores the concepts, perspectives and methods that have been developed in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, rhetoric and discourse analysis to illuminate language as action.

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Specific knowledge of an area, region or country is an important basis for research projects in different academic disciplines. This interdisciplinary course is a collaboration between the Nordic Latin American Institute (NILAS) at the Department of Romance and Classical Studies and the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The course provides specific area knowledge of Latin America, Asia and the Middle East and highlights historical and contemporary relations between these geographical regions.

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The overarching aim of the course is to improve the participants’ academic writing skills in order to facilitate publication output in international peer-reviewed journals. Also included in the course is the preparation of monograph proposals.

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The course aims at introducing and providing proficiency in various types of  linguistic approaches to discourse analysis. It is open for doctorate students, both in linguistics and in other disciplines, where the student nurtures a research interest for historical, social and political issues and phenomena.

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The course investigates complexities regarding language, identity, and place under global conditions. It introduces different theoretical and methodological frameworks in order to investigate the complexities regarding identity, corporeality, language, place, ethnicity and other differences in relation to the new global zones of contact.

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The course offers a study environment where we work on developing theory from your own empirical material. Together with invited guests who present current critical perspectives, we benefit from each other's different competencies in the humanities and social sciences.

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This course is an introduction to measuring the human brain structure and function using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and it is designed for research students from any background. The aim is for the students to acquire a broad view of how MRI is used within their discipline.

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The course studies this major unfinished work and its significance in fields such as historiography and philosophy, material and visual studies, and theories of spatiality and temporality.

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The course introduces basic theory and methodology for sampling, collection, preparation, annotation and analysis of text data in the humanities and social sciences, and provides an overview of state-of-the-art language technology methods for automatically analysing large amounts of text.

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