Disputations - Page 3

Master Chiara Arnavas at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation The Mafiazation of Land: Crime, the State, and Real Estate Capital in West Bengal, India for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)

Master Nhung Lu Rots at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation Engaged Buddhism and Environmentality among Buddhist Minorities in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)

Master Tyler Barrott at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Powering a Nation: Hydropower Development and the Tanzanian-Norwegian Relationship, 1989-2003 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Zsolt Györegy at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend his dissertation Close Encounters with the Tupi-Guarani: Art, Genre, and Translational Epistemology in Early Modern Ethnography for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Øyvind Haug Nordbotten at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation An Unfulfilled Promise of Industrial Adventure: Analyzing Freyr’s emergence and attempt at establishing battery industry in Norway 2017–2023 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Daniel X Y Fong at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Queer Living and Dying in Opera: (Re)thinking Gender-Sex-Sexuality as/for Queer Opera Singers for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Vidar Benjamin Skretting at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend his dissertation The Origins of Sahelian Jihadism: Algerian Terrorism, Azawadi Emirate, and Malian Insurgency for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Aljasil Chirakkal at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation An Integrated Archaeo-Ecological Approach to Understanding long-term Human Environment Interaction for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Fadi al-Ghawanmeh at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Ṭarab and AI: Maqām Music Generation through Machine Translation and Motion Capture for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Karl Farrugia at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend his dissertation Representations of the Muslim Other in Old Norse Literature,1050-1350 for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Paul Sbertoli-Nielsen at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation How do we do listening across languages and cultures? Structurally aligning with projected continuation in Norwegian and in Peninsular Spanish for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Anna Chebotarova at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Fading Ambivalence, Mounting Uncertainty: Societal Unity and Belonging in Wartime Ukraine, for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Anette Sand-Eriksen at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Houses of Their Own. The emergence of farmsteads and the persistence of mobile living in southeast Norway, 2350–500 BCE: Explorations towards the Nordic Bronze Ages for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Hanne Amanda Trangerud at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation To Use or Refuse? A Study of Religious Vaccine Skepticism and its Interaction with Childhood Immunization Policies in the United States for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Carrie Ann Russpatrick at the Department of Media and Communication will defend her dissertation The Return of the Vulva Monster: Screen Cultures of the Gender-Monstrous for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Tatiana Petrukhina at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Custom in the Long Twelfth Century Canon Law: Theory and Practice for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Jan Dariusz Cutajar at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Surface cleaning and spectral imaging: an interdisciplinary study applied to Munch’s monumental Aula paintings for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Kristine Ødeby Haugan at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation An Archaeology of Nordic Seasonality. Urban life shaped by seasonal rhythm in Oslo 1100–1400 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Mary Elizabeth Neff at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend her dissertation Challenging the Metaphor Deficit: Unpacking Children’s ‘Literally Biased’ Communicative Development for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Master Ingvild Tomren at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation Emboldening the Ordinary in the Egyptian Nahḍa. A Mass Musical Manifesto for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Zahra Abbasi at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend her dissertation Heal Thyself: Construction of Knowledges of Self-Care in Contemporary Iran for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Damjan Božinović at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation "Beyond Borders, Between Languages: Multilingual Post-Yugoslav Literature" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Niamh Anna O'Dowd at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation "Investigating uses of metaphor and metonymy in environmental advocacy and activism discourse and their effects on audience engagement" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).

Master Francesco Maniglia at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Remoulding Cultures: Issues of Continuity and Change in the Italiote Cities of Roman Italy for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).