2024
Khatereh Daneshvar
Time and place: Nov. 29, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Khatereh Daneshvar at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation The Emancipation of Humanity. William Blake’s and Robert Southey’s Representations of Liberty and Justice for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "How did poets in the Romantic period variously perceive and represent their own roles?"
Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand
Time and place: Nov. 1, 2024 1:15 PM
Public defence: Understanding the grammar of the Patani language of eastern Indonesia
Master Linn Iren Sjånes Rødvand at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend her dissertation Patani: Description of a South Halmahera–West New Guinea language for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Language contact between Austronesian and Papuan languages. Describe the main contact zones and outcomes of the contact between Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages in general; highlighting the main research questions, hypotheses and challenges. Against this background, zoom in on the situation of Halmahera in particular"
Sigurd Nøstberg Hovd
Time and place: Oct. 11, 2024 4:15 PM
Master Sigurd Nøstberg Hovd at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend his dissertation Tools of War and Virtue: On the Effects of AI on Human Ethical Expertise in the Military for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Can AI systems act as moral agents?"
Regina Kanyu Wang
Time and place: Oct. 4, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Regina Kanyu Wang at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Situated Futures: A Cultural Study on Contemporary Chinese Female Science Fiction for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
The designated topic: "The Way of Yin: The Theory and Practice of Ecofeminism in Chinese Science Fiction"
Patrick Anthony Barbosa Brock
Time and place: Sep. 20, 2024 10:15 AM
Master Patrick Anthony Barbosa Brock at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend his dissertation On the formation of speculative communities in Latin America and their socially regenerative practices for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
The designated topic for the trial lecture is: "Science fiction and the Temporalities of the Anthropocene in Latin America"
Ana María Ramírez Gómez
Time and place: Sep. 6, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Ana María Ramírez Gómez at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Latin American Sinographies: Travel Writings of a Journey to China (1843–1966) for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: “Decolonialism and Orientalism in Latin American Literature”
Birgitte Prangerød Haanshuus
Time and place: Aug. 28, 2024 2:15 PM
Master Birgitte Prangerød Haanshuus at the Department of Media and Communication will defend her dissertation Old Hate in New Media: Understandings of Antisemitism and Boundary-Making in the Norwegian Digital Public Sphere for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
The designated topic: "The case of antisemitism in the context of online extremism: research traditions, shifts and challenges"
Ingar Stene
Time and place: Aug. 26, 2024 1:00 PM
Master Ingar Stene at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation What was the Anthropocene? Early Modern Histories of Social, Cultural and Natural Entanglements in Scandinavia and Europe for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Topic: "Agency, periodization, and narratives of the Anthropocene"
Jenny Gudmundsen
Time and place: Aug. 19, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Jenny Gudmundsen at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend her dissertation Learning-by-talking in a video-mediated environment. A conversation analytic study of second language interactions at a digital language café for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "CA insights into technology- mediated language learning: Practical implications"
Eirik Jacobsen
Time and place: June 21, 2024 12:15 PM
Master Eirik Jacobsen at the Department of Musicology defended his dissertation Independent and Dependent: Negotiations Between Contemporary Indie Music and Social Media for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Media And Indie Music: A Critical History Of Entanglement"
Audun Rosslund
Time and place: Aug. 16, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Audun Rosslund at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend his dissertation The acoustic properties and role of infant-directed speech in early language development: Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Early Language Development and Child-Directed Speech – Theoretical, Empirical And Methodological Advances"
Nuranindia Endah Arum
Time and place: June 19, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Nuranindia Endah Arum at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend her dissertation Language learning, migration, and professional trajectories. Experiences of highly educated Indonesians in Norway for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Language Learning In Multilingual Workplaces In Norway And Europe – Empirical And Methodological Perspectives."
Lu Chen
Time and place: June 18, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Lu Chen at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Environmental and Climate Engagement and Disengagement in China: Case studies of State-led Governance and Local Responses for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "The Place Of China In Global Sustainability Initiatives"
Laura Juliana Osorio Iregui
Time and place: June 17, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Laura Juliana Osorio Iregui at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages and the Museum of Cultural History will defend her dissertation Weaving Wounaan identity in an age of migration. A study of Wounaan basketry for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Ethnographic methods in collections research"
Lars Morten Fuglevik
Time and place: June 14, 2024 12:30 PM
Cand.philol. Lars Morten Fuglevik at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation An Archaeology of Consuming Passions: Household Pottery and Urban Commensal Strategies in Early and High Medieval Oslo for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "How do new theoretical approaches challenge prevailing methodologies in medieval ceramic studies, and how might these challenges be addressed?"
