Postcolonising the NordicCrisis and Identities in the Nordic Countries
The First Workshop in the Series Crisis and Nordic Identities
February 2-3, 2012, University of Iceland,
Main workshop organizers: Kristín Loftsdóttir, University of Iceland and Lars Jensen, Roskilde University
Others associated with the project: Anne Hege Simonsen, Oslo University College, Anna Rastas, Tampere University; Tobias Hübinette Multicultural Centre and Södertörn University College, Inge Høst. Seiding, Ilisimatusarfik - University of Greenland
The workshop series is composed of three workshops held during the period 2011-2012, funded by NOS-HS.
The contemporary world seems increasingly to be seen as characterized by crisis. Crisis is often seen as a ‘rupture’ in how things are and should be, which ignores those facing ‘crisis’ on everyday basis globally and locally. Also, crisis can be seen as bringing to the surface aspects of competing basic value systems that normally are difficult to detect.
In the workshops, we focus on the relationship between identity and crisis, limiting our scope to identity in relation to financial crisis, environmental crisis and crisis of multiculturalism. We ask what notions of identities are expressed in discussions about crisis. How are notions of national identity expressed and are there other identities that are seen as particularly salient? Is national identity seen as relevant or important in discussions of these crises and what individuals are seen as belonging within the national body? Is the Nordic seen as composed by unified body or fragmented one? How is gender, racial identification and issues relating to class expressed in discourses of these crises?
In addressing these questions we seek papers from broad interdisciplinary perspectives from different fields within the social sciences and humanities. We stress that even though presentations are based on particular cases, they still have to attempt to make a broader analytical and theoretical contribution to deeper understanding of crisis and identity.
General information
The deadline for abstracts is September 15, 2009. Please submit your abstract (250 words) to kristinl@hi.is and hopeless@ruc.dk. At the top of the abstract, state your institutional affiliation and status if you are a student. Please make very clear how your paper addresses the theme of the workshop.
By October 1st, we will let you know whether the abstract has been accepted. Please state if you wish to get reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses. We will be able to accommodate a large part of the cost for limited number of participants, but some participants will have to fund their travel and accommodation.
After the end of the workshop, a selection of papers will be published in a specific volume. This volume will showcase the scholarship to a broader academic audience in the Nordic countries and beyond, and will also through a focus on the comparative seek to elaborate whether the Nordic countries in fact have a common history of self-perception, and a communal way of perceiving a Nordic way in the contemporary world of cultural exchange.
20. Arbeitstagung der deutschsprachigen Skandinavistik (ATDS)
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Lill-Ann Körber / Ebbe Volquardsen lill-ann.koerber@staff.hu-berlin.de
27.–30.9.2011, Universität Wien (Østrig) Konferencens hjemmeside http://www.univie.ac.at/atds Der bedes tilmeldes til konferencen inden den 26. april 2011 på konferencens hjemmeside. Forslag til oplæg bedes sendes direkte til workshopledelsen. Island i 1944 blev til republik, vandt landet samtidigt fuldstændig uafhængighed fra Danmark. Kun fire år efter, i 1948, indførtes der på Færøerne en vidtgående form for hjemmestyre, som for Grønlands vedkommende først blev til realitet i 2009. I denne workshop agter vi at beskæftige os med Danmarks tre forhenværende kolonier respektive bilande i Nordatlanten ud fra et transdisciplinært perspektiv. Mens de historiske politiske forbindelser med Danmark næppe spiller en rolle i samtidens offentlige diskurs i Island, synes refleksionen af afhængighedsforholdet fra tid til anden at få aktuel betydning på Færøerne. I Grønland er forhandlingen af landets særegne postkoloniale situation derimod næsten allestedsnærværende. Postkolonialisme skal her forstås både som perioden fra koloniseringens begyndelse og som samtlige fænomener, hvis karakter kan forklares ud fra en logik af magtforhold med udgangspunkt i kolonialtiden. Det gælder at drøfte, om undersøgelsen af emner som middelalderlige landnam og en selvforståelse, der konstrueres ud fra narrativer fra denne epoke, også kan bidrage til diskussionen. I denne workshop vil vi fokussere på de tre forskellige postkoloniale samfunds nutid, og samtidig inddrage det historiske perspektiv. Bidragene må både behandle landene hver for sig eller komparativt, og kunne f.eks. beskæftige sig med politik, historie, kultur, litteratur, kunst, film, medier og sprogpolitik. Således håber vi at kunne nærme os spørgsmål omkring nationsbygnings? og dekoloniseringsprocesser, identiteter og alteriteter og forhandlingen af etnicitet. Desuden vil vi gerne diskutere, om den danske selvforståelse som en særdeles human olonialmagt kan beskrives som en »dansk eksceptionalisme«. Fordragene og på engelsk. Link til online tilmeldelsesblanket: http://www.univie.ac.at/atds/#kategorie%3Danmeldung Decoding the Nordic Colonial Mind: The Third Workshop Venue: Oslo University College, house P48, room P472 October 13:
9.00–9.15: Welcome, introductions
9.15-10.45: Panel I
Anna Rastas: From “their identities” to “our (trans)national identity”
Lars Jensen: "The Danofication of the Postcolonial; a (r)evolving perspective"
10.45-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Panel II
Suvi Keskinen: Developing spaces for alternative narratives of Muslim women and gendered violence in the neoliberal Danish society
Serena Maurer & Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen: Images of Asmaa, Race and the production of Danishness
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00 panel III
Mai Palmberg: Small and beautiful?
