2022
Merve Akça
Time and place: Nov. 25, 2022 12:15 PM, Harald Schjelderups hus, Forsamlingssalen
Master Merve Akça at the Department of Musicology will defend her dissertation Attending to Sounds In the Blink of An Eye for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Alessandro Regosa
Time and place: Oct. 21, 2022 1:15 PM, Sophus Bugges hus, auditorium 2
PhD Alessandro Regosa at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation The Lagrime Poetry in Early Modern Italy. Texts, Poetics, and Genealogies for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Thierry-Olivier Ford
Time and place: Oct. 14, 2022 12:30 PM
Master Thierry-Olivier Ford at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Revisiting the surface, Edvard Munch and varnishes. A group case study and non-invasive approach to conservation decision-making for painting collections for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Hannah Kristine Lunde
Time and place: Oct. 14, 2022 10:15 AM, Sophus Bugges hus, auditorium 2
Master Hannah Kristine Lunde at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Pilgrimage Matters: Administrative and Semiotic Landscapes of Contemporary Pilgrimage Realisations in Norway for the degree philosophiae doctor (ph.d.).
Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen
Time and place: Sep. 27, 2022 12:30 PM.
Master Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation In the wake of farming. Studies of demographic and economic variability in Southern Norway in the period 4500–1700 BCE for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Johan Georges P Bollaert
Time and place: Sep. 2, 2022 1:15 PM, Sophus Bugges hus, auditorium 2
Master Johan Georges P Bollaert at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend his dissertation Visuality and Literacy in the Medieval Epigraphy of Norway for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD)
Kjell Andreas Oddekalv
Time and place: Aug. 31, 2022 12:15 PM, Harald Schjelderups hus, Forsamlingssalen
Master Kjell Andreas Oddekalv at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation What Makes the Shit Dope? The Techniques and Analysis of Rap Flows for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Malin Kristine Graesse
Time and place: Aug. 18, 2022 10:15 AM
Master Malin Kristine Graesse at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas defended her dissertation Structures in the Stream: Fishways as design interventions in grey ecologies for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Ekaterina Pashevich
Time and place: June 17, 2022 12:15 PM, Sophus Bugges hus, auditorium 2
Master Ekaterina Pashevich at the Department of Media and Communication will defend her dissertation Empathic child-robot communication. Exploring the potential influence of communication with social robots on the development of empathy in children for the degree of philosophiae doctor(PhD).
Max Johannes Kippersund
Time and place: June 3, 2022 2:15 PM
Master Max Johannes Kippersund at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend his dissertation Representational Riches – Papers on the Nature of Visual Experience for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Qichao Lan
Time and place: June 2, 2022 12:15 PM, Forsamlingssalen, Harald Schjelderups hus
Master Qichao Lan at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation entitled Exploring Collaboration in Computer Music Systems for Live Coding for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Marek Susdorf
Time and place: May 20, 2022 2:45 PM, Sophus Bugges hus, auditorium 2
Master Marek Susdorf at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Musicolonialism in Suriname: Sonic Contributions to the Construction of the Category of the Human and Its Others for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Çağrı Erdem
Time and place: May 10, 2022 12:15 PM, Harald Schjelderups hus, Forsamlingssalen
Master Çağrı Erdem at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Controlling or Being Controlled? Exploring Embodiment, Agency and Artificial Intelligence in Interactive Music Performance for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Ulf A. S. Holbrook
Time and place: Apr. 29, 2022 12:15 PM, Harald Schjelderups hus, Forsamlingssalen
Master Ulf A. S. Holbrook at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Objects and Structures: Aesthetical inquiry and artistic experimentation into the relationships between sound objects and spatial audio for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Sigurd Jorem
Time and place: Apr. 22, 2022 10:15 AM
Master Sigurd Jorem at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend his dissertation Crafting Tools for Thought and Talk - Essays on the Theoretical Foundations of Conceptual Engineering for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland
Time and place: Mar. 7, 2022 3:45 PM – 6:30 PM
Master Alexandre Simon-Ekeland at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Making French Polar Exploration, 1860s-1930s for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Sabina Nedelius
Time and place: Feb. 11, 2022 4:15 PM, Sophus Bugges hus, auditorium 2
Master Sabina Nedelius at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Changed Perspectives: On modernised punctuation in Middle English texts for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Grethe Bjørkan Bukkemoen
Time and place: Feb. 4, 2022 12:30 PM
Cand.philol Grethe Bjørkan Bukkemoen at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation An Archaeology of Commensal Spaces. Crafts, culinary practice and the household in the transition from the Early to the Late Iron Age in Norway for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Rebekka Åsnes Sagild
Time and place: Feb. 4, 2022 10:15 AM, Georg Sverdrups hus, auditorium 2 / Zoom
Master Rebekka Åsnes Sagild at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Honorary Cooptation: A Study of Selected Elites in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conferences for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Laila Berg
Time and place: Feb. 4, 2022 10:15 AM, Zoom
Master Laila Berg at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation "If they can do it, why can't we?" Popular Perceptions of the Nordic Region in Scotland for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Kinjal Hiren Joshi
