Administration

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Anita Munch Kulset

County Library Manager Nordland County Library

Project owner for the Hospitality Symposium. She also participates in the Via Querinissima general assembly, of which Nordland County Library is a member.

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Marit Laland

Advisor Nordland County Library

Project Manager Nordland International Hospitality Symposium

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Silver Riise

Special Advisor Nordland County Library

Working with the practical implementation of the symposium, following up on participants, from registration to logistics, including transportation to and from Røst , and between the different arenas.

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Ane Haugen Gussiaas

Advisor Nordland County Library

Working with programming the symposium and contacting speakers.

She is also responsible for a map exhibition that is being created in collaboration with the symposium.

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Veronica Iren Kroka

Accounting consultant, Nordland County Library

Interdisciplinary working group

Hildegunn Pettersen

Host for your stay at Røst , where she will be responsible for organizing all the activities on Røst from your arrival to your departure. Hildegunn is an opera singer and artist who has chosen to move back to her childhood island, after many years in the capital, and she will be found on stage, where she has specialized in communicating local history through song and music.

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Ole Martin Andreassen

Works as a producer at Musikk i Nordland.

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Lill Charlotte Sætren Trondsgård

Advisor and network coordinator for visual arts. Art and cultural development group.

Contact with speakers related to the field of visual arts, as well as follow-up, practical arrangements and coordination of the artworks included in the symposium.

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Goran Raade-Andersen

Public health and community development group in Nordland County Municipality

Reference group

Stefano Agnoletto

Stefano Agnoletto is a historian and economist with two doctorates from the IUN University in Naples and Kingston University in London. He has worked as a researcher, coordinator and lecturer at academic institutions as well as public and private organizations in Europe and North America, and has published over a hundred scientific articles and several monographs. Since 2022, he has been the project manager for Nordland County Municipality in the Via Querinissima project, as well as the chair of the scientific committee and a member of the international secretariat of the Via Querinissima International Association.

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Marzia Liuzza

Doctoral fellow

Doctoral fellow in historical, geographical and anthropological studies at the University of Padova and Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Reference group

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Photo: Ove Aalo

Christian Torset

Philosopher

Group leader for SV in the Nordland County Council. Former County Councilor for Culture with responsibility for Via Querenissima.

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Elin Golten

Head of library development in Vestland County Municipality. She has a Ph.D in library and information science from OsloMet. The topic of her thesis is public libraries as social and democratic arenas in a digital age. Elin is a member of the Public Library Section of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), where she participates in a group that works on public libraries and democracy in a global perspective.

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Steinar Aas

Professor of modern history.

Has worked on a number of topics within northern Norwegian history. Has written the history of Narvik for the period 1890 - 1950 and the history of Bodø for the same period. He has also worked on a number of topics related to the rise of the labor movement, identity production, regionalism, press history and memory politics and the use of history.