Norwegian Researcher Training School

Text Image Sound Space (’TBLR’) –

Analysis, Interpretation, and the Exchange of Theories and Ideas

TBLR Bergen Branch – and TBLR National and International levels

Norwegian version

TBLR’s main webpage

FALL 2012 – SPRING 2013

Site continuously being updated.

Check back for latest.

Last revised: January 23rd 2013

MESSAGES:

Check back for other announcements <––

”On Rancière”: Programme, Abstracts, Curriculum, PhD-Papers, Participants – see left margin below <--

Also see TBLR’s national website at the University of Bergen (same info) <--

FOR A SURVEY OF ALREADY COMPLETED TBLR-COURSES (with links) from 2007 till today 2012,

locally, nationally, and internationally – see the overviews bottom left <--

About TBLR and TBLR/Bergen, scroll to bottom of the webpage. <--

Check out the programme at <--

Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, Literature and the Arts

As No. 3 in the Nomadikon Lecture Series prof. Joanna Zylinska will present her lecture “Taking Responsibility for Life: Bioethics and Bioart” at 10:15 on Friday 25 January 2013 at Seminar Room 548, Lauritz Meltzers Hus, UiB (Fosswinckelsgate 6). Everybody from the TBLR are cordially welcome. Lecture Abstract: Bioart, a genre of art in which artists use biomaterial such as live tissue, blood, genes, bacteria or viruses as their ‘canvas,’ opens up an interesting set of possibilities. These possibilities are not just visual but also material, and hence ontological: they concern the very nature of existence in time, and of what we understand by seemingly self-evident concepts such as duration, emergence, reproduction and being alive. In works such as those by Tissue Culture & Art Project, Stelarc or Eduardo Kac life is being re-created, pushed to the limit, remoulded, remediated, cut and spliced back again. Bioartists can thus be said to take art’s creative imperative to a different level, echoing what the philosopher Henri Bergson termed ‘creative evolution’—a form of life’s unfolding which does not proceed in straight vertical lines according to a pre-designed formula. In this way, bioartistic experiments not only undermine the metaphysical understanding of life but also challenge the traditional humanist value-based ethics, whereby this nebulous entity called ‘human life’ is posited in advance as a value, something to be protected at all cost. In posing this challenge, bioartists do not just perform life differently but also enact a different ethics of life, taking responsibility for various life forms: humans, animals, organs, cells, bacteria. The protection of life’s unfolding constitutes the first condition of this ethics. Critical reflection on the emergence of these different life forms, and on the relations between them, forms its core injunction. Joanna Zylinska is Professor of New Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her most recent book is Life After New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process (with Sarah Kember, MIT Press). – See Joanna Zylinska’s homepage. – Sea also presentation at Nomadikon’s homepages.

LOCAL TBLR/Bergen RESEARCHER-TRAINING COURSE, BERGEN, Fall 2012: “On Jacques Rancière” 29^th-30^th Nov., 2012 Venue: Seminar room 217 at HF-bygget (Sydnesplass 7) PROGRAMME CURRICULUM Gabriel Rockhill: Abstract Oliver Davis: Abstract LIST OF COURSE PARTICIPANTS PhD-PAPERS

