Previous events
Can exhibitions be qualified as research-in-itself? If they can, then how? Which criteria should be the basis of evaluating and verify research exhibitions? The aim of the PhD course is to build a solid knowledge-base for understanding the relationship between exhibitions and research in the past and today, in order to collectively explore potentials and challenges for what can be called research-by-display.
Welcome to the 6th International Conference on Innovation in Art Research and Technology – InART2024 – in Oslo 4–7 June 2024.
How have individuals, communities, government, and non-government institutions imagined, regulated, and mobilised technical and scientific forms of knowledge together with objects and people across regions during the Cold War? Associate Professor Roland Wittje will discuss his research in the history of science and technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
In 2021, the Embassy of Iraq sought assistance from Norwegian authorities and the Museum of Cultural History to recover suspected illicit cultural artifacts from a Norwegian collector. At this seminar, Professor Håkon Roland will discuss the operation and its aftermath, shedding light on the intricate relationships among academia, law enforcement, authorities, collectors, lawyers, and the media.
Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles and an interview which positions him in the history of ‘North Sea’ social anthropology and shows his continued relevance.
Greenland’s repatriation work has resulted in the restitution of more than 30 000 cultural objects. In this SENKU seminar, Dr Christian Koch Madsen from Greenland National Museum & Archives will talk about the past but foremost the present and future repatriation strategies and processes in Greenland.
LUXCORE will present key results and new perspectives on the relationship between luxury, corruption, and global ethics. Our research challenges the effectiveness of anti-policies, highlighting the lack of meaningful change. The conference includes book launches, panel discussions, and a teaser of our forthcoming edited volume. Don't miss this opportunity at the Historical Museum – register now!
Dr. Barrie Cook from the Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum will give a talk 'A history of A history of the world in 100 objects and other projects, 2009-2020'.
What is a quality 3D dataset in heritage,
how can we tell, and does it matter?
SENKU seminar on November 30 will host two curators from the Wereldmuseum, the Netherlands: Cunera Buijs and Erna Lilje who will discuss the role of Indigenous knowledge and engagement in museum research and exhibition making.
New technologies offer new approaches to research. However, the broad variety of different tools also brings the difficulty of choosing the right one for your research. At this symposium we will discuss issues related to new technologies – their profits and pitfalls.
We are pleased to announce Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, University of Cambridge, as the speaker for the fourth Gutorm Gjessing Lecture Series with the lecture "What does theory bring to our understanding of the prehistoric household/house?".
Australian Indigenous people held a very particular position in European ethnography at the beginning of the last century. For a long time, the colonial narrative has been shaping the way Aboriginal cultures were interpreted and exhibited in European museums. How do Aboriginal Australians tell their own histories and how should European museums engage with this today?
Welcome to the conference and exhibition dedicated to the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Norway. The conference explore Mongolia's first independence years, and the social and cultural changes happening in front of Norwegian traveller Oscar Mamen's camera lenses.
Join us in this lecture where Professor Batsaikhan Ookhnoi reconsiders the role of the 8th Bogdo Jebtsundamba Khutukhtu – in rough terms, the Mongolian equivalent of Tibet’s Dalai Lama at the time – in engineering the national independence of Mongolia from the Qing Empire in 1911.
Social anthropologist and historian of ideas Lars Risan gives his perspective on the fascinating story of two girls allegedly raised by wolfs in the early 1900s and how that incident affected new scientific understandings of human nature.
The research group INTER-Action invites to a seminar about how 3D models role in education, research and excavations.
Neil Curtis, Head of Museums and Special Collections at the University of Aberdeen will share the story of the Benin Bronze, from its casting in the late 18th century to its return to Benin City in February 2022, exactly 125 years after it was looted.
Welcome to a debate on the strategy of protection, digitization, rescue research and popularization of artefacts and archaeological sites with experts and hobby archaeologists from Ukraine, Poland and Norway.
Creating large 3D models requires powerful machines. The DIRE infrastructure will make this possible. At this seminar, DIRE presents the technical background and examples of practical use.
What role do artists play in the repatriation of looted cultural property to the communities of origin?
Ládjogahpir is a traditional Sámi hat for women. How do Sámi women engage with it and discuss it nowadays? What are the particular meanings attached to it in current Sámi society, and in the processes of remaking and reusing the ládjogahpir?
Join us in discussing crimes through and against art, antiquities, cultural heritage, and luxury – and in shedding light on the ideologies that underpin the regulation of these crimes and moral infractions. Speakers will explore the dynamics of compliance and defiance, and the modes of transgression and forms of corruption that pertain both to rulemaking and rulebreaking, the making and unmaking of social order, the making and destruction of value, and the role of material culture in it.
A large number of Egyptian texts and iconography demonstrate the dualistic relationship between rituals and emotions in ancient Egyptian culture. At this symposium, world-leading researchers on the subject share their recent contributions to this fascinating research area.
This presentation will explore the relationship between historic responses to cultural artefacts and natural places that engender wonder and the more recent heritage practices around those places and objects.