Time and place: Jan. 28, 2022 1:15 PM, Zoom
Master Kinjal Hiren Joshi at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend his dissertation A uniform account for agreement and information structure: A case study of Surati Gujarati or the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Jon Inge Faldalen
Time and place: Jan. 21, 2022 12:15 PM, Zoom
Master Jon Inge Faldalen at the Department of Media and Communication will defend his dissertation Stillmoving for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Henrik Olav Mathiesen
Time and place: Jan. 21, 2022 3:45 PM,
Master Henrik Olav Mathiesen at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation The Epistolary Practices of Norwegian Emigrants and the Emergence of a Transatlantic Public Sphere, ca. 1835–1870 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Ingar M. Gundersen
Time and place: Jan. 20, 2022 12:30 PM
Cand.philol. Ingar M. Gundersen at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Iron Age Vulnerability. The Fimbulwinter hypothesis and the archaeology of the inlands of eastern Norway for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
2021
Mncedisi Jabulani Siteleki
Time and place: Nov. 3, 2021 2:00 PM, Zoom
Master Mncedisi Jabulani Siteleki at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Rethinking the settlement patterns of Late Farming Communities in southern Africa: a reflexive digital approach for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Joona Räsänen
Time and place: Oct. 29, 2021 10:15 AM, Zoom
Master Joona Räsänen at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend his dissertation Ethics and the epigenetic challenge - a bioethical study across the human lifespan for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture: "Methodology and Uncertainty in Applied Ethics"
Elisabeth Brun
Time and place: Oct. 16, 2020 2:00 PM, Digital defence in Zoom
Master Elisabeth Brun at Department of Media and Communication will be defending the thesis: the ESSAY FILM as TOPOGRAPHY - explorations of place through moving image thinking for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor)
Mala Loth
Time and place: Oct. 15, 2021 12:30 PM, Gamle festsal
Master Mala Loth at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Last Stop Luxembourg. Lawyer’s Dynamism and the European Court of Justice’s Contribution to Social Equity, c. 1970-1990 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Yelena Yermakova
Time and place: Sep. 22, 2021 10:15 AM, Zoom
Master Yelena Yermakova at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend her dissertation Governing Antarctica: Assessing the Legitimacy and Justice of the Antarctic Treaty System for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture: What role should justice and legitimacy play in governing a global commons (other than the Antarctic)?
Yasemin Nurcan Hacioglu
Time and place: Sep. 3, 2021 3:15 PM, Sophus Bugges hus, auditorium 2 / Zoom
Master Yasemin Nurcan Hacioglu at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Thinking through Poems: Composition and Decision-Making in Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Novels for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Niangwujia
Time and place: Aug. 20, 2021 9:00 AM, Zoom
Master Niangwujia at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend his dissertation Mountain Deities in Northeast Tibet (Amdo): Narrative and Ritual in the Cult of A-myes sTag-lung for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Melina Antonia Buns
Time and place: June 4, 2021 12:30 PM, Zoom/Auditorium 2, Sophus Bugges building
Master Melina Antonia Buns at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Green Internationalists: Nordic Environmental Cooperation, 1967-1988 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Bianca Patria
Time and place: May 21, 2021 1:15 PM, Zoom
Master Bianca Patria at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend her dissertation Kenning Variation and Lexical Selection in Early Skaldic Verse for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Tom Z. Bradstreet
Time and place: May 6, 2021 3:00 PM, Zoom
Master Tom Z. Bradstreet at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation Towards a Poetics of Posthumanism: Disability, Animality, and the Biopolitics of Narrative in Contemporary Anglophone Literature for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Liisa-Rávná Finbog
Time and place: Apr. 22, 2021 3:00 PM, Zoom
Master Liisa-Rávná Finbog at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation It speaks to you - Making Kin of People, Duodji and Stories in Sami Museums for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Jessica Pedersen Belisle Hansen
Time and place: Apr. 16, 2021 1:15 PM, Zoom
Master Jessica Pedersen Belisle Hansen at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend her dissertation Video-mediated interpreting. The interactional accomplishment of interpreting in video-mediated environments for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Erling Hagen Agøy
Time and place: Feb. 26, 2021 3:00 PM, Zoom
Master Erling Hagen Agøy at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend his dissertation Historical Climate Change in the Jiāngnán Region in the Late Míng and Early Qīng periods (1600-1700): Perceptions, Effects and Adaptation for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Emil Kraugerud
Time and place: Feb. 25, 2021 3:00 PM, Zoom
Master Emil Kraugerud at the Department of musicology will defend his dissertation Come Closer: Acousmatic Intimacy in Popular Music Sound for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
2020
Hedda Flatø
Time and place: Dec. 15, 2020 10:00 AM, Zoom
Master Hedda Flatø at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation "Polluted Perspectives: Environmental Troubles and Popular Political Attitudes in China" for the degree of ph.d.
Steve Pepper
Time and place: Nov. 11, 2020 4:15 PM, Digital in Zoom
Master Steve Pepper at Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend his thesis for the degree of PhD: "The typology and semantics of binominal lexemes: Noun-noun compounds and their functional equivalents."