Mikako Iwatake: Strong Finnish Women and Crying Karelian Women: Construction of Masculilnized Selfhood in a Woman-Friendly Welfare State
15.00-15.15: Coffee break
15.15-16.45: panel IV
Frida Buhre: Finding Neverland: Temporal Exclusions of Ethnic Minorities in Swedish Media
Anne Hege Simonsen: National gate keepers and transnational challenges: The Norwegian press and the Roma beggars
19.00: Dinner
October 14:
9.15-10.45: Panel discussion on Postcolonial Europe
Panel: Gaia Giuliani, Elsa Peralta, Paulo de Modeiros
10.45-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.00: Panel discussion part II
12.00-13.00: Lunch
13.00-14.30: panel V
Ulrik Pram Gad: Post-Imperial Sovereignty Games:
Nordic Micro-polities in the Margin of Europe Iver B. Neumann: The Struggle for the Norwegian Colonial Mind: Colonised vs Colonising
14.30-14.45 coffee break
14.45-16.15 panel VI
Lill-Ann Körber: The quiet (or loud?) diversity Julie Edel Hardenberg’s hybridity vision for a post-colonial Greenland
Kristín Lóftsdottir: "The Loss of Innocence: Icelandic Post-Colonial Identity and the Economic Crash"
Second Workshop on Decoding the Nordic Colonial Mind University of Iceland, May 4 - 5, 2010
Workshop title:
Nordic Colonial Legacy and Contemporary Immigration
Day one: May 4th, Oddi 206, University of Iceland
9:15 – 9:30 Opening address: Kristín Loftsdóttir
9:30 – 11:00 Colonial histories and presents
Jopi Nyman The Finnish Foreign Legion: Gender, Nation, and Colonial Space in Finnish Memoirs of the French Foreign Legion
Erlend Eidsvik, Pan-Nordic sentiments and the Nordic colonial legacy in South Africa
Linda Lund Pedersen, Translation and recognition of colonial history in the Nordic context
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.30 Representing selves and others I
Ylva Habel, Images of a Raceless Nation? Cinema, Visual Culture and the Black Presence in Sweden
Kimberly Cannady, Global North, Local North: Negotiating Nordic Identities at WOMEX
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14:30 Representing selves and others II
Mekonnen Tesfahuney, Closet History, Racism and the Swedish National Imagination
Kristín Loftsdóttir, Republishing the Negroboys: Whiteness and Identity in Iceland
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 – 16:00 Media representations
Marianne Stecher-Hansen, 'Danish Cartoons' and Representations of Islam
Anne Hege Simonsen, Sharing space - sharing time? Notes on the political geography of the Norwegian press
16:00—17:15 Reception and introduction of KULT and Kolonitid
19.30 Dinner
Day 2: May 5th, Oddi 206
9:30 – 10:30 Literary representations and mobility
Ebbe Volquardsen, Nuuk – Copenhagen, Copenhagen – Nuuk: Postcolonial Migration in Selected Danish and Greenlandic Novel
Katharina Schieferstein, Peripherical Mimicries, or The Fairy Tale King and his Little Indians
10:30-11:00 coffee
11:00-12:30 Mobility in a Global World I
Anna Rastas, What can we learn from the story of Finland's first Black citizen?
Serena Maurer and Kirsten Hvenegård-Lassen, Becoming Citizens: Ambivalent Danishness and the Immigrant Others
Ann-Sofie Gremaud, Where the storms of time never reached
12:30 -13:30 Lunch
13:00 -14:00 Mobility in a Global World II
Joel Kuortti, The Finnish Colonial Exercise: A Missionary Position?
