A Nordic Model in America: Utopia and representation of the Nordic countries in Québec
Programme
Day 1: St Leonard's Hall, St Trinnean's Room
09:45 - Coffee
10:15 - Introduction
Arne Kruse (University of Edinburgh)
10:30 - Keynote 1: Scotland's Nordic future
Alasdair Allan (MSP)
11:00 - Session 1: Scotland and The North
Chair: Alan Macniven (University of Edinburgh)
- Popular Perceptions of the Nordic Model in Scotland
Laila Berg (University of Oslo (UiO))
- ‘What Scotland can Learn’: A Study of the organisation Nordic Horizons
Atle Wold (UiO)
Questions
12.20 - Lunch
13.30 - Session 2: The Nordic Image and Identity
Chair: Arne Kruse (University of Edinburgh)
- Framing the ‘Docu-Noir’
Kate Moffat (University of Warwick)
- Concrete and Ice: from urban grit to bucolic idyll
Haftor Medbøe (Napier University)
- Examining the role of Nordic national minorities as cultural brand ambassadors
Ruairidh Tarvet (University of Edinburgh)
15.00 Coffee
15.30 - Keynote 2: The Nordic small state mentality
Bertil Haarder (MP, Denmark)
16:30 - Comfort break
16:45 - Reception / Music
18:45 - Finish
Day 2: 50 George Square, The Project Room (1.06)
09:45 - Coffee
10:10 - Welcome
Alan Macniven (University of Edinburgh)
10:20 - Keynote 3: A Nordic Model in America: Utopia and representation of the Nordic countries in Québec
Daniel Chartier (University of Québec in Montréal)
11.00 - Session 3: Perceptions of the Nordic Countries and the Nordic Model in France
Chair: Daniel Clegg (University of Edinburgh)
- Northern countries as examples in the French press before the Great War: a prehistory of the Nordic Model
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland (University of Oslo (UiO))
- The Scandinavian Model in France: political inspiration or myth?
Cecilie Weiss-Andersen (UiO)
- Macron and the Nordic model: big ambitions, small results
Kjerstin Aukrust (UiO)
- Regional stereotypes: Representations of Scandinavians and of the Nordic model in Michel Houellebecq’s prose fiction
Geir Uvsløkk (UiO)
Questions
13:00 - Why do Swedes trust the state and Scots don’t?
Ingela Naumann (University of Edinburgh)
13:30 - Lunch
14:30 - Keynote 4: Scandigo Supermercado and Skandinavisk noticias S.L. About company names in the service of a potential Scandinavian colony in Spain.
Ulla Börestam (University of Uppsala)
15.15 - Selling Scandinavia
Caspar Odqvist
15:40 - Session 4: Immigration and Identity
Chair: Ruairidh Tarvet (University of Edinburgh)
- Similar developments but for different reasons? Swedish immigration and integration policies in comparative Nordic perspective
Pontus Oddmalm (University of Edinburgh)
- Not Happy in the Happiest Countries in the World: Affective Alienation in Zeshan Shakar’s Tante Ulrikkes vei and Pooneh Rohi’s Araben
Anja Tröger (University of Edinburgh)
Questions
16:40 - Coffee
17:00 - The Norther Scholars Lecture: The Icelandic Tradition of Silence
Hallgrímur Helgason
17:50 - Concluding Remarks
Atle Wold (University of Oslo)
18:00 - Finish
Conférence
