People Over the Sea: Nordic and Scottish Perspectives
29 August - 1 September
Biographies
Peter Crawford
Peter I. Crawford has been an active member of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) since the late 1970s. He has written extensively on visual anthropology and ethnographic film-making and has wide experience in teaching the subject both theoretically and practically, having conducted workshops and taught in Europe, Australia, Asia, and South America. He is currently Professor II at the Visual Anthropology Programme at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Together with Dr. Jens Pinholt he has led the Reef Islands Ethnographic Film Project (Solomon Islands) since 1994 and is producing a number of ethnographic films based on material recorded in 1994, 1996, 2000, 2005, and further field and filmwork in 2010.
Lauren Doughton
Lauren Doughton is a PhD candidate from the University of Manchester focussing on creating a reappraisal of burnt mound sites in Shetland. Her research focuses on creating an embodied, contextualised and practise based understanding of hot stone technologies, and exploring the symbolic properties of the processes they embody. Her other main focuses are elements and concepts of transformation and liminality in a prehistoric context, with a particular reference to the sea and other watery locations. She currently works as assistant on the Shetland Amenity Trust's Place Names Project, collecting, recording, mapping and interpreting the place names of Shetland.
Johanna Markkula
Johanna Markkula is currently a PhD student in anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Her research interests concern issues of mobility, labour migration, globalization, transnational processes and intercultural communication in the context of the maritime industry. She has carried out anthropological fieldwork onboard a cargo-ship with a mixed nationality crew of Swedish and Filipino seafarers, and has made shorter field stints to the Philippines and Sweden to meet with seafarers and their families in their homes, and to interview representatives of seafarer unions, manning agencies and shipping companies. Her thesis looks at articulations of large-scale global economic and political processes in the everyday lives of seafarers, focusing in particular on the impact of a sudden flag change on her study population.
Silke Reeploeg
Silke Reeploeg is a lecturer and researcher with the Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands and based at the NAFC Marine Centre, Scalloway, Shetland, UK. She has a BA (Hons) from Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA (Distinction) from the University of the Highlands and Islands, with her current research focus on intercultural area studies, in particular the links between Norway and the Scottish Northern Isles. She has a particular interest in using heritage collections and community narratives in interdisciplinary research around place and memory.
His work includes investigating Western people who sail around the world, the revitalization of Polynesian Navigation in Hawaii, the emergence of photography and film, and the transformative aspects of 'drug abuse' treatment in Bergen, Norway. He is also a film producer, and has filmed and directed a whole range of ethnographic films.
Cristián Simonetti
Cristián Simonetti is a PhD student at the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen. He has conducted fieldwork with land and underwater archaeologists in Chile and Scotland and is interested in how archaeologists develop expert knowledge in different environments. His research focuses, among other things, on the perception and communication of knowledge, the role of corporal movement in the development of skills, the use of technology and the particular contexts of practice in which archaeological knowledge is constituted. He has especially concentrated on the relationship between experience and conceptualization, particularly on how, in the present and through the history of science, archaeologists and other scientists studying the past have understood time and space.
Ms. Bente Sundsvold
Bente Sundsvold is a part time lecturer at the Master programme in Visual Cultural Studies, University of Tromsø. From 2011 she is academic coordinator of a new adult educational programme in digital and oral storytelling for small-scale enterprises in local food production and tourism. From 2006-2010 she was a PhD scholar at the CEPIN (Citizenship, Encounters, Place Enactment in the North) research school, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, University of Tromsø. Her PhD project concerns the inscription of the Vega Archipelago as World Heritage, and the dissertation is planned 2011/12 with a written thesis and a film.
Catherine Turnbull
Catherine Turnbull is due to complete her MLitt in Orkney and Shetland Studies at the Centre for Nordic Studies UHI in September. Her dissertation explores perceptions of identity of the descendants of Orcadian and Canadian fur traders. She presented a paper exploring the life and times of a fur trader at the St Magnus Conference in Kirkwall this year. She is a professional freelance writer and journalist.
Gro B. Ween
Gro B. Ween is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. She is employed on the NRC funded interdisciplinary project 'Newcomers to the Farm: Atlantic salmon between the industrial and the wild';, headed by Professor Marianne Lien (University of Oslo). Ween's current ethnographic focus is on wild salmon fisheries in the sub-arctic Tana River, on the border between Norway and Finland. She has previously worked with Sami reindeer herders as well as Aboriginal people on the coast of Kimberley in north-west Australia, on topics such as nature practices, identity politics and indigenous rights.
