People Over the Sea: Nordic and Scottish Perspectives
29 August - 1 September

Conference Programme

Monday August 29th
10.00 - 10.20 Arrival and coffee
10.20 - 10.30 Welcome and introduction
10.30 - 11.20 Lauren Doughton
Walking on Water: Blurring the Boundaries Between Land and Sea in Prehistoric Shetland
11.20 - 12.10 Cristián Simonetti
Moving on Land and Underwater: Changing Mediums and the Imposition of Dimensional Space
12.10 - 13.00 Gro B. Ween
Stories from Tanafjord: An Elaboration on Forms of fluidity
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 14.50

Peter I. Crawford

People of the Sea and People of the Land. Visual Representation(s) of Two Neighbouring Communities in the Reef Islands

14.50 - 15.40 Silke Reeploeg  
Of Boats and Men: Flows of Objects, Narratives and Memory in Shetland and Western Norway
15.40 - 16.30 Catherine Turnbull
Singing Around the North Atlantic Rim: the Voyage of Two Songs
16.30 - 17.00 Tea
   
Tuesday August 30th
10.00 - 10.50 Bente Sundsvold
Eider Performances
10.50 - 11.40 Johanna Markkula
"Changing Course": Navigating the Global Maritime Industry
11.40 - 12.00 Coffee
12.00 - 12.20 Prof. Tim Ingold (discussant)
12.20 - 13.00

Concluding discussion