Decolonizing Arctic History
Decolonizing Arctic History Conference + workshop at North x North Summit and Festival Anchorage Museum, Alaska.6-9 April 2022 Organised by Dr. Ingeborg Høvik / Arctic Voices in collaboration with Dr. Julie Decker / Anchorage Museum, and Dr. Maria Williams / University of Alaska, Anchorage.
Programme
Wednesday 6 April
9.30 am coffee/tea and registration
10 am Welcome and introduction
Julie Decker and Ingeborg Høvik
10.15 am Beth Ginondidoy Leonard (moderator Maria Williams)
Decolonizing Language Learning and Research in the Arctic: Towards an Indigenist Methodology
11.15 am break
11.30 am Peter DuBois (moderator Charis Gullickson)
Understanding the Colonialism and Imperialism Inherent in 19th Century Mining in Alaska
12.15 pm Lena Klein
The Russian-American Telegraph Expediton and the Co-Yukon
1 pm lunch
2 pm Eavan O’Dochartaigh
Arctic Visible: Mapping the Visual Representations of Indigenous Peoples in the Nineteenth-Century Western Arctic
2.45 pm break
3 – 4 pm Holly Mititquq Nordlum, artist talk.
Thursday 7 April
9.30 am coffee/tea
10 am Sven Haakanson (moderator Ingeborg Høvik)
11 am break
11.15 am Charis Gullickson
“Stepping down” Roald Amundsen
12 pm Raisa Porsanger,
Artist talk (video presentation)
12.30 pm Jérémie McGowan
Design Disruptions (video presentation)
1 pm lunch
2-3.30 pm Panel discussion: Decolonizing the museum – connected concerns and practices
Sven Haakanson, Charis Gullickson, Aaron Leggett, Monica Shaa, Julie Decker (moderator)
Friday 8 April
9.30 am coffee/tea
10 am Holly Miowak Guise (moderator Maria Williams)
Defining a Colonial Arctic and Toward a Decolonial Arctic
11 am break
11.15 am Sigfrid Kjeldaas (moderator Ingeborg Høvik)
“The beaver does everything to perfection”: knowledge about animals that scientifically-bent explorers and fur traders of the late 18th century Canadian North did not know or care about
12 pm break
12.15 pm Henning H. Wærp
The Human – animal Relation in Otto Sverdrup’s New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions (1903)
1 pm Future Line Dance with Aku Matu
Let's co-create a line dance that will be popular in the future. We choose the moves, and practice them – together!
Venue: the Atrium
2-2.45 pm Sophie Gilmartin
Indigenous Arctic Exploration
Saturday 9 April
9.30 am coffee/tea
10 am Axl Jeremiassen and Ingeborg Høvik
Drawing from Contact Zones: Inughuit experience, knowledge and aesthetics
10.45 am break
11 am Panel discussion: Twenty-first century Indigenous Perspectives on Alaska History
Beth Ginondidoy Leonard, Peter DuBois, Holly Miowak Guise, Haliehana Stepetin, Maria Shaa Tlaá Williams (moderator)
12.30 pm lunch
1.30 – 3.30 pm Tiina Portti and Ingeborg Høvik
(For participants in the symposium only) Exhibition workshop
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