Kristina Skåden

Kontakt:

Telephone: 0047/22854126, Mobile: 0047/95226690

E-mail: kristina.skaden@ikos.uio.no [1]

Address: Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo, Boks 1010 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway

Place and Date of Birth, Nationality: Lillehammer, Norway, 1965, Norwegian

I am currently working on a dissertation called "Production of landscape: Norwegian - German relations in the automobile- and road sectors 1933 - 1940". The project investigate some of the ways in which Norwegian car enthusiasts moved a wide range of arguments, material objects, facts and discourses from Germany into the Norwegian discussion about the automobile. Thus the project engages with work that has been done to realize the wishes and ambitions of the automobile enthusiasts: to make the object - the car - common property, and thereby establish a society based on private driving. One of the sub-terms of the project is to investigate the ways in which particular landscapes emerged and/or were produced in order to accommodate the car and automobility. The theoretical resources of the actor-network -theory (ANT) and Bruno Lator´s concept of "bringing things back" inspire the reading of sources: texts in car magazines and other forms of automotive writings. Material resources, like magazines, caravans, tents, cars will be investigated.

Research interests: Science and Technology Studies, Landscape studies, Mobility, Tourist history.

Current position 2009 - present. Research fellow on scholarship from the research project "The cultural history of nature and the natural", University of Oslo.
2010 (January - August) Guest researcher at the Technical University of Berlin, Center for Technology and Society.



Education

2004, University of Oslo, Norway, MPhil graduated degree in culture history, dissertation:  Frembringelser av Tyskland i Norge: med utgangspunkt i arbeidet for bilsamfunnet 1936-2002. [Conceptions of Germany in Norway: in the area of Automobility 1936 - 2002]

2002, University of Oslo, Norway, Cand. mag., undergraduatet degree in art history, culture history and  Project Forum: Organization and Leadership.

1993, ABF-Art School, Göteborg, Sweden.



Former positions

2005-2009, University of Oslo, Senior executive officer covers the section for Studies of Project management, Further and Continuing Education and Museums studies.

2004, Museums guide, Oslo City Museum (part-time engagement).

1995-1996, Information consultant/public relations at the cooperative building and housing association USBL.

1991-1992, Editor of Fovo - Dialog - om nordisk folkeopplysning og voksenopplæring. Nordic Council/Nordens Folkliga Akademi, Göteborg (part time).

1986-1990, Marketing secretary, Friundervisningens Forlag, publishing house.



Networks and research cooperation

2008. Affiliated researcher to the project Routes, roads and landscape (http://routes.no/ [2]) headed by ass. prof. Mari Hvattum at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

2008. Part of the research group on "naturen og det naturlige" link to the interfaculty research program CULTRANS (http://www.cultrans.uio.no [3]), University of Oslo.

2007. Part of an interdisciplinary researcher network at the University of Oslo on the cultural history of nature and the natural with (among others prof. Liv Emma Thorsen Cultural History) and prof. Kristin Asdal (Science and Technology Studies).



Publication

2006. Bilen virker: Forestillinger om Tyskland i Norge, in Tidsskrift for kulturforskning Volum 5, nr, 1.

2006. Deutschland in Norwegen 1936-2002: Das Überschreiten räumlicher und ideologischer Grenzen,  in Grenzen & Differenzen: Zur Macht sozialer und kultureller Grenzziehungen. 35. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, Dresden 2005. Leipziger Universitätsverlag.

2005. Tyske bil(d)er i Norge,  in Norsk-tyske forbindelser gjennom hundre år. Ikke bare laks og pølser. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin. Translated in German.

2000. Nettbasert læring er løsningen. Hva er problemet? in CV-Tidsskrift for folkeopplysning og voksenundervisning, nr. 4/2000.

1998. Estetikk og folkeopplysning, in Tradisjon og visjon i nordisk folkeopplysning. Nordens Folkeliga Akademis 30 års jubileumsbok Göteborg 1998.



Organisation of Conferences, Meetings etc.:

2010. Organizing comity. International conference: Sentient creatures - Transforming biopolitics and life matters. University of Oslo/CULTRANS.

2009. Organizing comity. International conference: Routes, Roades and Landscape: Asthetic Practices en route, 80 participants, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design

2007. Organizer of (with prof. Thorsen) "Sansene i historien og i museene", Norwegian national culture history conference with 80 participants, University of Oslo.

