The Hamsun/Ibsen Research Group (HIG)

The Hamsun/Ibsen Research Group (HIG) is a research group at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education of UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, engaged in a multidisciplinary study of the writings of Norwegian world authors Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) and Knut Hamsun (1859-1952).

Our research primarily focuses on the relation between their writings and society, as well as the exchanges and circulations into which their writings have been absorbed, including contemporary uses of their writings and their influence in various areas. Our perspectives range from areas such as poetics and aesthetics, ecocriticism (especially their writings as reflections on humans’ relationship to nature and resources), disease and health (especially the functions of representations of disease in their writings and the ways in which such representations correspond to modern and contemporary perceptions of disease), remediation and cultural appropriation (especially the conditions pertaining to adaptations of their works and the adaptations as interpretations and new works of art) and publication history (especially sales, author rights, royalties, translations, and Ibsen and Hamsun in the international book market).

Members


Publications

2020

Hamsun i Tromsø VII. Nordlit 47, Hamsun og grenser/Hamsun and Borders, ed. by Linda Nesby, Henrik Johnson and Ingri Løkholm

2019

Even Arntzen Hamsuns verden. Opprør, skapelse og sirkulasjon. Fra Ibsen til Knausgård, Orkana Akademisk

2018

Henning H. Wærp «Hele livet en vandrer i naturen». Økokritiske lesninger i Knut Hamsuns forfatterskap, Orkana Akademisk

 

2016

Hamsun i Tromsø VI. Nordlit 38, based on the 6th International Hamsun Conference in Tromsø, ed. by Henning H. Wærp and Even Arntzen

2015

Ibsen and World Drama(s). Nordlit 34, based on the XIIIth International Ibsen Conference in Tromsø 18-23 June 2012, ed. by Lisbeth P. Wærp

2011

Hamsun i Tromsø V. Rapport fra den 5. internasjonale Hamsunkonferanse 2011, published by Hamsun-Selskapet

 

2009

Nordlit 25. Hamsun, ed. by Michael Schmidt and Henning H. Wærp

 

2008

Hamsun i Tromsø IV. Rapport fra den 4. internasjonale Hamsunkonferansen i Tromsø 2007, ed. by Linda Nesby and Henning H. Wærp, published by Hamsun-Selskapet

 

2006

Tid og rom i Hamsuns prosa (II), ed. by Even Arntzen and Henning H. Wærp, published by Hamsun-Selskapet

Nils Magne Knutsen Knut Hamsun og Nordland. Den lange veien hjem, Angelica forlag

 

2003

Hamsun i Tromsø III. Rapport fra den 3. internasjonale Hamsunkonferansen. Tid og rom i Hamsuns prosa, ed. by Even Arntzen and Henning H. Wærp, published by Hamsun-Selskapet

2002

Lisbeth P. Wærp Overgangens figurasjoner. En studie i Henrik Ibsens Kejser og Galilæer og Når vi døde vågner, Solum Forlag

 

2000

Hamsun i lys av Bakhtins teorier. Nordlit 8, ed. by Amilcare Cassanello, Anniken Greve and Henning H. Wærp

1999

Hamsun i Tromsø II. Rapport fra den 2. internasjonale Hamsun-konferanse 1999, ed. by Even Arntzen, Nils Magne Knutsen and Henning H. Wærp, published by Hamsun-Selskapet

Lisbeth P. Wærp (ed.) Livet på likstrå. Henrik Ibsens Når vi døde vågner, Cappelen Akademisk Forlag

1996

Hamsun in Tromsø. 11 foredrag fra Hamsun-konferansen i Tromsø 1995, ed. by Nils M. Knutsen, published by Hamsun-Selskapet

Events

2021

(tba) Guestlecture by associate professor Thor Holt, Center for Ibsen Studies,

OsloFinal review phd Azadeh Mazloumsaki Isaksen’s thesis, Ibsen in Iran, by invited reader professor Audun Engelstad, and supervisors professor Lisbeth P. Wærp (UiT) and professor Anne Gjelsvik (NTNU). 22 January

2019

The Seventh International Hamsun Conference in Tromsø. 19 – 20 September

International Ibsen Committee meeting in Nanjing. 11 – 13 June

 

2017

Guest lecture: Emeritus Professor of Drama at Flinders University, Australia, Julie Holledge “Ibsen’s Physical Scores”. 12 October

Guest Lecture: Kamaluddin Nilu, Theatre Director and independent reasearcher, “No Local is Anymore Local. A Transcultural Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt”. 3 March

2016

Guest Lecture: Professor Mark Sandberg, Scandinavian Department, UC Berkeley, “Genre Consciousness in Ibsen Parodies”. 6 June

 

2015

The Sixth International Hamsun Conference in Tromsø. 2 – 4 September

 

2012

The XIIIth International Ibsen Conference: Ibsen and World Drama(s). 18 – 23 June

 

2011

The Fifth International Hamsun Conference in Tromsø. 15 – 17 September

 

2008

Dissertation: Linda Nesby En analyse av Knut Hamsuns romaner Pan, Markens grøde og Landstrykere med utgangspunkt i kronotopbegrepet

 

2007

The Fourth International Hamsun Conference in Tromsø. 20 – 21 September

 

2003

The Third International Hamsun Conference in Tromsø. 25 – 27 September

Dissertation: Atle Skaftun Knut Hamsuns dialogiske realisme. En studie av Børn av tiden, «Nabobyen» og På gjengrodde stier med særlig forkus på autorposisjon, plot og personer

 

1999

The Second International Hamsun Conference in Tromsø. 23 – 25 September

 

1995

The First International Hamsun Conference in Tromsø. 14 – 17 September

The Hamsun/Ibsen Research Group (HIG)


The Hamsun/Ibsen Research Group (HIG)

Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education of UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
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