10.00 – 11.45 Free guided tour through the Sámi exhibitions of the University Museum, Lars Thørings veg 10.
11:55 – 12:20 Bus from Museum to University Campus in Breivika (at own cost)
12.30 – 13.15 Free lunch for conference presenters at Teorifagskantina in Breivika.
13.15 – 13.30 Welcome
13.30 – 15.00 Session 1 (moderator: Andreas Klein)
Martin Bauer-Zetzmann (Universität Innsbruck)
From Hyperboreans to Lappones: Telling Stories about Northern Europe in Ancient and Medieval Literature
Per Pippin Aspaas (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
The Inuit–Sámi theory of Jakob Ziegler (1532) – a fruitful dead-end in early modern ethnography
Henning Hansen (The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities / UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Olaus Magnus’ Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus and Schefferus’ Lapponia: bestsellers on the early modern book market
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee break
15.15 – 16.45 Session 2 (moderator: Per Pippin Aspaas)
Liv Helene Willumsen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
The Narrator’s Voice: Witchcraft and Ethnicity in Olaus Magnus’ The History of the Nordic People, Book Three
Anna Fredriksson (Uppsala University)
The Deductionis coloniarum rationes & causae (1668). Building arguments for Swedish colonization.
Ralph Tuchtenhagen (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Competing for the North: A Structural Comparison of Danish and Swedish Colonial Activities in Seventeenth Century Sápmi
17.00 – 18.30 Reception for conference presenters at Árdna, Breivika.