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August 21
Pre-conference guided city walk
For the participants who arrive early we offer a pre-conference
city walk arranged by Umeå tourist office. For an hour and
a half you will be presented with the city’s history through plaguing
wars, trade and manufacturing as well as the history of the ample
fire that destroyed large parts of the settlement and caused the
plantation of the many birches that have given the city its epithet.
The city walk starts from Umeå Tourist Office at Renmarkstorget
at 10:00.
Reception at Lindellhallen
To welcome all participants there will be a reception held at the
first day of the conference. The location, Lindellhallen, is situated
a literal stone’s throw away from the conference’s premises and
in the same building as our university library. We offer you an
enjoyable evening with appetizing food and beverage, as well as
an opportunity to meet and get to know the other conference participants.
Friday, August 22
Visit to Umeå university museum of art and visual
culture (Bildmuseet)
The Museum of Umeå University attracts 75 000 visitors annually
and exhibit Swedish as well as international art, photojournalism,
design, architecture and scientific imagery with a present-day perspective
combined with historical investigations. Central to Bildmuseet’s
program are ethics and aesthetics, art and society, the global and
the local and creativity and human-living conditions.
During the conference, three exhibits which all touch the conference
theme are presented:
I Did Not Discover America by Jean-François Boclé
Urban Concerns by Jewyo Rhii, in collaboration with Johannesburg
Art Gallery
Nomad by Heart – Contemporary Art from Mongolia and Sweden,
an art project with artist exchange between Mongolia and Sweden.
Cider and snacks will be served and the museum shop offers art books,
posters, postcards and other visual souvenirs.
Saturday, August 23
Outdoor dinner by the Baltic Sea
For those who choose to take part of the conference dinner, we offer
an extraordinary experience as it takes place at the nature reserve
Kont, by the Baltic Sea. The surroundings offer an imposing view
with cliffs shaped by surfs and the inland ice as well as an impressing
wild life and flora as we welcome you to an evening by open-air
fireplaces accompanied by the fresh air and the smell from the sea.
The courses we will offer are typical for the region including grilled
Baltic herring with different fittings, crispy bread and the very
well known county product called Västerbottensost, a special
kind of cheese.
The bus taking the participants who have registered as interested
in taking part of this lovely experience of the famous Swedish summer
are departing at Vasaplan in central Umeå at 18.00.
Sunday, August 24
Post-Conference tour to Norrbyskär
After the conference we offer our participants an opportunity to
visit Norrbyskär outside Umeå. These bare and uninhabited
islands were in less than a decade transformed into a lively community
at the end of the 19th century as a part of one of Europe’s largest
sawmills. A modern, almost utopian-designed, community which offered
the workers an unusual high standard for the contemporary time was
created with workers dwelling, wharfs, school, manor-house, shops,
doctors, a mid-wife for births, a minister for funerals et cetera.
Fifty years later the sawmill was closed and subsequently the community
hastily vanished. The manor house is today a restaurant with excellent
food. There is also a museum with exhibitions about the life at
and the history of Norrbyskär.
The bus taking the participants who have registered for this tour
departs directly after the closing ceremony. The tour includes bus
and ferry transports, lunch at the restaurant, a guided tour on
the island and a visit to the museum.
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