The Three Minute Thesis Competition

On Tuesday morning, we had learnt outside class at University of Otago. We attended to listen The Three Minute Thesis competition program. It had six Master’s degree and PhD. students participated to speech. It was an enjoyable, interesting and unforgettable experience. 


The candidates were the best presenters. It seems that they had prepared highly informative. It was challenging to do a clearly presentation in a period of time. In particularly it was just only three minutes speech. But they all did a great job.


“Heat-Humanities” was the thesis topic for a competition in this time. Is was not easy to opt for. There were so much information and hardly to find out an appropriate problematic subject. Surprisingly, they were able to determine a interesting issue. For instance once of the topic is  “How is the concept of silence used in peace and conflict studies journals?” It was presented by Kalika Kastein, PhD.National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Division of Humanities. The most interesting was that she only used a empty paper for her speech. It was thought to have connected into an argument. Like this : 

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=11tT9LDHT0-MK3WTVh65L5nAPjA3S6WDt

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  1. David WoodfieldJuly 11, 2021 at 9:30 PM

    Thanks for sharing, Hong. I agree with you that the 3MT heat was an interesting experience. I also agree with you that Kastein's slide was an effective one. You write that the slide "was thought to have" a connection with her argument. What do you think the relationship between Kastein's slide and her argument is?

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  2. Maha HongJuly 12, 2021 at 10:35 PM

    I am so sorry, I can exactly answer you question because I couldn’t understand all of Kastein’s speech. I just known that she use this Interesting slide for her topic. Thank you.

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