This is a four-day conference that begins at 14.30 / 2.30 pm on Tuesday 9 July at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum. It consists of talks, discussions, creative workshops and performative exercises. We invite to open dialogue and welcome anyone interested in art and literature representing marginalised peoples and individuals in the Arctic and in meetings between humans and between humans and animals.
This conference is a collaboration between UiT, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum and Riddu Riđđu Festivála. It is the start-up event for the project Arctic Voices, which consists of a group of international and Norwegian scholars and practitioners from the university, museum and art scene, concerned with the gathering and writing of a new history of the Arctic. Our purpose is to foreground the presences and – when possible – the experiences and voices of peoples and animals in the Arctic that were subjected to and marginalised by European imperialism and colonialism during the period from the 1700s until the early 1900s.
PROGRAMME
DAY 1
Tuesday 9 July
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum
Sjøgata 1, 9008 Tromsø
Seminar session 1: Other perspectives and voices in the Arctic and beyond
14.30 – 14.45 Introduction and welcome
Ingeborg Høvik and Charis Gullickson
14.45 – 15.30 The Unsettled Eye: Colonial Voice and Vision in Australia and New Zealand, c. 1770 – 1830.
Bruce Buchan, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Break 15.30 – 15-45
15.45 – 16.30 Enslaved Fugitives in the Canadian Winter
Charmaine Nelson, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
DAY 2
Wednesday 10 July / Seminar and workshop
Báldalávvu, Riddu Riđđu
9.00 – 09.30 Welcome, coffee/tea in Báldalávvu.
Kjellaug Isaksen (Centre for Northern Peoples).
Seminar session 2: Sámi voices in art and literature
09.30 –10.15 'Savage' Laughter: Humour as Resistance in Colonial Encounters in Sápmi and Greenland c. 1670 – 1800
Linda A. Burnett, Linnaeus University
10.15 – 11.00 Imag(in)ing Saami Life: Emilie Demant Hatt’s Arctic Documents
Hanna Eglinger, FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg.
11.00 – 11.30 Short break (Possible sound outside Báldalávvu: 11.00 – 11.30)
11.30 – 12.15 Ecology and Johan Turi
Svein Aamold, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
13.00 – 16.00 Workshop/Intervention + Yéil Ya-Tseen (Nicholas Galanin) (artist)
Possible sound outside Báldalávvu 15.30 – 16.00
18.00 Opening of festival art exhibitions (Chippewar and Gieresvuodajn/With Love), Center of Northern Peoples
DAY 3
Thursday 11 July / Seminar and workshop
Báldalávvu, Riddu Riđđu
9.00 – 09.30 coffee/tea in Báldalávvu.
Seminar session 3: Arctic presences in European narratives
09.30 – 10.15 Absent or Present, Part of the System or of the Land: The representation of animals in some nineteenth-century narratives of Arctic exploration
Sigfrid Kjeldaas, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
10.15 – 11.00 Pictures from the Bering Street: Louis Choris’ Voyage pittoresque autour du Monde (1823).
Marie-Theres Federhofer, UiT / Humboldt University, Berlin.
11.00 – 11.10 Break
11.10 – 12.35 Workshop / Intervention + Raisa Porsanger (artist)
13.30 – 14.15 ‘Arctic Hysteria' or 'Polar Eufori'? Voicing Otherwise in Early Arctic Narrative
Renee Hulan, Saint Mary’s University, Canada.
14.15 – 15.00 An Alternative Vision of the Friendly Arctic? Ada Blackjack’s Diary from Wrangel Island
Silje Gaupseth, Polarmuseet, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
15.00 – 15.10 Break (10 min)
15.10 – 15.50 Intervention
Possible sound outside Báldalávvu 15.30 – 16.00
P.S. We have to be out of the lavvo by 16.00
DAY 4
Friday 12 July / Seminar and Workshop
Báldalávvu, Riddu Riđđu
9.15 – 09.30 Coffee/tea in Báldalávvu
Seminar session 4: Arctic presences in Western imagery
9.30 – 09.50 Curatorial Strategies
Charis Gullickson, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum.
9.50 – 10.35 Tea and Sympathy in the Arctic: sociability and survival among Western women and Inuit, 1840-1900
Sophie Gilmartin, Royal Holloway University of London.
10.35 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 11.30 ‘Exceedingly Good Friends’: The Representation of Indigenous People during the Franklin Search Expeditions to the Arctic (1847-59)
Eavan O’Dochartaigh, Umeå University.
11.30 – 12.15 Traces of an Arctic Voice: The Case of Qalasirssuaq
Ingeborg Høvik, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
13.00 – 15.00 Workshop
Curating and designing an exhibition on historical otherness
Charis Gullickson (introduction)