Announcing local TBLR/Bergen researcher-training course for PhD-students in aesthetic disciplines at the University of Bergen and affiliated institutions Thursday 29th-Friday 30th November 2012. Enlistments to anders.gullestad@lle.uib.no and lars.saetre@lle.uib.no (use both addresses), no later than 25. Oct. 2012. Topic focus: “On Jacques Rancière” – his thought’s aesthetic-political relevance to literary, art historical, theatre, visual culture and film studies, and his thought’s current actuality A two-days’ special-focus PhD-course combined with sessions with presentations and discussions of pre-submitted PhD-student papers/thesis chapters. Course description: Even though Jacques Rancière (b. 1940) has been active since he contributed to Reading Capital in 1965 as part of the group of philosophers working with Louis Althusser, it is only during the last decade that he has become a household name to the English-speaking academic world. The last few years, in particular, has seen a torrent of new translations of his works being published, coinciding with a large number of scholars from a variety of different fields – philosophy, art history, visual culture, theatre studies, comparative literature, queer theory, and political science, just to name a few – starting to incorporate his concepts into their own work. At the moment, Rancière’s ideas seem to be everywhere. For this reason and due to suggestions from our TBLR/B PhD-students, the TBLR/B are happy to offer a seminar on Rancière’s work on aesthetics. To claim that this is one of the areas where his work has been most keenly received is somewhat of an understatement; what his attempt to show the fundamental connection between the aesthetic and the political has amounted to, in the words of philosopher Keith Ansell Pearson, is no less than “a revitalization of the term ‘aesthetics’”. But how are we to understand this revitalization, and what are its consequences? How should we go about gauging the strengths, but also possible limitations of Rancière’s aesthetic philosophy? What sort of questions can his work open up for? What can be gained by applying his concepts to our own research, and what are potential pitfalls of doing so? And does his present popularity mean that his ideas are somehow in danger of being co-opted or emptied of meaning, and, if so, how can we counteract this process? To help us discuss such questions, two distinguished scholars, both of which have published extensively on Rancière, have accepted our invitation to take part in the two-day seminar course, alongside TBLR/B’s faculty staff and the PhD-students themselves: Gabriel Rockhill and Oliver Davis will give keynote lectures: Assist. Professor, PhD Gabriel Rockhill (Villanova University & Collège International de Philosophie, Paris) is the translator and editor of Rancière’s The Politics of Aesthetics (2004), and has also co-edited the anthology Jacques Rancière: History, Politics, Aesthetics (2009) with Philip Watts. --> Gabriel Rockhill’s lecture abstract. Dr Oliver Davis (The University of Warwick) is the author of Jacques Rancière (2010) and articles such as “Rancière and Queer Theory: On irritable attachment” (2009) and “The Radical Pedagogies of François Bon and Jacques Rancière” (2010). --> Oliver Davis’ lecture abstract. Guest lectures, free and open discussion of the lectures, questions, comments, and references to the beforehand-read obligatory curriculum – in all of which everybody is invited to join in – will take place as plenary sessions during the topic-focus “Rancière-day”. Time permitting, group work on allotted curricular texts may also apply, before the groups return with their findings (orally) for a summing-up discusssion at the plenary session. Comprehensive programme List of course participants Venue on both days: University of Bergen’s HF-bygget (street address: Sydnesplass 7); Seminar room 217 as plenary venue (one flight up); Seminar rooms 326 and 401 as group-work venues (two and three flights up). Curriculum / Reading materials: Study materials are free of charge (except prospective books, that need to be purchased or lent individually). All curricular materials should be read beforehand, incl. the pre-submitted PhD-papers. For curricular materials, click “Curriculum” in left margin. PhD-Papers: While you are welcome to take part both with and without a pre-submitted paper, yet the PhD-students are encouraged to submit papers (in English or Norwegian, max. length 15 pp, double spacing), to be discussed in groups (30 minutes+ each). NB: For the PhD-student papers the topics are free and need not necessarily be tied in with the course’s overall topic focus on Rancière. Papers at any level of completion are welcomed. If submitting your paper in Norwegian, then please include an abstract of max. a page in English. Links to enlisted and submitted papers will be organized on this webiste, check below. Papers will be removed from the webpage immediately after the course has been terminated. All materials should be read beforehand. – Since papers will have been read beforehand, each PhD-student participating with a paper first presents his/her work orally for 5-8 minutes (for example by contextualizing it); then the other PhD-students, the TBLR/Bergen’s staff faculty, other supervisors who wold like to take part, as well as the (circulating) keynote guests will join in, discussing each paper in a constructively critical manner. In the case of many papers, we will subdivide into groups; in the case of a number of papers that can be handled within one group, we will go for plenary paper sessions. PhD-paper: Gunnerød PhD-paper: Vaage PhD-paper: Heermann PhD-paper: Jul-Larsen PhD-paper: Gullestad PhD-paper: Bale Amundsen Working language: Whenever there are non-Scandinavian speakers present at the various sessions, working language at the PhD-course will be English. Whenever only Scandinavian speakers are assembled, Norwegian/Scandinavian may apply. ECTS / “Studiepoeng innenfor opplæringsdelen”: Participation without a paper: 2 ECTS (‘studiepoeng’); participation with a paper: 5 ECTS. – Signed and authorized course diplomas will be bestowed upon each PhD-student participant on completion of the 2-days’ course. Immediately thereafter, a signed and authorized ECTS-report with all data relating to your completed participation will be shipped to the researcher-training administrative officer at the academic institution of your affiliation. Venue, accommodation, meals, travel, etc.: Venue: University of Bergen’s HF-bygget (on both days: sem.room 217 as plenary venue; sem.rooms 326 and 401 as group-work venues). Luncheon on both course days will be covered by the TBLR/Bergen. Since this is primarily a local TBLR/B course, the bulk of participating PhD-students are expected to reside in Bergen and will need no extra accommodation. PhD-students who hold positions at other academic institutions (such as the university colleges) yet are inscribed into the PhD-programme at the University of Bergen and also have their supervisors there, may apply to have accommodation costs 1 night covered. In the case of vacant course places after the UiB-affiliated PhD-students’ enlistments, the TBLR/B will consider opening the course also to other interested PhD-students representing one of the other member institutions of TBLR’s National level other than the UiB (i.e. NTNU, UiTromsø, UiStavanger, and UiAgder). For those who need to travel, each participating PhD-student is him/herself responsible for the travel costs, and for booking and purchasing tickets ample time in advance (this goes for all travelling participants). With the exception of those mentioned above who are eligible to apply beforehand to have 1 night accommodation covered due to their affiliation with the UiB, room and board need also to be booked and covered by those travelling to Bergen (except for the two free luncheons). Application deadline: Thursday 25^th October 2012. Apply per e-mail, preferably at your earliest convenience, to anders.gullestad@lle.uib.no and lars.saetre@lle.uib.no (use both e-mail addresses when you enlist). At the same time, briefly state your ongoing project’s title, its status, the title of your TBLR-paper, your discipline, your department affiliation, and name/e-mail of your supervisor(s) – who are also welcome to take part. – For new PhD-students: Please fill in the TBLR registration form so that we can include you in our mailing-list and enter you on TBLR’s list (see webpage section, below, right), and send it to Gullestad and Sætre. Deadline for submitting enlisted papers: No later than Wednesday 14^th November 2012, at 12:00, both to anders.gullestad@lle.uib.no and lars.saetre@lle.uib.no. Organizer: Norwegian National Researcher Training School “Text Image Sound Space (‘TBLR’)”, Bergen Branch. – In the case of any questions, do not hesitate to contact Gullestad and Sætre. Financial support: UiB/Faculty of Humanities, and UiB/Dept. of Information Science and Media Studies (SV). Welcome! Evaluations: tba, after event.

