The event will take place on Zoom: Join Zoom meeting here.

Evaluation committee

• Professor Marko Valenta, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Professor Anne Sigfrid Grønseth, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
• Associate professor Stian Sørlie Eriksen, VID Specialized University

The opponents are:

• Professor Marko Valenta, Norwegian University of Science and Technology as first ordinary opponent
• Professor Anne Sigfrid Grønseth, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences as second ordinary opponent

The committee’s work has been led by Associate professor Stian Sørlie Eriksen, VID Specialized University

The leader of VID’s Centre of Mission and Global Studies, Professor Anna Rebecca Solevåg, anna.rebecca.solevag@vid.no, will chair the defence.

Program

• 10:15 Zubia Willmann Robleda will hold her trial lecture on a topic given to her by the evaluation committee: What is it about 'everyday life' that allows us to capture refugees' resilience, aspirations and religious beliefs?
• 12:15 Robleda will publicly defend her dissertation for the PhD degree

Everyday negotiations. Agency and structure in the everyday-life of women seeking asylum in Norway

Supervisor

• Vice-rector for reaserch and research professor Gunhild Odden, VID Specialized University
• Professor Kari Storstein Haug, VID Specialized University