Trial lecture and defense for Thomas Mountjoy
Thomas Mountjoy is going to present his trial lecture, Thursday 17 January and is to conduct the public defense of his Ph.D. thesis Friday 18 January.
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TRIAL LECTURE:
Thomas Mountjoy, Master in Social Anthropology, Dept. of social anthropology, will hold his trial lecture for the PhD degree on the following theme:
"How would one develop an analysis informed by phenomenological theory of the relationships among the body, sport, and nationalism, in ways that consider both ethnographic theories of Melanesian personhood and the problem of scale?"
Time: Thursday 17 January 2013 at 15.15.
Place: Auditorium, Ulrike Pihls Hus, Professor Keysersgate 1
DEFENSE:
The title of thesis is:
"The experience of citizenship and nationhood through sporting practice in Solomon Islands"
Opponents during the defense is:
1. opponent: Dr. Niko Besnier, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2. opponent: Michael Scott, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, London
The third member of the committe is:
Professor Vigdis Broch-Due, Department of social anthropology, University of Bergen
The defence is led by Dean, prof. Knut Helland
Time: Friday 18 January 2013 at 10.15
Place: Auditorium, Ulrike Pihls Hus, Professor Keysersgate 1
