We regret to inform you that the guest lecture is cancelled. We will try to reschedule the lecture later in the spring semester!
The Archive as a shrine and the archivists as hagiographers: The Institutional afterlives of Sophus Tromholt’s photographs of Sámi peoples.
This lecture is about a collection of Sámi photographs, namely the Tromholt's photographs in the picture collection at the University Library in Bergen. Lien reflects on how this archive - not least through the nomination of the Tromholt archive as part of UNESCO's World Memory list - has made him a kind of non-colonial artist, and the archive as a kind of shrine.
Sigrid Lien is Professor of Art History, University of Bergen - and since January 2020 she is Professor II in Art History at UiT the Arctic University of Norway.
Lien has published a lot on photography, Norsk Fotohistorie – frå daguerrotypi til digitalisering (2007), Kunsten å lese bilder (2009), and (together with Elizabeth Edwards) Uncertain Images: Museums and the Works of Photographs (2014). Her latest book is Pictures of Longing: Photography and the Norwegian-American Migration (2018).
In recent years, she has also worked with museological issues and has among other published (together with Hilde Wallem Nielssen) Museumsforteljingar: Vi og dei andre i kulturhistoriske museum (2016). She has led several major research projects, most recently a NFR project on photography in Sámi culture.
The lecture is organized by the research group Worlding Northern Art (WONA) and Art History, Department of Language and Culture.
Welcome!
Foto: Sophus Tromholt. Billedsamlingen, Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen
When: 24.01.20 kl 14.15–15.15
Where: E-0101 Auditorium SV og HUM-bygget
Location / Campus: Tromsø
Target group: Studenter, Besøkende, Inviterte, Enhet, Ansatte
Contact: Elin Haugdal
E-boastta: elin.haugdal@uit.no