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
10:40 Kirsten Thisted (UCPH) Narrative Reconciliation: Unfreezing the Danish–Greenlandic Colonial Past
11:20 Coffee Break
11:35 Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (UCPH) Presentation of ‘Women in the Nordic Enlightenment’.
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Erik Sporon-Fiedler (UCPH) Imagining the Nordic: Remarks on the Role of Religion
13:40 Martina Reuter (Jyväskylä) The case of Finland: The multi-faceted roles of margins within Women’s Nordic Enlightenment
14:20 Coffee break
14:50 Robert Rix & Lasse Kræmmer (UCPH) Constructing the North: Lady Jane Wilde and the Origins of Nordic Exceptionalism
15:30 General Discussion of the meaning of ‘The Nordic’
18:00 Dinner (speakers only) at Donna, Vester Voldgade 25