Course Reading/Writing: Concepts

ECTS: 2

Course leader: Jussi Parikka

Language: English

Graduate school: Faculty of Arts

Course fee: 0.00 DKK

Status: Course is open for application

Semester: Fall 2024

Application deadline: 04/11/2024

Cancellation deadline: 04/11/2024

Course type: Online education

Start date: 09/12/2024

Administrator: Andreas Mølgaard Laursen

Registration

When registering in the application facility, you will automatically be placed on a waiting list for a seat on the course. As soon as possible after the application deadline, seats will be allocated and all applicants will be notified whether or not they have been offered a spot on the course.

Registration

If you are offered a seat on the course, please note that your registration is binding. Cancellation is only accepted in special cases such as illness.

Online course

This course is an online course. After the application deadline the accepted participants will receive a zoom link.

Course description
This course will focus on concepts as part of methodological inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. The aim is to address the work of traveling concepts (Mieke Bal) as part of cultural analysis, which helps to define disciplinary and transdisciplinary discussions as well as look at what has been coined creative humanities through conceptual writing (van der Tuin and Verhoeff). The course will include lectures and discussions on the role of concepts as well as lead into writing exercises: how to write with concepts, what concepts are part of our inquiry, how is writing itself a methodology across disciplines.  How do we practice writing while also inquiring what are the concepts that both circulate and hold together disciplines we are involved in? 


Aim
From this course the students will gain:

  • A core understanding of conceptual work in the humanities.
  • Developing insights to practice of writing, including concepts in scholarly argumentation and writing.
  • A cross-disciplinary comparative perspective.

Literature

Tentative literature includes selections from

  • Mieke Bal, Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide. University of Toronto Press, 2002.
  • Iris van der Tuin and Nanna Verhoeff, Critical Concepts for the Creative Humanities. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.
  • Bernd Herzogenrath (ed.), Concepts: a travelogue. Bloomsbury, 2022.
  • Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What is Philosophy? Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell III. Columbia University Press, 1996.

Target group/Participants
Ph.d.students at all stages. 

Seats are reserved to internal PhD students.

Language    
English

Form
Online course: Lectures and seminar, writing exercises.

ECTS-credits
2

Lecturers

Jussi Parikka

If you have any questions regardring the course please contact Jussi: parikka@cc.au.dk

Venue
Online

This course is an online course. After the application deadline the accepted participants will receive a zoom link.

Course dates:

  • 09 December 2024 13:00 - 16:00
  • 11 December 2024 14:00 - 16:00
  • 12 December 2024 13:00 - 16:00