2006. Organizer of (with prof. Thorsen) "Fagseminar" prof. Liv Emma Thorsens 60 year anniversary, University of Oslo.

2002. Organizer of (with Eriksen and prof. Gustavsson) excursion to Göteborg for students and teachers at University of Oslo.

2001. Organizer of (with Hansen, associate prof. Christensen , prof. Rogan) excursion to Paris and related seminars in Oslo for students and teachers at University of Oslo.



Invited papers

2010. Das Automobil als Rückgrat der Gesellschaft, zur kultursoziologie des/r automobilismus/en. Workshopder Arbeidskreis der Sektion Kultursoziologie und der Sektion Wirtschaftssoziologie, DSG. Juni. Paper: Production of Landscape: Der Europäiche Automobiltourist als Faktor in der Durchsezung des Automobils.

2010. Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft, Jour Fixe, TU-Berlin. Paper: Landschaftsinterpretationen in den Deutsch-Norwegischen Beziungen 1933-1940.

2009. Seminar: Landskap, naturfremstilling og visuell erindring at the University in Bergen. Paper, "Røde veier - forflytninger av støv, snø, hester og turister.

2009 Research seminar Veien, reisen og landskapet' at the Norwegian road museum, June. Paper Norsk-tyske forbindelser i bil- og veisaken i mellomkrigstiden - et bidrag til norske landskapstransformasjoner?

2007. Invited lecture at Norsk Senter for Seniorutvikling Forestillinger om Tyskland i Norge - med utgangspunkt i arbeidet for bilsamfunnet. 2005. Invited lecture at the National Institutt for Consumer Research. Vi bør komme dithen at bilene blir allemannseie. Ressursmobilisering for bilsamfunnet.

2005. The Norwegian national culture history conference, University of Oslo. Paper: Bilen virker: Frembringelser av Tyskland i Norge.

2003. The Conferance Krigen i etterkrigstiden, Norge og Tyskland - identiteter mellom erindring og historie, University in Oslo/ The Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities/ Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste, Paper: Hvordan virker historien?



Papers at workshops and conferences

2009. Workshop The aesthetics of nature and heritage in museums, University of Oslo. Paper, Camping matters - construction of/or representing the recreation-landscape" 2009. Workshop: Animals, landscape, biographies, University of Oslo. Paper, Perspectives on cars, roads and animals. 2009. Conference Emotion in Motion - The Passion of Tourism, Travel & Movement. Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, Paper, Camping matters - Construction of the Norwegian car society and landscapes in the 1930s.

2009. Cultur history workshop at the Deprtment of Cultur History, Univeristy of Oslo, Paper, Øye for landskap - Landskapsforståelse i de norsk-tyske forbindelser i bil- og veisaker 1933 - 1940

2006. Conferance The technologies of nature-politics. Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Paper, The technologies of nature translation. German resources in the transformation of Norway in to a car-society.

2005. The 35. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde; Grenzen & Differenzen - Zur Macht sozialer und kultureller Grenzziehungen. Paper, Deutschland in Norwegen 1936 - 2002: Das Überschreiten räumlicher und ideologischer Grenzen.

2002. German co-operation seminar. Department of Culture History/ Seminar für Volkskunde Kiel Universitet. University of Oslo, Paper, Norwegisch - deutsch Beziehungen auf wirtschaftlicher Ebene.

2002. Ethnology seminar,  Section of Ethnology, University of Göteborg, Paper, This is a Roadmovie.  



Other relevant activities

2005. Secretary in chargeof (with Inger Johanne Lyngø and Kari Telste) "Ting, kultur og historie - Den materielle utfordringen", Norwegian national culture history conference with 100 participants, University of Oslo, January.

2002. Secretary in charge of (with prof. Bjørn Quiller) "Culture and society": "After the cultural turn", National PhD-research-training conference with 30 participants, University of Oslo, November.

2002. Secretary in charge of (with prof. Anders Gustavsson) Author-seminar: Museer i fortid og nåtid, University of Oslo, June.

2002. Secretary in charge of (with associate prof. Arne Lie Christensen) Education Seminar for the section of Culture History, University of Oslo, January.

2001-2002. Member and head of students committee for Culture History.

2001-2002. Member of executive committee of the Department of Culture Studies

Bereich

Mobilität und Raum [6]