Globalizing Scandinavia - Negotiating the welfare state

Three-day seminar aims to focus on the cultural exchange between Scandinavia and the outside world in the twentieth century. The research agenda behind the seminar is to provide insight into the cultural consequences of globalisation in the region in the twentieth century and in the dynamic between economic and cultural globalisation.

The seminar is arranged by the Georg Brandes School (Research school at the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics). All are welcome.

Register at the Georg Brandes School website

Programme:

Monday 24 September

9:00-9:15: Welcome and presentation

9:15-11:00: Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, PhD, Post.Doc. at the University of Copenhagen, Editor of the periodical Kritik: "The Poetics of the Scandinavian Welfare State"

11:15-13:00: Niels Finn Christiansen, Associate Professor, Dr. Phil. at the University of Copenhagen: "Scandinavia as Utopia and Dystopia"

14:15-16:00pm: Henrik Marstal, PhD (University of Copenhagen), Author, Musician: "With A Little Help From My Friends: Danish rock music between national and global agendas"

Tuesday 25 September

9:15-11:00: Drude Dahlerup, Professor at The Department of Political Science, Stockholm University: "Scandinavian Feminism"

11:15-13:00: Theory Workshop: Theorizing the Scandinavian Welfare State (supervised by Lasse Horne Kjældsgaard).

14:15-16:00: Jürg Glauser, Professor at the University of Zürich: "Negotiating The Welfare State in Scandinavian Crime Fiction"

18:00: Dinner

Wednesday 26 September

9:15-11:00: Sven Olov Wallenstein, Editor and Associate Professor at Södertörn Högskola: "Architecture and Consumption"

11:15-13.00: Project Workshop

14:15-16:00: Widar Halén, Senior Curator at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo: "Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth"

Posted on 10 September 2007