Disputas Master Stephanie von Spreter
Master Stephanie von Spreter disputerer for ph.d.-graden i humaniora og samfunnsvitenskap og vil offentlig forsvare avhandlingen:
"Destructed Environments, Gendered Spaces and Colonial Legacies. Contemporary Artistic Practices Sensing the Arctic and the Circumpolar North.”
Prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne holdes kl. 10:15, SVHUM E.0101:
“A new [feminist] Scandinavian/Arctic art history. A speculative outline or sketch of how
that could look, including an analysis of representative artwork.”
Prøveforelesning vil bli strømmet her.
Disputasen starter kl. 11:15, og vil bli strømmet her.
The defence will be streamed here.
Opptak av disputasen vil være tilgjengelig i en måned.
A recording of the disputation will be available for one month.
Doktoravhandlingen er tilgjengelig her.
The doctoral thesis is available here.
Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag av avhandlingen:
This thesis examines how contemporary camera-based artistic practices sense and investigate the Arctic and the circumpolar North in terms of environmental destruction, gender, and colonial legacies. I argue that the artworks I examine make the viewer aware about stories that have been downplayed, ignored, overlooked, or formerly made inaccessible to the public. In many cases the “missing” stories form the basis for an imagining and a fabulation about worlds that could have existed or are yet to come. In others, the artists’ works are a means to come to terms with worlds that have been destroyed. Oftentimes long-term research and employment of photography become important elements in the artistic practices that I investigate. The thesis further argues that environmental destruction, gender, and colonial legacies are entangled with one another, but that they need to be examined separately to understand what is at stake. The three independent articles that the thesis is built on, with its in-depth examinations of the work of Himali Singh Soin, Tonje Bøe Birkeland and Pia Arke, reflect this approach.
Hovedveileder
Professor Hanne Hammer Stien, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Biveileder
Professor Elin Kristine Haugdal, UiT Norges arktiske universitet
Bedømmelseskomité
Interdisciplinary Fellow, Ph.d., Isabelle Gapp, University of Aberdeen -1. opponent.
Professor Ph.d., Mette Sandbye, Københavns Universitet - 2. opponent.
Professor emeritus dr. art. Svein Aamold, UiT Norges arktiske universitet - leder av komité
Disputasleder
Førsteamanuensis Ingeborg Høvik, Institutt for språk og kultur
De som ønsker å opponere ex. auditorio, kan sende en e-post til leder av disputas innen kl. 13:00 disputasdagen: ingeborg.hovik@uit.no