Þóra Pétursdóttir
Forsker, arkeologi
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Publikasjoner utenom Cristin
2017
Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2017) 'Theory Adrift: The Matter of Archaeological Theorizing'. Journal of Social Archaeology.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2017) 'Climate Change: Archaeology and Anthropocene'. Archaeological Dialogues.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2017) 'Gengið á reka: fornleifafræði mannaldar'. Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags, 2017.
Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2017) 'Sværholt: Poetics of Memory'. In: J. Kaila and J. Knuutila eds. Inside and Beside the Camp. Helsinki: The Academy of Fine Arts, University of Helsinki, pp. 88-95.
2016
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) ‘For love of ruins’. In: T.F. Sørensen and M. Bille eds. Elements of Architecture. London: Routledge.
Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) 'Unruly Heritage: Tracing legacies in the Anthropocene'. Arkæologisk Forum 35, pp. 38-45.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) 'Cold wars and summer night dances'. Review essay of Anna MacWilliams', An Archaeology of the Iron Curtain: Material and Metaphor, Stockholm University, 2013, and Maria Person's, Minnen från vår samtid: Arkeologi, materialitet och samtidshistoria, Gothenburg University, 2014. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/cold-wars-summer-night-dances/
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2016) 'Hagræðing menningararfs' Vísir 17.03.16. http://www.visir.is/g/2016160318975
2015
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2015) 'Sharing ground' (Reply to Gavin Lucas), Current Swedish Archaeology 23, 67-71.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2015) ‘Die Sorge für Verfallendes: Theoretisierung von materiellem Kulturerbe’. In: P.W. Stockhammer and H.P. Hahn eds. Lost in Things: Fragen an die Welt des Materiellen. Trans. Vanessa Schmidt. Münster: Waxmann, pp. 105-127
2014
Grabowski, R., Olsen, B., Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Witmore, C. (2014) ‘Teillager 6, Sværholt: The archaeology of a POW camp in Finnmark, Arctic Norway', Fennoscandia Archaeologica XXXI, 3-24.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2014) ‘Imaging modern decay: the aesthetics of ruin photography’, Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 1(1): 7-56.
Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2014) ‘Sarnes Internat: archaeological aesthetics’ [a photo essay], Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 1(1): 57-72.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2014) ‘Things-out-of-hand: the aesthetics of abandonment’, in B. Olsen and Þ. Pétursdóttir (eds.) Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past, Routledge, pp. 335-364.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2014) ‘An archaeology of ruins’, in B. Olsen and Þ. Pétursdóttir (eds.) Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past, Routledge, pp.3-29.
Olsen, B. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. (eds.) (2014) Ruin Memories: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past, Routledge.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. and Olsen, B. (2014) ‘Modern ruins: remembrance, resistance and ruin value’, in P.R. Mullins and J. Schofield (eds.) Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology: Archaeology in the Modern World, Springer.
2013
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2013) ‘Lagerhúsið við síldarstöðina á Eyri í Ingólfsfirði – Ljósmyndaþáttur’ [The Storage house at the Eyri herring station in Ingólfsfjörður – a photo essay], Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifaféags 2013.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2013) Concrete matters: towards an archaeology of things, PhD Thesis University of Tromsø, Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology. Accessible at: http://munin.uit.no/handle/10037/5508
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2013) ‘Concrete matters: ruins of modernity and the things called heritage’, Journal of Social Archaeology 13(1): 31-53.
2012
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Small things forgotten now included, or what else do things deseve?’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16(3): 577-603.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Material memories among pre-Christian graves in Iceland’, in Ragnhild Berge, Marek E. Jasinski and Kalle Sognnes (eds.) N-TAG Ten: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009, British Archaeological Reports International Series 2399, pp. 31-39, Oxford: Archaeopress.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Fé og frændur í eina gröf: Hugleiðingar um kuml og greftrun í íslensku samhengi’ [‘Fé and frændr in one grave: pre Christian grave customs in Iceland’], Ólafía: Rit Fornleifafræðingafélags Íslands, 4: 139-162.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2012) ‘Sagan af klaustrinu á Skriðu’ [Book review], Saga L(2): 177-181.
2011
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Kuml’ [‘Pre-Christian graves’], in Birna Lárusdóttir (ed.) Mannvist: Sýnisbók íslenskra fornleifa, pp. 54-71, Reykjavík: Opna.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Nýminjar: (Forn)leifar og (forn)leifafræði’ [‘Archaeology of the contemporary past’], in Birna Lárusdóttir (ed.) Mannvist: Sýnisbók íslenskra fornleifa, pp. 424-433. Reykjavík: Opna.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Grafist fyrir um mannvirkin í Arnarbæli við Selfljót: Af niðurstöðum rannsókna haustið 2010’ [‘Structures at Arnarbæli by Selfjót investigated: Results from archaeological excavations in autumn 2010’], Múlaþing 37: 35-43.
Hermannsdóttir, Á. og Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2011) ‘Fornleifaskráning á Öxi’ [‘Archaeological survey on Öxi’], Múlaþing 37: 127-135.
2010
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2010) ‘Nokkur orð í belg um íslenska kumlhesta’ [‘Considering Icelandic horse burials’], Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags 2010: 185-209.
Pétursdóttir, Þ. (2010) ‘Endurfundir: Fornleifarannsóknir styrktar af Kristnihátíðarsjóði 2001-2005’ [Book review], Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags 2010, 227-232.
2008
Jóhannesdóttir, S. and Pétursdóttir, Þ. Fornleifaskóli barnanna. Árbók Þingeyinga, pp. 25-30.
2009
Pétursdóttir (2009) ‘Icelandic Viking age graves: lack in material – lack of interpretation”, Archaeologia Islandica 7: 22-40.
