Plan for the first five years of network activities:

The network collaboration will be organised in relation to the following three activities:

2. A homepage with information about the network

3. Publication of a number of papers per year

As the network includes participants from Island and Finland, the network language will be English. The working papers will thus also contribute to make the Nordic research on the history and aesthetics of photography more visible internationally. The annual seminar will be held in Norway, Denmark and Sweden and will progress as presentations of papers and discussion groups. Two or three internationally renowned scholars will be invited to each seminar as guest speakers and workshop inspirators: both Nordic and international capacities that have worked specifically with, or can illuminate the topic of the seminar. Each seminar will have a topic. The first seminar will serve as a mapping of the status of the Nordic photohistorical research and historiography. The second will focus on actual theoretical perspectives, and the third will be a presentation of individual research projects.

4. Programme for the first five research seminars:

August 2003, Topic: The historiegraphy of photography/Nordic History of Photography, Rosendal, Norway. Coordinator: Sigrid Lien

August 2004, Topic: Theoretical perspectives of current interest, Sophienberg, Denmark. Coordinator: Mette Sandbye

August 2005, Topic: Writing about Photography and the Problematic Issue of Photographic Specificality, Stockholm, Sweden. Coordinator: Anna Tellgren

August 2006, Topic: Photography and Difference, Helsingfors, Finland.
Coordinators: Merja Salo, Leena Saraste

September 2007, Topic: Methodology, Paris, France.
Coordinators: Æsa Sigurjonsdottir, Sigrid Lien

This page last updated on February 29, 2008 by Terje Øye