Programme 

Day one: Monday 20th February 2023 

Venue: UiT Campus Tromsø, Hansine Hansens veg 18, Building and room: SVHUM E-0101: MAP

08:30-09:00 Coffee/tea and registration 

09:00-09:15 Welcome and introduction
Drs. Cathrine Theodorsen, Ingeborg Høvik and Sigfrid Kjeldaas 

09:15-10:00 Dr. Sven Haakanson, University of Washington (keynote)  
Following the Lead of the Communities’ Needs and Not Our Academic Agenda 
(Chairs: Dr. Henning H. Wærp and Lena Klein) 

10:00-10:15 Break 

Session: Western and Indigenous Literatures on Alaska and British Columbia 
(Chairs: Drs. Ingeborg Høvik and Sigfrid Kjeldaas) 

10:15-10:45 Lena Klein, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition: Frederick Whymper and the Native population 

10:45-11:15 Dr. Maria Shaa Tláa Williams, University of Alaska Anchorage 
Alaska Native and Indigenous Ceremony and Music in the 18th-20th Centuries:  Reframing and Refocusing the Colonial Lens  

11:15-11:45 Break

 
Session: Greenland and the Mobility of Knowledge and Aesthetic Production   
(Chairs Dr. Renée Hulan and Dr. Sigfrid Kjeldaas) 

11:45-12:15 Dr. Nanna Kaalund, Aarhus University 
The Monopoly Trade and Greenland’s Colonial Archives 

12:15-12:45 Dr. Kirsten Thisted, University of Copenhagen and The University of Greenland 
The Greenlanders’ Conversion to Christianity – and Act of European Violence or Inuit Agency? 

12:45-13:15 Dr. Ingeborg Høvik, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and Axl Jeremiassen, Secretariat of the Constitutional Commission, Greenland 
Drawing Home: Inughuit Experience, Knowledge and Aesthetics 

13:15-14:15 Lunch 
Champagne cantina

Session: Arctic Exploration and Indigenous Women 
(Chairs: Dr. Sigrid Lien and Lena Klein)   

14:15-14:45 Dr. Silje Gaupseth, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Ada Delutuk Blackjack on Wrangel Island (1921): Narrative Agency and the Expedition Diary   

14:45-15:15 Dr. Sophie Gilmartin, Royal Holloway University of London 
Travels with an English Teapot  

15:15-15:30 Break 

15:30-16:00 Dr. Eavan O’Dochartaigh, University of Galway 
Sophie, Sophy, Sophia: Tracing an influential Greenlandic (Kalaallit) Woman through Anglophone Travel and Exploration Literature of the Nineteenth Century. 

18:30-20:15 Reception at the Polar Museum (polarmuseet) 
Dr. Silje Gaupseth, Introduction to the exhibition Queering Polar History

20:30 Historjá Film screening at Verdensteateret 
Dr. Svein Aamold introduces the film
(Buy tickets at venue) 

Day two: Tuesday 21st February 

Venue: UiT Campus Tromsø, Hansine Hansens veg 18, Building and room: SVHUM E-0101: MAP

08:30-09:00 Coffee/tea  

09:00-09:45 Prof. Harald Gaski, Sami University of Applied Sciences (keynote) 
Vuohtádat: in Order to Trace You Need Tracing Conditions: Sámi Arts in a Contextualized Setting Between 1750 and 1914 
(Chairs: Hannah Perleth and Ingeborg Høvik) 

09:45-10:00 Break

Session: Sámi Literature and Methodology 
(Chairs: Dr. Svein Aamold and Charis Gullickson) 

 10:00-10:30 Dr. Lill-Tove Fredriksen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
The Art of Coping in the Song Elveland 

10:30-11:00 Dr. Lisa Monica Aslaksen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Criticism of Society in Early Sámi Literature 

11:00-11:30 Dr. Lisbeth Wærp, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Encounters in the Contact Zone: Johan Turi’s Muitalus sámiid birra (1910) (An Account of the Sami) and Knut Hamsun’s Markens grøde (1917) (Growth of the Soil) 

11:30-12:00 Break

12:00-12.45 Dr. Dolly Jørgensen, University of Stavanger (Keynote) 
Documenting Their Best Shot: The Construction of Arctic Heroism Through Muskoxen Slaughter 
(Chairs: Dr. Laura Castor and Prof. Harald Gaski)

12.45-13.45 Lunch
TEO H1 Cantina, Bazinga

Session: Animal Stories and Animal Fates 
(Chairs: Dr. Laura Castor and Prof. Harald Gaski)

13:45-14:15 Dr. Henning H. Wærp, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Animal Societies in the Arctic. On Otto Sverdrup’s New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions (1903) 

14:15-14:45 Dr. Katarina Wadstein MacLeod, Södertörn University 
Illustrating Neutral Nature: Fish and Fantasies in Scientific Images

14:45-15:15 Dr. Sigfrid Kjeldaas, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Beaver Diffractions: On care, Maintenance, and Management in this Anthropocene Moment   

15:15-15:30 Break

15:30-16:00 Dr. Fredrik Brøgger, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Depicting the Agency of Plants and Animals on Norway's Subarctic Heath Finnmarksvidda: Seeking Inspiration in Modern Biological Science and Traditional Sami Animism 

16:00-16:30 Sakura Koretsune, University of Oslo (guest researcher) 
Reweaving Worldviews and Networking the People Who Live With Whales: a Practice of Artistic Project “Ordinary Whales” 

16.30-16.45 Break 

16.45-17.30 Art Quiz Walk  
Hannah Perleth, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg 

18.00 Conference dinner at Árdna (UiT Campus) 

Day three: Wednesday 22nd February 

Venue: UiT Campus Tromsø, Hansine Hansens veg 18, Building and room: SVHUM E-0101: MAP

08.30-09.00 Coffee/Tea 

09.00-09.45 Dr. Jelena Porsanger, Riddo Douttar Museat (Keynote) 
Attention to Absence: An Exhibition on the Return of the Sámi Drums 2020-2023 
(Chairs Drs. Jérémie McGowan and Sigfrid Kjeldaas)

09.45-10.00 Break 

Session: Photography and Forms of Indigenous Repatriation  
(Chairs: Drs. Eavan O’Dochartaigh and Ingeborg Høvik) 

10.00-10.30 Dr. Laura Castor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Decolonial Interruptions of Settler Time in Tanya Tagaq’s Multimodal Art  

10.30-11.00 Dr. Sigrid Lien, University of Bergen  
Fragments of the World: Photography and the Laestadian Heritage  

11.00-11.15 Break 

11.15-11.45 Dr. Renée Hulan, Saint Mary’s University 
Niviatsianaq’s Amautiq: Archival Photographs from Kivalliq, 1903-1909 

11.45-12.15 Dr. Roswitha Skare, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Colour My/Your Past: Returning Photographs of Sámi People Taken by Sophus Tromholt in 1883 to Today’s Audiences 

12.15-13.15 Lunch 

13.15-14.45 Panel: Decolonising and Indigenising Museums.  
(Chair Dr. Sven Haakanson) 
Charis Gullickson, Northern Norway Art Museum 
Dr. Jérémie McGowan, UiT & The Oslo School of Architecture and Design  
Dr. Jelena Porsanger, Riddo Douttar Museat 

14.45-15.00 Summary reflections and closing words  
Sigfrid Kjeldaas, Hannah Perleth and Ingeborg Høvik