Hyebin Lee
Time and place: June 7, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Hyebin Lee at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation A Study of the Māṇavikā Chapter in the Uttaragrantha with Newly Identified Sanskrit fragments for the degree doctor philosophiae (Dr.philos).
Trial lecture
Self-selected topic: "Exploring the Dhammapada in various versions and translations into classical Chinese and Tibetan"
Designated topic: "Vinaya As A Legal Document"
Hanna Solberg Andresen
Time and place: May 31, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Hanna Solberg Andresen at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend her dissertation With bilingual eyes. Bilingual Norwegian-English children and the question of language-specific conceptualization for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "To What Extent And In What Ways Is Ongoingness Grammaticalized In Norwegian, And What Role Does The Pseudo-Coordinaton Construction Play In This Process?"
Ingeborg Misje Bergem
Time and place: May 31, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Ingeborg Misje Bergem at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation ‘On est là’: The Yellow Vest Movement and the Crisis of Representation in France for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Does France Exhibit The Characteristics Of A Contentious Country?"
Anna Marie Skråmestø Nesheim
Time and place: May 7, 2024 12:30 PM
Master Anna Marie Skråmestø Nesheim at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Performing rights: Authors, performers, managers, and machines in the age of technological innovation, 1890s–1950s for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "How Have Authors’ Rights Affected The Production Of Entertainment Culture? Key Trends From The Berne Convention Of 1886"
Sebastian Cole
Time and place: May 6, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Sebastian Cole at the Department of Media and Communication will defend his dissertation Made for me? Exploring reflexivity and uses of music streaming recommendations from a critical realist perspective for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Data donations and other methodological innovations: Procedures, possibilities, and pitfalls for empirical research on music streaming platforms”
Erica Colman-Denstad
Time and place: Apr. 5, 2024 10:15 AM
Master Erica Colman-Denstad at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Wildness and control: Mediating technology and perceptions of nature in nineteenth century Norway for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "The concept of wilderness from a cultural-historical perspective"
Johanna-Pauline Thöne
Time and place: Mar. 7, 2024 12:15 PM – 3:00 PM
Master Johanna-Pauline Thöne at the Department of Musicology will defend her dissertation Papal Polyphony during the Great Western Schism (1378–1417): How Music Dedicated to Popes Absorbed and Reflected a Time of Crisis for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Contrafacture: poetics, politics, compositional process."
Samuel Klee
Time and place: Mar. 1, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Samuel Klee at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation America’s Food Army: Carceral Labor and Community Power during World War II for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
The designated topic: "The Vietnam War and American Society"
Isak Roalkvam
Time and place: Feb. 28, 2024 12:30 PM
Master Isak Roalkvam at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Computational modelling of the coastal Mesolithic in south-eastern Norway for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Quantifying and qualifying climatic and cultural change in Early-to-Mid Holocene in Norway and beyond."
Hallvard Nikolai Bruvoll
Time and place: Feb. 13, 2024 12:30 PM
Master Hallvard Nikolai Bruvoll at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation The Emergence of Social Hierarchy in Prehistory: Application of Fractal Analysis on Archaeological Settlement Plans for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Emergence of hierarchical socio-political structures in the context of early European settlement and urbanism."
Rahmat Hashemi
Time and place: Feb. 2, 2024 3:30 PM
Master Rahmat Hashemi at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation No Peace in Sight?: The United States and the Complex Case of Afghanistan,
1978-2020 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "The Taliban’s perspective on the US-Taliban negotiations leading up to the US withdrawal in 2021. A substantial and methodological approach."
Yael Friedman
Time and place: Feb. 2, 2024
Master Yael Friedman at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend her dissertation Many Things Considered: An Epistemic View on Medical Holism for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Should medicine be considered a science?"
Bojidar Angelov Kolov
Time and place: Feb. 2, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Bojidar Angelov Kolov at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation (Re)Constructing Sacred Statehood. The Orthodox Church and Great Power in Contemporary Russia for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Russian Orthodoxy's conceptual positioning: Eastern Christianity, empire, nation."
Ingeborg Fossestøl
Time and place: Jan. 31, 2024 3:30 PM
Master Ingeborg Fossestøl at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation The Press and the Reading Public: Literary Cultures in Late Ottoman Istanbul for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "The development of the press in the multilingual environment of the late Ottoman Empire."
