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Time and place: , Seminar room in St. Olavs gate 29

Greenland’s repatriation work has resulted in the restitution of more than 30 000 cultural objects. In this SENKU seminar, Dr Christian Koch Madsen from Greenland National Museum & Archives will talk about the past but foremost the present and future repatriation strategies and processes in Greenland.

Time and place: , Historical Museum, Fredriks gate 2, 0164 Oslo

LUXCORE will present key results and new perspectives on the relationship between luxury, corruption, and global ethics. Our research challenges the effectiveness of anti-policies, highlighting the lack of meaningful change. The conference includes book launches, panel discussions, and a teaser of our forthcoming edited volume. Don't miss this opportunity at the Historical Museum – register now!

Time and place: , Foredragssalen Frederiks gate 3

Dr. Barrie Cook from the Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum will give a talk 'A history of A history of the world in 100 objects and other projects, 2009-2020'.

Time and place: , Seminarrom St. Olavsgate 29.

What is a quality 3D dataset in heritage,
how can we tell, and does it matter?

Time and place: , St. Olavsgate 29

SENKU seminar on November 30 will host two curators from the Wereldmuseum, the Netherlands: Cunera Buijs and Erna Lilje who will discuss the role of Indigenous knowledge and engagement in museum research and exhibition making.

Time and place: , Seminar room 111, Frederiks gate 3

New technologies offer new approaches to research. However, the broad variety of different tools also brings the difficulty of choosing the right one for your research. At this symposium we will discuss issues related to new technologies – their profits and pitfalls.

Time and place: , Foredragssalen, Historisk museum, Frederiksgate 2

We are pleased to announce Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, University of Cambridge, as the speaker for the fourth Gutorm Gjessing Lecture Series with the lecture "What does theory bring to our understanding of the prehistoric household/house?".

Time and place: , St. Olav's gate 29

Australian Indigenous people held a very particular position in European ethnography at the beginning of the last century. For a long time, the colonial narrative has been shaping the way Aboriginal cultures were interpreted and exhibited in European museums. How do Aboriginal Australians tell their own histories and how should European museums engage with this today?

Time and place: , Main Lecture Hall, (Foredragssalen), 3rd floor, Museum of Cultural History

Welcome to the conference and exhibition dedicated to the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Norway. The conference explore Mongolia's first independence years, and the social and cultural changes happening in front of Norwegian traveller Oscar Mamen's camera lenses.

Time and place: , St. Olav's gate 29

Join us in this lecture where Professor Batsaikhan Ookhnoi reconsiders the role of the 8th Bogdo Jebtsundamba Khutukhtu – in rough terms, the Mongolian equivalent of Tibet’s Dalai Lama at the time – in engineering the national independence of Mongolia from the Qing Empire in 1911.

Time and place: , St. Olav's gate 29

Social anthropologist and historian of ideas Lars Risan gives his perspective on the fascinating story of two girls allegedly raised by wolfs in the early 1900s and how that incident affected new scientific understandings of human nature.

Time and place: , St. Olav's gate 29

The research group INTER-Action invites to a seminar about how 3D models role in education, research and excavations.

Time and place: , St. Olavs gate 29

Neil Curtis, Head of Museums and Special Collections at the University of Aberdeen will share the story of the Benin Bronze, from its casting in the late 18th century to its return to Benin City in February 2022, exactly 125 years after it was looted.

Time and place: , Zoom or Lecture Hall at the Historical Museum

Welcome to a debate on the strategy of protection, digitization, rescue research and popularization of artefacts and archaeological sites with experts and hobby archaeologists from Ukraine, Poland and Norway.

Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus: DSC-Oasen 1302 og på Zoom

Creating large 3D models requires powerful machines. The DIRE infrastructure will make this possible. At this seminar, DIRE presents the technical background and examples of practical use.

Time and place: , St. Olav's gate 29

What role do artists play in the repatriation of looted cultural property to the communities of origin?

Time and place: , St. Olav's gate 29

Ládjogahpir is a traditional Sámi hat for women. How do Sámi women engage with it and discuss it nowadays? What are the particular meanings attached to it in current Sámi society, and in the processes of remaking and reusing the ládjogahpir?

Time and place: , Historical Museum, Fredriks gate 2, 0164 Oslo

Join us in discussing crimes through and against art, antiquities, cultural heritage, and luxury – and in shedding light on the ideologies that underpin the regulation of these crimes and moral infractions. Speakers will explore the dynamics of compliance and defiance, and the modes of transgression and forms of corruption that pertain both to rulemaking and rulebreaking, the making and unmaking of social order, the making and destruction of value, and the role of material culture in it.

Time and place: , Historical Museum, University of Oslo, Frederiks gate 2, Foredragssalen

A large number of Egyptian texts and iconography demonstrate the dualistic relationship between rituals and emotions in ancient Egyptian culture. At this symposium, world-leading researchers on the subject share their recent contributions to this fascinating research area.

Time and place: , https://uio.zoom.us/j/69730076177

This presentation will explore the relationship between historic responses to cultural artefacts and natural places that engender wonder and the more recent heritage practices around those places and objects.

Time and place: , Foredragssalen, Historisk museum

This seminar will focus on the research potentials related to the collaborative and multidisciplinary nature of exhibition making. The Research Council of the Museum of Cultural History would like to welcome you all to join us for this one day event.

Time and place: , Tøyen Manor House, Botanical garden in Oslo

CONFERENCE 2022: Food is both multisensory and intangible. How does food history help us understand our past, present and future society? At this conference you will gain new and valuable knowledge about contemporary and historical food studies from different research areas and perspectives.

Time and place: , Historical museum, 3rd floor, seminar room. And on Zoom.

What does sustainability mean in a museum context, and what can we do to manage collections in a sustainable perspective?

Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus – University Library

What's the use of theory?

Time and place: , Foredragssalen, Historisk museum, Frederiksgate 2

We are pleased to announce Yael Navaro as our third speaker for the Gutorm Gjessing Lecture Series, with the lecture "Memory and the 'More-than-Human' in the Aftermath of Genocide". 

Introduction by professor emeritus Tom G. Svensson: "The archaeologist Gutorm Gjessing - as ethnographer".