Inaugural Professor Lecture: Johan Ivar Sæbø

In this inaugural lecture, Professor Johan Ivar Sæbø will try to tie (!) together seemingly random currents of history in what in the end is mostly a reflection on and aspirations for his current and future teaching. With a fresh PhD title he visited NTNU in 2014 for a conference celebrating the 30th anniversary of Pinch and Bijkers “The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts”. Five years earlier someone had broken into a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History, running off with plastic bags filled with old dusty birds collected more than a century before. When the birds were collected by that almost-of-Darwin-fame Alfred Russel Wallace, rich gentlemen of England were descending on Norwegian rivers looking for gigantic salmon to lure with the latest fashion of rods, reels, and fishing flies. What, if anything, brings these events together? And what does this have to do with information systems and becoming a professor? Join us in what will hopefully be a rather silly lecture.