Trail lecture and public defence: Synnøve Marie Vik

Title of the thesis

“Nature as violent and violated : Five essays on the visual culture of the Anthropocene”

Trail lecture

February 15, 16:00 Digital meeting room for trail lecture

Topic: Why should Visual Studies pay attention to the debates around the concept of the Anthropocene? 

 The committee's reason for choice of topic:

Leslie Sklair argues in a recent collection that, “though it is still controversial, the idea of the Anthropocene helps to concentrate minds and behaviour in confronting ongoing ecological (and Coronavirus) crises.” Precisely how it does so remains open to question, though, as both the term’s meaning and its rhetorical uses have been challenged and contested, for a number of reasons and from the vantage point of a range of disciplines. Given the uncertainty surrounding the Anthropocene, its full impact and lasting effect on Visual Studies remains open. Why should Visual Studies pay attention to the debates around the concept of the Anthropocene?

Public defence

February 17, 16.00 Digital meeting room for public defence

Opponents

 1. opponent: Professor Susan Cumings, Program in Writing and Critical Inquiry, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA.

 2. opponent: Professor Imre Szeman, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The third member of the committee is Øyvind Vågnes, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen

Practucal

Meet the Candidate after the Public Defense

It will be possible to join us in digital meeting room for meet and greet 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 16.00. and the defense at 16.00, 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.

Opponent ex auditorio must notify Anna.Enerstvedt@uib.no by email before 17:30 Wednesday 17. February. Other questions may also be directed here.

The thesis is available on request to https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2725510. 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.