Trial Lecture and Public Defence: Thresy Vallikappen
On September 18 2020 Thresy Vallikappen will defend her doctoral thesis for the PhD Degree at the University of Bergen.

Main content
The title of the thesis
«The Making and Unmaking of Kuttanad: Development and Transformations Below Sea Level»
- Press release (in Norwegian):Â Utvikling og endring i Kuttanad, en jordbruksregion i India
Trial Lecture
September 17, 15.15Â
Assigned topic: «The politics of development and its social and environmental implications: Comparative anthropological approaches»
Public Defence
September 18, 10.15Â
Opponents
1st opponent: Professor Filippo Osella, Anthropology Department, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex
2nd opponent: Professor Kathinka Frøystad, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
Committee chair Professor Vigdis Broch-Due, Department of Social Anthropology
The trial lecture and public defence will be chaired by professor Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen
Meet the Candidate after the Public Defense
Join us in directly after the public defense to meet and greet the candidate. In this meeting you may join with microphone and camera.
How to attend the trial lecture and public defence
Welcome to virtual trial lecture and defense! To attend the trial lecture and defense, click on the links above.
The trial lecture will start at 15.15. and the defense at 10.15, sharp. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time. If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program.
The audience are observing participants only, and therefore not able to turn on microphone and camera during the events. We recommend choosing "Speaker view". Select this in the upper right corner when in Zoom.
If you want to attend as opponent ex auditorio, please send an e-mail to  by 11.30 Tuesday, September 18. Other questions can also be sent here.
The thesis is available on request to . It is not allowed to download, print or share the thesis.
The trial lecture and defense will be recorded in case of technical difficulties. The recorded material will only be used if any member of the committee is absent due to technical errors, and we will delete it immediately after the committee has approved the events.