Navn	Birgit Kleist Pedersen
Stilling	Associate Professor at the Department of Greenlandic Language & Literature since 2003
Kontakt	Phone: (+299) 36 24 00 E-mail: bipe@slm.uni.gl
Særlige interessefelter	Contemporary Greenlandic literature from different theoretical approaches, oral tradition, media subjects (movies, art, cyberspace etc.) in an international/Greenlandic perspective, project oriented teaching based on postpositivistic theoretical and methodological approaches. Children, Youth and Media culture; contemporary culture studies.
CV og publikationer	CV Publikationsliste Konferenceliste By 1st October 1999 employed as assistant professor at the Department of Language, Literature and Media, University of Greenland , tenured as associated professor by 15th June 2003. Purchased the freedom of teaching to conduct a research project ”Media Culture among Children and Young People – a reception perspective” in collaboration with my collegue Jette Rygaard from October 1999 to 2001, financed by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities. Research contributions:   Birgit Kleist Pedersen: -          2004a: ”Unge og litteratur – 25 år efter” in: Birgitte Jacobsen et alii (eds.):Grønlænder og Global – grønlandsk sprog, litteratur og medier i 25-året for Hjemmestyrets indførelse. Ilisimatusarfik, Nuuk   -          2004b: ”Young Greenlandic Writers in the Public versus the Anonymous Space” (submitted to project: ”NORBOK – Nordic, more than Scandinavian”, Nordic Council of Ministers – in progress)   -          2004c: ”Young Greenlanders in the Urban Space” (paper presentation at American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2004, 17th-21st November, Berkeley. Publication will follow based on paper presentations at this meeting)   -          2003: ”Filmens indtog i Grønland” in: Peter Schepelern et al. (red.): Kosmorama, tema: Film fra Nord, nr. 232. Det Danske Filminstitut/Museum & Cinematek, Copenhagen.   -          2002a:” The craving for getting scared’. The popularity of the horror genre in movies and literature among young Greenlanders”, presented at the 13th Inuit Studies Conference, Anchorage, 1.-3. August 2002. (Submitted/accepted to The13th Inuit Studies Conference Proceedings (in press).   -          2002b: “Gyser-genren – gru eller trøst?” in: Grønlands Kultur- og Samfundsforskning 02/03, Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat   -          2002c: ”Hjemvé som brik til en selvforståelse” in: Grønlands Kultur- og Samfundsforskning 00/01, Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat 2002.   -          2001: ”Nostalgia as a piece of a self-understanding – future settlement plans of 12-19 year old Greenlanders”, paper presented at The ICASS IV Congress (Inthernational Congress of Arctic Social Sciences), Quebec City, 16.-20. May, 2001)   -          1999a:  ”Medieprofil blandt 12-19 årige i Nuuk, Grønland – et pilotprojekt med fokus på videobrug og filmpræferencer” in: Christa Lykke Christensen (ed.): Børn, unge og medier – Nordiske forskningsperspektiver. NORDICOM, Göteborg.   -          1999b: ”A descriptive account of the media in Greenland”  in: Sami and Greenlandic Media. The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, University of Lapland; Rovaniemi.   -          1998a: ”Film genre preferences among adolescents in Nuuk according to age and language background”. ICASS III (International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences), Copenhagen, 21st - 23rd May 1998   -          1998b: ”Borgervenlig forvaltning og skriftlig/mundtlig erkendelse” in: Hanne Petersen & Jakob Janussen (eds.): Retsforhold og Samfund i Grønland. Ilisimatusarfik, Nuuk.   -          1997: ”Den ædle vilde som projekt” in: Grønlandsk Kultur- og Samfundsforskning 97. Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk     Collaborative contributions:   Birgit Kleist Pedersen & Jette Rygaard: -          2003a:”’De forbudte trin’ i forskning og undervisning. Overskridende metoder” in: Grønlands Kultur- og Samfundsforskning 2003, Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk. (in print)   -          2003: ”Grønlandske Unge mellem Tradition og Globalisering” in: Helena Helve (ed.): Ung i utkant. Aktuell forskning om glesbygdsungdomar i Norden. TemaNord no. 519, Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen.   -          2000:”Grasping the World Through Media”. Joint presentation at The International Forum of Researchers – Young People and the Media, 26th. –29th. November 2000, Sydney, Australia .   Jette Rygaard & Birgit Kleist Pedersen: -          2003/2004: ”Film-project: Theory & methodology – Comparative Reception and analysis on Heart of Light among 4 different groups of aboriginal adolescents”. Joint presentation at the IPSSAS Seminar, 1st June, 2002 in Nuuk, Greenland (Submitted to The IPSSAS Seminar Proceedings 2003)   -          2000: ”Feltarbejde, teori og metode – medieforskning i Grønland” in: Grønlandsk Kultur- og Samfundsforskning 98/99. Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk.   Compendiums:   Birgit Kleist Pedersen: -          2003: Filmhistorisk rå-oversigt – internationale film. Ilisimatusarfik (film historic outline on international movies), Nuuk -          2002: Grønlandske Ånder (collection of articles on the supernatural phenomenas in Greenland)   Joints projects/on-going projects: -          2004 -: Project: “Nordic – more than Scandinavian” on literature and other forms of art among the Nordic aborigines, new minorities, small language groups and contemporary immigrants (Sweden, Finland, Faeroe Islands, Denmark, Norway and Greenland)   -          2004 -: EU-Project: A handbook for trainers, who  train adults in visual literacy, based on a partner network in collaboration with Lichtenstein KunstSchule concerning different methodological approaches, cultural surrounding, learning situation and visual socialisation within the field of visual literacy   -          2004-: Project: Fascination of Decay – the theoretical, methodological and  aesthetic aspects of different forms of decay – in collaboration with Jette Rygaard   -          2003 -: English/Danish Greenlandic publication on CAM(era)/Diary project among 12-19-years-olds Greenlanders in collaboration with my collegue Jette Rygaard   -          2003 -: Cross-national survey on youth and media culture (Greenland, Canada, Sweden) – which is also a follow-up survey based on our survey from 1997.   -          1999-: Children and Youth Media Habits in Greenland in collaboration with Jette Rygaard   -          1999-: Children and Youth Media Culture from a reception perspective in collaboration with Jette Rygaard     Exhibitions based on projects:   Birgit Kleist Pedersen & Jette Rygaard: -          2001: Exhibition & Video performance of Australian photos from field work in Alices Springs, Australia: Culture Night at Ilisimatusarfik, January   Jette Rygaard & Birgit Kleist Pedersen: -          2001: Exhibition shot by children and youth in Sisimiut, Ittoqqortoormiit and Nuuk as part of the CAMera/DIary-project: Culture Night at Ilisimatusarfik January   Birgit Kleist Pedersen & Jette Rygaard: -          2001: Photo Exhibition shot by children and youth in Sisimiut, Ittoqqortoormiit and Nuuk as part of the CAMera/DIary-project: Sisimiut Museum September   Jette Rygaard & Birgit Kleist Pedersen: -          2001: Photo Exhibition shot by children and youth in Sisimiut, Ittoqqortoormiit & Nuuk as part of the CAMera/DIary-project: Ittoqqortoormiit Museum   -          2000: Postersession of the CAMera/DIary-project: Sydney Forum 2000, December, Sydney, Australien   Field work and scholarships:   -          2003: Scholarship stay at McGill University, Montréal, September -          2002: Scholarship stay in Paris, January -          2001: Fieldwork among young Samis (film reception project) in Kautokeino, Norway, October. -          2001: Fieldwork among young Greenlanders in Sisimiut and Ittoqqortoormiit (film reception project), September-October. -          2001: Fieldwork among young Inuit in Iqaluit (film reception project), Nunavut, Canada, May. -          2000: Fieldwork among young aboriginals in Alice Springs (film reception project), Australia, November-December. -          1997: Fieldwork among young Greenlanders (qualitative follow-up on survey 1997) in Qaqortoq, Sisimiut, Upernavik, Ittoqqortoormiit, Tasiilaq, September-December.   Networks:   -          2004-: Project ”Nordic – more than Scandinavian”, NORDBOK, Nordic Council of Ministers -          2004: EU-Project: A handbook for trainers, who  train adults in visual literacy, based on a partner network in collaboration with Lichtenstein KunstSchule, see www.kunstschule.li -          2004- : ’Postcolonialism in a Nordic perspective’- coordinator Piers Vitebsky, Scott-Polar Institute, Cambridge -          2002-2004: ”Arctic Youth Research Network” -          2002-: ”Nordic Network for Research in Consumer Culture”, see www.sam.sdu.dk/staff/abe -          2001-: Nordic network of research on children’s culture BIN (Børn i Norden), see http://www.bin-norden.net/ -          2001-: continuation of network collaboration with former members of BUM (Børn, Unge og Medier (chldren youth and media)), extended wit  Canadian participation, CYMQS (Children, Youth, Media Quantitative Survey) -          2000 -: Member of research group of the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLICA), see www.arcticliving.gl -          1999-2001: member of the  NorFa- financed BUM-network to its end