2024
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.
Time and place: Oct. 24, 2024 9:00 AM – Oct. 25, 2024 4:00 PM, 'Foredragssalen', Historical Museum
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
Organiser
HEI: Heritage Experience Initiative
Tags: HEI, Heritage, student conference
2023
HEI International Student Conference 2023
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.
Time and place: Oct. 19, 2023 12:00 PM – Oct. 20, 2023 4:30 PM, 'Foredragssalen', Historical Museum
HEI: Heritage Experience Initiative has the pleasure of inviting to HEI’s International Student Conference 2023.
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. If you prefer to join us remotely, please don't hesitate to email us for a Zoom link.
Programme
Day 1 - Thursday October 19
Historical Museum, Foredragssalen
- Welcome
Marie D. Amundsen, Research, dissemination and outreach coordinator HEI: Heritage Experience Initiative, UiO - HEI International Student Conference: Background and vision
Þóra Pétursdóttir, professor IAKH, University of Oslo - Keynote 1: Assessing the Social Values of the Historic Environment: Working with a ‘Methods Assemblage’
Liz Robson, University of Stirling - Session 1
- Heritage water Infrastructures with a focus on Delhi
Ashwini Rajiv More, Newcastle University - Situating Creative Methods: Future Uses in Heritage and Planning
Ieuan Rees, Stirling University - The Rehabilitation and Re-Use of Vernacular and Traditional Architecture (VTA). Exploring Responses to Change and Intervention
Smaranda Spânu, University of Gothenburg - Through the Forager's Eye
Asta Troldborg Isager, Aarhus University
- Heritage water Infrastructures with a focus on Delhi
- Keynote 2: Leaving dry land: Water, heritage and imaginary agency
Moniek Driesse, University of Gothenburg (online) - Session 2
- Using deep mapping techniques to curate an historic landed estate as a multi-dimensional educational and cultural resource
John Witchell, Newcastle University - The Journey of the Skulls. The Māori ancestral remains in the Schreiner Collection at the University of Oslo
Anette Nymann, IKOS, University of Oslo - From ash to bone - changes in burial practice from Pre-Roman Iron Age to Roman Iron Age in Østfold
Sigrun Vidarsdottir, IAKH, University of Oslo - Invisible threads: remnants of performative rituals at the burial site Hunn in eastern Norway
Jonas Lønne, IAKH, University of Oslo
- Using deep mapping techniques to curate an historic landed estate as a multi-dimensional educational and cultural resource
Day 2 - Friday October 20
Historical Museum, Foredragssalen
- Short welcome day 2
Katherine Burlingame, IAKH, University of Oslo - Keynote 3: Social hierarchy in the Early Neolithic LBK - old debate and new evidence
Hallvard Bruvoll, IAKH, University of Oslo - Session 3
- Uncovering hidden stories of flying fish and ships: a methodological assemblage for object-centered research
Alina Botezatu, University of Stirling - Revitalizing Africa’s Earth Heritage: Enhancing Durability of Compressed Earth Bricks through Microbial Self-Healing
Derrick Mwebaza, Newcastle University (online)
- Uncovering hidden stories of flying fish and ships: a methodological assemblage for object-centered research
- Keynote 4: Planting, Cultivating, and Applying Knowledge. A Historical Case-Study in the Potential of Museums and Botanical Gardens in Environmental and Cultural Change
Solveig Marie Siem, IKOS, University of Oslo - Session 4
- Enter the Pyrocene
Sienna Shane, Aarhus University - Poster presentation MUSKUL students, IKOS, University of Oslo
- Ongoing MA-project: Heritage after us is global warming. A comparative study of climate exhibitions with focus on climate narrative indoor and outdoor environments
Kamal Mursal Malik, IAKH, University of Oslo - Living heritage
Solveig Isaksen, IAKH, University of Oslo
- Enter the Pyrocene
- Keynote 5: Aspects of open science from the perspective of an open PhD project
Isak Roalkvam, IAKH, University of Oslo - Session 5
- Conservation and use of natureculture in lived landscape: a phenomenological study of the Follsjø protection case
Rønnaug Rauk Sundling, IKOS, University of Oslo - Uses of Artistic Approaches to Cultural Heritage Conservation
Evelina Duffy, University of Gothenburg
- Conservation and use of natureculture in lived landscape: a phenomenological study of the Follsjø protection case
Meet Our Conference Chairs
Our conference chairs will play a vital role in guiding discussions, fostering insightful exchanges, and ensuring seamless session management throughout the conference. We are fortunate to have Katherine Burlingame and Hallvard N. Bruvoll leading our program.
We look forward to welcoming you to the HEI International Student Conference!
2022
HEI International Student Conference 2022
Welcome to HEI’s annual International Student Conference!
Time and place: Oct. 19, 2022 – Oct. 21, 2022, Blindern, University of Oslo
HEI: Heritage Experience Initiative has the pleasure of inviting to HEI’s International Student Conference 2022.
