International Conference, Tromsø September 2017

INDIGENOUS PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIES: CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES

Thursday 7 September

08:30 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and introductionSigrid Lien, Hilde Wallem Nielssen and Kjellaug Isaksen

(University of Bergen, Norway):Negotiating History: Photography in Sami Culture.

09:30 – 10:15 Keynote lectureLaura Peers

(Pitt Rivers Museum/Oxford University,UK): Reclaiming pasts, Reclaiming Futures:

Indigenous Histories, Photography, and Survivance

10:15 – 10:30 Discussion

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

Conference venue: UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Auditorium E-0101 SV/HUM Building

Session I: Archives, Trauma and Re-appropriation

Veli-Pekka Lethola (University of Oulu, Finland):

Our Histories in the Photographs of Others

Carol Williams (University of Lethbridge, Canada):

Working between the Colonial Photographic Archive and Indigenous Cultural resurgence: Colonial Trauma and

Historical Literacy in a Canadian Context

Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham (The University of Western Australia):

Working between the Colonial Photographic Archive and Photography and Australian Indigenous Rights

11:00 – 12:30

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

Session II: Resistance Articulated: Sàmi Contemporary

Art

Kjellaug Isaksen (University of Bergen/Center of Northern Peoples, Norway):Negotiating History: Photography as a Decolonial Practice

in Sàmi Contemporary Art

Laura Junka-Aikio(University of Oulu, Finland):

Working between the Colonial Photographic Archive and Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of

Articulating a Sámi Political Community

Anne Heith(Umeå University, Sweden):

Photography, Modernity and Postcolonial Place-Making:Sara Ranta-Rönnlund’s Reminiscence Books

and Áillohaš’ Sámi Family Album

13:30 – 15:00

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00 Ola Røe and Harry Johansen: Artist Self-presentation

Friday 8 September

09:30 – 10:15

10:15 – 10:30

10:30 – 11:00

11:00 – 12:30

Keynote lectureCarol Payne (Carleton University, Ottawa):

Photography in the Canadian North: Inuit Culture and Memory through the Camera

Discussion

Coffee break

Session III: Re-contextualizing Historical Photographs

Sigrid Lien (University of Bergen)and Hilde Wallem Nielssen (NLA University College):

Camera Encounters: Norwegian Bourgeois Women’s Adventures in Sàmi Areas

Catrine Baglo (UiT, The Arctic University of Norway):

Repeopling the Past: Photographs from Live Ethnographic Displays of Sàmi

Hanne Hammer Stien (UiT, The Arctic University of Norway):

Heterogeneity and Identity – The use of Photographic Portraits in Exhibitions on Sami Culture

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:30 Session IV:

Photography and Indigeneity in Greenland Ingeborg Høvik

(UiT, The Arctic University of Norway): Indigenous Photography Reproduced:

Greenlandic Illustrations in European Literature

Mette Sandbye (University of Copenhagen, Denmark):

Negotiating Identity. Photography in Contemporary Greenland

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 15:45

15:45- 16:00 Discussion

16:00 – 17:00

Closing KeynoteElizabeth Edwards:

The Same Everywhere? Local Practices and the Reshaping of Boundaries

Bente Geving and Marja Helander: Artist Self-presentation