Events at Faculty of Humanities and Education

PhD candidate Maria Sofia Kristina Brännvall will defend the thesis The Presence of Place. A phenomenological interview study in a rural school for the PhD degree.

Brännvall has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in education.

PhD candidate Anne Berit Maurset Varen will defend the thesis Memory of War: Phototextual Mediations of the Second World War in Children's Postmemory Literature for the PhD degree. Varen has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with specialization in literature.

David Bowie (1947-2016) is one of the most influential and visible artists in the history of popular culture. Ten years after his death, interest in his work is stronger than ever. 

PhD candidate Sofiia Rzhevuska will defend the thesis Building Ukraine in the Cold War in Europe and the U.S.: Displaced Persons Camps and Diasporic Communities for the PhD degree. Rzhevuska has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in religion, philosophy og history.

PhD candidate Monika Øgård will defend the thesis Navigating boundaries in vocational education: A qualitative study of thematic assignments supporting meaning-making in school and workplace learning for the PhD degree. Øgård has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in pedagogy.

PhD candidate Håvard Haugland Bamle will defend the thesis “… and I never really knew what to do”. Environmental Song Lyrics in a Time of Ecological Crisis for the PhD degree. Bamle has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in literature.

PhD candidate Niri Ragnvald Johnsen will defend the thesis “The Opinion Makers: Press Power and Political Influence in Sweden and Norway, c. 1809–1848” for the PhD degree. Johnsen has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in religion, ethics, history and society.

PhD candidate May Helen Uppstad Austad will defend the thesis Pupils’ self-efficacy in the subjekt «Work Life». An action research study on the development of a local curriculum for the PhD degree. Austad has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in pedagogy. Her doctoral project has been a collaboration between UiA and Lindesnes Kommune, through the program Public Sector PhD.

PhD candidate Elin Marie Frivold Kostøl will defend the thesis “Co-regulation in emotional situations. A qualitative study of parent–child and teacher–child social interactions in natural settings” for the PhD degree. Kostøl has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in pedagogy.

PhD candidate Victoria Østerberg will defend the thesis: The Plastification of Everyday Life in Coastal Communities from 1950 to 1990: A Study of Ågerøya, Landøy-Udøy, and Loshavn-Eikvåg Across Three Half-Generations for the PhD degree. Østerberg has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in religion, ethics, history and society.

PhD candidate Sileshie Semahagne Kumlachew will defend the thesis The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in the media. Recent religious controversies for the PhD degree. Kumlachew has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in religion, ethics, historie and society.

PhD candidate Ingrid Breilid Gimse will defend the thesis The Publication History of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Series: A Book Historical Investigation for the PhD degree. Gimse has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in religion, ethics, history and society

PhD candidate Andreas Tjomsland will defend the thesis The Inner Mission. Strategies in the Religious Market of Northwestern Norway 1920 –1970 for the PhD degree. Tjomsland has followed the PhD programme.

The theme for the fifth iteration of the ICTIC conference is Translation and Cognition on the ground.

PhD candidate Hilde Kristin Røsstad will defend the thesis Handling Pesticides in Horticulture: Norwegian horticulturists’ Perception of and Praxis with Chemical Plant Protection Products, 1945-2021 for the PhD degree. Røsstad has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in Religion, Ethics, History and Society.

Dr Bee Hughes visits and will give a talk about their art practice titled ‘Expanding Menstrual Normativity Through Queered Practice-led Research’.

PhD candidate Ingvild Thu Kro will defend the thesis Framing or Being Framed? A qualitative study of the use of feature films in confirmation teaching within the Church of Norway for the PhD degree. Kro has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in Religion, Ethics, History and Society.

PhD candidate Maj Schian Nielsen will defend her thesis Crosslinguistic Awareness. A Comparative Case Study of Curriculum, Teaching Practices, and Teaching Materials in University-Level German Language Education in Denmark and Norway for the PhD degree. Nielsen has followed the PhD programme in Humanities and Education with spesialisation in linguistics.