Most meetings of the course are simultaneously both face-to-face and online via zoom.

The zoom address is: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/64427431127Links to an external site.

Sources:

method statements from doctoral examples

examples of non-PhD method discourses

 

 

START UP MEETING

31 August        Wednesday     11:00-12:00   ZOOM ONLY

• Introduction and explanation of first assignments
• Introduction to the course content and structure
• Why a discussion of method as part of the doctoral education process?
• Looking at the Dublin doctoral descriptorLinks to an external site. and different national contexts
• Why is there often a resistance to the discussion of method, in relation to some of the arts and creative practices? In relation to other forms of enquiry?
• About the assignment tasks.

 

Intensive #1

7 September   Wednesday     10:00-12:00    ZOOM ONLY

10:00-10:50 looking at method statements from doctoral examples A & B

11:10-12:00 looking at method statements 1. & 2. from two examples of non-PhD method discourses

8 September   Thursday         10:00-16:00  

Morning in Glashuset  & on ZOOM

10:00-10:25 following up on issues raised in discussion on previous day

10:25-10:50 looking at an example of a research plan

11:10-12:00 research specification and ways of refining a research proposal

 

Afternoon in Room 2081 (Storgatan block in Valand) & on ZOOM

13:00-14:15 why is method such a contested construct? (attempting an answer via a genealogy of method debates)

14:45-15:45 why is method such a contested construct? (some simple strategies for navigating questions of method)

15:45-16:00 the tasks and presenting each other’s work in intensive #2

 

NOTES FROM FIRST INTENSIVE:Links to an external site.

 

Deadline Task #1

16 September Friday              18:00             

Share a description of your research project with particular attention to basic research task and how the research is practically organised.

This is where you can upload your file: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iIGp4KUal3oTZa92aHULr2Uddu0cehYo?usp=sharingLinks to an external site. You will gain access at the meeting on the first day by gibing the email that you use for accessing googledrive folders.

More detail about this task here: https://canvas.gu.se/eportfolios/1764/Home/TASK_1

• Vrishali to present Simon’s project
• Simon to present Shoey’s project
• Shoey to present Rabbya’s project
• Rabbya to present Mohammed’s project
• Mohammed to present Lito’s project
• Lito to present Linda’s project
• Linda to present Jack’s project
• Jack to present Ginevra’s project
• Ginevra to present Funa’s project
• Funa to present Elburuz's project
• Elburuz to present Daniel’s project
• Daniel to present Anders's Project
• Anders to present Vrishali’s project

Intensive #2                                            

28 September     Wednesday     10:00-16:00  

10:00-11:00            2 presentations

• Simon to present Shoey’s project
• Shoey to present Rabbya’s project

11:15-12:15            3 presentations

• Rabbya to present Mohammed’s project
• Mohammed to present Lito’s project
• Lito to present Linda’s project

13:30-14:30            3 presentations* by course participants

• Linda to present Jack’s project
• Funa to present Elburuz's project
• Elburuz to present Daniel’s project

15:00-16:00            2 presentations* by course participants  (revision to schedule)

• Jack to present Ginevra’s project
• Ginevra to present Funa’s project

*Each person in the group is invited to present the research project of another member of the group, based on the material supplied in the first assignment. Each person is asked to respond by clarifying issues raised when their classmate has presented their research project.

29 September    Thursday         10:00-16:00

proposed revision - we start later than originally scheduled

11:00-12:15            Research Ethics session

13:30-14:30            3 presentations* by course participants     

• Vrishali to present Simon’s project
• Daniel to present Anders's Project
• Anders to present Vrishali’s project

14:45-15:45            Presentation: Case Study – a key research instrument

15:45-16:00            Briefing for the workshop on art & research publishing

Issues to bring forward form this intensive: "the archive" and "eurocentrism" - what relations we propose between these; the different ways "art" may be constructed and the different ways questions of "the artistic exception" may be constructed...

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Special Workshop on art & research publishing

Ecologies of Art Publishing 12-14 October 2022

See detailed programme here

L’Internationale Online and Hdk-Valand, together with the Faculty Research School Basic Course 2 Methods, hosts a series of public events on different aspects of the ecologies of art and research publishing. Contributors include: Sezgin Boynik, Leuli Eshraghi, Maryam Fanni, Milena Khomchenko,   Marti Manen, Svitlana Matviyenko, Samaneh Moafi, Yvette Mutumba, Paul O’Neill, Niclas Östlind, Gerrie van Noord, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Sasrtah Tuck, Francoise Vergés, Eva Weinmayr, and more invited guests.

 

 

SMALL TASK: Please put your name against any topic or any reading that you would like to be part opf discussing in a future group meeting during intensive 4 and 5 by the end of today: Wednesday 26 October.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/148Zqn5UU1Qs9Cc0vhaFplxqhooJV2Z2gp3yMvzTcNag/edit?usp=sharing Links to an external site.

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Deadline Task #2  "THREE THINGS"

Deadline extended to: 24  October  Monday 18:00       

(i) Propose a topic for discussion or text for close reading in the course

(ii) Submit an updated abstract of your project

(iii) Indicate how “publishing” is part (or not) of your research project

     

This is where you can upload your file: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iIGp4KUal3oTZa92aHULr2Uddu0cehYo?usp=sharing

More about TASK #2 here. https://canvas.gu.se/eportfolios/1764/Home/TASK_2

 

 

Intensive #3                         

25 October      Tuesday           09:30-16:00   

09:30-10:30 Looking at method statements from doctoral examples C & D method statements from doctoral examples C & D

11:00-12:00 Different genres of “academic” writing

13:30-14:40 Ways of disclosing practice and practical works (Working in break-out groups)

15:00-16:00 Writing an abstract (with particular reference to method)

26 October      Wednesday     10:00-12:00 

10:00-10:25 Following up on issues raised in discussion on previous day

 10:25-11:00 Presentation “Positionality, situatedness, embodiment: Methodological themes in feminist research practices.”

