Mette Mørup Schlütter, MSc,will be defending her dissertation: Living with uncertainty in Old Age. An ethnographic exploration of uncertainty in health, belonging, and hope in old age in Greenland

Assessment committee:

• Bodil Hansen Blix, Professor, Department of health and care sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
• Lone Grøn, Professor MSO, VIVE The Danish Center for Social Science Research
• Mikkel Rytter, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University (Chair)

Supervisors:

• Janne Flora, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University
• Lene Seibæk, Professor, Institute of Health and Nature, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland, & Senior Researcher, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aarhus University Hospital

Co-supervisors:

• Tenna Jensen, Senior Researcher, Centre for Public Health in Greenland, University of Southern Denmark & Director of Centre for Arctic Welfare, Ilisimatusarfik - University of Greenland & Assigned Associate Professor, Greenland Center for Health Research, Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland
• Lise Hounsgaard, Professor, Reach Unit OPEN, University of Southern Denmark

The defence is public, and everybody is welcome; the defence, scheduled for a maximum of three hours, will be held in English; the defence proceedings will be chaired by Lisanne Wilken, PhD Programme Director,  Aarhus University.

The dissertation will be available for reading  in a digital version before the defence. If you wish to read the dissertation, please write to Mette Mørup Schlütter at mms@ph.au.dk before 20 May 2024 at 1pm CEST.

Venue: The Lecture Hall, Building 4206, Moesgaard Allé 20, DK-8270 Hoejbjerg

Alternatively: For virtual attendance via Zoom, please sign up by writing to ea.thostrup@cas.au.dk before 16 May 2024 at 1 pm Danish Time (CEST).