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 for all students!
Program
Day 1: Wednesday October 19
Kristine Bonnevies hus, auditorium 2
- Welcome
Marie D. Amundsen, Research, dissemination and outreach coordinator HEI: Heritage Experience Initiative, UiO - HEI International Student Conference: Background and vision
Þóra Pétursdóttir, associate professor IAKH, University of Oslo - Keynote 1: ‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are’. The role of food and foodways as inclusive museum practice
Sofie Scheen Jahnsen, IAKH, University of Oslo - Session 1
- Culturing Care: Examining the potential of contemporary sourdough breadmaking in understanding interspecies care ethics in our changing heritage
Margaréta Pintér, Aarhus University - Small Scottish Heritage Organisations: Resilience and Sustainability in Heritage Practice.
Hanneke Booij, University of Stirling - På Sporet af Linie 7: An interactive and multimedia walking tour for the preservation of Copenhagen's tram heritage
Alley Cortes, Aarhus University
- Culturing Care: Examining the potential of contemporary sourdough breadmaking in understanding interspecies care ethics in our changing heritage
- Keynote 2: Encountering the Body: personhood and iconography in the Scandinavian Iron Age
Elisabeth Aslesen, University of Leicester - Session 2
- Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century Tailoring: A Qualitative Study of Craft Knowledge
Therese Holmgren, University of Gothenburg - Rock Art in Technicolour - Exploring Augmented Reality as an Accessibility Tool for Rock Art in Tanum World Heritage
Aliisa Råmark, University of Gothenburg - Street art and evental heritage
Laima Nomeikaite, Roskilde University and University of South-Eastern Norway - Discussion
- Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century Tailoring: A Qualitative Study of Craft Knowledge
Day 2: Thursday October 20
Helga Engs hus, auditorium 1
- Keynote 3: “We, who were in the self-defence [attack], were given these [medals].” Cultural property war crimes, and wartime collaboration by cultural property criminals, in Russia’s war on Ukraine
Sam Hardy, The Norwegian Institute in Rome, University of Oslo - Session 3
- Scotland’s Cold War Materialised: Engaging with the Material Culture of the Royal Observer Corps
Sarah Harper, University of Stirling - Memories of Communist victimhood and representing victimisation in the museum
Samantha Corrine Vaughn, Newcastle University - Decolonisation in Scandinavian Museums
Muhammed Topdas, Newcastle University
- Scotland’s Cold War Materialised: Engaging with the Material Culture of the Royal Observer Corps
- Project presentations by two first year MA students at ARK4050 – Archaeology and dissemination, IAKH, University of Oslo:
- Audne Skogheim
- Thomas Kjær
- Poster presentation MUSKUL students, IKOS, University of Oslo
- Keynote 4: Heritage, Community and Sustainability in Wester Ross UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Scotland
Zoe Russell, University of Stirling - Session 4
- Art, Museum and Heritage: A case study of a slightly different sledge
Ane Kristin Bang-Steinsvik, IKOS, University of Oslo - The citizens in science
Ingvild Dalene Bjerga, IAKH, University of Oslo - The built heritage in The Vega Archipelago during the climate change era
Linn Catrin Lilleeide Brudevoll, IKOS, University of Oslo - Breaking tradition? Mesolithic axe production in Southeastern Norway
Nora Nymo Øynebråten, IAKH, University of Oslo - Discussion
- Art, Museum and Heritage: A case study of a slightly different sledge
Day 3: Friday October 21
Helga Engs hus, auditorium 3
- Keynote 5: Smart sustainable earth construction: Advancement of a traditional construction technique through bioengineering
Derrick Mwebaza, Newcastle University - Session 5
- The many meanings behind heritage values
Jesper A. J. Gulliksen, IAKH, University of Oslo - Digital Collections - preservation strategies and security issues
Sergio Tassi, IKOS, University of Oslo - Restoration and re-functioning of a multi-cultural heritage site: Analysis of Kesik Minare case in Antalya Kaleiçi with a focus on memory of Kesik Minare
Zeynep Yilmaztürk, Aarhus University
- The many meanings behind heritage values
- Concluding remarks and discussion
Walk to Georg Sverdrups hus, Blindern
HEIs Kulturarvsdag at Georg Sverdrups hus, Blindern w/lunch
2021
HEI's International Student Conference 2021
Welcome to this year's international student conference!
Time and place: Oct. 21, 2021 10:00 AM – Oct. 22, 2021 2:00 PM, Aud. 2 Farmasibygget
This year's international student conference will take place on October 21st and 22nd from 10 AM to 2 PM (GMT +2), with exciting presentations from students from the University of Oslo, Aarhus University, Gothenburg University, and Newcastle University. See the conference program below.
