Employee photo: Leiv Heming Sem

Leiv Heming Sem

Professor
Faculty of Education and Arts
Study location
Levanger
Office
Levanger, C Nylåna 4.322
Areas of expertise
Discourse analysis, Identity, Language policy, Popular poetry, Folklore, Literature history, Memory culture, Norwegian literature, Norwegian language, South Saami history, Sami, War history, Cultural diversity, Cultural history, Museum, Sami history/indigenous studies

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education and Arts since 2012.

Head Curator at the Falstad Memorial and Human Rights Centre 2002-2005. Senior researcher at the same institution 2011-2012. PhD-scholarship at the University of Oslo 2006-09, and post doc-scholarship at the University museum of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology 2009-2011.

I got my PhD in cultural history at the University of Oslo 2009, with a thesis on the cultural memory of the Second World War in Norway.

My MA was in folkloristics, with a thesis on the history of the collection, editing and publishing of Norwegian folk poetry.

I teach Norwegian literature classes at both BA and MA level. I also teach classes in Norwegian language, mostly historical and socio-linguistic topics. As I am a folklorist / cultural historian by education I have also given MA courses and taught in identity politics, cultural history and museum management at Nord and other universities.

I currently am supervisor of two PhD students.
My research interest may be divided into three categories: The first one is history of Norwegian literature, and oral/folk poetry in particular.

The second main interest is the cultural memory of war, primarily but not exclusively the Second World War in Norway.

In recent years I have been involved in the history of the indigenous people of the region of Nord University: The South Saami.

I am leader of a research group at the faculty that focus on the cultural and didactical use and management of traumatic history.
2023
Sørsamisk minnekultur - prosjektpresentasjon 2023, Sem, Leiv Heming; Johansen, Inger; Hermanstrand, Håkon; Kolberg, Asbjørn
Bygdesamer fra kyst til kyst 2023, Voenesaemieh mearoste mearose: Hermanstrand, Håkon; Sem, Leiv Heming; Solsten, Ann-Kristin; Jåma, Elin Kristina; Norberg, Erik
Sami voices and forms of knowledge in public space 2023, Åberg, Ingvill Bjørnstad; Sem, Leiv Heming
2016
Standing Rock og Storheia – kamp om urfolks rettigheter 2016, Trønder-avisa: Kolberg, Asbjørn; Nilssen, Trond Risto; Sem, Leiv; Hermanstrand, Håkon
2012
Gravene i Falstadskogen 2012, Museumsutstilling: Sem, Leiv ; Karevold, Åshild; Hjort, Ingeborg Arntine Heitmann; Langås, Arne
2009
Debatten om Falstad 2009, Dagsavisen: Sem, Leiv Heming; Nilssen, Trond Risto; Hjort, Ingeborg Arntine Heitmann; Karevold, Åshild
Dialog om vår egen fortid 2009, Trønder-avisa: Sem, Leiv Heming; Nilssen, Trond Risto; Hjort, Ingeborg Arntine Heitmann; Karevold, Åshild
"Smertefull kulturarv" 2009, Spor: Volum 48 s. 40-43 Soleim, Marianne Neerland; Sem, Leiv Heming; Jasinski, Marek E.
Innherad tvangsarbeidsleir 1945-1949. Utstillingskatalog 2009, Sem, Leiv Heming; Nilssen, Trond Risto; Karevold, Åshild; Hjort, Ingeborg Arntine Heitmann
Doktoren svarer 2009, Sem, Leiv Heming
Avdekker vanskelige krigsminner 2009, Eivindsen, Tove; Jasinski, Marek E.; Soleim, Marianne Neerland; Sem, Leiv Heming; Stenvik, Lars Fredrik; Johansen, Arne B.