What lies beyond the media’s often quite stereotypical representations of Greenlandic history and it’s people? Join DIS faculty members, Birgitte Pallesen (with DIS since 2015) and Mette Jungersen (with DIS since 2008), for a unique chance to learn more about this unique & complex country’s history.
In over three centuries of literature, visual art, missionary records, and other forms of representation, the image of the Arctic as seen from Denmark has been shaped through the colonization of Greenland, officially dating back to 1721. If we look at how Greenland has been imagined and narrated from a Danish perspective, the rendering is generally characterized by stereotypes and ambivalent representations. The population has traditionally been portrayed as being both uncivilized, underdeveloped and in need of guidance – as well as idealized and romanticized, unspoiled, not yet corrupted by modernity.
In this edition of the DIS Artic Learning Series, we will seek not to define Greenland in a traditional (colonial) sense but to deconstruct the dominant Danish narratives around the snowclad country and listen to voices and knowledges coming from Kalaallit Nunaat, Greenland via contemporary art and photography.
Wednesday, March 12th join us at:
Eastern time zone: 1 pm
Central time zone: 12 am
Pacific time zone: 10 am
Central European time zone: 6 pm
The event will last approximately 1 hour.

Upperisarsiungaartilluta’/ Under i vores tro, 2020 by Greenlandic artist Ivínguak Stork Høeg