October 13th, 2023 Location: National Museum of Iceland, lecture hall 10:00-10:20 Welcome from Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir former Pro-Rector of Research, University of Iceland Welcome from Kristín Loftsdóttir, PI of Creating Europe through Racialized Mobilities 10:20-10:40 Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl and Sandra Ponzanesi, editors Creating Europe from the Margins 10:40-11:55 Session one Milica Trakilović, ‘From Nowhere [...]
Routledge has published Creating Europe from the Margins: Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe, edited by Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl and Sandra Ponzanesi. This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the relations and tensions inherent in divisions between the Global [...]
The article “Hidden stories: Plaster busts in Gran Canaria as Folded Objects” gives insights into Kristín Loftsdóttir’s research into the bust collection in Gran Canaria, where she positions the busts as folded objects in Amade M’charek’s sense. She asks in the article how the process of “unfolding” has the potential of intervening with particular narratives [...]
This special issue of Procesos históricos: revista de historia, arte y ciencias sociales focuses importantly on multiculturalism and whiteness. It is edited by J. M. Persánch and Yolanda Aixelá Cabré. Kristín Loftsdóttir‘s article in the special issue is gives insight from the Nordic countries (the article is in english and spanish). Claims of White Innocence: [...]
Kristín Loftsdóttir gave a presentation entitled “One point five percent of the Nation: Transnationalism in the Canary Islands and Icelandic Travelers” (Eitt komma fimm prósent þjóðarinnar: Þverþjóðleiki Kanaríeyja og íslenskir ferðalangar), at the 14th conference on Icelandic Society. The conference was hosted by the University Centre of the Westfjords and held in Ísafjörður, during April 24th - [...]
With the theme Breaking the Rules? Power, Participation and Transgression, the 15th SIEF congress took place online from 19-24 June 2021, hosted by the University of Helsinki. Making Mobility Rules Ignacio Fradejas-García and Kristín Loftsdóttir participated in the panel Making Mobility Rules, chaired by Ignacio Fradejas-García (University of Iceland) and Noel Salazar (KU Leuven), having [...]
Exceptionalism, by Lars Jensen and Kristín Loftsdóttir, has been published by Routledge in its Key Ideas Series. This volume crucially provides an analytical and comparative approach, investigating the meaning and uses of the concept of exceptionalism, while demonstrating the ways in which it manifests itself in different historical and geographical settings. Exceptionalism offers comparative case [...]
The article "Sun and Sand: Icelandic travels to the Canary Islands" (translation from Icelandic) has been published in the Icelandic peer-reviewed journal Tímarit um viðskipti og efnahagsmál (Research in Applied Business and Economics). The article is co-authored by Kristín Loftsdóttir, project leader, in collaboration with Auður Arna Arnardóttir, associate professor at the University of Reykjavík, Már [...]
Raddir margbreytileikans er mannfræðihlaðvarp þar sem rætt er við íslenska mannfræðinga. Í þessum þætti ræðir Kristín Loftsdóttir, prófessor við Háskóla Íslands, um grein sem fjallar um gifsafsteypur og brjóstmyndir frá liðnum tíma sem varðveittar eru á El Museo Canario. Kristín setur þessa safnmuni í sögulegt og pólitískt samhengi nýlendutímans og sýnir hvernig margvísleg söguleg tengsl valds, [...]
The IUAES 2020 congress, Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology, hosted by the Institute for Anthropological Research (CROATIA), took place online from March 9-14, 2021. Kristín Loftsdóttir and her PhD student Sigrún K. Valsdóttir, participated in the panel Imagining Europe - Fantasies Around Migration to Europe, chaired by Sophia Thubauville (Goethe [...]
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