HEI International Student Conference 2024

Welcome to HEI's annual International Student Conference!

This conference unites early career researchers in both formal and informal settings, providing a platform to explore the latest developments in the field of heritage studies.

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HEI: Heritage Experience Initiative has the pleasure of inviting to HEI’s International Student Conference 2024.

The conference will bring together students from archaeology, museology, conservation and cultural heritage studies. The aim of the conference is to function as a platform where students can present their research to other students, discuss and gain new insights, and build international networks. 

The conference is open to all students! Our in-person venue can host up to 60 attendees.

Important Attendance Information:

  • Attendees must arrive between 8:50 AM and 9:10 AM as the doors will be closed for audience entry after this period until the museum officially opens at 11:00 AM.

Registration:

  • All available seats have now been reserved. If you are keen on attending in person, you can send an email expressing your interest. We will keep a waiting list and inform you if a seat becomes available due to cancellations.

Remote Participation:

THURSDAY

Join Zoom Meeting: https://uio.zoom.us/j/63425710629

Meeting ID: 634 2571 0629

FRIDAY

Join Zoom Meeting: https://uio.zoom.us/j/62739085843

Meeting ID: 627 3908 5843
 

For inquiries, contact Solveig Isaksen: solveig.isaksen@iakh.uio.no

PROGRAMME*

Day 1 - Thursday October 24

Historical Museum, Foredragssalen

08.50-09:10

Museum doors are open for audience

09:00

Conference start

09:15

Welcome

09:20

HEI International student conference: background and vision

09:30

The Craftsmanship of the Urnes Style: Networks of Image Carvers from 1025 to 1150

Bo Alexander Granbo, IAKH, University of Oslo (UiO)

09:45

Co-creation as a tool for learning?

Audne Skogheim, IAKH, UiO

10:00

The Unveiling of Christine Storm Munch's Cookbook: Digital Tools for New Knowledge

Therese Foldvik, IKOS, UiO

10:15

Coffee Break

10:40

 

 

Keynote 1: Heritage Practices of Care: Navigating Social and Environmental Purposes to Change Negative Narratives

Hanneke Booji, University of Stirling (Digital)

11:00

Poster presentation MUSKUL students, IKOS, UiO

Q&A

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Aud V. Tønnessen

Museum Director at the Museum of Cultural History

13:10

Keynote 2: Instigating the trouble: experiments in difficult more-than-human storytelling

Sidsel N. B. Overgaard, Aarhus University

13:30

Population Dynamics and Migration at Mensabak in the Terminal Preclassic

Sofia Falchenberg, IAKH, UiO

13:45

Coffee break

14:15

Keynote 3: The Shifting Narratives of Chinese Art Representation at the Victoria and Albert Museum: A Historical and Curatorial Perspective

Jiazhi Yao, Durham University (Digital)

14:35

Tao Tao’s Toy Box: reflecting on the potential of the use of a mascot during a student museum exhibition.

Selene M. Azevedo E Salavessa, Durham University

14:50

Discussion

Practical information

15:30

End of day 1

 

Day 2 - Friday October 25

Historical Museum, Foredragssalen

08.50-09:10

Museum doors are open for audience

09:00

Conference start

09:15

Short welcome day 2

09:20

Keynote 4: Rural heritage for enriching social capital within South Korean rural villages: Which stakeholder group mobilised heritage for increasing social capital?

Minki, Tiancheng, and Manga, Newcastle University (Digital)

09:40

Ongoing MA-projects in archaeology at IAKH, University of Oslo:

  • The Smith in the Soil 

Loke Solan Johnsen Elvegård

  • Ancient ghosts in Mussolini's Rome: The creation of memory in an urban landscape

Victoria Cecilie Frivik

10:00

Coffee break

10:20

Keynote 5: Chinese Community's Heritages at Newcastle

Yan Sun, Durham University (Digital)

10:40

Poster presentation MUSKUL students, IKOS, UiO

Q&A

11:30

Lunch

12:30

Keynote 6: Stone Age heritage as shared landscapes: archaeology meets anthropology.

Jesper Gulliksen, University of Gothenburg

12:50

Ongoing MA-projects in archaeology at IAKH, University of Oslo:

  • Canons and Carvels! The Ship Gribshunden (1495) as a Spectacular Reminder of the Great War Machines in Late Medieval Scandinavia

Elisabeth Ugland

  • The gold bracteats and Salin Style 1 - An insight into the elites of the Scandinavian Migration Period

Sigurd Kjeka Wrangell

  • The organisation of outfield resources at Dovre in the Viking and Middle Ages.

Oscar Vardund

13:30 Short break

13:45

Keynote 7: Economic versus social impact in heritage-led regeneration: must it be either/or? Perth Museum and the Stone of Destiny, Scotland

Fiona Robertson, Newcastle University (Digital)

14:05

Field documentation: Exploring the possibility of using smartphones in archaeological fieldwork

Maria Agner Reimer, Aarhus University/IAKH, UiO

14:20

Discussion

15:30

Conference ends

We look forward to welcoming you to the HEI International Student Conference!

*Please note that the the program is subject to change

 

 

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Published Apr. 17, 2024 8:40 AM - Last modified Aug. 19, 2025 1:03 PM