Lectio præcursoria: From Paradise to the Town of no Hope—Home-making among the Soviet-era Russian-speakers in Narva, Estonia

Authors

• Jaanika Kingumets Tampere University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3392-8169

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v46i2.116024

Abstract

A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion between the examinee and the examiner apprehensible to the audience, many of whom may be unfamiliar with the candidate’s research or even anthropological research in general.