Rethinking the Nordic: Conceptual Approaches and Women at the Margins

In this workshop, we focus on how to approach ‘the Nordic’ in historical research in a critical manner.

We seek, therefore, to answer the question “What does it mean to study the Nordic?”  to better understand how ‘the North’ is conceptualised, imagined, and remembered. A second part of the workshop focuses on women at the margins of the geographical North, most importantly, the colonised area of Greenland.

The workshop is open to researchers and students. To attend, please register by emailing martinarndal@hum.ku.dk.

Programme

09:30 Coffee
09:45 Martin Fog Arndal (UCPH) Welcome (University of Copenhagen)
10:00 Martin Fog Arndal (UCPH) Arnarsaq and the Christianization of Women in Greenland
10:30 Kirsten Thisted (UCPH) Narrative Reconciliation: Unfreezing the Danish–Greenlandic Colonial Past
11:00 Coffee Break
11:15 Mads Kildegaard Thalbitzer (UCPH) TBA
11:45 Lunch
13:00 Martina Reuter (Jyväskylä) TBA
13:30 Robert Rix & Lasse Kræmmer (UCPH) Constructing the North: Lady Jane Wilde and the Origins of Nordic Exceptionalism
14:15 Coffee break
14:45 Jens-Bjerring Hansen (UCPH) TBA
15:15 Torben Jelsbak (UCPH) TBA
15:45 General Discussion of the meaning of ‘The Nordic’