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Children in search of protection in Iceland and the Convention of the rights of the children

On March 22, 2018 Mobilities and Transnational Iceland had pleasure to participate in the workshop “Children in search of protection in Iceland and the Convention of the rights of the children” organized by UNICEF Iceland in Harpa. Three keynote lectures Read More ->

Icelandic Migration and the Suppression of Indigenous Resistance in the Canadian North West, 1885.

Open lecture by Laurie Bertman. 5.03.2018, 12:00-13:00, Gimli-102 Approximately sixty Icelanders enlisted to oppose Indigenous Canadian resistance during the North-West Uprising in 1885, just ten years following the arrival of Icelandic immigrants in Manitoba. The armed stance of a group Read More ->

Seminar in Skálholt

On March 1, 2018 Mobility and Transnational Iceland held its second internal seminar in Skálholt. The purpose of the seminar was to give a platform for project participants to presented and discuss their ongoing research projects and ideas for the Read More ->

Doctoral seminar with Pauline Gardiner Barber and Peter Aronsson

In February 28, 2018 Mobilities and Transnational Iceland organized a workshop for doctoral students at the University of Iceland. The workshop was based on students’ presentations and feedback provided by the invited guest lectures and external advisers of the project, Read More ->

The making of nations and museums. Nordic national museums in European context

Open lecture by Peter Aronsson 28.2.2018, 12:10-13:00, Oddi-206 The making of modern museums will be interpreted as part of a complex cultural negotiation of European modernization and nation-making. The varied structure of Nordic national museums will be explained as related Read More ->

Temporal entanglements and historical irony in Philippine global migration

Open lecture by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Anthropology Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada 28.2.2018, 11:10-12:00, Oddi-206 The history of global capitalism is synonymous with the manipulation of time and space. Capital seeks ever greater efficiencies through the bending of time and Read More ->

The ‘Inequitable’ Position of Filipinas in ‘Multicultural’ Families in S. Korea

Open lecture by Minjung Kim, Professor in Anthropology, Kangwon National Unviersity 9.2.2018, 12:00-13:00, Oddi-205 About the lecture It was a Filipina marriage migrant, Jasmine Lee, who in 2012 became the first naturalized Korean citizen to join the Korean national assembly. Read More ->

Seminar “Migrants-Immigrants-Museums”

Migration and migrants have got extensive attention in the recent decades. Economic, social and cultural impact of mobility on individuals and groups has been global, effectively challenging ideas, places, communities and knowledge production. The influence of mobility on the museum Read More ->

Tastes that Travel: Mexican food and Ingredients in the Global Marketplace

Open lecture by Melisa Biggs 30.11. 2017, 12:00-13:00; Oddi-205 About the lecture What happens when local and regional cuisines become popular outside of their points of origin? Over the last two decades, Mexican gastronomy has experienced a global boom, especially Read More ->

Selfies, Sovereignty, and the Nation-State: ‘Into the Modern World’ at the National Museum of Iceland

Open lecture by John Baldinger. 24.11.2017, 12:00-13:00, Oddi-205 About the lecture This talk will focus on the “Making of the Nation” as both concept and permanent exhibition, especially the exhibition’s gallery that provides an introspective narrative of the twentieth century Read More ->