Northern Lights?/Lumières du Nord?
The Nordic Countries from Medieval Civil Wars to Constitutional States and Models of Modernity.
French-Nordic History Symposium, Paris 3-5.11.2014. A symposium organized in cooperation between historians at the University of Oslo, Université de Toulouse-2-Jean-Jaurès, and Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).
PROGRAMME :
Monday 3. November:
Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Maison de la Recherche, 28, rue Serpente, 75006 Paris, salle 035.
Attendance does not require prior registration.
14.15: Opening
Session 1 14.30-17.00: CIVIL WARS – A EUROPEAN PHENOMENON IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES?
Short introduction (Hans Jacob Orning, Oslo)
Dominique Barthélemy, Paris: “Feudal anarchy” in France around c 1000?
Lars Hermanson, Göteborg: Denmark c 1130-60
Hans Jacob Orning, Oslo: Norway c 1160-1240
Gregory Cattaneo, Paris: Iceland c 1220-64
Helle Vogt, København: Denmark c 1242-64
Evening Session: 18.15-19.00: THE FRENCH MODEL: CULTURAL AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE FROM FRANCE ON SCANDINAVIA
Cercle Suédois/Cercle Norvégien, 242, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
Marianne Molander-Beyer, Göteborg, and Franck Favier, Paris : Réflections sur le livre Une amitié amoureuses, Les relations franco-suédoises 1718-1848 qui paraîtra en l’automne de 2014
Tuesday 4. November:
Cercle Suédois/Cercle Norvégien, 242 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
Session 2: 9.30-12.30 THE SCANDINAVIAN STATES FROM ABSOLUTE MONARCHY TO CONSTITUTIONAL RULE (18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES)
Jean-Francois Berdah, Toulouse : Sweden between constitutionalism and absolutism. Frihetstiden and the reign of Gustav 3
Håkon Andreas Evju, Oslo : Dano-Norwegian Enlightenment Historiography and the Discovery of Society
Øystein Rian, Oslo: Norway – from the most dominated to the least dominated country in Scandinavia?
Session 2, continued:
Marthe Hommerstad, Oslo: Peasant politics and the early democracy in Norway after 1814
Franck Favier, Paris: Le parcours extraordinaire de Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte – soldat francais devenu roi de Suède et Norvège
Session 3: 14.30-16.30 THE SCANDINAVIAN EVENTS OF 1814 IN PERSPECTIVE
Cercle Suédois/Cercle Norvégien, 242,rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
Morten Nordhagen Ottosen, Odense: Norway’s 1814 in European Perspective: A Freak Accident on the Fringes of Europe?
Round table discussion.
Evening session: 19.00-20.00
Cercle Suédois/Cercle Norvégien, 242, rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris.
CONSTITUTIONS, UNION ET DÉMOCRATIE: LA NORVÈGE ET LA SUÈDE EN 1814 ET APRÈS
In cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy, the Swedish Club and the Norwegian Club in Paris
John Peter Collett, Oslo: Le moment de liberté – la Norvège en 1814
Bo Stråth, Helsinki : Démocratie et union
Wednesday 5. November:
Unversité de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Centre Malesberbes, 108 boulevard de Malesherbes, 75017 Paris, amphithéàtre 128.
No prior registration is required.
Session 4: 9.30-12.30: THE EMERGENCE OF A NORDIC MODEL: SCANDINAVIA ON THE ROAD TO MODERNITY (19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES)
Sylvain Briens, Paris, and Martin Kylhammar, Linköping: The Nordic Model – a literary invention?
Aladin Larguèche, Toulouse: Norwegian intellectuals before the Modern Breakthrough
Maurice Carrez, Strasbourg: Reflections sur le modèle nordique
Kristine Bruland, Oslo: Knowledge institutions and the Nordic Model
Andreas Mørkved Hellenes, Oslo/Paris : Au-delà de l’imagologie. Nationalisme, diplomatie publique et modèle nordique.
12.30: Conclusion of the symposium. Departure.
NB! Attendance at the sessions in the evening of 3 November and all sessions of 4 November. The number of places is limited, and the organizers reserve their right to accept registrations according to a first come/first served principle.
Registrations are made at this adress: colloquefranconordique@yahoo.com
Pour plus d’informations : INVITATION TO FRENCH-SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE