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Disputations and trial lectures

Trial Lecture and Public Defence: Edwige Enam Yawa Yekple


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Edwige Enam Yawa Yekple
Edwige Enam Yawa Yekple will defend the thesis "Caring for space amidst land dispossession" for the degree of PhD at the University of Bergen. Photo: Alexandra

Edwige Enam Yawa Yekple will defend the thesis "Caring for space amidst land dispossession" for the degree of PhD at the University of Bergen.

The title of the thesis

"Caring for space amidst land dispossession"

  • Press release (in Norwegian): 

Trial Lecture

  • Assigned topic: "How have the processes of accessing land and building housing in peri-urban Accra changed over the past three decades?" 
  • 08.5.2026 - 09.15–10.00
  • Ulrike Pihls hus, Ulrikes Aula

Public Defence

  • 08.5.2026 - 10.30–15.30
  • Ulrike Pihls hus, Ulrikes Aula

Committe

  • First opponent: Professor Katherine Gough, Department of Human Geography, Lund University.
  • Second opponent: Professor Erlend Eidsvik, Department of Pedagogy, Religion and Social Studies, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.
  • Leader of committee: Associate Professor Odd Inge Steen, Department of Geography, University of Bergen.

The trial lecture and public defense will be chaired by Professor Grete Rusten.

All interested are welcome!