{"id":2999,"date":"2019-06-09T23:54:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T20:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2019-06-10T20:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:59:50","slug":"the-word-for-the-week-is-public-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-for-the-week-is-public-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"The word for the week is <i>public defense<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote earlier that the<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>five-year process with my<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-dissertation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doctoral dissertation<\/a> is in its<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>final stages. During the spring, it went through preliminary examination, and in May I got permission for my public defense. So I&#8217;ve been making<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the final corrections and will arrange for<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>layout and printing. Then it goes on display, or as<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>we say, gets nailed on the university bulletin board. The public defense itself takes place at the beginning of August.<\/p>\n<p>This defense is an academic play that follows traditional forms, with faculty, other university staff, family, and friends as the audience. They rise as the characters enter the auditorium: the doctoral candidate first, followed by the Custos \u2013 the supervisor of the dissertation \u2013 and lastly by the Opponent.<\/p>\n<p>The Custos opens the session, after which I as the doctoral candidate give a <em>lectio praecursoria<\/em>, a short lecture on the themes of the dissertation. The Opponent follows with a general statement of the work, then begins\u00a0going through<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>it in detail and posing questions. At the end of the examination, the Opponent gives a final statement and hopefully will propose that my dissertation should be accepted. Finally, the three main characters exit the auditorium in the same order as they entered.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, a post-doctoral party is also an\u00a0old\u00a0academic tradition. The Finnish word for the party is \u201dkaronkka\u201d, which comes\u00a0to Finnish\u00a0from the Russian word\u00a0<em>korona<\/em> \u2018crown\u2019. The stated purpose is to honor the Opponent, though nowadays it is customary to invite relatives and friends as well. It begins formally with a dinner and speeches, but I am planning to extend the festivities by adding a<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>more informal post-karonkka.<\/p>\n<p>The word of the week is going on its usual summer break, and I will start preparing my lectio, defense, and karonkka. I will return in August, hopefully more proficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote earlier that the\u00a0five-year process with my\u00a0doctoral dissertation is in its\u00a0final stages. During the spring, it went through preliminary examination, and in May I got permission for my public defense. So I&#8217;ve been making\u00a0the final corrections and will arrange for\u00a0layout and printing. Then it goes on display, or as\u00a0we say, gets nailed on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}