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Wednesday, 18.09.2013
(Nordic Embassies)
16.00 Welcome
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Susi Frank (Department of Slavic Studies, HU Berlin) and
Kjetil Jakobsen (Department for Northern European Studies, HU Berlin)
16.15 Introductory lectures
Chair: Kjetil Jakobsen
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Wolfgang Ernst (Department of Media studies, HU Berlin)
Archival metahistory and inhuman memory
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Henrik Svensen (Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, University of Oslo)
Deep time of the Arctic
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Sven Spieker (Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara):
"Chasing Ice": Super-Ecologism, Global Warming, and the Wired World
19.00 Drinks & Snacks
20.00 Concert: Karl Seglem & Eli Furubotn
Scandinavian folk/jazz
Thursday, 19.09.2013
(HU Auditorium, Grimm-Zentrum)
9.00 Chair: Wolfgang Ernst
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Georg Töpfer (Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin)
On similarities and difference between cultural and natural archives
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Kjetil Jakobsen (Department of Northern European Studies, HU Berlin)
After nature. Life on ice and the network society in Gabriel Tarde’s "Fragment d'histoire future"
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Knut Ebeling (Academy of Art Berlin)
Photographic archives of the Arctic
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11.30 Lunch break
13.00 Chair: Knut Ebeling
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Trond Lundemo (Department of Cinema Studies, University of Stockholm)
Life Suspended: Film Archives as Cryotechnology
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Eivind Røssaak (National library of Norway)
Freezing Life: The Erkki Kurenniemi Archive
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Ulrike Spring (Sogn og Fjordane University College, Sogndal) and Johan Schimanski (Department of Culture und Literature, University of Tromsø)
The Melting archive: The Arctic and the archives' others
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15.15 Break
15.45 Chair: Johan Schimanski
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Susi Frank (Department of Slavic Studies, HU Berlin)
Siberian permafrost: natural archive of human violence and its semantization in GULAG-literature
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Elena Penskaja (Faculty of Philology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
The Arctic in Russian literature from the 1930ies to 1950ies (Pil’njak, Platonov, Vaginov, Lagin, Kaverin)
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16.30 Chair: Janike Larsen
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Sabine Hänsgen (Department of Slavic Studies, HU Berlin)
The snow field as an archive of Soviet underground performance art
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Emilie Thomassot (Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Nancy)/Nastasia Louveau (HU Berlin)
Geological Archives from the Arctic: How Rocks Record Enviromental Conditions of the Early Earth
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18.30 Break
20.00 Dinner at Vino e libri
Friday, 20.09.2013
(HU Auditorium, Grimm-Zentrum)
9.00 Chair: Sven Spieker
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Peter Hemmersam and Janike Kampevold Larsen (Oslo school of architecture and design)
Landscapes as archives of the 20th century
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Anka Ryall (Centre for Women's and Gender Research, University of Tromsø)
Traces of culture, traces of nature: Hunters’ huts in narratives of Svalbard
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10.30 Break
11.00 Chair: Ulrike Spring
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Philipp Felsch (Department for Cultural History and Theory, HU Berlin)
Petermann's Paperwork. Conquering the North Pole at home
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Kirsten Thisted (Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen)
Voicing the Arctic – Bring the Archives Back In!
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12.30 Lunch break
14.00 Chair: Sabine Hänsgen
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Mandy Buschina (Department of Slavic Studies, HU Berlin)
Venjamin Kaverin’s ‘Two Captains’ and the conceptualization of the Arctic as an archive
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Ursula Ebel (Department of Comparative Literature, University of Vienna)
Ways of tracking: Disorder of natural archives vs. stringent mechanisms of arrangement
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15.15 Break
16.00 Chair: Elvind Røssaak
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Tatjana Petzer (Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin/University of Zürich)
Re-Writing the Tunguska Event: The icy imagination of Vladimir Sorokin and Jacek Dukaj
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Ulrike Vedder (Department of German Philology, HU Berlin)
From Prague to Greenland: Ice memories in Libuše Moníkovás novel "Treibeis"
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Asako Miyazaki (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Encapsulating the memory of the lost: Ice as metaphor in the lyrics of Durs Grünbein and Paul Celan
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18.00 Resumée
- Kjetil Jakobsen, Susi Frank
19.00 Dinner at Honigmond