In 1820, the pastor-naturalist Peter Deinboll surveyed Paččjokk/Pasvik/Paatsjoki/Paččvei/Патсойоки/Báhčaveajjohka for the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. What Deinboll saw as a contested Norwegian-Russian borderland had been inhabited and managed for millennia by the Skolte Sami.
Taking Deinboll’s travels as our starting point, this hands-on, interdisciplinary workshop will explore what the colonial surveyor saw and did not see in the landscape. Beyond the written reports, letters, publications and diaries Deinboll left behind, what can we learn from the more-than-human timekeepers like freshwater mussels, juniper and Arctic spruce trees, botanical and zoological specimens, lake sediment cores, material culture, and landscapes? How can erased Skolte Sami uses of the land be put in evidence?
Registration
Registration is required. Please register by October 30, 2026.
https://nettskjema.no/a/665536
Programme
Programme to follow soon.