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## Formalities
The course consists of lectures, group work, and plenary discussions. To ensure sufficient engagement with the course’s content, to enable peer-learning and to encourage networking across disciplines physical attendance is mandatory and no digital alternatives for participation are provided. Participants can apply for shorter leaves of absence that should altogether not be longer than one day.
The course consists of lectures, group work, and plenary discussions. To ensure sufficient engagement with the course’s content, to enable peer-learning, and to encourage networking across disciplines **physical attendance** is mandatory and no digital alternatives for participation are provided. We are aware of the fact that PhD students are busy people and will in most cases grant shorter leaves of absence. In these cases, please contact Thomas Berker with a very brief description why you cannot participate.
### Lecturers
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### Rooms (all in Dragvoll)
All meetings (except the conference) are at room 8563 (which is somewhat hidden - walk through the library at Dragvoll until you reach the end, then turn to the left).
All meetings (except the conference) are at room TBD.
The conference will take place at room D7.
The conference will take place at room TBD.
### Credit points
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### Required readings
Readings are listed under each of the lectures. All the literature is accessible online or will be made available to the participants in a drop box folder to which they will be given access. Reading and preparing for lectures: All the essential literature must be read before the lectures. Please make sure to prepare some comments/questions for the readings.
Required readings are described below. All the literature is accessible online or is made available to the participants on this site. Reading and preparing for lectures: All the essential literature must be read before the lectures. Please make sure to prepare some comments/questions for the readings.
## Course program
### 28. October: Introduction and Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1)
### 28 April: Introduction and Philosophy and Research Ethics I (day 1)
0900-1100 Thomas Berker: Welcome, about the course, structure, course assignment, and other practical information, also: some getting to know each other
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Browse through the NESH guidelines, available in both Norwegian: https://www.forskningsetikk.no/retningslinjer/hum-sam/forskningsetiske-retningslinjer-for-samfunnsvitenskap-og-humaniora/ or English: https://www.forskningsetikk.no/en/guidelines/social-sciences-humanities-law-and-theology/guidelines-for-research-ethics-in-the-social-sciences-humanities-law-and-theology/
### 29. October: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)
### 29. May: Philosophy and Research Ethics II (day 2)
0900-1200: Jonathan Knowles: Philosophy of Science: Objectivity, Method, and Truth
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- Young, I.M. (1980) ‘Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality’, Human Studies, 3(2), pp. 137–156. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/raw/branch/main/Readings/Day%201+2:%20Philosophy%20of%20science%20and%20research%20ethics/Readings/Young1980.pdf))
### 11. November: Science in context I (day 3)
### 12 May: Science in context I (day 3)
0900-1200 Thomas Berker: Navigating without a (complete) map, lecture and group work
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- Knut H. Sørensen and Sharon Traweek: Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities (Routledge 2022). Chapter 3. In the Shadows of Excellence and Neoliberal Interventions: Enactments of Academic Autonomy and Strained Collegiality (33 p.) The whole book is available here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367259334
### 12. November: Science in context II (day4)
### 13 May: Science in context II (day4)
0900-1200 Terje Finstad: History of science and changes in scientific life. Situating and historicizing your own discipline/subject.
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- Valkenburg, G. (2021). Engineering as a socio-political practice. In D. P. Michelfelder & N. Doorn (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Engineering. Routledge. [While strictly about engineering and not scientific research, much of this chapter resonates and pertains to science.] ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS-H23/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%203+4:%20Science%20in%20context/Readings/Valkenburg%20-%20Engineering%20as%20SocPol%20Practice%20NOT%20FOR%20DISTRIBUTION.pdf))
### 25. November: Critical perspectives I (day 5)
### 26 May: Critical perspectives I (day 5)
0900-1100 Sofia Moratti: Situated knowledge and feminist critique of science
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- Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. 2021. ‘The Cognitive Empire, Politics of Knowledge and African Intellectual Productions: Reflections on Struggles for Epistemic Freedom and Resurgence of Decolonisation in the Twenty-First Century’. Third World Quarterly 42 (5): 882–901. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/sabelo.pdf))
### 26 November: Critical perspectives II (day 6)
### 27 May: Critical perspectives II (day 6)
0900-1100 Elisabeth Stubberud: Decolonizing knowledge production and objectivity
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- Berker, Thomas. “Negotiating research norms between academic and industrial research. The case of a research centre on zero emission buildings in Norway”, to be published in Nordic Architectural Research. ([here](https://learn.kultwiki.net/thomas/TOS/src/branch/main/Readings/Day%205+6:%20Critical%20perspectives/Berker_Negotiating_research_norms.pdf))
### 13. December: Conference
### 06 June: Conference
The participants of the course present papers on how their PhD work relates to the topics of the course. The conference is public and will be organised collectively.
Thomas Berker
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