13 September - Gard Frækaland Vangsnes (LANDSAM)

Gard Frækaland Vangsnes
Gard Frækaland VangsnesPhoto: Tommy Normann/NMBU

Doctorate: Trial lecture and thesis defence. On 13 September, Gard Frækaland Vangsnes (Faculty of Landscape and Society) will defend his thesis 'We are all miners: An ethnography of gold mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon'.

Norsk tittel av avhandlingen:
Vi er alle gruvearbeidere: En etnografi om gullgraving i ecuadoriansk Amazonas

Tittel for prøveforelesning:
The relationship between debt and gold mining in a local and global perspective.

Time and place:

Friday 13 September:
Bikuben (Gullvepsen) and online

12:15 Welcome and trial lecture
13:25 Presentation of research and thesis defence

Evaluation committee:

  • Professor Mette High, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews, UK
  • Senior Lecturer Amy Penfield, Department of Social Anthropology and Archeology, University of Bristol, UK
  • Professor Randi Kaarhus, Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), NMBU


Supervisors:

  • Hovedveileder: Associate Professor Esben Leifsen, Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), NMBU
  • Biveileder: Professor Susanne Bauer, TIK, University of Oslo
  • Zoom
  • Meeting ID: 695 7059 3926
  • Passcode: 570339


  • Read the press release on Vangsnes' research:


Gold rush in the Amazon

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