Stilling: MA, Associate Professor
Uddannelse: Cand.Mag.
Institution: Ilisimatusarfik/Grønlands Universitet, Inst.f. Grønlandsk Sprog, Litteratur og Medier
Adresse: Ilisimatusarfik, Postboks 1061, 3900 Nuuk, Grønland
Tlf: +299 36 24 00
Email: bipe@remove-this.slm.uni.gl

Faglig præsentation

Hovedfag i grønlandsk sprog og litteratur fra Grønlands Universitet og suppleringsfag i film- og medievidenskab fra Københavns Universitet. Har siden 1996 forsket i børn og unges medievaner og -kultur i Grønland i samarbejde med min kollega Jette Rygaard. Udover børn, unge og medier har jeg særlige interesser inden for skriftlig versus mundtlig kultur i bred forstand.

Formidling

- 2007: ”Gysets anatomi - børn og unges behov for skrækfortællinger” in: Grønlandsk Kultur- & Samfundsforskning 06/07. Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat

- 2006a: “A Narrative on narratives in contemporary Greenland” (key-note speech at 15th Inuit Studies Conference, 26.-28. October, Orality in the XXIst Century: Inuit discourse and practices, Musée du quai Branly, Paris – Proceedings, in print)

- 2006b: “Children and orality – selfreported body  & emotional experiences with horror stories” (session presentation at The 15th International Inuit Studies Conference: 26.-28. October, Orality in the XXIst Century: Inuit discourse and practices, Musée du quai Branly, Paris – Proceedings, in print)

- 2005a:” Inuusuttut akisunnerat – unges ‘frembrud’ i det anonyme rum” [Inuusutut akisunnerat – ’reflections’ from youth in the anonymous space] in: Grønlandsk Kultur- & Samfundsforskning 04/05. Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat

- 2005c: ” Young Greenlandic writers in the public versus the anonymous space”  in: Jenny Fossum Grønn (red.): Nordic Voices, NORBOK., Oslo.

- 2004a: ”Unge og litteratur – 25 år efter”[Adolescents and Literature – after 25 Years] in: Birgitte Jacobsen et alii (eds.):Grønlænder og Global – grønlandsk sprog, litteratur og medier i 25-året for Hjemmestyrets indførelse. Ilisimatusarfik, Nuuk

- 2004c: ”Young Greenlanders in the Urban Space” (paper presentation at American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2004, 17th-21st November, Berkeley. (submitted for peer review)

- 2003: ”Filmens indtog i Grønland” [The entering of Cinema to Greenland] 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?” [The Horror Genre – Horror or Consolation?] in: Grønlands Kultur- og Samfundsforskning 02/03, Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat

- 2002c: ”Hjemvé som brik til en selvforståelse” [Nostalgia as a piece of a self-understanding] 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” [Media Profile of 12-19-year-olds – a pilot project focusing on  VCR concumption and film preferences] 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” [Positive civil service in the light of literary versus oral recognition] in: Hanne Petersen & Jakob Janussen (eds.): Retsforhold og Samfund i Grønland. Ilisimatusarfik, Nuuk.

- 1997: ”Den ædle vilde som projekt” [ The Noble Savage (in Greenlandic Literature) as a Project] 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” [The forbidden steps in research and teaching. Transgressive methods] in: Grønlands Kultur- og Samfundsforskning 2003, Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk.

- 2003: ”Grønlandske Unge mellem Tradition og Globalisering” [Young Greenlanders between Tradition and Globalizarion]  in: Helena Helve (ed.): Ung i utkant. Aktuell forskning om glesbygdsungdomar i Norden. TemaNord no. 519, Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen.

Jette Rygaard & Birgit Kleist Pedersen:

- 2007: “Identities of Young People in Greenland in the Space between the local and the global” (joint presentation with Jette Rygaard at the ESA Conference on Youth, Globalization and Migration –Local Diversity in Transition’, Smolenice Castle, Slovakia.  19.-22. January

- 2004: ”Analysis of Heart of Light – as a minor part of reception of films with national/international content from aboriginal informants from Greenland, Australia, Canada and Norway” i: Michèle Therrien (red.): Dynamics and shifting Perspectives. Arctic Societies and Research. Proceedings of the First IPSSAS Seminar, Nuuk 2002. Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland.

- 2000: ”Feltarbejde, teori og metode – medieforskning i Grønland” [Field Work, Theory and Methods – Media Research in Greenland] in: Grønlandsk Kultur- og Samfundsforskning 98/99. Ilisimatusarfik/Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk.

Exhibitions based on projects

Birgit Kleist Pedersen & Jette Rygaard:
- 2001: Exhibition & Video performance of Australian photos from field work in Alice 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

- 2001: Photo Exhibition shot by children and youth in Sisimiut, Ittoqqortoormiit and Nuuk as part of the CAMera/DIary-project: Sisimiut Museum September

- 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.