Project Presentations

Research presentations coming out of the TRAUM – Transforming Author Museums project. This will be added to as presentations are held.

Academic LECTURES AND CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PAPERS
  1. Aarbakke, Thea. “Presentasjon av doktorgrad tilknyttet TRAUM-prosjektet”. Høgskulen i Sogn og Fjordane, 2016.
  2. Aarbakke, Thea. “Objects as metonymies: An exhibition analysis of author museums”. PhD course, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Paris, 24-28 April 2017.
  3. Aarbakke, Thea. “Staging atmosphere in exhibition spaces”. PhD course, European Summer School of Cultural Studies/Tekst, Bilde, Lyd, Rom, University of Bergen, 14-18 Ausgust 2017.
  4. Aarbakke, Thea. “Objects and engagements, an analysis of exhibitions spaces as networks”. TRAUM Workshop, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy, 13-17 September 2017.
  5. Aarbakke, Thea. “Virkningsfulle skrivebordinstallasjoner på museum”. Norske historiedager 2018, Kristiansand, 1-3 June 2018.
  6. Aarbakke, Thea. “Museums as mausoleums, museums as mirrors”. Annual Conference International Commitee for Literary and Composers’ Museums (ICLCM), 3-7 August 2018.
  7. Aarbakke, Thea. “Unpacking the book collection: Following a book collection in an author museum”. Conference “Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums”, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, 6-7 September 2018.
  8. Aarbakke, Thea. “‘Situated knowledges’: Where am I coming from?” Phd Seminar, “‘Situated knowledges’ in museums and cultural heritage studies”, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Language, University of Oslo, 28 November 2018.
  9. Bjørhusdal, Eli. [paper on the presentation of Hulda Garborg as an alternative/minority author in museums]. Workshop “Kvinner, motkultur og handlingsrom: språkbevegelse, religionsutøving og entreprenørskap i Norge, 1870-1920”, Volda, 2-3 December 2019.
  10. Bjørhusdal, Eli, and Oddmund Løkensgard Hoel. “Language on display: cultural and didactic relevance?”. Symposium “Literary Exhibition Practices in Transformation”, University of Oslo, 20-21 October 2016.
  11. Børset, Bodil. “From Biographical Exhibition Towards a Phenomenological Architecture and Innovative Experience Design: The Case of Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy”. Symposium “Literary Exhibition Practices in Transformation”, University of Oslo, 20-21 October 2016.
  12. Børset, Bodil. “Knut Hamsun-senteret”. TRAUM Workshop, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy, 13-17 September 2017.
  13. Egeland, Marianne. “Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Aulestad”. TRAUM Workshop, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy, 13-17 September 2017.
  14. Egeland, Marianne. “Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Aulestad: ‘inseparable’ and ‘inextricable’ or ‘chieftain’s seat’ and ‘nazi lair’”. Conference “Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums”, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, 6-7 September 2018.
  15. Egeland, Marianne. “‘Bjørnsons aand lever – og sterkest paa Aulestad’”. Conference “Sted, fiksjon og historie”, Norwegian Local History Institute, National Library of Oslo, 5-6 June 2019.
  16. Fulsås, Narve. “Authorship and Memory: Ibsen”. Symposium “Literary Exhibition Practices in Transformation”, University of Oslo, 20-21 October 2016.
  17. Fulsås, Narve. “Ibsen: From National Literature to World Heritage”. Work in Progress Seminar, CRASSH, University of Cambridge, 11 June 2018.
  18. Fulsås, Narve. “Housing World Literature: Norwegian Ibsen Museums”. Conference “Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums”, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, 6-7 September 2018.
  19. Hanak-Lettner, Werner. “Writing Curators? When Authors Make Museums”. Symposium “Literary Exhibition Practices in Transformation”, University of Oslo, 20-21 October 2016.
  20. Hanak-Lettner, Werner. “A new exhibition in Haydn’s birth house”. TRAUM Workshop, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy, 13-17 September 2017.
