Gender and Arctic Discourses
Preliminary programme
Both keynote lectures and paper sessions will be held in auditorium E-0.101. If parallel
paper sessions are necessary, they will be held in lecture rooms E-0.103 and E-0.104.
Tuesday 27 September
Historical Perspectives on Gender and Gender Subversion in the Arctic
0900-0930:
0930-0945:
0945-1115:
1115-1130:
1130-1300:
1300-1400:
1400–1600:
1600-1615:
1615-1745:
1800-2000:
Registration, coffee/tea
Opening
Keynote lecture 3 (E–0.101)
Adriana Cracium, University of California, Riverside:”There Are No
Women Here: Gender, Arctic, Archive”
Refreshments
Keynote lecture 2 (E–0.101)
Johan Schimanski and Ulrike Spring, University of Tromsø:”Gendered
Discourses of Celebration and the Formation of Arctic Heroes”
Lunch
Paper session(s)
Refreshments
Keynote lecture 3 (E–0.101)
Lisbeth Lewander, Göteborg University:”Louise Arner Boyd –
Rescuer, Explorer and Scientist”
Reception at Árdna
Wednesday 28 September
Narrating Gender in an Arctic Context
0930-1100:
1100-1130:
1130-1300:
1300-1400:
1400-1600:
1600-1615:
1615-1745:
1830-1930:
Keynote lecture 4 (E–0.101)
Heidi Hansson, Umeå University:”Frost on My Moustache: Arctic
Travel and the Narration of Masculinity”
Refreshments
Keynote lecture 5 (E–0.101)
Anka Ryall, University of Tromsø:”Narrating Modern Femininity in the
Arctic”
Lunch
Paper session(s)
Refreshments
Keynote lecture 6 (E–0.101)
Voukko Hirvonen, Sámi University College:”The Representation of
Sámi Women in Sámi Literature”
Reception at the Perspektivet Museum
Henning Howlid Wærp: Cora Sandel and Tromsø
Thursday 29 September
Gender and the Social, Political and Ideological Dimensions of the Arctic
Periphery
0930-1100:
1100-1130:
1130-1300:
1300-1400:
1400-1600:
1600-1615:
1615-1745:
2000-2300:
Keynote lecture 7 (E–0.101)
Hanne Petersen, University of Copenhagen:”Normative Cultures and
Gender Cultures – Arctic and Greenlandic”
Refreshments
Keynote lecture 8 (E–0.101)
Unnur Dis Skaptadóttir, University of Iceland: Title TBA
Lunch
Paper session(s)
Refreshments
Keynote lecture 9 (E–0.101)
Siri Gerrard, University of Tromsø: Title TBA
Dinner