It is with great pleasure that we can announce the first ANTHUSIA PhD defense!

ESR Rune Larsen will defend his thesis Between Arts, Politics and Spirituality: Young adults and their everyday politics in post-apartheid Windhoek on April 6, 2022 at 13.30 CET. The degree is a joint degree between Leuven University and Aarhus University.

The defense is open to all and will take place at Leuven University, Belgium. It will also be available through livestreaming. Please get the link by writing korsbaek@cas.au.dk or secretary Anne-Mette Brink Christensen ambchristensen@cas.au.dk  

The defence proceedings will be chaired by Prof. Dr. Filip De Boeck, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, KU Leuven, Belgium

Board of examiners:

Prof. Dr. Trui Steen, KU Leuven, Belgium (Chair)

Prof. Dr. Ann Cassiman, KU Leuven, Belgium

Prof. Dr. Christian Gade, Aarhus University, DK

Prof. Dr. Heike Becker, University of the

Western Cape, South Africa

Prof. Dr. Henning Melber, The Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden

Supervisors:

Prof. Dr. Steven Van Wolputte, KU Leuven, Belgium

Prof. Dr. Michael Eilenberg, Aarhus University, Denmark

The dissertation will be available to borrow for reading before the defence in a digital version. If you wish to read the dissertation, please contact Rune Larsen at rune.larsen@kuleuven.be

before 4 April 2022 at 12 pm (CEST)