Elisabet García González
Time and place: Jan. 19, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Elisabet García González at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend her dissertation Multilingualism Across the Lifespan: Exploring Social and Cognitive Factors of Language Switching and Use for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Monolingual group comparison in research on bilingualism: Do we need it?"
Nora Dörnbrack
Time and place: Jan. 19, 2024 1:15 PM
Master Nora Dörnbrack at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Longitudinal Intra-Writer Variation in the Private Writings of Mary Ann (Wodrow) Archbald (1762–1841) for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "What are the three waves of sociolinguistics and how do they apply to historical sociolinguistics?"
2023
Sonja Irene Åman
Time and place: Dec. 12, 2023 10:15 AM
Master Sonja Irene Åman at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Governing the People of the Whale: History and Politics of Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Introduce the concepts of decolonization and governance systems and their connection. Then discuss how institutions such as the IWC could decolonize its governance system and how this could affect Aboriginal whalers' resource rights and culture."
Dana Swarbrick
Master Dana Swarbrick at the Department of Musicology will defend her dissertation Being in Concert: Audience Emotion, Motion, and Social Connectedness for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Time and place: Dec. 1, 2023 12:15 PM
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "How can engaging with music contribute to emotional regulation, and how may this be related to health and wellbeing?"
Dongho Kwak
Time and place: Nov. 24, 2023 12:15 PM
Master Dongho Kwak at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Music for cells? Rhythmic mechanical stimulations of cell cultures for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Concepts of rhythm in physics and music"
Anne Natvig
Time and place: Oct. 27, 2023 4:00 PM
Master Anne Natvig at the Department of Media and Communication will defend her dissertation Fragmented professionalism: Journalism culture in Cuban state media for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Normative theories of journalism and the study of non-democratic contexts."
Master Astrid Tvedte Kristoffersen
Time and place: Oct. 20, 2023 12:30 PM, Gamle festsal, Domus Academica
Master Astrid Tvedte Kristoffersen at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation Rock and Heavy Metal: Mining and Metallurgy in Eastern Norway in the Middle Ages, AD 1030–1537 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Ayse Nalan Azak
Time and place: Oct. 20, 2023 1:15 PM
Master Ayse Nalan Azak at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation When the Remedy Becomes a Threat: The Lifetimes of Antibiotic Use and Antimicrobial Resistance in Turkey for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Culture, Medicine and Practices of Care in Contemporary Turkey"
Helene Killmer
Time and place: Oct. 6, 2023 1:15 PM
Master Helene Killmer at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend her dissertation Participation in conversations by persons with aphasia: A study of everyday activities for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Challenges and possibilities of transferring conversation analytic insights into intervention practices"
Nikolay Sarkisyan
Time and place: Sep. 15, 2023 2:15 PM, Online
Master Nikolay Sarkisyan at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend his dissertation “Tolerance… is in Our Blood” Discourse of Tolerance and the Russia’s Governance, 2000–2010s for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: «Studying the role of ideas in authoritarian policymaking: key methodological challenges”
Leonoor Zuiderveen Borgesius
Time and place: June 20, 2023 1:15 PM
Master Leonoor Zuiderveen Borgesius at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend their dissertation Infrastructures and Emptiness. Knowledges, Practices, and Ideologies of Civil Engineering in Suriname and the Netherlands, 1873-1938 for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Metal production and consumption in Medieval Oslo within the context of contemporary European production"
Olivia Yijian Liu
Time and place: June 16, 2023 1:15 PM
Master Olivia Yijian Liu at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation To Be “Entrepreneured”: Precarious privilege in Shenzhen’s high-tech start-ups for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "The Chinese Between Communist and Neoliberal Governmentality since 1978"
Marius Palz
Time and place: June 16, 2023 10:15 AM
Master Marius Palz at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend his dissertation Searching for Zan: Human-Dugong Relations and Environmental Activism in Okinawa for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Methods for multi-species ethnography: What are the challenges and opportunities for anthropological analysis of combining different kinds of stories – folk stories, history and ethnography – about multi-species encounters?"
Jessica Yarin Robinson
Time and place: June 15, 2023 9:15 AM
Master Jessica Yarin Robinson at the Department of Media and Communication will defend her dissertation Networked Cosmopolitans: Making connections in a world of politics for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Digital methods - challenges and future development"
Ingvild Badhwar Valen-Sendstad
Time and place: June 13, 2023 1:15 PM
Master Ingvild Badhwar Valen-Sendstad at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies will defend her dissertation Health literacy as ideological work: Migration, language, and communication in the welfare system for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Multilingualism and governmentality"
Bjørnar Ersland Sandvik
Time and place: June 13, 2023 12:15 PM
Master Bjørnar Ersland Sandvik at the Department of Musicology will defend his dissertation Time Tinkering: On Grids, Waveforms, and Techniques of Machine Rhythm for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "How might “the grid” function as a metaphor for a broader social or cultural logic that shapes not only music production, but other areas of technological “tinkering” across media as well as everyday life in the 21st century, specifically?"
