Trial lecture and public defense: Axel Rudi
Axel Rudi, Department of Social Anthropology will defend his PhD thesis "Death as Victory, Victory as Death: Violence, Martyrdom and the Cosmology of Revolution in the Kurdish Freedom Movement". The defense and trial lecture is open to the public.
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Trial lecture
Time: Wednesday December 4th, 2019, 15:15
Place: Auditorium Ulrike Pihls hus, Professor Keysers gate 1
Axel Rudi, Department of Anthropology, will give a trial lecture for the PhD degree on the assigned topic:
Broaden the focus on martyrdom, in particular, focus and speak about sacrifice in more conceptual terms that link your arguments with theories of sacrifice in general
Public defense
Time: Thursday December 5th, 2019, 10:15
Place: Auditorium Ulrike Pihls hus, Professor Keysers gate 1
The title of the thesis is:
Death as Victory, Victory as Death: Violence, Martyrdom and the Cosmology of Revolution in the Kurdish Freedom Movement (See abstract for further details.)
Opponents for the public defence:
First opponent:
Professor Faisal Devji, St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford
Second opponent:
Associate Professor Banu Bargu, History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
The third member of the committee is Professor Andrew Lattas, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen
The public defence will be chaired by Associate Professor Peter Andersen
The event is open to the public. All interested are welcome!
