Trial Lecture and Public Defence: Marianna Betti
On September 25 2020 Marianna Betti will defend her doctoral thesis for the PhD Degree at the University of Bergen.
Main content
The title of the thesis
«Generating Oil in the Cradle of Mankind: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Syncretic Oil Complex in Turkana, Kenya»
- Press release (in Norwegian): Oppdagelsen av olje i menneskehetens vugge
Trial Lecture
September 24, 15.15 Digital meeting room
Assigned topic: «Understanding the 'intrinsic generative power' of crude oil. New directions in anthropological methodology»
Public Defence
September 25, 13.00 Digital meeting room
Opponents
1st opponent: Professor Andrea Behrends, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth
2nd opponent: Professor Michael Cepek, Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Third member of the committe Professor Hans Frode Storaas, University Museum of Bergen, Department of Cultural History
The trial lecture and public defence will be chaired by Professor Jan Erik Askildsen.
Meet the Candidate after the Public Defense
Join us in Digital meeting room directly after the public defense to meet and greet the candidate. In this meeting you may join with microphone and camera.
How to attend the trial lecture and public defence
Welcome to virtual trial lecture and defense! To attend the trial lecture and defense, click on the links above.
The trial lecture will start at 15.15. and the defense at 13.00, sharp. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time. If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program.
The audience are observing participants only, and therefore not able to turn on microphone and camera during the events. We recommend choosing "Speaker view". Select this in the upper right corner when in Zoom.
If you want to attend as opponent ex auditorio, please send an e-mail to Anne-Kathrin.Thomassen@uib.no by 14.15 Tuesday, September 25. Other questions can also be sent here.
The thesis is available on request to Anne-Kathrin.Thomassen@uib.no. It is not allowed to download, print or share the thesis.
The trial lecture and defense will be recorded in case of technical difficulties. The recorded material will only be used if any member of the committee is absent due to technical errors, and we will delete it immediately after the committee has approved the events.
