Thursday, Oct 14
8:45-9:15
Welcome, Opening remarks
Dolly Jørgensen & Sverker Sörlin
9:15-10:45
Understanding northern nature
Jones, “God Grant Us that the North Will Open its Treasure to Us”: The Northern Nature of the Other Pacific, 1740 – 1840 [download paper]
Niemi, Fossils as catalyst for conservation: How one man’s passion for the earth’s past helped define the Northern Landscape. [download paper]
Comment: Sabine Brauckmann
10:45-11:00 Morning break
11:00-12:30
Images of the arctic
Sheffield, Fridtjof Nansen’s Environmental Philosophy and His Evolving Image of the Arctic. [download paper]
Cronin, The landscape of exploration: Renegotiating images of the Arctic in the age of polar aviation (1925-1935). [download paper]
Comment: Jukka Nyyssönen
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30
Environmental & social landscapes
Harrison, Mounds, Middens and Social Landscapes: Viking-Norse Settlement of the North Atlantic (c.800 – c. 1250 AD). [download paper]
Þórhallsdóttir, Júlíusson & Ögmundsdóttir, The sheep, the market and the soil: Environmental destruction in Icelandic highlands 1880-1910. [download paper]
Comment: Laura Hollsten
15:30-15:45 Afternoon break
15:45-17:15
Integrating the north into global networks
Moore, Dutch Capitalism & Europe’s Great Frontier: The Baltic in the Global Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century. [download paper]
Kunnas, Against the Tide: Technology Transfer from the Periphery. [download paper]
Comment: Per Eliasson
Friday, Oct 15
9:00-10:30
Nationalism in the north
Cooke, North Takes Place in Canada’s Yukon Territory [download paper]
Karlsdóttir, The Icelandic ‘North’ – an idea of belonging and being apart. [download paper]
Comment: Dag Avango
10:30-10:45 Morning break
10:45-12:15
Challenges of northern life
Myllyntaus, “Hunger Is Always Our Guest” Great Harvest Failures and Famines in 19th Century Iceland and Finland. [download paper]
Lajus, In search for instructive models of mastering the North: Russian state on crossroads on its way to conquering the Arctic [download paper]
Comment: Yngve Nilsen
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00
Summary discussion of papers
15:00-15:15 Afternoon break
15:15-16:15
NEHN Network planning for 2011
Finn Arne Jørgensen (via Skype)
