The closure was expected. Yet it was obvious how the community’s residents were suffering; Would the environments they grew up in be erased? Even the homes? This was not a community built on the idea of ”fly-in fly-out.” At most, there must have been close to a thousand people in Laisvall. In 1952, there were eleven nationalities here. Unlike Arjeplog, the main town 47 km away, this was a workplace and a community where ethnicities and ideas merged. Photo 2004 Maria Söderberg
Heritage in action: Legacies of industry in future making
The historical mines in Nasafjäll and Laisvall will be
some of the many themes of an international conference.
It will take place in Kiruna in August 2025.
I look forward to that!
The next TICCIH Congress will be held in the mining town Kiruna in northernmost Sweden, August 25 – 30, 2025. The title of the congress is “Heritage in action: Legacies of industry in future making” and will focus on tensions and controversies surrounding industrial heritage and its relation to wider tensions in present day society. Themes will range from issues regarding sustainability, inclusion and colonialism to future generations, popular culture and AI. The historical mines in Nasafjäll and Laisvall will be some of the many themes of an international conference.
The Nasa silver works in northern Sweden – results from Expedition Nasafjäll 2015-2023 Presenting author: Lena Berg Nilsson.
The women and the industrial cultural heritage at Nasafjäll, Arjeplog municipality
Presenting author: Maria Söderberg
Laisvall Lead Mine: ”Long live the mine!” An emotional goodbye at closure, a historical necessity. Presenting author: Maria Söderberg
The 19th TICCIH Congress in Kiruna is organized by Luleå University of Technology, a leading university in the European Arctic, and the TICCIH sections in Sweden and Norway, in collaboration with Jernkontoret, the Swedish National Heritage Board, LKAB, the municipality of Kiruna and a range of leading actors within industry and civil society in the Scandinavian north.
Maria Söderberg
More here: https://ticcih2025-kiruna.se/
From one of our many guided tours on Nasafjäll. Expedition Nasafjäll was a collaborative project during the years 2015–2023, with the aim of increasing knowledge about the mining environment and silver mining at The Nasa silver works during the 1600s to the early 1900s. The collaboration had three main focuses – public events, antiquarian documentation and analyses of the results. Photo Maria Söderberg