Friday, November 19
Venue: Hótel Saga, conference room Stanford II
09.00-09.30: Welcome and introduction: Gavin Lucas, Institute of Archaeology/University of Iceland and Bjørnar Olsen, Institute of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Tromsø
09.30-10.30: Tim Edensor, Department of Geography, Manchester Metropolitan University: “The Allure of Ruins in the 21st Century: Multiple Practices and Approaches”
10.30-10.45 Coffee/tea break
10.45-11.45 Ewa Domanska, Department of History, Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan: “Ruins, assemblages and the new materialism”
11.45-12.45 Gavin Lucas, Institute of Archaeology/University of Iceland, Reykjavik: “Fast Ruins. Nature and Modernity in Iceland”
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.45 Þóra Pétursdóttir, Institute of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Tromsø: “Industrial ruins in pristine landscapes”
14.45-15.45 Torgeir Rinke Bangstad, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim: “Empty shells or sites of universal value? The discords of industrial heritage and our recent past”
15.45-16.00 Coffee/tea break
16.00-17.00 Alfredo González-Ruibal Heritage Laboratory, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela.: “The trench and the camp: two archaeological interventions on civil war sites in Spain (1937-1940)”
17.00-19.00 Internal Ruin Memories team meeting (Tim Webmoor, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford/Bjørnar Olsen: web page, field reports, strategies, evaluations, pep talks)
Saturday, November 20
Venue: Hótel Saga, conference room Harvard I
9.30-10.30 Mats Burström, Department of Archaeology, Stockholm University: “Artefactual Memories. Family Belongings Hidden in the Ground in Estonia during World War II”
10.30-11.30 Hein Bjerck, : Department of Archaeology, Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, NTNU, Trondheim: “My father’s things”
11.30-11.45 Coffee/tea break
11.45-12.45 Douglass Bailey, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, and Meg Jordan, California Institute for Integral Studies.: “Ruined Hallucination: the Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey and the Bus”
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.45 Kjetil Fallan, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo: “The DBS Kombi bicycle: design, nostalgia and material memories”.
14.45-15.45 Elin Andreassen, independent art photographer, Trondheim: “Silent
Power”
15.45-16.00 Coffee/tea break
16.00-17.00 Caitlin DeSilvey, Department of Geography, University of Exeter: “Copper connections”
17.00-18.30 General discussion. Discussant: Douglass Bailey, Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University