Weekly updates with information about Object Matters
In an interview with the national news portal for scientific research, forskning.no, Ph.D.-candidate and Object Matters-member Ingar Figenschau from The Arctic University of Norway – UiT, talks about the significance of material remains of war and the changes that these undergo once they are subjected to interpretation and preservation in a heritage framework. As opposed to the practice of restoring …
Photo of Tallinn by David Robson is located at Flickr.com Tallinn and Hiumaa will host the third Object Matters workshop (21–25 September 2017). Programme September 21 arrival hotel L’Ermitage 18:30: meeting at the hotel reception 19:00: dinner at the restaurant Leib, Resto & Aed September 22 breakfast at the hotel 09:15: meeting at the hotel reception 10:00: workshop in Tallinn …
UiT – the Arctic University of Norway has a full-time postdoctoral fellow position vacant. The position is attached to the research project Unruly Heritage: An Archaeology of the Anthropocene. The appointment is a fixed term position for a period of three years starting January 1, 2018. The postdoctoral fellow will be affiliated with the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Sciences …
In dominant modern conceptions things often become little but things-for-us, reduced to resources or what Heidegger termed Bestand. Even as heritage, monuments and things mostly receive their value from being useful to us; as cultural, scientific or economic resources, serving as vehicles for identity and securing human well-being. This workshop will explore possible alternatives to this understanding. That is, to …
Postdoctoral researcher, Þóra Pétursdóttir, will give a talk called Walking the Drift: Theorising along the intertidal at the University of Oslo Friday May 12, 2017, at 14:15. The venue is Department of Archaeology, Blindernveien 11, seminar room 1. The seminar is open to all interested. Walking the Drift: Theorising along the intertidal: The study concerns “drift matter” (marine debris) along coastlines of northern Norway …
Solid material used as ballast in sailing ships has been re-used in many various ways, the re-use as ballast being the most obvious. Another re-use is as building material. A prominent example of where ballast stones have been utilized in this way is Savannah, Georgia, in the southeast of the United States. Savannah was established as a British settlement in …
A glimpse of Saphinaz’ work on the Arab Spring and grafitti is available online in her recent article ‘Engaged Ephemeral Art: Street Art and the Egyptian Arab Spring’. In it she considers the ways an intangible oral heritage of popular sayings and poetry is very briefly transformed into concrete, powerful, politically laden images on the walls of urban public spaces …
Interdisciplinary workshop, Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Norwegian Academy of Sciences March 22-23, 2017, Oslo, Norway (Drammensveien 78, Turret room – top floor) March 22 09.15 Vigdis Broch-Due, director of CAS: Welcome / Bjørnar Olsen, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway/CAS: Introduction 09.45 Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania: In the presence of things 10.45 Marzia Varutti, University of Oslo: The non-discursive …
Postdoctoral researcher Þóra Pétursdóttir in the Object Matters research group will be the keynote speaker at the conference ‘Antinomies of Vagueness’ at the University of Copenhagen in April. The conference aims to explore the ways in which vagueness, ambiguity, voids and vacancy features in human social life. The aim of the conference is to bring bring these issues into play …
Writer Robert Macfarlane will give a lecture entitled Deep Time, Thin Place And Thick Speech in the Anthropocene, at Litteraturhuset in Oslo at the 6th of April from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. CAS project After Discourse: Things, Archaeology, and Heritage in the 21st Century welcomes you to this open lecture at Litteraturhuset in Oslo. About author Robert Macfarlane Robert Macfarlane (b. 1976) is a British …