  21. Hendrix, Harald. “Literary Heritage Sites across Europe: A Tour d’Horizon”. Symposium “Literary Exhibition Practices in Transformation”, University of Oslo, 20-21 October 2016.
  22. Hendrix, Harald. “Istanze materiali della memoria letteraria in Italia”, Università degli studi Roma Tre, 11 April 2017.
  23. Hendrix, Harald. “De grafmonumenten met en zonder botten: de tombes van Dante (Ravenna) en Petrarca (Arquà)”. Seminar “Graftombes en monumenten ter nagedachtenis in Italië, 1300-1900”, Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History, 21 April 2017.
  24. Hendrix, Harald. “La prima guidistica alle case di artisti e letterati, 1780-1840”. conference “La città, il viaggio, il turismo: percezione, produzione e trasformazione”, Naples University, 8 September 2017.
  25. Hendrix, Harald. “Italian Writers’ Houses and the Shift from Private to Public / Literature and Tourism”. TRAUM Workshop, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy, 13-17 September 2017.
  26. Hendrix, Harald. “Lettere italiane e spazi pubblici: fra politiche identitarie e culture dello svago”. Conference “Nuovi aspetti linguistici e letterari dell’italianità”, Leiden University, 23 June 2018.
  27. Hoel, Oddmund Løkensgard. “Eit samanliknande blikk på dei fire Garborg-musea”. Conference Historiedagene 2018, Universitetet i Agder, Kristiansand, 1-3 June 2018.
  28. Hoel, Oddmund Løkensgard, and Eli Bjørhusdal. “Language on display: cultural and didactic relevance? Nynorsk author museums”. TRAUM Workshop, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy, 13-17 September 2017.
  29. Lande, Dana Ryan. “(Re)presenting the Intangible: Olive Schreiner’s House in Cradock, South Africa”. TRAUM Workshop, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy, 13-17 September 2017.
  30. Lande, Dana Ryan. “Historical Authors, New Narratives: Two South African Author Museums”. Conference “Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums”, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, 6-7 September 2018.
  31. Nath, Atanu, Parmita Saha and Ove Oklevik. “Motivational factors in visitors’ experiential consumption: An investigation of two author museums in Norway”. TRAUM Workshop, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy, 13-17 September 2017.
  32. Saha, Parmita, and Atanu Nath. “Motivational Factors in Visitors’ Experiential Consumption: An Investigation of Two Author Museums in Norway”. Conference “Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums”, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, 6-7 September 2018.
  33. Schaff, Barbara. “Narrativising the Author Museum”. SHARP (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) conference, Amherst, 15-19 July 2019.
  34. Schimanski, Johan. “Grenzen, Arktis, Schriftstellermuseen”. Science Café, Abteilung für Finno-Ugristik, Universität Wien, 26 April 2017.
  35. Schimanski, Johan. “Visitors through Time: Homes, Heritage and Hospitality”. Symposium “Homes as Places of Living Together”, Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris, 21 November 2018.
  36. Schimanski, Johan, and Ulrike Spring. “About the research project TRAUM – Transforming Author Museums”. Symposium “Literary Exhibition Practices in Transformation”, University of Oslo, 20-21 October 2016.
  37. Schimanski, Johan, and Ulrike Spring. “The Glocal in Literary Exhibitions: Glocal Places of Literature”. Keynote lecture, conference “Glocal Places of Literature”, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 28-30 June 2018.
  38. Spring, Ulrike. “Forfatteren som historisk gjenstand og severdighet: Refleksjoner med utgangspunkt i det tverrfaglige forskningsprosjektet TRAUM-Transforming Author Museums”. Høgskulen i Volda.
  39. Spring, Ulrike. “Das Schriftstellermuseum als Archiv: Reflexionen zur Inszenierung biographischer und literarischer Narrative”. Conference “Schauplatz Archiv: Objekt, Narrativ, Performanz”, Franz Nabl-Institut für Literaturforschung, Graz, 4-6 April 2018.
  40. Spring, Ulrike “Er Strindberg svensk eller østerriksk? Nasjonale forfattermuseer og transnasjonale forfattere”. Norske historiedager 2018, Kristiansand, 1-3 June 2018.
