Program:
09:00 Opening. Coffe/tee, also available in the intermissions.
09:15 Svein Aamold (Professor of art history, UiT):
“Unstable Categories of Art and People”
09:30 Hartmut Lutz (Professor emeritus, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures of North America, Universität Greifswald, Germany):
“Sumus, Ergo Sum (We are, therefore I am): Indigenous challenges to Cartesian logo-centrism”
10:15 Discussion / break. Moderator: Monica Grini (Associate professor of art history, UiT)
10:45 Harald Gaski (Associate professor of Sámi Literature and Culture, UiT):
“Approaches to Sami and Indigenous research and aesthetics”
11:00 Christian Spies (Professor of art history, Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität zu Köln, Germany):
“Strange Objects: Ethnographic Objects In-between Self-Presentation and Contextualization”
11:15 Irene Snarby (PhD scholar, art history, UiT):
“Sculpture as a Transformative Universe: Runebommehammeren /The Holy Drum-Hammer by Iver Jåks”
11:30 Discussion. Moderator: Monica Grini
11:55 Lunch.
13:00 Ruth Phillips (Professor of art history, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada):
“The Circle and the Rectangle: Art, Indigenous Residential Schools and the Dynamics of Oppression and Healing”
13:45 Discussion / break. Moderator: Svein Aamold
14:15 Charlotte Bydler (Senior lecturer of art history, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden):
“Decolonial or Creolized Commons? Sámi duodji in the expanded field”
14:30 Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen (Associate professor of art history, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway):
“Body, Territory and Authenticity in Contemporary Sámi Art”
14:45 Discussion. Moderator: Svein Aamold
15:15 End of seminar.