Polar Night Celebration 2024: The Finnmark witchcraft trials, awards "First impressions.." and Christmas food buffet
Welcome to the POLAR NIGHT CELEBRATION 2024!
- per 6/11-24 the event was fully booked, please write to mari.buck@uit.no to be put on a waiting list. 11/11: There is a long waiting list.
Date: November 21, 2024
Deadline for registration is November 14 at 00:00, there is a max 85 persons due to the 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!
On his 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.