Conference Program
Wednesday 22 May
Opening Ceremony & Key Note Lecture
Venue: Veröld (V)
| 11:00–13:30 | Registration | Veröld |
| 13:30–14:00 | Welcome Remarks: Irma Erlingsdóttir,Director of the EDDA Research Center Network Overview: Peter G. Stadius, Project Leader of ReNEW | V–Auditorium |
| 14:00–15:00 | Keynote Lecture Julia Suárez-Krabbe (Roskilde University) Chair: Giti Chandra (University of Iceland) Human Rights, Development and Coloniality: A Global Outlook | V–Auditorium |
| 15:00–15:15 | Coffe Break | Veröld |
Parallel Sessions 1: 15:30–17:00
| Book Panel (V–Auditorium) Cooperation and Confrontation: Nordic Experiences of Civil Society since 1800 Chair: Ruth Hemstad (National Library of Norway and the University of Oslo) Sunniva Engh (University of Oslo), Ruth Hemstad (National Library of Norway and the University of Oslo), and Mads Mordhorst (Copenhagen Business School) Editorsʼ Introduction Margrét Gunnarsdóttir (National Archive of Iceland) Ideas of Enlightenment vs. Old Norse Heritage: Experiences of Civil Society in Iceland during the First Decades of the 19th Century Peter Stadius (University of Helsinki) State Civil Servants and Voluntary Nordic Cooperation: The Nordic Federation of Public Administration, 1919−1952 Mads Mordhorst (Copenhagen Business School) Hybridity and Blurred Borders between Market and Civil Society: The Case of Danish Cooperatives, Savings Banks, and Corporations Sunniva Engh (University of Oslo) The Scandinavian Red Cross Societies in the Nordic Countries and Beyond Comments: Norbert Götz (Södertörn University) | 1a (V-007) Cultural Influence and Popular Geopolitics: The Role of Media, Sport, and Other “Non-Traditional” Diplomatic Actors in Informing Northern European and International Order Chair: Vitaly Kazakov (University of Iceland) Rósa Magnúsdóttir (University of Iceland) Cultural Relations and the Russo-Ukrainian War: Cases from the United States and Iceland Vitaly Kazakov (University of Iceland) Sports Mega-Events and their Political Memory: Political Significances of France 2016, Russia 2018, and Pan-European 2020 Football Championships as Recalled by Icelanders J Simon Rofe (University of Leeds) Utilisation of the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games as a Tool of Sports Diplomacy and Its Political Significance Balazs Ujvari (European Commission) Media Engagement and Public Awareness of Humanitarian Crises and Civil Protection Measures: A Practitioner’s Experience | Roundtable (V-008) First Results: Citizens’ Perspectives on Four Grand Societal Challenges in Four Nordic Countries, the United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, Poland, and Germany Moderators: Caroline de la Porte and Zhen Im (Copenhagen Business School) Commentators: Irma Erlingsdóttir (University of Iceland) Mary Hilson (Aarhus University) Johan Strang (University of Helsinki) |
Thursdau 23 May
Venue: Veröld (V) and Háskólatorg (HT)
Parallel Sessions 9:00–10:30
| 2a (HT–103) Radical Activism in Theory and Praxis Chair: Johan Strang (University of Helsinki) Mikael Lyngaas (University of Oslo) Scandinavian-American Socialism, 1880–1920 Pontus Järvstad (University of Iceland) Nordic Anti-fascism Against the Greek Junta (1967–1974): Norwegian Attempts to Unify the Greek Democratic Opposition Armando Garcia (University of Iceland) Friends of Humanity in the X-Men 97’ The Animated Series (2024): An Allegory of Global White Supremacy, Racialized Subjects, and Hidden Transcripts Jeremias Schledorn (University of Iceland) Not about Facts but Emotions? Political Polarization as a Problem of Redescription | 2b (HR–101) Gender and Sexual Exceptionalism in Norden Chair: Ulla Manns (Södertörn University) Elena Lindholm (Umeå University) The Myth of Nordic Women’s Sexual Exceptionalism in 20th Century Spain Anna Bark Persson (Umeå University) Exceptional Masculinities: The Viking Figure in Popular Media Kirill Polkov (Södertörn University) Swedish Sexual Exceptionalism and the Russian Other Ulla Manns (Södertörn University) Gender Exceptionalism and the Memory of Women’s Suffrage in Sweden | 2c (HT–104) Framing Social Identities: Refugees, and LGBTQ Rights Chair: Linda Sólveigar- og Guðmunds (University of Iceland) Tuire Liimatainen (Migration Institute of Finland) Nation within and beyond: Constructing Diaspora and National in the Finnish Diaspora Policy Oksana Pchapska (Polish Academy of Science) Refugee Narratives: Manipulation, Media, and the Dynamics of Information Warfare in Contemporary Conflict Zones Katharina Kehl (Lund University) A Rainbow Flag Worth Defending? LGBTQ Rights and the Re-Territorialization of Swedish Defense Giti Chandra (University of Iceland) “Let’s Meet over Coffee in the Boksala”: Mapping Decoloniality at the University of Iceland |