16-18/6: Konferanse: Nordic Nature
Nordic Nature: Art, Ecology, Landscape is a three-day conference foregrounding new and vital conversations currently shaping Nordic art historical research on the natural world.
Oppsummering på norsk:
Programmet og registrering til «Nordic Nature» (16. til 18. juni) er åpnet!
«Nordic Nature» retter fokus på nye og sentrale perspektiv som bidrar til å forme den kunsthistoriske forskningen på nordisk natur. Konferansen er ett samarbeid mellom Universitetsmuseet i Bergen, The Greenhouse (UiS) og KODE, og arrangeres i Bergen.
16.-18. June, Bergen, Norway
Visit the conference website here: https://nordicnature.mystrikingly.com
Registration: https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=12561136
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
Focusing on encounters between art history, visual culture, nature studies, and environmental history, this conference will redress the imbalance in Nordic art history that often emphasizes teleological national narratives, and instead, situate encounters with nature in relation to more interdisciplinary methodologies. It will foreground environmental, post-colonial, transnational, and Indigenous perspectives.
The notion of the Nordic landscape as a manifestation of a specific national temperament emerged in the nineteenth century and coincided with larger nationalist movements that sought to discover, preserve, and promote a sense of national identity. Nordic landscapes shaped and framed national identity domestically and for export abroad in exhibitions, in turn, used to demonstrate and promote a northern identity.
This conference offers an intervention into the prescribed narrative of National Romanticism, inviting speakers to move beyond the nation as a priori framework and to decenter and reconfigure the geographical and cultural focus of the landscape and natural world in Nordic art history.
PROGRAMME:
DAY 1:
Thursday June 16th
Location: Permanenten, KODE Art Museums
8.45 – 9.00 – Opening Remarks
9.00 – 10.30 – Session 1
Fin-de-siecle Ecology
Chair: Tonje Haugland Sørensen (University of Bergen)
10.30 – 11.00 – Break
11.00 – 12.30 – Session 2
Art, Architecture, and Activism
Chair: Ingrid Halland (University of Bergen)
12.30 – 14.00 – Lunch & Curator Talks
14.00 – 15.30 – Session 3
Animal Studies
Chair: Dolly Jørgensen (University of Stavanger)
15.30 – 16.30 – Break
16.30 – 18.00 – Curating the Anthropocene Roundtable
DAY 2:
Friday, June 17th
Location: University Museum
9.00 – 10.30 – Session 4
Arctic Imaginings
Chair: Isabelle Gapp (University of Toronto)
10.30 – 11.00 – Break
11.00 – 12.30 – Session 5
Contemporary Responses
Chair: MaryClaire Pappas (Indiana University)
12.30 – 14.00 – Lunch & Curator Talks
13.45 – 15.15 – Session 6
Gender in the North
Chair: Katarina Macleod (Södertorn University)
15.30 – 16.30 – Break
16.30 – 18.00 – Keynote Address
Location: Permanenten, KODE Art Museums
Gry Hedin (ARKEN Museum of Modern Art):
“The climate emergency is here. The Nordic art museums need to act like it”
19.00 – Conference Dinner (limited capacity)
Location: Marg + Bein
DAY 3:
Saturday June 18th
Location: Permanenten, KODE Art Museums
10.00 – 11.30 – Session 7
Film and Photography
Chair: Bart Pushaw (University of Copenhagen)
11.30 – 11.45 – Break
11.45 – 13.15 – Session 8
Scandinavian Sculpture
Chair: Kesia Eidesen Halvorsrud (University of Oslo and KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes)
13.15 – 14.30 – Lunch & Curator Talks
14.30 – 16.00 – Session 9
Garden Landscapes
Chair: Tove Kårstad Haugsbø (KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes)
16.00 – 16.15 – Closing Remarks
- Torsdag 16. juni 2022 til Lørdag 18. juni 2022
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