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Collecting Norden, Worlding Northern Art (WONA) and Exploration, Exploitation and Exposition of the Gendered Heritage of the Arctic (XARC) welcomes you to this exciting Collecting Norden in Museums-event with the Austrian duo Nicole Six and Paul Petritsch. Hanne Hammer Stien from WONA will be the moderator.

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In this seminar Kari Korolainen (University of Eastern Finland) will showcase and talk about modern everyday material objects through different approaches, such as how they are collected and how they can work as intermediators.

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In this seminar, Nick Pyenson (Smithsonian Institution) discusses what museum collections from polar latitudes tells us about the evolutionary past of ocean giants, and the ecological futures of those still living alongside us.

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In this seminar Svein Atle Sk?lev?g (University of Bergen) discusses the Italian anthropologist Paolo Mangtegazza's ideas about using photography to collect anthropological data from the north.

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We invite you to a seminar and discussion about scales and scaling in different fields of knowledge. Register before 12 April!

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How can a sighting of a non-existent island prove in fact to be true? Grace Shephard (University of Oslo) explores the intersection of polar exploration, Arctic rocks, and deep time in the Arctic Ocean.

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Two fragments of a flag from Willem Barentsz' winter camp in Novaya Zemlya. How did one end up in Troms? and the other in Amsterdam? In this seminar, Marit Anne Hauan (University Museum of Troms?) discusses the relation between these two objects and what they can tell us about the North.

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Polar expedition souvenirs at Nordiska museet: a re-narration of objects.

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What can photographs and written records tell us about the role and participation of Sámi contractors in Arctic exploration?

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What does the writing of a British mountaineer’s travels to Norway tell us about the transnational web of textual and physical infrastructure, and about those who relied on and contributed to it?  

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What can museum objects tell us about the queer margins of national and local Polar history?

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What can images tell us about the North? 

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What can museum objects tell us about the North?