  41. Spring, Ulrike. “Das trans/nationale Dichterheim”. Guest lecture, University of Vienna, 12 December 2019.
  42. Spring, Ulrike, and Johan Schimanski. “The Museum of Transnational Literature”. Seminar “Orhan Pamuk: The Art of Fiction – In the Museum”, Kulturhistorisk museum, University of Oslo, 11 September 2017.
  43. Spring, Ulrike, and Johan Schimanski. “The Museum of Transnational Literature”. TRAUM Workshop, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy, 13-17 September 2017.
  44. Spring, Ulrike, and Johan Schimanski. “Who speaks in the Author Museum? Finding intentions and authority in literary exhibitions”. PhD course, “Authorship and Intention”, ATTR Summer School 2018, 4-8 June 2018.
  45. Spring, Ulrike, and Johan Schimanski. “Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum”. Keynote held at Selma Lagerlöfs Mårbacka, conference “Selma Lagerlöf 2018”, Karlstads Universitet, Karlstad/Mårbacka 18-20 June 2018.
  46. Spring, Ulrike, and Johan Schimanski. “Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum”. Conference “Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums”, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, 6-7 September 2018.
  47. Watson, Nicola J. “Keats’ hair: or, narrating the author’s body within the museum”. University of Birmingham, 3 May 2016.
  48. Watson, Nicola J. “Shakespeare’s Walking-stick: Or, what the Victorians made of the Bard”. Lecture, University of Malta, 16 May 2016.
  49. Watson, Nicola J. “Brontë’s bonnet and Dickinson’s dress: women writers on display in the museum”. University of Lund, 25 May 2016.
  50. Watson, Nicola J. “Writer’s House Museums Considered as a Genre, Past, Present and Future”. Symposium “Literary Exhibition Practices in Transformation”, University of Oslo, 20-21 October 2016.
  51. Watson, Nicola. “Shakespeare’s Walking-stick: or, what the Victorians made of Shakespeare”. Lecture and interactive seminar, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1 December 2016.
  52. Watson, Nicola. “Surface: or, Shakespeare’s Chair and Balzac’s Desk”. TRAUM Workshop, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy, 13-17 September 2017.
  53. Watson, Nicola J. “Shakespeare’s Walking-stick: or, what the Victorians made of Shakespeare”. Lecture and interactive seminar, Universidade do Porto, 23 February 2018.
  54. Watson, Nicola J. “Shakespeare’s Walking-stick”. Lecture and interactive seminar, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 3 April 2018.
  55. Watson, Nicola J. “Shakespeare’s Walking-stick: What the Victorians made of the Bard”. Lecture and interactive seminar, National University of Singapore, 4 April 2018.
  56. Watson, Nicola J. “Petrarch’s cat, Burns’ skull, Keats’ Hair”. Seminar “Life Writing and Death”, Centre for Life-Writing, King’s College, London, 24 May 2018.
  57. Watson, Nicola J. “Why We Love to Catch a Writer at their Desk”. Keynote lecture, conference “Glocal Places of Literature”, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 28-30 June 2018.
  58. Watson, Nicola J. “Exit Through the Gift Shop: or, Past, Present, and Future Encounters with the Writer’s House Museum”. Conference “Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums”, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, 6-7 September 2018.
  59. Watson, Nicola J. “Household Effects in the Writer’s House Museum: Johnson’s Coffee-Pot and Twain’s Effigy”. Guest lecture, University of Oslo, 17 October 2018.
  60. Watson, Nicola J. “Shakespeare’s Chair and the Polish Princess”. Conference “Romantic Interactions”, Kraków, 4-5 April 2019
  61. Watson, Nicola J. “Brontë’s bonnet and Dickinson’s dress”. SHARP (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) conference, Amherst, 15-19 July 2019.
  62. Watson, Nicola J. “Shakespeare’s Effects: The Author and Literary Place-making in Stratford-upon-Avon and beyond”. Invited lecture, University of Łódź, 9 October 2019.

