Bjørnar Olsen (UiT), director of Object Matters: Archaeology and Heritage in the 21st century, presents the CAS project After Discourse: Things, Archaeology, and Heritage in the 21st Century in this interview conducted by Karoline Kvellestad Isaksen at Centre for Advanced Studies in Oslo. Several issues of importance to the research project are introduced in the feature including overarching themes like …
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 …