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Bilde av Mittner, Lilli
Bilde av Mittner, Lilli
Førsteamanuensis Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning lilli.mittner@uit.no +4777660597 Tromsø Her finner du meg

Lilli Mittner


Stillingsbeskrivelse

Research interests

Ageing and Dementia
Coastal Cultures
Gender and Gender Equality
Historiography and Storytelling
Sound and Music

 

Expertise

Co-creativity
Citizen Science
Open Research
Research Communication
Research Ethics

 

Favourite quote

*It matters what thoughts think thoughts. It matters what knowledges know knowledges. It matters what relations relate relations. It matters what worlds world worlds. It matters what stories tell stories.*(Donna Haraway. Staying with the trouble, 2016, p. 35.)

 

What I do

I apply feminist theories to explore human thoughts, creations, and relations, and what it means to be human at all. I often use qualitative and arts-based research methods such as archival studies, content analysis, multimodal analysis, aesthetic analysis, diffractive analysis, discourse analysis, policy analysis, qualitative interviews, focus group interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and situated art intervention.

With a strong background within the arts & humanities, I have developed close collaborations with social and natural scientists working on artscience, natureculture, and human-more-than-human intra-actions. Theoretically, my work is inspired by feminist posthumanism and new materialism. Empirically, my research is increasingly connected to the Arctic where I have lived since 2014. Since 2023 I am coordinating the Centre for Arctic Humanities at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ.

Member

Selected Projects

Selected Publications

  • Lukić, Dragana and Lilli Mittner. 2023. Diffracting Dementia: Co-Creative Experiments with Agential Realism and Multisensoriality in a Residential Care Home in Northern Norway. In E. Just, M. Udén, V. Weetzel, & C. Åsberg (Eds.), Voices from Gender Studies: Negotiating the terms of academic production, epistemology, and the logics and contents of identity. Routledge.
  • Mittner, Lilli, and Rikke Gürgens Gjærum. 2022. Research Innovation: Advancing Arts-Based Research Methods to Make Sense of Micro-Moments Framed by Dementia. Nordic Journal of Art and Research 11 (1). .
  • Haselmann, Lena, Janke Klok, and Lilli Mittner. 2021. Autumn Talk and Ocean Songs. Dramatic Assemblage – Methods and Relevance of Performative Historiography. In: Musikgeschichte auf der Bühne - Performing Music History, edited by Anna Langenbruch, Daniel Samaga, and Clémence Schupp-Maurer, 375–98. transcript Verlag.
  • Mittner, Lilli. 2021. Resonating Moments: Exploring Socio-Material Connectivity through Artistic Encounters with People Living with Dementia. Dementia, 14713012211039816. .
  • Maxwell, Kate, Lilli Mittner, and Hanne Hammer Stien. 2020. Conceptualizing the North. Nordlit, nr. 46: 1–11.
  • Maxwell, Kate and Lilli Mittner. 2018. Multimodal Aesthetics and Gender in Beck’s Song Reader. In E. S. Tønnessen & F. Forsgren (Eds.), Multimodality and Aesthetics. Routledge.
  • Mittner, Lilli. 2018. "Students Can Have a Really Powerful Role…". Understanding Curriculum Transformation Within the Framework of Canon Critique and Critical Pedagogy. Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education (2)..