TBLR/National–Norwegian National Researcher Training School, and TBLR/Bergen–local Bergen branch: PhD Researcher training courses. PhD-RESEARCHER-TRAINING COURSES FALL 2012 / SPRING 2013. See comprehensive list (below left, with links) of already held TBLR PhD-researcher training courses, both locally at UiB, nationally, and internationally. Click on each course link for course layouts as well as for curricular materials (still available). See list with links (below right) to member, membership, projects and supervisor info, to handbooks, and to TBLR Bergen’s and TBLR National’s leadership.

TBLR/ National: Announcing National TBLR-course in Munich, Jan. 2013 (See also direct link to the national course’s main wepage: here) “Aesthetic Concepts and Changing Forms” National researcher-training PhD-course Tutzing and Munich, Germany January 9^th–12^th 2013 This interdisciplinary doctoral course addresses the concept of ‘form’ and its relevance in today’s aesthetic criticism. Our point of departure is the innovative aspects of contemporary artistic expression, from literature and music to the fine arts. From this position the course aims to generate a critical discussion of the form-related models of our aesthetic thought and discourses. – The course is a combined scholarly topic-focused course (with invited keynote guest lecturers, curricular reading materials, discussions of lectures and curriculum), as well as a course leaving ample time for discussion-sessions of presubmitted PhD-candidates’ papers. The course is open to PhD-candidates from the Norwegian researcher-training school Text, Image, Sound, Space – TBLR (University of Bergen, University of Stavanger, University of Agder, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, and University of Tromsø). Course description and organizaton: Click here. Comprehensive programme: Click here. Invited keynote guest lecturers, alongside TBLR/National’s staff. Brief academic Bio’s of: Annegret Heitmann (LMU/BRD), Frederik Tygstrup (CU/DK), Robin van den Akker (Erasmus Rotterdam/NL), Timotheus Vermeulen (Radboud Nijmegen/NL/BRD), and Birgit Mersmann (Jacobs Bremen/BRD): Click here. Venues etc.: Evangelische Akademie, Tutzing (am Starnberger See), and (for final course day) transfer to Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Travelling details are given in Course Description. Meals and accommodation will be covered by the TBLR. Each participating PhD-student is him/herself responsible for the travel costs, and for booking and purchasing tickets ample time advance. Curriculum / Reading materials: All materials should be read beforehand. Materials will be announced and published here. PhD-Papers: The PhD-students are encouraged to submit papers (in English or Norwegian, max. length 15 pp, double spacing), to be discussed in groups (30 minutes each). If submitting your paper in Norwegian, then please include an abstract of max. a page in English. Links to submitted papers will be organized, check here. Papers will be removed from the webpage immediately after the course has been terminated. All materials should be read beforehand. PhD-paper: XXXXX PhD-paper: XXXXX PhD-paper: XXXXX PhD-paper: XXXXX etc. List of participants (tba.) ECTS: Participation without a paper: 2 ECTS (‘studiepoeng’); participation with a paper: 5 ECTS. Application deadline: 1^st November 2012. Apply per e-mail, and use this application form: click here. Deadline for submitting papers: 1^st December 2012. Please, submit applications as well as PhD-papers per e-mail to: unni.langas@uia.no. Organizer: Norwegian National Researcher Training School “Text Image Sound Space (‘TBLR’)”, main organizer Agder branch, Agder University. Financial support: UiB, NTNU, UiT, UiA, UiS; NFU-H; in coop. with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Welcome! Evaluations: tba, after event.

