No funding for PERLAR (November 2012)

The application for research funding from SAMKUL (Samfunnsutviklingens kulturelle forutsetninger - the cultural preconditions of societal development) in which I was involved as a prospective Assistant Project Manager, with Paul Thibault as Project Manager, "Perceptions of Animal Agency: Large Predators and other Cultured Animals" (PERLAR), did not get funding.

Here's an overview of the 15 projects that did get funding - announced in November 2012 (as the overview shows, no applications from University of Stavanger or University of Agder were successful).

See also:

SAMKUL decision on PERLAR etc. delayed (November 2012)

Filosofisk Forum - looking back, and ahead

Today Filosofisk Forum (Agder University) had what turns out to be our last event for the semester (a seminar-style talk/discussion about love). Unfortunately Camilla Serck-Hanssen (University of Oslo) has had to cancel her planned talk in May - but we expect to host a lecture by her this autumn in stead.

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I have agreed to continue as a member of the steering group this autumn. We'll have to find new student representatives from the fresh one-year philosophy students come September.

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Next week we'll have a steering group meeting. Following that, we'll conduct a report on the activities of this semester.

Research assistant (+100)

I am in the process of signing a new contract (or get my current contract renewed) as a research assistant for the Agder University project Multimodalitet, lesemidler og læremidler (Multimodality, literacy and learning), for another 100 hours.

Town hall meeting on faith approaching

Tuesday 23rd of March, the Filosofisk Forum of the Agder University will arrange a town hall meeting in Kristiansand, Norway, on the topic of faith. I am involved in the planning of this event (and might take part in the execution of it as well).

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At this event, we'll apply the methodology of "philosophical consultations". Before the general, open dialogue, four representatives will talk about their personal faith, or lack thereof (a Christian professor of ethics, a Christian philosopher, a Muslim imam, and a non-believing philosopher).

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Here's a link to the (Norwegian langauge) Facebook group of the event.

Research assistant (UiA) - multimodality

I have been assigned as a research assistant of the UiA (Agder University) research project "Multimodalitet, leseopplæring og læremidler (MULL)" - "Multimodality, reading training and educational materials". In this position I will have some work to do this autumn and next spring, related first of all to dissemination of results. The project sorts under the Department of Nordic and media Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education.

Norwegian language project site here.

University teacher

Today I wrote the contract for teaching in the history of philosophy at Agder University (UiA), Kristiansand, Norway this autumn. Hopefully I will be reassigned for next spring (Kristiansand) and summer (Lesvos, Greece) at a later point.

First lecture took place this Monday, in the biggest auditorium of the university, named after Henrik Ibsen, with some 200 students present - the second on Tuesday. At the very first one, I took some time telling about the history of examen philosophicum (which started out in Copenhagen in the 17th century) in Norway, not least Arne Næss' role in modern times; and the ongoing debate on the place of Ex.phil. in the Norwegian education system (after decades and centuries of revisions and cuts).

I am now a:
- Ph.D. student
- Researcher (in 3 research projects)
- University teacher ("universitetslektor")