Caitlin DeSilvey, associate professor of cultural geography at the University of Exeter, and member of Bjørnar Olsen’s CAS-project After Discourse: Things, Archaeology, And Heritage in the 21st Century, has a book out now on University of Minnesota Press. In Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving, DeSilvey explores several themes which compel us to rethink conventional notions of heritage conservation. Her emphasis, …
Soviet heritage in the Russian North: Observations from Russian Teriberka – by Svetlana Vingogradova
According to the results of previous fieldwork from 2015, the village Teriberka was chosen as one of the main objects of enquiry of a Russian case study. It is a remote peripheral rural settlement on the Barents Sea coast with a population of 930 people, situated at the distance of 127 km to the northeast from Murmansk. Teriberka is one …
Workshop in Vardø
September 22nd – September 25th. Participants: Bjørnar Olsen, Torgeir Bangstad, Elin Andreassen, Hein B. Bjerck, Mats Burström, Stein Farstadvoll, Ingar Figenschau, Saphinaz-Amal Naguib, Kerstin Smeds, Marek Tamm, Svetlana Vinogradova, and Timothy J. LeCain. For its second workshop, the Object Matters team headed to Vardø, a town in the eastern part of Finnmark county in Norway. The idea of this workshop …