Ghosts of Christiansø and Frederiksø: A Case Study from a Remote Island | Kirsten Marie Raahauge

Description: Remote is a conference about remoteness and peripherality, understood as a spatial figure, where researchers from many different disciplines meet; designers, humanists, anthropologists and the like. It took place in Longyearbyen in wintertime in order to enhance the feeling of remoteness among the participants. Key note lectures, paper presentations and excursions.

RESEARCHER: Kirsten Marie Raahauge

PROJECT: 'Shrinking periphery'

Participation at Conference/Seminar:

REMOTE: Rethinking Remoteness and Peripherality

TITLE: ' Ghosts of Christiansø and Frederiksø: A Case Study from a Remote Island'

Session 2b: Coping with Remoteness

LOCATION: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway

DATE: 18-19 January 2017

ACTIVITY:  Paper presentation about the outskirts and ghosts in a session about how to cope with remoteness.

RELEVANCE: Interdisciplinary discussion of remoteness and peripherality as a spatial figure.