Programme

 

Thursday, November 28

 

18:00              Linnaeus in Lapland: Generating Knowledge in Transit, Public Evening Talk, Elena Isayev and Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter)

 

20:30              Dinner, Restauration Oregano, Drottninggatan 11, 961 35 Boden

 

Friday, November 29

 

Workshop (15–20 mins presentations followed by 25-30 mins discussion)

 

09:00–09:30   Welcome and Introduction, Elena Isayev  and Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter)

 

09:30–10:15   Insects as reindeer herding assistants in Linnaeus time and now among the Sámi, Nuccio Mazzullo (University of Lapland, Rovaniemi)

 

10:15–10:45   Coffee Break

 

10:45–11:30   Conceptual reflections on the locality and universality of knowledge, Jounni-Matti Kuukkanen (Oulu University)

 

11:30–12:15   Linnaeus on farming and herding (by skype), Åsa Sonjasdotter and Matti Aikio (independent artists)

 

12:15-13:30    Lunch Break

 

13:30–14:15   A journey of place: Considering cultural and material relations in time and space, Isabelle Brännlund (Umeå University)

 

14:15–15:00   Viewing or walking - mobile or fixed points of observations in Swedish naturalists' travel accounts (mid 18th century), Hanna Hodacs (Dalarna University, Falun)

 

15:00–15:30   Coffee Break

 

15:30–16:15   Uppsala and Sápmi: Sámi connections in early modern scholarship, Carl Gösta Ojala (Uppsala University)

 

16:15–17:00   Linnaeus’ Lapland in Finnish Historiography (of Science), Maija Kallinen (Oulu University)

 

17:00–17:15   Comfort Break

 

17:15–19:00   General Discussion and Next Steps

 

20:00              Dinner, Restaurant Färgaregatan, Drottninggatan 6, 961 35 Boden

 

Saturday, November 30

 

09:30-11:30    General Discussion and Next Steps cont’d (TBC)

 

13:00-14:00    Guided tour through the exhibition “Change/Förändring” at Havremagasinet, Ingela Ögren (Havremagasinet, Boden)