Francesca Secco
Time and place: June 1, 2023 10:15 AM, Gamle festsal
Master Francesca Secco at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend her dissertation Agency beyond Intentions. On the intimate connections that relate agents to their actions for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "What is intentional action?"
Anastasia Kriachko Roeren
Time and place: May 16, 2023 1:15 PM
Master Anastasia Kriachko Roeren at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Documenting the nation: How TV documentaries reflect and shape Russian national identity for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "How does the genre of tv documentary represent the cultural diversity of the Russian Federation?"
Klaudia Dominika Karpińska
Time and place: May 15, 2023 12:30 PM, Helga Engs hus, auditorium 3
Master Klaudia Dominika Karpińska at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend her dissertation On Wings to the Otherworld: Bird Remains in Viking Age Graves from Scandinavia for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Interpreting burial rituals in Viking-age Scandinavia: Complexity, diversity, regionality and the actors involved"
Emil Flatø
Time and place: May 12, 2023 1:15 PM, Gamle festsal
Master Emil Flatø at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend his dissertation When Science Could Not Wait: Climate, Experts, and the Times of Anthropogenic Change, 1945-79 for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "What were the futures without computers? Non-informatics based trajectories of the future in the long post-war, United States 1945 to 2000".
Anna Young
Time and place: Mar. 24, 2023 1:15 PM
Master Anna Young at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Unaccountable Violence: The Murderous Child in the British and American Novel, 1954-2003 for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Truls Strand Offerdal
Time and place: Mar. 15, 2023 12:15 PM
Master Truls Strand Offerdal at the Department of Media and Communication will defend his dissertation The pandemic rhetorical situation: Challenges and adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "What is the relation between the concepts of ethos, persona, and trust?"
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Choose one or two literary texts to consider that the question of the child is also a question of the adult: how has the twentieth-century use of the child served to define adulthood—its self-knowledge, its sense of sexuality, its understanding of self-determination and ethics?"
Christopher James Masterman
Time and place: Feb. 17, 2023 4:15 PM, Sophus Bugges hus, auditorium 2
Master Christopher James Masterman at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas will defend his dissertation Ways of Talking about Worlds: Papers on the Metaphysics and Logic of Modality for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Present and critically evaluate Williamson's arguments for necessitism"
Emma Helene Heggdal
Time and place: Feb. 3, 2023 3:15 PM
Master Emma Helene Heggdal at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages will defend her dissertation Poetic Endurance: Waiting and Poetic Time in Three Long Poems by Anne Carson for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Multiple Temporalities in the Contemporary Long Poem"
Master Laura op de Beke
Time and place: Feb. 3, 2023 1:15 PM, Gamle festsal
Master Laura op de Beke at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Anthropocene Temporalities in Videogames: The Anthropocene as a Structure of Feeling in Popular Gameplay for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "Three sides of Frostpunk: Representation and meaning-making in Frostpunk, using three approaches to game analysis"
Khalid Ezat Azam
Time and place: Feb. 3, 2023 12:15 PM
Master Khalid Ezat Azam at the Department of Media and Communication will defend his dissertation Digital parenting in the risk society: Parents’ perception and mediation of video game risk for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: "From risks to opportunities: A children’s perspective on playing video games"
Francesca Canepuccia
Time and place: Jan. 27, 2023 5:15 PM, Sophus Bugges hus, auditorium 2
Master Francesca Canepuccia at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas defended her dissertation How to
Become a Prophetess: Strategies for Authorizing a Prophetic Mission in the Works of Francesca Romana for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: Give a presentation on the historical background and development of the concept of "discernment of spirits", and reflect on its meaning, role, and functions in the late Middle Ages
Ketil Raknes
Time and place: Jan. 12, 2023 12:15 PM
Master Ketil Raknes at the Department of Media and Communication will defend his dissertation Lobbyspeak: Understanding the
rhetoric of lobbyists for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).
Trial lecture
Designated topic: How might an approach employing a rhetoric framework help evaluate the normative implications of lobbying strategies and their role in democratic deliberation?
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."