Polar Night Celebration 2024: The Finnmark witchcraft trials, awards "First impressions.." and Christmas food buffet
Welcome to the POLAR NIGHT CELEBRATION 2024!
Date: November 21, 2024
Deadline for registration is Nov 14 at 00:00, there is a max of 85 persons due to capacity at Bazinga.
Students need to log in with Feide to be able to register.
Venue: Bazinga bar, Cantina Teorifag 1 Building, Campus Tromsø
Time: 12.00-15:00
Event programme:
12:00- Welcome: Join us on a journey into the Polar Night in the Arctic!
12:15-13 The Finnmark witchcraft trials in the seventeenth century by Liv Helene Willumsen
13:00-13:15 Break
13:15-13:45 Lilli Mittner, Zoheb Mashiur and Gunhild Svalastog will award the certificates and prizes to the winners of the photo competition "First impressions.." Photo competition for all exchange students at UiT | UiT
13:45-15:00 Norwegian Christmas food from a buffet including vegetarian food, by Samskipnaden
We love to wish you all welcome to the Polar Night Celebration 2024 at Bazinga campus Tromsø: See this map.
On this day Thursday November 21 when the sun disappears in Tromsø for 2 months,
12:15-13:00 Liv Helene Willumsen, professor emerita of history, will talk about the Finnmark witchcraft trials, a persecution of alleged witches which took place in the seventeenth century in the very North of Norway. She will also talk about Steilneset memorial in Vardø, a memorial to commemorate the victims of the Finnmark witchcraft trials.
Then, after a short break, 13:00-13:15,
13:15-13:45 Lilli Mittner, Zoheb Mashiur and Gunhild Svalastog will award the certificates and prizes to the winners of the photo competition "First impressions.." Photo competition for all exchange students at UiT | UiT
from 13:45-15 There will be as last year a buffet of Christmas food including vegetarian alternatives served by Samskipnaden.
There is set a maximum number of 85 participants due to the capacity of seats in the Bazinga Cafeteria.