[ecrea] Interdisciplinary conference "Archives of the Arctic. Ice, Entropy and Memory"

Interdisciplinary conference "Archives of the Arctic. Ice, Entropy and 
Memory" Humboldt University Berlin, 18th-20th September


Compared to other natural archives, the Arctic is a very special ground, 
because its main memory medium is not simply earth or stone, but ice. 
Depending on temperatures under zero, ice seems to be the most 
vulnerable, the most unstable memory medium of the three; a fact that 
causes concern nowadays, in times of climate change. The 
interdisciplinary conference discusses the circumpolar area under an 
archivological perspective. Focusing on ice as a memory medium and a 
cultural metaphor, scientists, scholars and artists examine the basic 
problem of the
relation between natural and cultural archives.

Among the speakers: Wolfgang Ernst, Knut Eberling & Eivind Røssaak 
(media studies), Sven Spieker & Marko Peljan (art), Henrik Svensen 
(geology), Georg Töpfer (biology), Phillip Felsch (history of science), 
Peter Hemmersham & Jannicke Kampevold Larsen (Lanscape architecture), 
Johan Schimansky (literature). Trond Lundemo & Sabine Hänsgen (film).

The conference is part of the Excellence Initiative of the Humboldt 
University
of Berlin, and is initiated and organized by Kjetil Jakobsen (Northern 
European studies) and Susanne Frank (Slavistics).

Funded by:
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung


Cultural program:
    Reading by Vladimir Sorokin
    Scandinavian folk/jazz with Karl Seglem & Eli Furubotn
    Pictorial travelogue with Emilie Thomassot and Nastasia Louveau


The conference is open to the public:
Location Wednesday 18th from 1600: Nordische Botschaften, Felleshuset, 
Rauchstr 1.
Thursday 19th and Friday 20th, from 0900: HU Auditorium, Grimm-Zentrum., 
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 3

Full program with abstracts here:
https://www.slawistik.hu-berlin.de/arcticarchives__

For questions: Mandy Buschina <(m.buschina /at/ googlemail.com)>