We are delighted to invite all students at UiO to participate in person, by registering here, and all international students to participate virtually through Zoom. This is will be a great opportunity to get both academic input and some social mingeling! Coffee and lunch will be served both days to in-person participants.
After the conference on Thursday, we will host a group visit to Norsk folkemuseum in Oslo which you can join by registering here. As a social conclusion to the conference there will be a quiz and pizza in Blindernveien 11 on Friday, which you can also register for here.
We can't wait to see all of you, both in person and virtually!
2020
HEIs International Student Conference 2020
Welcome to HEI’s first International Student Conference!
Time and place: Oct. 22, 2020 9:30 AM – Oct. 23, 2020 3:00 PM, Zoom
This year’s conference will include participants from Aarhus University, the University of Gothenburg, Newcastle University and the University of Oslo. It will combine student presentations, keynote talks from current or recently finished PhD candidates, and workshops. Due to the current corona situation, the conference will be organised as a digital event.
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 for all students!
Keynote presentations
David Farrell-Banks, PhD candidate, Department of Media, Culture and Heritage, Newcastle University Moving Moments: On effective, affective uses of the past in far-right politics
What makes references to an 800-year-old document useful for politicians who campaigned for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union? What makes references to a battle between two competing empires, 400 years ago, inspirational for far-right terrorists? This paper is concerned with movements of the past. This is the emergence of particular historical moments in the present, through continued acts of what Sharon Macdonald terms ‘pastpresencing’. It is also a discussion of the power of the past to move us emotionally, to affect us, and to drive us towards particular political actions. I ask: as heritage scholars, what responsibility do we have in defining how particular pasts are used?
Marianne Moen, postdoctoral fellow, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo Putting them in their place: on gendered behaviour, roles and assumptions thereon in Viking Age scholarship
The way in which gender is portrayed in the past has a profound impact on how we perceive 'natural' gendered behaviour in the past and the present. In this lecture, I will use my recent research on gender in the Viking Age to discuss such themes as the political nature of knowledge production from a feminist perspective, how the past can act as a legitimating mirror on modern gendered behavioural expectations, and how transferring expectations of binary gender patterns to the past can obscure alternative interpretations.
Wesam Mohamed, PhD candidate, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University From Archaeology to Death: The impact of politics on Archaeology and Community in Egypt
Archaeology, community, and death, are a common combination on the news in Egypt. Art crimes are becoming considerably dangerous. Digging into the history of Egypt, politics have always played a fateful role in shaping the relationship between the locals in Egypt and archaeology; in particular the ancient Egyptian archaeology. This intervention may be subject to the impact of religion and/or economy, but however, the consequences can still be seen till today. This presentation will exemplify how politics and politicians were involved in archaeology, and how their decisions and practices have impacted the ideas of the locals regarding archaeology and the past. Going through a number of stops through the long history of Egypt, a current criminal case will be explained and linked to former resolutions and political acts.
Student presentations
- Frejdel Haar Bistrup, University of Gothenburg: Material desires: Swedish cultural heritage management, its professionals and LGBT heritage
- Mathias Skaset, University of Oslo: Queer museum perspectives: Pride Art and the radical potential of queer curating.
- Elisabeth Aslesen, University of Oslo: The Great Beyond: interpretation of gender in the Scandinavian Iron Age
- Lea Pedersen, Aarhus University: The Westeros Experience in Northern Ireland: Heritage and tourism experiences
- Jenny Lehane, Newcastle University: Doing heritage in Northumberland: Long term relationships with heritage sites and their effect on wellbeing, identity and ontological security.
- Jernej Gregorač, Aarhus University: Marching on Memory: Heritage on the Trail of Remembrance and Comradeship in Ljubljana
- Markus Nilsen, University of Oslo: Reconstructing destruction: An analysis of lesion-patterns in mass graves from late-medieval warfare
- Irena Ioannou, University of Gothenburg: ‘Difficult’ Heritage: Sweden’s biggest mass murder in peaceful times
- Harrison Avery, Newcastle University: A contested landscape: The Maze / Long Kesh
- Adam Andersson, University of Gothenburg: Political uses of Great Zimbabwe
- Brittni Bradford, Newcastle University: Exploring the Potential Misuse of Cultural Heritage During Armed Conflict Through Impacts to Iraq’s Cultural Heritage During the 2003-2011 Conflict
- Sigurd Tomter, University of Oslo Quantifying houses: A space syntax and architectural energetics inquiry into Late Hellenistic houses on the island of Delos
- Marthe Yung Mee Hansen, University of Oslo: Environmental Issues in a Contemporary Art Exhibition
- Solveig Siem, University of Oslo: “Go Big or Go Home, Right?” A reflexive ethnography of exhibition co-creation at the Teknisk Museum
- Nicolaj Duus Linnet, University of Aarhus: Proto-rewilding in Moesgaard Forest – P.V. Glob’s vision for the Moesgaard Museum and Prehistoric Park, 1949-1980