(pre-conference version 05.09.18)
Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums:
Pasts, Presents and Futures
Sogndal, Norway, 6-7 September 2018
Paper panels: max. 20 minutes per paper, 3 papers following each other with 30 minutes of discussion time at the end of each panel.
Thursday 6 September 2018
09:00–09:30 registration
09:30–09:45 opening
Fossbygget-F207 “Nærøyfjorden”.
Welcome by Department Head Grete Netteland (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences).
The organisers Thea Aarbakke, Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski introduce the conference.
09:45–10:45 plenary lecture: Nicola Watson (Open University), “Exit through the Gift Shop: or, Past, Present, and Future Encounters with the Writer’s House Museum”
Fossbygget-F207 “Nærøyfjorden”. Chair: Barbara Schaff
10:45–11:15 coffee
11:15–12:45 papers (sessions 1A and 1B)
Session 1A: Using the museum
Fossbygget Praksisrom “Straumen” (top floor). Chair: Marianne Egeland
Parmita Saha & Atanu Nath (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences): “Motivational Factors in Visitors’ Experiential Consumption: An Investigation of Two Author Museums in Norway”
Anna Benedek (Petőfi Literary Museum): “Spider’s Web Net or Virtual Reality? How to Lure Young Adults into a Memorial House?”
Lise Emilie Talleraas (Vestfoldmuseene IKS): “Munch’s House in Åsgårdstrand: Bird Foix and Museum as Action”
Session 1B: Houses and Gardens
Fossbygget-F220 “Nøkkerosa”. Chair: Torunn Selberg
Elin Haugdal (University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway): “The Architecture of Author Museums”
Eva-Maria Orosz (Wien Museum): “Franz Grillparzer’s Apartment in the Wien Museum”
Anna Svensson (Independent Scholar): “Tracing Time: Tools for Multiple Temporalities in Author Museum Gardens”
12:45–13:45 lunch
Høgskulebygget cantine (top floor).
13:45–15:00 Think Tank: A Workshop on How to Exhibit Literature.
Høgskulebygget 2ndfloor “Stad”.
Vanessa Zeissig (University of Fine Arts of Hamburg | Research Centre of Cultural Studies of Lübeck | Buddenbrookhaus Lübeck)
in co-operation with Alvhild Dvergsdal & Solveig Hirsch (Hamsunsenteret)
15:00–15:30 coffee
15:30–17:00 papers (sessions 2A and 2B)
Session 2A: National and Transnational Transformations
Høgskulebygget 1st floor “Ålfoten”. Chair: Atanu Nath
Dana Ryan Lande (University of Oslo): “Historical Authors, New Narratives: Two South African Author Museums”
Anastasia Felcher (Independent Scholar): “A Purely Soviet Experiment? The Alexander Pushkin Museum-house in Chisinau and the Invention of Moldovans”
Narve Fulsås (University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway): “Housing World Literature: Norwegian Ibsen Museums”
Session 2B: Books and Archives
Høgskulebygget 2ndfloor “Stad”. Chair: Barbara Schaff
Helena Bodin (Stockholm University): “The Gunnar Ekelöf Room in Sigtuna and the Task of the Widow”
Thea Aarbakke (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences| University of Oslo): “Unpacking the Book Collection: Following Books out of an Author Museum”
Karl Clemens Kübler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): “Benjamin und Brecht – Reframing Literary History by Exhibiting a Friendship”
18:45–19:30 reading by Elisabeth Beanca Halvorsen (author and translator): “Strindbergprotokollene”. En monolog fra Det blå tårnet.
Høgskulebygget library (biblioteket). Beanca will talk about her project in English and read from it in Norwegian. A written version will be made available.
19:30–22:00 reception (pre-registration necessary
Høgskulebygget cantine (top floor).
Friday 7 September 2018
09:00–10:15 plenary: Stefan Bohman (Stockholm University): “Difficult Museums”
Fossbygget-F207 „Nærøyfjorden”. Chair: Torunn Selberg
With comment by Marianne Olsen (Perspektivet Museum).
10:15–10:45 coffee
10:45–12:15papers (sessions 3A and 3B)
Session 3A: Difficult Authors, Difficult Museums
Fossbygget-F209 “Jettegryta”. Chair: Narve Fulsås
Anita Estensen (Aust-Agder museum og arkiv):“The Norwegian Writer Knut Hamsun in the Public Sphere”
Marianne Egeland (University of Oslo): “Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Aulestad: ‘inseparable’ and ‘inextricable’ or ‘chieftain’s seat’ and ‘nazi lair’”
Emily Mae Graf (Heidelberg University): “Exposing the Obscurity of the Chinese Literary Establishment: The Destabilizing Power of Author Museums”
Session 3B: Creating the Image of the Author
Fossbygget-F220 “Nøkkerosa”. Chair: Ove Oklevik
Arthur Tennøe (National Library of Norway): “Prosopopeia – the Image Making Author: The Function of Images in the Literary Field”
Anna Sidó & Emese Kaszap-Asztalos (Petőfi Literary Museum): “Self-Portrait in Masks – János Arany (1817-1882) Memorial Exhibition”
Ulrike Spring (University of Oslo | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences) & Johan Schimanski (University of Oslo | University of Eastern Finland): “Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum”
12:15–12:45 summing-up: “Pasts, Presents and Futures”
Fossbygget-F209 “Jettegryta”. Chair: Dana Ryan Lande
12:45–13:45 lunch
Høgskulebygget cantine (top floor).
13:45–18:00 field trip to Fjærland Book Village (pre-registration necessary)
13:45 meet outside Høgskulebygget (bottom entrance) – walk together to bus terminal
14:00 bus leaves bus terminal (Skysstasjonen)
14:45 Marianne Supphellen shows us around book village (incl. time to explore; the bookshops will be open until 16:00)
16:00 coffee and short talk by researcher and hotel owner Bård Huseby at Fjærland Fjordstova Hotell
17:30 bus leaves for Sogndal (arrives at Skysstasjonen, ca. 18:00)