RESEARCHER-TRAINING SEMINAR, BERGEN, Fall 2012.

Announcing Start-up Day for new PhD-candidates, in Bergen, 4^th Oct. 2012 Enlistment at the latest by 17^th Sept. 2012 Start-up Day for new PhD-candidates in Bergen Venue, time: Scandic Neptun, 4^th Oct. 2012, from 10.00–16.00 Enlistment to Kirsten Bang (FOF): kirsten.bang@fof.uib.no Description: Introductions will be given by HF’s Faculty Director, Pro-Dean for Research, HF’s research consultants, who will inform about the researcher-training trajectory with a focus on the start-up period and the PhD-programme’s educational part, og by SVT (Rasmus Slaattelid) who will present the obligatory theory of scholarship/science- component (VITHF900) within the programme’s educational part. Ample time for questions. Furthermore, the PhD-students’ poitical and social body – the STIP-HF – will introduce themselves and their work. There will also be a panel forum addressing among other things supervising and PhD-progression questions. On the panel will be two PhD-students and two supervisors / researcher-training engaged faculty (Roger Strand from SVT; and Lars Sætre from LLE and from the Researcher-Training School for Aesthetic Disciplines, the TBLR – Text Image Sound Space). Ample time for summing up and for questions. – In the evening: (optional) dinner. Everybody interested within HF are welcome. The programme has come about as a co-operation bwteen (primarily) the STIP-HF, FOF, HF and the other participants. PhD-students from all disiplines and areas of study are welcome. Comprehensive announcement: Click here.

RESEARCHER-TRAINING CONFERENCE, TROMSØ, Fall 2012.

Announcing a Conference in Art Studies at the University of Tromsø, Tromsø, 21.-23. Nov. 2012 Call for papers Enlistment to monica.grini@uit.no and svein.aamold@uit.no, at the latest by 15. Oct. 2012. “Sámi Art: Perspectives on the Indigenous and the Contemporary” Further practical details on the programme and on the local venue will be available at enlistment. Description: 21.-23. November 2012 Art Studies at the University of Tromsø will organize a conference related to the Sámi Art Research Project. Under the caption “Sámi Art: Perspectives on the Indigenous and the Contemporary” the conference will touch upon a series of topics and challenges concerning methodology, theory, historiography and aesthetics, all of which are also of central relevance to scholars who do not primarily work with Sámi art. Keynote speakers: James Elkins, Dylan Miner og Greg Hill. Participants are welcome both with and without a paper. See attached Call for papers for further information. Support: PhD-students from elsewhere than Tromsø, primarily those who wish to contribute with their own papers, may apply for some financial support regarding travel expenses and accommodation. – Contact Monica Grini, PhD-student, Teorifagbygget, Hus 4, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø. – Tel: 77644567 / 93458925. Comprehensive anouncement: Click here.

LINKS TO PREVIOUS LOCALLY ORGANIZED COURSES AND SEMINARS,

TBLR/BERGEN 2007-’08-’09-’10-’11-’12

(course materials and curriculum always available):

See comprehensive list with links bottom left on the Norwegian-version TBLR-webpage.

LINKS TO PREVIOUS TBLR/Nationally, Internationally and Locally

ORGANIZED COURSES 2007-’09-’10-’11-’12

(course materials and curriculum always available):

See comprehensive list with links bottom left on the Norwegian version TBLR-webpage.

DOCUMENTS AND DOWNLOADS

orientation bottom of webpage - print out yourself:

--> Orientering og registreringsskjema

--> Stipendiater og prosjekter reg. hos TBLR pr dato

--> Stip. og prosj. Infomedia pr dato

--> E-postadresser stipendiater pr dato

--> E-postadresser veiledere pr dato

--> BOK: Mieke Bal, Guidelines for Writing

a PhD Thesis within ASCA

--> LISTE: Håndbøker (Toril Moi)

TBLR/Bergen’s CO-ORDINATING GROUP/LEADER GROUP

Prof. Lars Sætre (Allm. litt.vit., LLE – Leader)

Prof. Asbjørn Grønstad (Infomedia, film, litt., SV)

Prof. Randi Koppen (Engelsk, IF)

Førsteaman. Christine Hamm (Nordisk, LLE)

Førsteaman. Keld Hyldig (Teatervit., LLE)

Førsteaman. Henning Laugerud (Kunsthist., LLE)

Stipendiatrepresentanter:

Univ.stip. Laura Skinnebach (Bergen Museum, kunsthist.)

