Doctoral Candidate Mengxi Kou will defend her dissertation “Wild Boars in Your Yard: Cultural Perception, Policy History, and the Governance of Human-Wild Boar Conflict in China.”
A doctoral defense (disputatio) is a formal academic debate in which a doctoral candidate publicly presents and defends their dissertation against questions and objections from faculty examiners.
The defense is open to an academic public audience (universitätsoffen).