The event will take place at VID Stavanger, room 101 Aulaen

The event will be streamed on Teams. Click here to join the Zoom meeting

Programme

10:15 Kjersti Wee will hold her trial lecture on a topic given to her by the adjudication committee. "Notions of positionality, power, liberation and change in African contextual Biblical interpretation"

12:15 Kjerst Wee will publicly defend her thesis “A perfect wife”? How do ordinary Malagasy women relate to the text about the good woman in Proverbs 31:10-31? for the PhD degree.

If you wish to read the thesis (PDF copy), please contact smg-phd-support@vid.no

Adjudication committee

• Professor Charlene van der Walt, Act Church of Sweden/University of KwaZulu Natal
• Professor Gunnar Magnus Eidsvåg, University of Stavanger
• Professor emeritus Hans Austnaberg, VID Specialized University

The ordinary opponents are:

• Professor Charlene van der Walt, Act Church of Sweden/University of KwaZulu Natal, as first ordinary opponent
• Professor Gunnar Magnus Eidsvåg, University of Stavanger, as second ordinary opponent

Associate professor Daniela Lucia Rapisarda, daniela.rapisarda@vid.no, will chair the trial lecture and the public disputation

Supervisors

• Professor Knut Holter, NLA University College/VID Specialized University
• Professor Marta Høyland Lavik, University of Stavanger and Stavanger University Hospital