My name is Tonje Haugland Sørensen, and I am currently attached to the department as a postdoctoral fellow. My project, tentatively named Overview - the art of the aerial concerns itself with the aerial perspective in a broad cultural context, but with a particular focus on perception and the visual in modern warfare. I work within the fields of Art and Visual Culture, with a particular focus on the reception of History and Historiography. My PhD, The Second World War in Norwegian film : the topography of remembrance concerned itself with Norwegian cinematic productions about WW2. An important part of my work and interests relates to Norwegian and German art in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.  

Exhibition catalogue

• Line Daatland; Torunn Myrva; Inger Margrethe Lund Gudmundson et al. (2018). J.C. Dahl: Naturens kraft. (external link)
• Peder Valle; Mathias Danbolt; Tonje Haugland Sørensen et al. (2025). Nordmandsdalen: Kunst, makt og materialer i 1700-tallets Danmark-Norge. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Inger Margrethe Lund Gudmundson; Monica Grini; Gry Hedin et al. (2025). Curating the Anthropocene. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2014). “The Mosaics in the Apse: Friedenskirche and the construction of a desired past”. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2014). “Haunted topographies-landscape photography as an act of remembrance in the Neues Museum”. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2016). Memory, Mosaics and the Monarch: The Neo-Byzantine Mosaics an the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2023). A Villa for the World: Prefabricated Houses, National Romanticism and Norwegian Colonial Entanglement.. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2012). The Sanctified Fallen: The War Film as Witness. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2021). Slindebirken – en nasjonal relikvie. (external link)

Exhibition production

• Morten Spjøtvold; Helene Engnes Birkeli; Tonje Haugland Sørensen et al. (2025). Nordmandsdalen: Kunst, makt og materialer i 1700-tallets Danmark-Norge. (external link)

Academic article

• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2019). Proudly Peripheral. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen; Tove Kårstad Haugsbø (2014). "Reiseskisser fra Norge i det nittende Aarhundrede.". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2018). The Trails of Memory?Remembering the Heavy Water Raid in Norway. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2008). "At vort Land var et selvstændig Rige". Rekonstruksjonen av Håkonshallen i Bergen. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2011). Norsk krigsfilm og det erindringsteoretiske perspektiv: Tilfellet Kalde Spor. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2012). ”…DISSE GUTTA SOM SELV LIKSOM HAR VOKST OPP AV LANDSKAPET.” – ARNE SKOUEN OG HANS OKKUPASJONSDRAMAER. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2014). Visualitet og nasjonal identitet i bokverket “Norge i det Nittende Aarhundrede”. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2012). “You Must Wake Up”: The Memory of the Scorched Earth in Norwegian films. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2006). "Religion og kulturelt minne". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2013). Erindringens topografi – Arne Skouen og krigen på film. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2009). "Visualizing the Fallen: the re-creation of the War Memorial in the Digital age.". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2008). "Tre perspektiver på Bysants". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2008). "Barbarossa Awakwes - monuments and civic religion in Wilhwlmine Germany.". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2009). "Iraqmemorial.org – Digital War Memorials and the Expanded Memorial Field". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2011). "The Role of the Mosaic in 19th-Century Germany - Constructing an imperial memory of Byzantium.". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2011). "Of Silence and Remembrance: Knut Erik Jensen's Film Stella Polaris as re-telling, re-remembering of the Second World War.". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2009). "Remembrance and Truth? - Heroes of Telemark and The Battle for the Heavy Water". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2006). The Creation of a visual memory culture in Germany through monuments. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2017). Alteration as preservation? The stave church as a museum object. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2019). From Theotokos to Theodora: the Gendered Reception of Byzantium. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2010). Krigsminneproduksjon. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2010). Remembering a Different Norway - re-enactment and commemoration in the Norwegian war film. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2007). The visualisation of Religion in Wilhelmine Germany. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2010). Creating a Visual Representation of the Past. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2010). Authenticity, mimesis and memoria - visuality and re-enactment Occupation Dramas. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2020). Far North in the woods – the forest as a place of mysticism and spirituality in the works of Theodor Kittelsen. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2021). Destruction of a sacrosanct past - iconoclasm in the World Wars. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2018). Gerhard Munthe and the transnational dynamics of Norwegian national art. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2017). Visions and Dreams – Gerhard Munthe and the Draumkvedet (the Dream Lady). (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2022). A Villa for the World: Prefabricated Houses and National Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century Norway. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2021). Emancipated Troll’s- Theodor Kittelsen from a class perspective. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen; MaryClaire Pappas (2022). session: Critical Explorations of Nordic Art and Vitalism. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen; Tove Kårstad Haugsbø (2015). Meaningless landscape: From national roots to transnational routes. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2016). From Antique Craft to Modern Ideology: Mosaics as public art. (external link)

Journal review

• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2014). “Historical Film: a critical introduction.". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2014). “Et skår i fjellet”. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2010). Ameldelse av Siri Meyer: "Hva er et bilde". (external link)

Popular science article

• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2009). «- Tårene rant da Kongen så Max Manus». (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2006). Barbablanca og Barbarossa. (external link)

Lecture

• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2015). «Det står Skrækk av Navnet» - Dokumentarserien Finnmark mellom øst og vest og kampen mot stereotypiene. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2016). Kongens nei. Symbolkraft og Haakon VIIs rolle under og etter andre verdenskrig. (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2020). François Hartogs "Regimes of Historicity". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2022). "Vi vil leve". (external link)
• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2017). Det norske okkupasjonsdramaet som filmsjanger. (external link)

Media feature article

• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2015). Sterke meninger om Krigen som film. (external link)

Media interview

• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2015). Norgesglasset: – Todelt utfordring å lage krigsfilm. (external link)

Professional article

• Tonje Haugland Sørensen (2017). Fontenen med det gyldne taket : Historisme og modernitet i Tyskland og det Ottomanske rike c. 1900. (external link)

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