Lene Bull Christiansen, The White Man's Burden: Celebrity narratives in Danish development aid
14:00 – 14:30 Concluding remarks: Lars Jensen, who during the workshop will collect arguments and points from the various sessions, will lead the discussion
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee and concluding discussion
Call for papers for the workshop Nordic Colonial Legacy and Contemporary Immigration
The Second Workshop in the Series Decoding the Nordic Colonial Mind
University of Iceland, May 4-5, 2010
Conference organizers: Kristín Loftsdóttir, University of Iceland, Lars Jensen, Roskilde University, Anne Hege Simonsen, Oslo University College and Mikela Lundahl, University of Gothenburg.
The workshop series Decoding the Nordic Colonial Mind is organized by the network The Nordic Colonial Mind directed by Lars Jensen and Kristín Loftsdóttir and funded by NOS-HS. It is composed of three workshops held during the period 2009-2010. The first workshop was held at Roskilde University, October 19-20, 2009.
Theme of the second workshop
This workshop aims to link together historically oriented research on the Nordic countries’ engagement in the colonial era with research on contemporary immigration. The workshop thus emphasizes various participations in global processes during the colonial era and how these can be brought into play with more contemporary orientated research that seeks to investigate Nordic self-perceptions in the wake of large-scale migration since World War II. How are contemporary forms of globalization derived from, and how do they differ from, earlier forms of colonialism and imperialism in the Nordic countries? In what ways do colonial legacies continue to inform current globalized practices, and how are they contested in the present? How does historical memory inform current patterns of immigration policies and practices in the present? The workshop aims at gaining a deeper understanding of the linking of the past and the present in terms of issues of diversity in the Nordic countries and how the colonial past is dealt with - or not.
First workshop on Decoding the Nordic Colonial Mind Roskilde University, October 19 and 20, 2009
Workshop title: Nordic Exceptionalism
Day one: October 19, Auditorium 15
11.00-11.30 Opening address of the workshop: Lars Jensen, ‘From Postcolonial Europe to Nordic Exceptionalism: Positioning the Nordic postcolonial moment’
11.30-12.30 Workshop 1:
Ulrik Pram Gad, "Muslims as security problem in Denmark. What threat? And what means for their aversion?"
Linda Lund Pedersen, ‘Regulation, Neutrality and Debates on Muslim Women’s Attires in Denmark’
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Workshop 3: Contemporary representations of the Nordic self and the idea of Nordic Exceptionalism
Anna Rastas, ‘Living “Our History” through “Finnish Exceptionalism”’
Tobias Hübinette, ’”Japanese, Japanese…”: Representations of East Asians in Swedish Contemporary Visual Culture’
Katharina Pohl, ‘On the Role of Development Aid in Constituting Norwegian and German Autostereotypes’
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-17.00 Workshop 2: Early 20th century representations of race and the national imaginary
Irene Molina, ‘Intersections of Race, Class, Sex and Space in Swedish Racial Hygienist Discourse’
Hanna Acke, ‘The Role of Foreign Mission in the Construction of Swedish Identity around 1900’
Finn Kudsk, ‘Agency and Destiny on the Ethnographic Frontier: The Notebooks of Selma Laman, a Swedish Missionary in the Lower Congo’
17.00 reception
17.30 Michelle Eistrup & Anders Juhl, NotAboutKarenBlixen is an art project, conceptualized by Michelle Eistrup, visual artist and Anders Juhl, music producer. The project involves 3 Danish and 3 Kenyan artists, and will be presented in 2010 at My World IMAGES festival in Denmark and at a Kenyan venue. The project seems to resonate with the concept of Nordic Exceptionalism. The project will be presented at its current stage at the workshop.
19.30 Dinner
Day 2: October 20, Teorirum 3.1.5
9.15-10.45 Workshop 4: Literary representations of the Nordic self in the South
Ashleigh Harris, ‘Nordic Whiteness and the South African Literary Imagination’
David Watson, ‘”What of Denmark’s Relationship to Nella Larsen?” Race and Exceptionalism in Quicksand’
Marianne Stecher-Hansen, ‘Ambivalent Colonialism and Karen Blixen’s “Sorte og Hvide i Afrika”’
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-13.00 Plenary (will open with presentation by Kristín Loftsdóttir (see below) and continue with discussion about the direction of future workshops)
Kristín Loftsdóttir, ‘Whiteness is from another world: Icelandic identities and entanglements of the past’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Workshop 5: North of the Nordic, and South of the South
Katarina Löbel and Lill-Ann Körber, ‘The Global North and its Others’
Jens Heinrich, ‘Greenland, Denmark the US and the Thule Air Base’ [provisional title]
Íris Ellenberger, "Continuity and change among Danish Immigrants in Iceland in the light of
Danish authority and Icelandic independence 1900-1970 " 15.30-16.00 summing up over coffee |
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