Wednesday 30. August

Welcome and Registration

10.30-11.30 Key note lecture

11.30-12.30
Gyan Prakash (Princeton): 'What is the post-colonial experience'

(12.30-13.15 Lunch)

13.15-15.45, Session I:
Colonialism between nostalgia and amnesia
Chair: Gunvor Simonsen

Juergen Zimmerer (Sheffield): 'Between amnesia and denial. Genocide, colonialism and German national identity'

Cecile Vidal (Université de Grenoble 2): 'The Reluctance of French Historians to Address Atlantic History'

Bambi Ceuppens (KU, Leuven)/Karel Arnaut (Gent): 'Colonial heritage in Flanders and Côte d’Ivoire: affirmations and contestations'

Espen Wæhle/Peter Tygesen (National Museum, Copenhagen): 'Traces of Congo – Challenges in developing a Nordic travelling exhibition on our forgotten contribution to the colonization of the Congo'

(15.45-16.15 Coffee Break)

16.15-18.15, Session II:
The post-colonial experience and tourism
Chair: Christina Ax

Karen Oslund (GHI, Washington): 'The North Begins Inside: The past as prologue in Icelandic tourist literature and travel narratives, 1944-'

Olöf Sigfusdottir (Reykjavik): 'The souvenir as cultural memory: African tourist art from pre-colonial times to post-colonialism'

Mille Gabriel (National Museum, Copenhagen): 'Self-representation and Repatriation as post-colonial phenomenon'

(18.30 Dinner)

Thursday 31. August

10.00-12.00, Session III:
The post-colonial experience and development aid
Chair: Niels Brimnes

Helge Pharo(Oslo): 'The norwegians are coming- Donor urgency and perceptions of the recipients in the indo-norwegian fisheries projekt 1952-72'

Sunniva Engh (Oslo): 'Scandinavian Development Aid and the Welfare State Utopia – a Folkhem for all?'

Annette Skovsted Hansen (Aarhus): 'Developing Memories: Japanese Development Assistance as Post-Colonial Experience'

(12-13 Lunch)

13.00-15.00, Session IV
Chair: Michael Harbsmeier
The Nordic case: Greenland between colonialism and post-colonialism

Jens Heinrich (Nuuk): 'Eske Brun – and the origins of the modern Greenland, 1932-64'

Kirsten Thisted (Copenhagen): 'Negotiating Greenlandic identity – Danish colonialism as seen from the perspective of Greenlandic literature'

Ulrik Pram Gad (Copenhagen): 'Post-Colonial Identity in Greenland? The Empire Dichotomizes Back'

(15.00-15.30 Coffee Break)

15.30-16.30, Discussion