Planned

  1. Spring, Ulrike, and Johan Schimanski. [presentation]. [Workshop], Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere, 26 June 2020.
  2. Spring, Ulrike, and Johan Schimanski. [presentation]. [Planned co-organized Henrik Steffens workshop on author museums], Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, July 2020.
PRESENTATIONS FOR END-USERS
  1. Aarbakke, Thea. “Situated knowledges: Haraway and methodology”. Guest lecture, 2nd year master students in Design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 18 September 2019
  2. Egeland, Marianne. “Biografi og etikk”. Det nasjonale museumsnettverket Litteraturnettverket, Kongsvinger museum, 17-18 October 2017.
  3. Oklevik, Ove. “Samanlikning av motivasjon hjå besøkande på Hamsunsenteret og Ibsenmuseet”. For representatives of Hamsunsenteret, “Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums” conference, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, 6-7 September 2018.
  4. Schimanski, Johan. “TRAUM – Transforming Author Museums”. Presentation at editoral team meeting, NRK Radio (Norwegian state broadcasting), Oslo, 10 January 2020.
  5. Schimanski, Johan, and Ulrike Spring. “Litteraturmuseum i Europa i eit kritisk-teoretisk perspektiv. Museum som minnepolitiske aktorar”. Seminar “Museum som minnepolitiske aktorar”, Det nasjonale museumsnettverket Litteraturnettverket, Skien, 16 October 2016.
  6. Spring, Ulrike, and Johan Schimanski. “Exhibiting Transnational Mobility in the Author Museum”. ICLCM (International Committee for Literary and Composers’ Museums) Annual Conference “Sustainable Cultural Activity of Literary and Composers’ Museums” / ICOM General Conference “Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition”, Kyoto, 2 September 2019.
knowledge exchange
  1. Halvorsen, Elisabeth Beanca. “Scener fra forfattermuseet / Scenes from the Author Museum”. TRAUM Workshop, Hamsunsenteret, Hamarøy, 13-17 September 2017.
  2. Halvorsen, Elisabeth Beanca. “‘Strindbergprotokollene’. En monolog fra Det blå tårnet”. Literary reading, “Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums” conference, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, 6-7 September 2018.
  3. Spring, Ulrike, Marianne A. Olsen og Helle Christine Ravn. “Intervju med artikkelforfatterne Marianne A. Olsen og Ulrike Spring om “En vanskelig forfatter? Å få Cora Sandel hjem til Tromsø” i siste utgave av Norsk museumstidsskrift”. Norges Musemsforbund 2020. 11 December 2020.
    https://museumsforbundet.no/nyheter/intervju-norsk-museumstidsskrift-om-artikkelen-en-vanskelig-forfatter-a-fa-cora-sandel-hjem-til-tromso-skrevet-av-marianne-a-olsen-direktor-perspektivet-museum-og-ulrike-spring-forste/
  4. Spring, Ulrike and Johan Schimanski. “Literary Museum Studies”. Facebook group, established 14 November 2015.
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/722459441217890/about/ 
  5. Spring, Ulrike and Johan Schimanski. “WM DA-NEU Fragen/Themen zum WS Grillparzer” Scoping Meeting on the Grillparzer room in the new permanent collection, Wien Museum, Vienna/Oslo, 2 April 2020.
  6. Spring, Ulrike, Johan Schimanski, Marianne A. Olsen (Perspektivet Museum), Aslaug Eidsvik (Perspektivet Museum) og Alvhild Dvergsdal (Hamsunsenteret). “Utvikling av en ny fast Cora Sandel-utstilling ved Perspektivet museum og av en ny permanent utstilling ved Hamsunsenteret”. Scoping meeting, Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø, 21 May 2019.
  7. Watson, Nicola J. “Development of online exhibition for Cowper-Newton Museum”. Scoping meeting, Cowper and Newton Museum, Olney, 19 February 2018.
  8. Zeissig, Vanessa, Alvhild Dvergsdal and Solveig Hirsch, “Think Tank: A Workshop on How to Exhibit Literature”. Conference “Literary Exhibitions and Author Museums” , Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal, 6-7 September 2018.