Univ. stip. Anders M. Gullestad (Univ. i Bergen - Sekretær)

TBLR’S NATIONAL BOARD

Prof. Unni Langås (Univ. i Agder – Leader)

Prof. Lars Sætre (Univ. i Bergen)

Prof. Knut Ove Eliassen (NTNU, Trondheim)

Prof. Gunnar Iversen (NTNU, Trondheim)

Prof. Marie-Theres Federhofer (Univ. i Tromsø)

Førsteaman. Cato Wittusen (Univ. i Stavanger)

Prof. II (NTNU) Frederik Tygstrup (Københavns Univ. and Copenhagen Doctoral School)

Univ. stip. Anders M. Gullestad (Univ. i Bergen - Sekretær)

ABOUT TBLR AND TBLR/BERGEN

The Norwegian researcher training school ”Text Image Sound Space (TBLR) – Analysis, Interpretation, and the Exchange of Theories and Ideas” was founded in 2004 as a joint venture between the aesthetic disciplines at UofBergen, NTNU/Trondheim, UofAgder/Kristiansand, and UofTromsø. The University of Stavanger became a member in 2010. At present, UofBergen has the national leadership, as well as its own local branch. In Bergen, it is the researcher-training school of choice for those PhD-candidates working on aesthetics at the Faculty of Humanities and partly for those at Infomedia (at the Faculty of Social Sciences). Unless they abstain, all of these are automatically enrolled into and invited to take part in the TBLR.

Our work includes seminars about dissertation-writing and about different scholarly research topics, foci and themes of high relevance to those working within the fields of aesthetics. It is both a disciplinary and an inter-aesthetic, inter-disciplinary aesthetic research school. Local master classes are also held. The TBLR collaborates with several other international researcher-training schools through a wide and active networking, such as the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, Literature and the Arts, Georg Brandes Skolen, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), and others. The members of the TBLR have the opportunity of applying to participate at courses arranged by these. Further information can be found on the home page of the national branch of the TBLR, as well as on this webpage. Participation at our seminars, locally as well as nationally and internationally, is free of charge. This includes both course materials, food, and lodging, where necessary. The candidates only have to pay for their own transportation and airfares.

PhD-students from the UofBergen, from the affiliated member universities of the TBLR, as well as from other interested parties, please contact Sectretary anders.gullestad@lle.uib.no or Director lars.saetre@lle.uib.no to enroll in our seminars and courses or if you have any questions and/or suggestions, for example regarding scholarly research topics relevant to you as well as possible keynote-speakers. This is to ensure that we are always up to date on the candidates and their projects, and that we have correct e-mail addresses to them and to their supervisors. It will also better enable us to plan ahead for coming courses, seminars and semesters, both locally and for the national courses. NB: We also cordially invite and encourage the Phd-candidates’ supervisors to take part at our arrangements, along with their PhD-candidates as well as with the members of the scholarly staff and the faculty leadership of the TBLR (appointed by the Faculty of Humanities in Bergen and at the other member universities). These are selected from both experienced and more recently assigned PhD-superviors locally and nationally, as well as inter-aesthetically and discipline-wise. Only by meeting and discussing with each other, PhD-students locally and nationally, and PhD-supervisors locally and nationally, can we enrich and – in collaboration, by learning from and teaching to each other – consolidate and further raise the standards of PhD-disseration work as well as the supervising that goes along with it in any area, field, discipline and inter-disciplinary. Our working atmosphere is relatively informal, openminded and friendly, it is one of mutual respect, safety and trust as well as one of constructive and productive criticism and debate.

Please, also register with the TBLR actively yourself per e-mail to lars.saetre@lle.uib.no, by returning the filled-out Registration Form that you find together with a deeper orientation about the workings of the TBLR, HERE. There are also other sections that you will find by clicking on the heading-links on this webpage, such as a list of PhD-candidates, projects, names and e-mail adresses of PhD-candidates and their supervisors, the list of the scholarly TBLR leadership both nationally and locally in Bergen, as well as a list of Mieke Bal’s ecellent Guidelines with just as excellent examples, and Toril Moi’s extensive suggestions as to good handbooks.