Rewinding Madame Lisbet

09:30-11:40  Crossing views: Film, Ethnography, North-South Collaboration and Institution Building

Auditorium 2 in Teorifagbygget at UiT

Throughout her career, Lisbet Holtedahl has underlined the importance of solid, long-lasting collaboration between the ‘North’ and the ‘South’. Through film and ethnographic methodology, she has aimed for scientific knowledge, cross-cultural dialogue and an improved understanding between the peoples of the world.

09:30 – 09:40: Opening by Head of Department

09:40 – 10:25: Imaging Knowledge: Visual Anthropology and Storytelling on the Long Path Towards Wisdom. By Paul Stoller, Professor in Anthropology, West Chester University, USA.

10:30 – 10:45: Multidimensional thinking:  Seeing North and South as one world. By Eva Joly, Member of European parliament. 

10:45-11:00     Break

11:00-11:10     Does university collaboration contribute to institution building? The Anthropos project seen from Cameroon. By Clément Dili Palaï, Professor, University of Maroua, Cameroon.

11:10-11:20    Insisting on the relevance of gender perspectives in higher education.

By Rachel Djesa Issa, UoT.

11:20-11:30    “We want our share!” Political struggles in post slavery societies in West Africa. By Eric Komlavi Hahonou, RUK, Denmark.

11:30-11:40      University collaboration and film - a fruitful match? By Trond Waage, UoT.

12:00 – 13:45  Lunch and book launch

At Ardna
A light lunch will be served - Music

Corruption and Knowledge. The role of Universities in Global Reach

This book aims at an informed reflection and a critical analysis of the role of universities at the center of global dynamics, through multiple voices from various milieus. The university world is often associated with independent human minds and critical thinking. However, many signs indicate another dynamic: the university world as a catalyst of enhancement of the laws and the politics favorable to the mighty actors from the financial world. Thus, universities indirectly have their foreseeable repercussions on the reproduction of inequalities. The case studies presented here come from the North and the South and encompass several domains: business, politics, education, law and health.

The editors, Lisbet Holtedahl and Rachel Djesa Issa, will present the book together with: Randi Rønning Balsvik, Bjørn Hersoug, Ketil Fred Hansen (Eva Joly could not be present).

14:00-15:30 Rewinding Lisbet Holtedahl’s film production

Auditorium 2

Lisbet’s film production through 40 years will be addressed by the screening of selected extracts from her films commented by colleagues.

14:00   Niger Norway (1975) - Rachel Djesa Issa, UoT.

14:15   Få er som far, ingen som ho mor - Bjørn Arntsen, UoT.

14:30   Polar Varan (A film from a Lisbet initiated workshop in Tromsø in 1985) - Bente

           Sundsvold, UoT.

14:45   The Sultan’s Burden (1992) - Ketil Fred Hansen, UoS

15:00   Break

15:30 – 17:00 World premiere. New film by Lisbet Holtedahl 

Auditorium 2

Wives  (2017, 90 min) 

Al Hajji Ibrahim Goni is an Islamic scholar from Ngaoundéré in Northern Cameroon.

For most of his life, Al Hajji Goni has served as ‘Alkali’ – Islamic judge – at the Sultanate of Ngaoundéré. This film follows the last years of Al Hajji’s life, spent in the company of his wives and children. It shows the relations and experiences in a polygamous family, seen from the perspective of the wives and their husband.