11:15-12:00 Presentation continued

 

Intensive #4                                                     

22 November    Tuesday      

14:00-16:30 

14:00-14:45 Looking at method statements from doctoral examples E & F (Working in break-out groups)  method statements from doctoral examples E & F

15:00-16:00  Writing about method (with reference to 9. of examples of non-PhD method discourses by Gordon, Avery (1997) Chapter 1 “Her shape and his hand”, Links to an external site.Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 3-30. )

16:00-16:30 Universities, academies & questions of institutionalisation

23 November    Wednesday      10:00-12:00

10:00-11:00 Looking at method statements from non-doctoral examples 4 , 5 and 6.  (Working in break-out groups)

4. Christina Sharpe (2019) “Beauty Is a Method,” eflux Journal, #105, December.Links to an external site.  This text proposes beauty as a way of doing something, as a method. What do you think ‘beauty’ means here? What is beauty doing here?

5. Rorty, Richard “Method, Social Science, and Social Hope”,Links to an external site. excerpted from Consequences of Pragmatism (Essays: 1972-1980), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 191-210. This text problematizes a Eurocentric tradition of knowledge and method talk from within that tradition. What way is the word ‘method’ used here? What is the basic argument about ‘method’ here?

6. Zavala, Miguel (2013) “What Do We Mean by Decolonizing Research Strategies? Lessons from Decolonizing, Indigenous Research Projects in New Zealand and Latin AmericaLinks to an external site.,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 2, No. 1. 55-71.  This text is an example of a claim that ways of working (methods) are not the centrally relevant issue, but rather the wider strategic setting when seeking to do decolonizing work. What is the difference between “strategy” and “method” as the words are used in this text?

11:15-12:00 Presentation: How do I decide what way to work? Where do methods come from?”

 

Intensive #5 postponed - new schedule for January 2023

NO MEETING - Tuesday 29 November  and  Wednesday 30 November     

As discussed in last week’s session - we will not meet this week. I have to change our schedule because of changes in other work flows with two EU projects. So instead you are each asked to use the time to prepare:

• A time plan for your project – indicating key steps and key milestones or project actions or outputs or tangible works along the way. This can be just for the year of 2023 OR it can be for the lifetime of the PhD project. Whichever is most useful to you. The document should not be a “homework task for teacher” but simply a useful instrument for getting you and your research project. So the question of if you are doing it right or not, comes back to whether you are making a document that is useful for you or not – you decide what is useful
• A short set of working notes that you can use to prepare for a presentation to the group where you discuss (i) how does the question of method and /or methodology arose within your project (rather than within a PhD exam) – This means what questions about how to do things are arising from within just doing the practice and/or doing your enquiry?

The deadline for sending your time plan and your working notes (rough work – not an essay) is Wednesday 21^st  December  (18,00)

Share the material by uploading to GOOGLEDRIVE folder as before - (the URL address is in email sent November 28th at 22:15)

please use your name in the filename: “FirstName-Surname-methods_task3”

Extra sessions in January

12 January       Thursday    10:00-16:00     

13 January       Friday         10:00-12:30  

17 January       Tuesday      10:00-16:00 

18 January       Wednesday 10:00-12:30 

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(New) Intensive #5

12 January  Thursday            10:00-16:00

10:00-10:30   Short recap of course so far.

10:30-12:00   Break out groups on topic based on participants' proposal

George Saliba (2010) ”Blurred Edges: At the Intersection of Science, Culture, and Art” in Variantology 4: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in the Arabic-Islamic World and Beyond, edited by Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlus in cooperation with Daniel Irrgang and Franziska Latell, Kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek, vol. 45, Walther König, Köln, 2010, pp. 345-361. https://www.academia.edu/14165644/Blurred_Edges_intersection_of_science_culture_and_art Links to an external site.

13:10-14:20  Two participant presentations

14:45-16:00  Two participant presentations 

13 January  Friday            10:00-12:30

10:00-11:00  Looking at method statements from doctoral examples G & H (Working in break-out groups)  method statements from doctoral examples G & H

11:15-12:30  A discussion of authorship within the thesis-construct. What happens in collaborations with multiple people, both outside and inside university, sometimes making it difficult to navigate responsibility, authorship, remuneration, credit, distribution of roles and decision-making etc.  (Topic based on participants' proposals).

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(New) Intensive #6

17 January  Tuesday            10:00-16:00

11:00-12:10  Two participant presentations Simon & Shoey

13:10-14:20  Two participant presentations Elburuz & Vrishali

14:45-16:00  Two participant presentations Daniel & Rabbya (to be confirmed)

see advance material here . https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iIGp4KUal3oTZa92aHULr2Uddu0cehYo?usp=sharing Links to an external site.

 

18 January  Wednesday     10:00-12:30

10:00-11:00  Looking at method statements from doctoral examples I & J (Working in break-out groups)  method statements from doctoral examples I & J

11:15-12:30  Break out groups: Topics based on participants' proposals:

• negotiating the difference and interaction of "artistic" and "research" ways of workjing (methods)
• contrasting ways of producing and legitimising knowledge - mythic, mystical, poetic, empirical, rationalist, narrative, explanatory, descriptive, religious, - or what "counts" as knowledge?

19 January 2023 Thursday  10:00-13:00

12:00-12:30  Your feedback