  • Anna Reetta Rönka, Britt-Inger Keisu, Sofia Kari, Kirsti Lempiäinen, Lena Abrahamsson, Lilli Mittner m.fl.:
    Intersectional Gender Equality Challenges – A Review of Gender Equality Research Conducted in Fennoscandian Arctic Academia
    NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 2025 /
  • Lise Karin Meling, Aud Torill Meland, Lilli Mittner :
    I see and hear things differently now : Students` experiences of the ERASMUS+ project voices of women
    Cappelen Damm Akademisk 2024 /
  • Ann Therese Lotherington, Lilli Mittner :
    Når diagnosen definerer problemet. En analyse av problemforståelser i Demensplan 2025
    Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning 2024 /
  • Karoline Dalby, Lilli Mittner, Rikke Gürgens Gjærum :
    Exploring consent as an aesthetic experience through applied theatre with people living with dementia
    Nordic Journal of Art & Research (A & R) 2024 /
  • Rikke Gürgens Gjærum, Lilli Mittner, Elina Maaria Talvikki Plucker, Ingrid Tranum Vélasquez :
    Art methodologies and social innovation: Experiences from art intervention in elderly care
    Nordic Journal of Art & Research (A & R) 2023 / /
  • Lilli Mittner :
    Gender balance
    Routledge 2023 /
  • Lilli Mittner, Lise Karin Meling, Sheila Kate Maxwell :
    Arts-based pathways for sustainable transformation towards a more equal world
    Nordic Journal of Art & Research (A & R) 2023 /
  • Lise Karin Meling, Petter Frost Fadnes, Lilli Mittner :
    Decolonizing higher education: Rationales and implementations from the subject of music history
    Cappelen Damm Akademisk 2023 /
  • Dragana Lukic, Lilli Mittner :
    Diffracting Dementia Co-creative Experiments with Agential Realism and Multisensoriality in a Residential Care Home in Northern Norway
    Routledge 2023 /
  • Lilli Mittner, Lena Haselmann, Janke Klok :
    Akademische Möglichkeitsräume im Spiegel kulturellen Handelns norwegischer Künstlerinnen. Praktische und theoretische Perspektiven zur Mobilität
    Verlag J. B. Metzler 2023
  • Rikke Gürgens Gjærum, Lilli Mittner :
    Research Innovation: Advancing Arts-based Research Methods to Make Sense of Micro-moments Framed by Dementia
    Nordic Journal of Art & Research (A & R) 03. oktober 2022 /
  • Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Lilli Mittner, Helene Sørvik Stavland, Anuradha Gayanath :
    Water and People. Questions from Journeys around Sri Lanka. NorLanka Blue publications: Tromsø/Matara. ISBN: 9788282662727
    ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ Norges arktiske universitet 2024
  • Lilli Mittner, Jorge Santos :
    Living with the Ocean. Communicating ArtScience. Arctic Frontiers. FRAM Talks. 28.01.2025
    2025
  • Lilli Mittner, Ana Luisa Sanchez Laws, Kate Maxwell :
    Environmental Humanities Perspectives on War and Peace - Arctic Frontiers Science Session on Environmental Impacts of War. Diplomacy, Education, And The Environmental Humanities (29.1.2025)
    2025
  • Lilli Mittner :
    Gender Balance. A Condition for Sustainable Transformation at the Arctic Six Universities? Gender Equality as a Diverse Phenomenon Online Arctic Six Course. Organised by UArctic Thematic Network on Gender in the Arctic Knowledge Production (11.2.2025)
    2025
  • Lilli Mittner :
    Citizen Science and Open Arts-Based Research into Aging and Dementia. Sustainable Health in Turbulent Times SDG Conference 2025, Bergen, Norway (5.2.2024)
    2025
  • Christoph Schneider, Marit Reigstad, Hanne Hammer Stien, KÃ¥re Aleksander GrundvÃ¥g, Marie-Theres Federhofer, Lilli Mittner :
    Side Event: The Arctic in the Anthropocene
    2024
  • Lilli Mittner, Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos :
    AI and plagiarism in our educational practice: what to value? Introduction and comments to the article Eaton, S. E. (2023). Postplagiarism: Transdisciplinary ethics and integrity in the age of artificial intelligence and neurotechnology. International Journal for Educational Integrity.
    2024
  • Zoheb Mashiur, Melania Borit, Marianna Osokina, Lilli Mittner, Andreia Conceição, Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos :
    Pasts and Futures of the Seas and Coasts: An Art-Based Educational Intervention
    2024
  • Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Lilli Mittner :
    ArtScience workshop with students at Ruhuna University, (December 2024) https://oceanpastfutures.weebly.com/artscience.html
    Norlanka Blue 2024
  • Lilli Mittner, Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos :
    Ocean Creations. Co-creative workshop with children and grandparents at Sesimbra Maritime Museum. https://oceancreations.weebly.com/
    Ocean Creations 2024
  • Lilli Mittner, Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Rikke Gürgens :
    FutureLab - join the time machine. Age-Exchange workshop. https://oceanpastfutures.weebly.com/age-exchange.html
    Artcic Arts Festival 2024
  • Lilli Mittner, Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Anna Gallon, Nord Vokal :
    Tiden er et skip som aldri kaster anker, Narvik, Sjømannskirke (14.9.2024)
    2024
  • Lilli Mittner, Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Anna Gallon, Nord Vokal :
    Tiden er et skip som aldri kaster anker, Harstad, Kulturhuset (14.9.2024)
    2024
  • Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Melania Borit, Zoheb Mashiur, Lilli Mittner, Andreia Conceicao, Rui Dias :
    Living With the Ocean: An Outdoor ArtScience Exhibition. Sesimbra Maritime Museum, Portugal (April 2024).
    Coastal Cultural Centre Exhibition - Street Gallery 2024 /
  • Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Lilli Mittner, Melania Borit, Zoheb Mashiur, Andreia Conceicao, Rui Dias :
    Living With the Ocean: An Outdoor ArtScience Exhibition. Arctic Arts Festival, Harstad, Norway (June - August 2024).
    Arctic Arts Festival (Festspillene) - Street Gallery 2024 /
  • Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Lilli Mittner :
    ArtScience Sri Lanka Film. 1280x720 162MB. Activities during the ArtSciences days of the project NorLanka Blue at the Ruhuna University, December 2024. Exhibition Living with the Oceans; Workshop ArtScience; Book launch - Water and People; Convocation 2024
    16. desember 2024 /
  • Lilli Mittner, Linn Kristin Novis :
    Ting & Tang. Pop-up utstilling.
    Mørketidsnatt 2024
  • Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Lilli Mittner, Melania Borit, Zoheb Mashiur, Andreia Conceicao, Rui Dias :
    Living With the Ocean: An ArtScience Exhibition. Les Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels, Belgium (October 2024).
    FLOW Co-Creation Event 2024 /
  • Lilli Mittner, Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Anna Gallon, Nord Vokal :
    Tiden er et skip som aldri kaster anker. Tromsø, Verdensteater (13.9.2024)
    2024
  • Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Lilli Mittner :
    First impressions... Photovoice exhibition for all exchange students at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ. Organized by CRAFT-lab and ArcHum at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ The Arctic University of Norway (October-November 2024).
    Polar Night 2024 / FULLTEKST
  • Lilli Mittner :
    Review Report For: Making a living moment more resonant: an exploration of the role of the artist in co-creative work with people living with dementia [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
    Wellcome Open Research 2024
  • Fredrik Nilsen, Lilli Mittner :
    Hvorfor og hvordan lytte til de(t) ukjente?
    2023
  • Lise Karin Meling, Lilli Mittner :
    Voices of Women: Educating Agents of Change
    2023
  • Lilli Mittner :
    Fokus på undervisning, samtale mellom Lilli Mittner og Beate Goldschmidt-Gjerlow om kontroversielle, emosjonelle og sensitive tema i undervisning
    2022
  • Lilli Mittner :
    Voicing, Listening & Understanding. Theoretical Framework of VOW
    2022
  • Lilli Mittner, Matthias Mittner :
    Balancinator
    2022 /
  • Lilli Mittner, Kristin Aukland :
    Er likestilling i forskning ferdig nå? Forskningsrådets likestillingsprogram Balanse feirer ti år. Hva har det ført til, og hva har oppstått i kjølvannet av programmet?
    24. november 2022 /
  • Lilli Mittner :
    Transformation in transformative research
    2022
  • Lilli Mittner, Matthias Mittner :
    Balancinator. A tool to Visualize, Measure and Monitor Gender Balance
    2022
  • Lilli Mittner, Anne-Lise Sollied :
    Vocing and Listening to Voices of Women
    2022
  • Lilli Mittner :
    Situated art intervention as an arts-based research method in dementia research
    2022
  • Lilli Mittner, Ann Therese Lotherington :
    Situating arts-based research with people living with dementia
    2022
  • Lilli Mittner :
    Pioneering Creative Care. Anne Basting about how to engage meaningfully with people living with dementia.
    DRAMA : Nordisk dramapedagogisk tidsskrift 2022
  • Lilli Mittner :
    Balance Hub at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
    2022
  • Janke Klok, Lena Haselmann, Lilli Mittner, Friederike Wildschütz, Zsuzsa Zseni :
    Indian Summer in Groningen (Betsy Bakker-Nort meets Betsy Dornay-Culp and Jenny Altman-Fleischer)
    2022
  • Janke Klok, Lilli Mittner :
    Autumn Talk at the Captain’s table – Excerpts from a Dramatic Assemblage (Betsy Bakker-Nort meets Kirsten Helliesen Iversen )
    2022
  • Lilli Mittner, Malin Rönnblom, Ann Therese Lotherington :
    How researchers think about research leadership. Preliminary results from a focus group study with early career and senior researchers at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ
    2022
  • Lilli Mittner :
    Balancinator for Organizations: an open-access resource for monitoring gender balance
    2022
  • Lilli Mittner, Matthias Mittner :
    BalanceXplorer
    2022 /



