Ulrike Spring | Høgskulen i Sogn og Fjordane

Bakgrunn

Professor of History

Research interests
• travelling and tourism in Europe since 1800
• history of science, polar history, polar expeditions, cultural perceptions of the northern lights
• cultural heritage, museum history, archives, exhibition analysis
• nationalism, national identity & language

since 2016:
project leader "TRAUM - Transforming Author Museums", funded by Norges Forskningsråd, https://traum.hisf.no/

2013-2016:
participant “Arctic Modernities” (University of Tromsø), funded by Norges Forskningsråd

2014-2016:
participant “Making Sense of the Aurora” (University of Tromsø), funded by Tromsø Forskningsstiftelse

blog: http://www.forskning.no/blog/schimanski-spring and http://krohnargument.no/author/ulrike/ (both in Norwegian)

https://hisf.academia.edu/UlrikeSpring

Education

Dr. phil. in History (University of Vienna, 2000)

Mag. phil. in German Language and Literature (Deutsche Philologie) / Communication Studies (Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaften) (University of Vienna, 1994)

Courses in Migration Studies, History, and Comparative Literature, at International Women’s University, Hanover (2000), University of Copenhagen (1994-95), University of Essex (1990)

Work experience

2011: Visiting Scholar at Department of History and Department of Scandinavian Studies, University of Amsterdam

2010-2011: Researcher, Dept. of Culture and Literature, University of Tromsø

2009: Lecturer, Institute Reiseliv, hotell- og mediefag, Finnmark University College

2009: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of History, University of Tromsø

2008-2009: Adviser, project “Nordområdemuseet” (High Arctic Museum), Tromsø Municipality/University of Tromsø/Troms County

2008: Assoc. Professor, Dept. of History, University of Tromsø

2003-2007: Curator, Wien Museum, Vienna

2003: Visiting scholar at CEMORE (Centre for Mobility Research), Lancaster University

2001-2002: Junior Fellow, IFK_International Research Centre for Cultural Studies, Vienna

1996-1997: Visiting Research Fellow, Dept. of History, University of Oslo

1995-1996: Visiting Research Fellow, Dept. of History, Trinity College Dublin

Teaching at HiSF

(høst 2016) SA504 Nasjonalisme, imperialisme & demokratisering. Verda frå 1800-1991

(høst 2015) SA504 Nyare historie 1800-1970

(vår 2015) SA504 Nyare historie 1800-1970

(vår 2015) SA522 Lokalhistorie: Menneske, lokalsamfunn og globalisering

(vår 2014) SA504 Nyare historie 1800-1970

(vår 2014) SA522 Lokalhistorie: Menneske, lokalsamfunn og globalisering

(vår 2013) SA539 Nyare historie 1870-1970

(vår 2012) SA539 Nyare historie 1870-1970

(vår 2013) SA522 Ressursar/Menneske/Teknologi

(høst 2012) ME520 Samfunnsvitskapleg metode

(høst 2012) SA533 Eldre historie før 1870

Publications (selected)

Books (monograph and edited)

with Marianne Klemun (eds): Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation (=Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology). Palgrave Macmillan 2016.

with Johan Schimanski: Passagiere des Eises. Polarhelden und arktische Diskurse 1874. Wien/Köln: Böhlau Verlag 2015. 719 pp.

with Hilde Lange (eds): Formidling for framtida – tanker om arkiv. Oslo: ABM-media 2013. 260 pp.

with Wolfgang Kos & Wolfgang Freitag (eds): Im Wirtshaus. Eine Geschichte der Wiener Geselligkeit. Wien: Wien Museum/Czernin Verlag 2007. 320 pp.

with Karin Granqvist (eds): Representing Gender, Nation and Ethnicity in Word and Image. Tromsø: Centre for Women’s Studies and Women in Research, Kvinnforsk 4/2001. 184 pp.

with Richard Holt & Hilde Lange (eds): Internationalisation in the History of Northern Europe. Nordsaga ’99. Tromsø 2000. 170 pp.

PhD-thesis: Wholly Irish und fullnorsk: Der performative Charakter nationaler Narrative am Beispiel der Sprachbewegungen in Irland und Norwegen um 1900. Dr. phil. thesis, Univ. Vienna 2000. 426 pp.

MA-thesis: Verlagstätigkeit im niederländischen Exil, 1933-1940. Mag. phil. thesis, Univ. Vienna 1994. 112 pp.

