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ARTIC MODERNITIES - an international interdisciplinary conference
ARCTIC MODERNITIES CONFERENCE
The conference venue will be the HSL building on the UiT campus. Keynote lectures and wrap up sessions will be held in auditorium E-0.101 and parallel sessions in auditorium E-0.101 (sessions A) and lecture rooms E-0.103 (sessions B), E-0.104 (sessions C) and E-0.105 (sessions D).
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Tuesday 16 September |
| 0900-0930: | Registration, coffee/tea | |
| 0930-1000: | Opening by Sonni Olsen, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. Welcome by project leader Anka Ryall | |
| 1000-1100: | Keynote lecture | |
| Professor Susanna Frank, Humboldt University, Berlin | ||
| "Arctic Ice and Permafrost as a Literary Motif and Its Anthropological Implications (the Example of Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature)" | ||
| 1100-1130: | Coffee/tea | |
| 1130-1300: | Parallel sessions 1: | |
| A) Future Arctic | ||
| B) Toward a Non-Environmental History of the Arctic? | ||
| C) Indigenous Representations – Arctic Primitivism? | ||
| 1300-1400: | Lunch | |
| 1400-1430 | A presentation, invitation and installation (E-0.101)Kate Maxwell, University of Agder, Norway: "The Color of Snowflakes" |
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| 1445-2345: | Excursion by bus and ferry to Skjervøy with return to Tromsø by Coastal Steamer (Hurtigruten), including dinner on board | |
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Wednesday 17 september |
| 1000-1100: | Keynote lecture | |
| Dr Monica Kristensen, author and explorer | ||
| "Polar Heroism: Gender, Taboos and Death Cults in Polar Explorations" | ||
| 1100-1130: | Coffee/tea | |
| 1130-1300: | Parallel sessions 2: | |
| A) Climate Change and Gender | ||
| B) Arctic Travel and Its Transformations | ||
| C) Modernity and the Fenno-Sacndinavian Arctic | ||
| 1300-1400: | Lunch | |
| 1400-1530: | Parallel sessions 3: | |
| A) Aerial Arctic | ||
| B) Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Technology in the Arctic | ||
| C) Gendered Travel in Greenland | ||
| 1530-1600: | Coffee/tea | |
| 1600-1730: | Parallel sessions 4: | |
| A) Indigenity and Technologies of Self-Representation | ||
| B) Arctic Space and Gendered Fantasies | ||
| C) Ecology and Animal-Human Relationships | ||
| 1900-2000: | Reception at the Art Museum of Northern Norway (Nordnorsk kunstmuseum), Sjøgata 1, with guided tour of the exhibit "Peder Balke: Vision and Revolution" | |
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Thursday 18 September |
| 0900-1000: | Keynote lecture (E-0.101) | |
| Professor Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute | ||
| "The Craft of Orientation and the Making of Arctic Spaces" | ||
| 1000-1030: | Coffee/tea | |
| 1030-1200: | Parallel sessions 5: | |
| A) Photography and Indigeneity | ||
| B) Ecology and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault | ||
| C) Arctic Modernity, Arctic Nostalgia | ||
| 1200-1300: | Lunch | |
| 1300-1430: | Parallel sessions 6: | |
| A) Arctic Space and Fictional settings | ||
| B) Renegotiating Arctic Masculinities | ||
| C) Indigeneity in the Russian North | ||
| 1430-1500: | Coffee/tea | |
| 1500-1630: | Parallel sessions 7: | |
| A) Arctic Cinematic (Post-) Modernities | ||
| B) Arctic Modernity and Material Practices | ||
| C) The Ends of the World? | ||
| 1630-1700 | Coffee/tea | |
| 1700-1745: | Wrap-up session |
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| 1800-2100 | Farewell party at Árdna | |
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