Disputation: Helen Karen Eriksen: Being White in pluralist proximity Concerning postcolonial art, education and research in Scandinavia

Helen Karen Eriksen will defend the thesis titled “Being White in pluralist proximity Concerning postcolonial art, education and research in Scandinavia” for the PhD degree. 

Eriksen has followed the Ph.D programme at Faculty of Fine Arts, with spesialisation in Art in Context.

Place: Campus Kristiansand, room: K1 041 Sal 1

Trial lecture starts at 09.30 am.

Public defence starts at 13.00 pm.

Title of trial lecture: "Deconstructing the white gaze and power: Pluralist proximity for who and by who?"

Read the disputation in Aura: Being White in Pluralist Proximity: Concerning postcolonial art, education and research in Scandinavia

Disputation chair: Dean Marit Wergeland

Assessment committee:

• First opponent: Yvette Brackmann, Senior Research Fellow, SMK National Gallery of Denmark
• Second opponent: Michelle Tisdel, Doctor of Philosophy, National Library of Norway
• Chair of assessment committee: Jeppe Kristensen, Professor, Department of Visual Arts and Drama, UiA

Supervisors in the doctoral work:

• Main supervisor: Professor Helene Illeris
• Co-supervisors: Professor Lisbet Skregelid, Associate Professor Zahra Bayati, University of Gothenburg & Artist Germaine Ngoma