Articles

"Expeditions as Experiments: An Introduction." (with Marianne Klemun). In: Marianne Klemun and Ulrike Spring (eds), Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation. Palgrave Macmillan 2016, 1-25.
"Materializing the Aurora Borealis: Carl Weyprecht and Scientific Documentation of the Arctic." In: Marianne Klemun and Ulrike Spring (eds), Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation. Palgrave Macmillan 2016, 141-162.
"Arctic and European In-Betweens: The Production of Tourist Spaces in Late Nineteenth-Century Northern Norway", in Kate Hill (ed.), Britain and the Narration of Travel in the Nineteenth Century: Texts, Images, Objects. Farnham: Ashgate 2016, 13-36.
"The Useless Arctic: Exploiting Nature in the Arctic in the 1870s" [with Johan Schimanski], Nordlit 35 (2015), 13-27.
"Formidling for framtida" [with Hilde Lange]. In: Hilde Lange and Ulrike Spring (eds), Formidling for framtida – tanker om arkiv. Oslo: ABM-Media AS 2013, 7-24.
"Between Spectacle and Science: The Aurora in Central Europe, 1870s-1880s". In: Acta Borealia 29, 2 (2012), 197-215.
"Oppdagelsesreise blir til litteratur: Skrivestrategier i mottakelsen av den østerriksk-ungarske nordpolsekspedisjonen (1872–1874)" [with Johan Schimanski]. In: Johan Schimanski, Cathrine Theodorsen and Henning H. Wærp (eds), Reiser og ekspedisjoner i den litterære Arktis. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag 2011, 57-90.
"Dilettanter og vitenskapsmenn: Tromsø Museums første tiår". In: Marie-Theres Federhofer and Hanna Hodacs (eds), Mellom pasjon og profesjonalisme. Dilettantkulturer i skandinavisk kunst og vitenskap 1660-1970. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag 2011, 287-308.
"Polene som mediebegivenheter". In: S. F. Berg and H. Østgaard Lund (eds), Norske polarheltbilder 1888-1928. Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket/Forlaget Press 2011, 250-251.
"Exhibiting Mozart - Rethinking Biography". In: Nordisk Museologi 2 (2010), 58-74.
"A Black Rectangle Labelled ‘Polar Night’: Imagining the Arctic after the Austro-Hungarian Expedition of 1872-1874" [with Johan Schimanski]. In: Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski and Henning H. Wærp (eds), Arctic Discourses. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010, 19-42.
"Polarwissenschaft und Kolonialismus in Österreich-Ungarn: Zur Rezeption der österreichisch-ungarischen Polarexpedition (1872-1874)" [with Johan Schimanski]. In: Wiener Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Neuzeit 9, 2 (2009), 53-71.
"Die Alte Stadt und das Museum: Die Re/Konstruktion von Alt-Kristiania um 1900". In: Monika Sommer and Heidemarie Uhl (eds), Mythos Alt-Wien. Spannungsfelder urbaner Identitäten (=Gedächtnis-Erinnerung-Identität 9). Innsbruck, Wien, Bozen: Studienverlag 2009, 151-165.
"Explorers’ Bodies in Arctic Mediascapes: Celebrating the Return of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition in 1874" [with Johan Schimanski]. In: Acta Borealia 16, 1 (2009), 50-76.
"Mottakelse og mottakelse: Tilbakekomstene til den østerriksk-ungarske nordpolsekspedisjonen, 1872-1874" [with Johan Schimanski]. In: Nordlit 22 (2007), 143-166.
"Norwegians". In: Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen (eds), Imagology: The Cultural Construction and Literary Representation of National Characters: A Critical Survey. Amsterdam: Rodopi 2007, 214-216.
"Gedenken und Erdenken: Die Mozartwohnung in Wien und ihre Inszenierung in der NS-Zeit". In: Erik Fischer (ed.), Musik-Sammlungen – Speicher interkultureller Prozesse. Teilband A. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2007, 243-251.
"The Linear City: Touring Vienna in the 19th Century". In: Mimi Sheller and John Urry (eds), Mobile Technologies of the City. London/New York: Routledge 2006, 21-43.
"Vom Coupé ins Stadtgewühl. Erfahrungen des Ankommens". In: Wolfgang Kos and Günter Dinhobl (eds), Großer Bahnhof. Wien und die weite Welt. Wien: Wien Museum, Czernin Verlag 2006, 120-123.
"Weit sind sie trotzdem gekommen. Reisen vor der Bahn". In: Wolfgang Kos and Günter Dinhobl (eds), Großer Bahnhof. Wien und die weite Welt. Wien: Wien Museum, Czernin Verlag 2006, 68-71.
"Den severdige byen: Vandringer gjennom Wien og det kulturelle rom på 1800-tallet". In: Peter Aronsson, Bjarne Hodne, Birgitta Skarin Frykman, John Ødemark (eds), Kulturarvens gränser. Komparativa perspektiv. Göteborg: Arkipelag 2005, 145-163.
"Der Himmel über Wien. Franz Schubert, sein Körper und Alt-Wien". In: Wolfgang Kos and Christian Rapp (eds), Alt-Wien. Die Stadt, die niemals war. Wien: Wien Museum/Czernin Verlag 2004, 151-158.
"Die Rationalisierung des Außersinnlichen. Gespräch mit Peter Mulacz, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Parapsychologie und Grenzbereiche der Wissenschaften" [with Manfred Omahna]. In: ÖZG-Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 14, 4 (2003), 150-159.
"Touristische Räume in Wien und Oslo". In: Tourismus Journal 6, 2 (2002), 223-238.
"Imagining the Irish and Norwegian Peasant around 1900: Between Re-Presentation and Representation". In: Historisk Tidsskrift 80, 1 (2001), 75-99.
"Austro-Hungarian and Other Mountains in Arctic Discourse". [with Johan Schimanski]. In: TRANS. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 15 (2003) www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/05_10/schimanski15.htm
"Identitetens ambivalens: Bondeungdomslaget i Oslo som eksempel". In: Nordlit 10 (2001), 95-108.
"A Natural Choice: Constructing Norway and its Tourists on the Internet". In: Karin Granqvist and Ulrike Spring (eds), Representing Gender, Nation and Ethnicity in Word and Image (=Kvinnforsk 4). Tromsø: Centre for Women's Studies and Women in Research 2001, 91-104.
"Introduction: The Question of Representation". [with Karin Granqvist]. In: Karin Granqvist and Ulrike Spring (eds), Representing Gender, Nation and Ethnicity in Word and Image (=Kvinnforsk 4). Tromsø: Centre for Women's Studies and Women in Research 2001, 5-22.
"Verlagsarbeit im niederländischen Exil. Am Beispiel des Briefwechsels Allert de Lange-Józef Wittlin". In: Decloedt, Leopold and Herbert van Uffelen (eds), Der niederländische Sprachraum und Mitteleuropa. (Buchreihe des Institutes für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa). Wien: Böhlau Verlag 1995, 146-153.