Arctic Voices in Art and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
Image: section from Outi Pieski, Rádje johtin I (Finnish: Rajan käynti I; English: Pacing the Borders I), 2014. Sámi Dáiddamagasiidna / Sámi Art Collections, RiddoDuottarMuseat, Kárášjohka. Photo: Håkon Holmgren Gabrielsen.
10 July - 1 October 2024
Visualizing Arctic Voices
The Riddu Riđđu Festival Exhibition
Center of Northern Peoples in Olmmáivággi, Norway
Current events
Past events
15 and 16 June 2023
Visualising Arctic Voices
Online book publication workshop(s)
20-22 February 2023
Tracing Arctic voices in art, literature, visual and material culture, c. 1750-1914
Conference at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
20 February 2023 at 20:30-22:15
Britta Marakatt-Labba HISTORJÁ
Film showing at Verdensteatret, Tromsø.
Introduction by Dr. Svein Aamold
6-9 April 2022
Decolonizing Arctic History
Conference + workshop at Anchorage Museum, North x North
9 April 2021, 6.30pm CET
Through the Colonial Lens: Images of Alaska Native people in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Online keynote lecture by Maria Shaa Tláa Williams
7 April 2021, 5 pm CET
Rupture, Erosion and Sámi Aesthetics by Iver Jåks
Online keynote lecture by Irene Snarby
This lecture is organised in collaboration with the Craig Dobbin Visiting Professor, UCD Centre for Canadian Studies.
11 February 2021, 5pm CET / 4pm GMT
Past postcolonialism: Indigenous methodologies as Trans-Indigenous Studies
Online lecture with Harald Gaski
This lecture is organised in collaboration with the Craig Dobbin Visiting Professor, UCD Centre for Canadian Studies.
23 September 2020
Official launch of Arctic Voices (Online)
The Research Council of Norway has awarded Arctic Voices with 4 years of funding from their Young Research Talent programme! This marks the official start of the project. We celebrate this with an open launch on Zoom, where the President of the Sámi Parliament, Aili Keskitalo, is one of the speakers.
February 2020
The Frozen Deep: Voices from the 19th Century Arctic, Royal Holloway University of London
A one-day symposium in collaboration with and funded by The Centre for Victorian Studies, Royal Holloway; The Art Collections, Royal Holloway; HARI, and UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
July 2019
Arctic Voices conference, Riddu Riđđu Festival
A four-day conference and workshop in collaboration with UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum and the Riddu Riđđu Festivála.
October 2018
Arctic agency in Victorian art and literature panel, NAVSA 2018
Eavan O’Dochartaigh, Sophie Gilmartin, Sigfrid Kjeldaas and Ingeborg Høvik organised a panel on Arctic Agency in Victorian Art and Literature at the North American Victorian Studies Association’s annual conference in Florida 2018.
9 February 2023 at 18:00-20:00
Digital pre-conference: Tracing Arctic voices in art, literature, visual and material culture, c. 1750-1914