  • Forskningsinteresser

    Ageing and Dementia
    Coastal Cultures
    Gender and Gender Equality
    Historiography and Storytelling
    Sound and Music

     

    Expertise

    Co-creativity
    Citizen Science
    Open Research
    Research Communication
    Research Ethics

    What I do

    I apply feminist theories to explore human thoughts, creations, and relations, and what it means to be human at all. I often use qualitative and arts-based research methods such as archival studies, content analysis, multimodal analysis, aesthetic analysis, diffractive analysis, discourse analysis, policy analysis, qualitative interviews, focus group interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and situated art intervention.

    With a strong background within the arts & humanities, I have developed close collaborations with social and natural scientists working on artscience, natureculture, and human-more-than-human intra-actions. Theoretically, my work is inspired by feminist posthumanism and new materialism. Empirically, my research is increasingly connected to the Arctic where I have lived since 2014.

    Undervisning

    Vår 2025:

    Online Course - (UArctic)

    Vår 2023:

    HIF-2160 Tverrfaglige kjønnsstudier (Emneansvar)

    Høst 2022

    SVH-8002 ‘Research Communication’

    Vår 2022

    SVH-8002 ‘Research Communication’




    CV

    Since 2023 Associate Professor, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ

    2021-2023 Senior Researcher, ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ

    2017-2021 Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Women’s and Gender Research at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ

    2015-2017 Researcher, Academy of Music at ÐÒÔË´óתÅÌ

    2009-2014 PhD candidate at University of Music, Drama and Media in Hanover, Research Centre for Music and Gender

    2004-2005 ERASMUS student, University of Oslo

    2002-2008 Dual magister in Musicology and Media and Communication Studies, University of Göttingen

    2002 Abitur, Alexander-von-Humboldt Gymnasium Eberswalde

    1983 born in Leipzig