programme
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Monday 14 October
9.30 REGISTRATION
10.00 WELCOME
Geir Are Johansen, Director of Museum Nord and Eivind Holst Mayor of Vågan
10.15 THE INDUSTRIALISATION OF THE FISHERIES
Alvaro Garrido, The Portuguese Bacalhau: the fisheries, the Industries and its common heritage
Bjørn-Petter Finstad, Between modernization and tradition – an overview of Norwegian fishery history, c. 1960-2000
Sten Angelsen, On board of M/S Skolmen – today’s fishing practices and technology.
Nafsika Papacharalampous, Meet our flatmate, the cockroach: Anthropological reflections on human-animal relationships
12.30 Lunch by Alessio Barreto, Arbeidern Pizzeria and Restaurant
13.30 OPENING NEW MARKETS
Alf Ragnar Nielssen, The Changing Stockfish Markets, c. 1100-1900
Stefania Montemezzo: From the Mediterranean to the North Sea: Italian merchants trading with Northern Europe during the Renaissance (15th-16th c. )
Angela Huang, European Hansemuseum Lübeck: Skrei and Hanse: How trade in stockfish shaped Hanse trade
Alf Ragnar Nielssen, The Pomor Trade – A Different Cod Market in North Russia, c. 1700-1918
Graham Hogg, Lateral North Visioning the Future Arctic
14.45 Coffee Break
15.15 COD FEEDING THE WORLD
Guri Hjallen Eriksen, SALT: The cod fishery and the law: historically, today and in future
Rune Stokvold, Tørrfisk fra Lofoten: Stockfish – historic product with a bright future
Andreas Santi Falch, Development of flavour in stockfish, utilisation of raw material and stockfish markets today
Knut Korsbrekke, Learning by doing. How can history teach us what sustainable management should be like? What is the future for the management of the cod resource?
Panel discussion with all afternoon speakers facilitated by Ane Høyem
NESSEKONGE’S SUPPER
19.00, Lofoten MUseum
Museum Nord’s Artists in Residence Spontaneous Deuce invited all conference participants and the local community to take part in a social cod feast in the museum.
Tuesday 15 October
9.30 REGISTRATION
10.00 WELCOME
10.15 FOOD GOVERNANCE AND GEOGRAPHIES
Bamidele Raheem, Impacts of Climate Change on Cod Production and Consumption
Torill Østby Haaland, The Kelp Congress: Seaweed as a Protagonist Within Artistic Research
Dani Burrows, What Role can the Arts Play?
11.15 Coffee Break
11.45 COD ROUTE PROJECTS
Miriam Jensen Tveit and Erika Softing, EuroCOD Project
Anna Vermehren, SKREI Convention & SKREI
Massimo Andreoli, Via Querinissima from Myth to History
Hildegunn Pettersen, Querini Opera en Route to Venice
Marzia Liuzza, Between History and Culture: the Route of the Skrei
13.30 Lunch
14.30 WHAT NEXT? Discussion Groups on developing an action plan for the future with three foci: 1. disseminating the history of Arctic cod 2. tourism and food governance 3. cod culture – artistic expressions and identities
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 WHAT NEXT? Round up
17.00 THE BODY OF SALT – art performance by Alessio Trevisani, Torget, Kabelvåg
NB. More details will be added in the run-up to the conference. We reserve the rights to change this programme.
additional information
SKREI CONVENTION FESTIVAL , 12- 13 October, Kabelvåg, Norway