Welcome to the first (ever) MA Thesis Defense Day to be held within the MA Program for Language and Linguistics, aka Språkmastern. We are very happy that this new model was worked well, as we will have five thesis defenses on Friday, according to the program below. (And more on June 5, to be announced tomorrow). The schema is: 20 min for the student summarizing their work (audio-visually), 20 min for the opposition and 20 min for questions from the examiner, and the audience. The supervisors are asked to serve as chairpersons. Presenters/defenders: please come to the room 10 minutes in advance to make sure the technology works! Then there will be a break, during which supervisor, examiner and coordinator will convene and discuss the grade. Please see the defense versions (there will inevitably modifications in the final versions) below!

9:00-10:00 Lars-Ove Farnebo (Ancient Greek)

 “On the Greek Physician Praxagoras from Kos and the Development of Medical Thinking in Antiquity”

Supervisor: Dr. Johanna Akujärvi

Opponent:  Maria Vargemezi

Examiner: Prof. Christian Høgel 

10:30-11:30 Maria Vargemezi (Greek)

”Eustathius of Thessalonica: A Qualitative Analysis of the eleventh chapter of the Commentary on the Odyssey”

Supervisor: Dr. Johanna Akujärvi

Opponent:  Lars-Ove Farnebo

Examiner: Prof. Christian Høgel 

13:00-14:00 Vanessa Marko (Rhetoric)

”Måla hela området rött: En studie av dörrknackning som retorisk situation”

Supervisor: Dr. Anders Eriksson

Opponent: Leif Jansson

Examiner: Dr. Mika Heitanen

14:30-15:30 Jule Nabrotzky (Phonetics)

“Perceiving (un-)predictable words: The saliency of anomalous prosody as modulated by semantic constraints on the sentence level: An EEG/ERP study”

Supervisor: Dr. Mechtild Tronnier, Prof. Mikael Roll

Opponent: Louis Smit

Examiner: Dr. Sara Myrberg

16:00-17:00 Louis Smit (Phonetics)

“Dubbing non-human voices Measuring the vocal characteristics of monsters”

Supervisor: Dr. Mechtild Tronnier

Opponent: Jule Nabrotzky

Examiner: Dr. Johan Frid