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May 20. Venue: The Humanities Library Café, 
address: Haakon Sheteligs plass 7

19:00–21:00 Pre-conference informal get-together hosted by Skeivt arkiv (The Queer Archive) with drinks and nibbles. Guided tour at The Queer Archive.

May 21. Venue: Faculty of Law – University of Bergen, 
address: Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1

08:30–09:00 Registration
09:00–10:00 Opening talk: ‘The Queerdom Project’ by Tone Hellesund, with comments by Matt Cook
10:00–10:15 Coffee break
10:15–12:00 Parallel sessions
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00–14:30 Parallel sessions
14:30–14:45 Coffee break
14:45–16:15 Parallel sessions

May 21. Venue: Bergen Maritime Museum, 
address: Haakon Sheteligs plass 15

16:30–17:30 Reception with short talks, drinks and nibbles
17:30–18:30 Roundtable: (Even More) Mundane Museums? Collecting, Researching, and Exhibiting the History of Everyday Queerness.

This roundtable addresses the role of museums in collecting, conserving, researching, and exhibiting queer (mundane) history. In Norway, as in many other countries, queer museum initiatives have often been commemorative efforts centered around legislative milestones or other key moments in the history of LGBTQ+ rights and activism. At the same time, the ordinary and mundane have increasingly come into focus in queer history scholarship. Is a ‘mundane turn’ ongoing in museums? What kinds of historical events, subjects, milieus, and chronologies inform queer curatorial and collection work? What does a mundane historical queering of the museum entail? 

The roundtable panelists present cases from their own research and museum work and reflect on the status and future of queer history in museums.

Participants: Rebeka Põldsam, Stephen Vider, Antu Sorainen, and Silje Gaupseth

After the roundtable there will be an informal gathering for conference participants at Fincken, Bergen´s only queer bar. The address is Nygårdsgaten 2A.

May 22. Venue: Faculty of Law – University of Bergen

09:00–10:30 Parallel sessions
10:30–10:45 Coffee break
10:45–12:15 Parallel sessions
12:15–13:00 Lunch
13:00–14:30 Parallel sessions
14:30–14:45 Coffee break
14:45–16:00 Roundtable: Mundane Matters: Domesticity, Everyday Life, and the Futures of Queer History

This concluding roundtable reflects on what is at stake in approaching queer history through the mundane and the domestic. What kinds of historical subjects, sources, and temporalities become visible when attention shifts away from moments of rupture, visibility, and transgression, and toward everyday practices, ordinary lives, and  domestic spaces?

At the same time, the panel looks ahead: how might such approaches reshape the future of queer historical research? What questions, methods, and political commitments should guide the field going forward?

Participants: Heike Bauer, Matt Cook, Stephen Vider, and Tone Hellesund