2007
Þóra Pétursdóttir (2007) “Deyr fé, deyja frændr”. Re-animating mortuary remains from Viking Age Iceland, MA Thesis, University of Tromsø, Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology. Accessible at : http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/bitstream/10037/1165/3/thesis.pdf
2005
Þóra Pétursdóttir (2005) “Minjar sem hverfa…” [‘Archaeological remains under threat…’], Múlaþing 32: 47-68.
Papers:
Given at international conferences* and other venues
2016
2015
*For Love of Ruins: Aesthetics of Ruination and Heritage Value. Paper presented at the International Congress of Historical Sciences, August 23rd – 29th, Shangdong University, Jinan, China. Invited speaker.
*‘Wrack Zone Archaeology: The Heritage of Stranded Things’. Paper presented at the Nordic TAG, April 16th-18th, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
‘Heritage, Ruins and the Archaeology of the Recent Past’. Paper presented at University of Bergen/Bergen Museum research seminar series, February 13th, Bergen Museum, Bergen, Norway. Invited speaker.
‘Hlutir, menning, minjar: Hugleiðing um arfleifð’. Paper presented at University of Iceland research seminar series, November 14th, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2014
* ‘Aesthetics of Ruination and Heritage Value’. Paper presented at the conference ‘MeaningfulDestruction, Contingent Preservation’, July 4th-5th, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. Invited speaker.
* ‘Archaeology and Memory’. Paper presented at Nordic TAG, April 22nd-26th, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
2013
* ‘Approaching Modern Ruins: Photos, Memos and Ruin Memories’. Paper presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) annual conference, January 9th-12th 2013, Leicester, UK.
* ‘Aesthetizication and ruin porn? A reply to the critique of ruin photography’. Paper presented at the Nordic TAG conference, April 21st-24th 2013, Reykjavík, Iceland.
* ‘Ruin/ruination: the aesthetics of heritage’. Paper presented at the conference ‘Lost in things: Questioning functions and meanings of the material world’, November 28th-29th, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
2012
‘Concrete Matters: Modern ruins in Saga-land and the things called heritage’. Paper presented at Stanford Archaeology Center, March 8th, Stanford University, USA.
‘(Presenting the past): photos, memos and ruin memories’. Paper presented at the 4th Ruin Memories workshop, September 27th-30th 2012, at Svanhovd environmental centre, Svanvik, Norway.
‘Fortíðarþrár og framtíðardraumar: Nýjar stefnur og straumar í fornleifafræði nútímans’. Paper presented at the 20th anniversary of the Icelandic Archaeologists' Association, October 6th 2012, National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík.
‘Transcending the gap between mind and matter: current approaches to materiality (introduction)’. Paper presented at NAM (Norwegian Archaeologists' Annual Meeting), Nov. 1st-3rd, 2012, Oslo, Norway.
2011
‘Stóriðja á Ströndum’. Paper presented at the Icelandic Association of Archaeologists meeting, Icelandic Cultural Heritage Management Office, March 10th 2011, Reykjavík, Iceland.
* ‘A sense of snow: Ruin Memories from the North Atlantic.’ Paper presented at the 11th Nordic TAG conference, April 26th-29th, at the Linnæus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
* ‘Topographic – Photographic: Dialogues With the Recent Past.’ Paper presented at the TAG conference, May 6th-8th, at Berkeley University, California USA.
‘Objects on the move and moments of intervention: A glimpse of the summer's excavations at Eyri, Iceland’. Paper presented at the 3rd Ruin Memories workshop, November, 17th-19th, Falmouth, UK.
‘Af öskuhaugum fullveldis’. Paper presented at AkureyrarAkademian, Dec. 1st, Akureyri, Iceland.
* ‘Behind my back: Abandonment, object narratives and moments of intervention’. Paper presented at the TAG Conference, December 14th-16th, Birmingham, UK.
2010
* ‘Industrial ruins and pristine landscapes: An archaeological approach to the modernization of Iceland.’ Paper presented at the TAT 2010 conference, May 10th-12th, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
‘Industrial ruins in pristine landscapes: An archaeological glimpse at the 20th C herring industry in Iceland.’ Paper presented at the Research seminar, November 5th 2010, University of Tromsø, Norway.
* ‘Industrial Ruins in Pristine Landscapes.’ Paper presented at the CHAT 2010 conference, November 12th-14th, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
‘Industrial ruins in pristine landscapes: An archaeological approach to the modernization of Iceland.’ Paper presented at the 2nd Ruin Memories workshop, November 19th-20th 2010, Reykjavík, Iceland.
2009
‘Fornleifarannsóknir í Þingeyjarsýslu.’ Paper presented on March 23rd 2009 for the Þingeyjarsýsla Archaeological Assosiation (Hið þingeyska fornleifafélag) in Húsavík Museum.
* ‘Re-membering performance: Material memories among pre-Christian graves in Iceland.’ Paper presented at the 10th Nordic TAG Conference, May 26th-29th 2009 in Stiklestad, Trondheim.
2008
‘Deyr fé, deyja frændr: Má lesa eitthvað úr kumlum um hugar- og menningarheim landnámsmanna?’ Paper presented on March 15th 2008 at the Amtmannssetur Culture house in Möðruvellir.
‘Upplýsingagildi kumla: Hvað segja kumlin okkur um menningarheim
landnámsmanna?’ Paper presented on July 2nd 2008 for the Þingeyjarsýsla Archaeological Assosiation (Hið þingeyska fornleifafélag) in Húsavík Museum.
Forskningsinteresser
Samtidsarkeologi, arkeologisk teori, materiell kultur og ting teori