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Artica Svalbard

ART IS PRESENT WHEREVER IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ARE BEING ASKED. SVALBARD IS SUCH A PLACE IN OUR TIME.

Episodes

  1. Sanaa Aoun in conversation with Longyearbyen Parish priest, Siv S. Limstrand

    06/22/2021

    Sanaa Aoun in conversation with Longyearbyen Parish priest, Siv S. Limstrand

    We are pleased to share a new podcast episode recorded with current resident Sanaa Aoun. Sanaa was joined in conversation with Longyearbyen Parish priest, Siv S. Limstrand and translator Rim Ibrahim. Their discussion covers Sanaa’s work, her time in Norway as a Free City author from Damascus, Syria and her experiences of Longyearbyen.  Sanaa also shares readings from her recent work in Arabic. The podcast is in Norwegian and translated by Rim Ibrahim Siv S. Limstrand, Parish priest on Svalbard since 2019. Siv previously worked at the Lutheran World Federation in Geneve, she was a student priest at NTNU and HiST in Trondheim for several years, working with people affected by HIV/AIDS in mid-Norway. Limstrand also worked as a Street priest for the Church City Mission in Trondheim and was responsible for Our Lady’s church - the Trondheim city open care church. For Siv Svalbard is a point of extension - in life and geographically. Located on top of the world, connected, but far away. A place that gives views and perspective, meaning and challenges, that invites new joys and exploration of the fearsome.  Sanaa Aoun is an author and teacher from Damascus, Syria and came to Tromsø, Norway as a free city author in 2016. Aoun has published two collections of short stories in Arabic, Red Lifelines (2007) and To Where the Compass Points (2018), and continues to be a regular contributor to Arabic online newspapers. In Norwegian, her texts have been published in Klassekampen and in the anthology For Folk Flest (2017). In June 2018, her monologue A Half Woman was performed at Hålogaland Theater. Several of her texts have been translated into English and German.  Sanaa Aoun was nominated by Norsk Pen for a residency at Artica in June 2021.

    29 min
  2. Trenger vi en mer åpen debatt om utfordringer og dilemmaer i norsk sikkerhetspolitikk?

    11/01/2018

    Trenger vi en mer åpen debatt om utfordringer og dilemmaer i norsk sikkerhetspolitikk?

    Artica Svalbards Key Partner Norsk PEN er opptatt av åpenhet og ytringskultur. En bekymring som ligger til grunn for dette arrangementet er at norske politikere viker unna for å diskutere endring i sikkerhetspolitikken på en åpen og ærlig måte. Innebærer såkalte rullerende systemer med tropper på norsk jord i praksis en endring av norsk basepolitikk? Hvor involvert er norsk etterretning i USAs geopolitiske strategi? Bård Wormdals bøker Satelittkrigen og Spionbasen illustrerer disse spørsmålene på en god måte og vil bli gjenstand for debatt. Wormdal hevder i sine bøker at norsk offentlighet har blitt ført bak lyset om hvilken sentral rolle satelittnedlastningsstasjonen på Svalbard og radaranlegget i Vardø spiller i USAs etterretning. Varsleren Edward Snowden har avslørt at Wormdal har noen gode poenger. Dette og mange andre viktige spørsmål vil bli belyst på debattmøte. English: Do we need a more open debate about the challenges and dilemmas created by Norwegian security policy? Artica Svalbard´s Key Partner Norwegian PEN believes strongly in transparency and a culture of free speech. One of the concerns that provides the backdrop to this event is that Norwegian politicians are reluctant to discuss changes to security policy openly and honestly. Do so-called rotational deployments of troops on Norwegian soil in practice represent a change to Norwegian policy on foreign military bases? How strongly involved is the Norwegian Intelligence Service in the United States’ geopolitical strategy? Bård Wormdal’s books The Satellite War and Spy Base, which highlight these issues well, will be discussed. In his books, Wormdal claims that the Norwegian public has been deceived about how important the Svalbard Satellite Station and the radar station in Vardø are to US intelligence activities. The revelations of the whistleblower Edward Snowden show that Wormdal makes some good points. This issue is one of many important questions that our debate will put the spotlight on.

    1h 55m

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ART IS PRESENT WHEREVER IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ARE BEING ASKED. SVALBARD IS SUCH A PLACE IN OUR TIME.