The seminar brings together researchers working with issues, historic or contemporary, connected to Greenland.
PROGRAMME
09.15-09.20 Welcome (Ingeborg)
09.20-09.50 Gretel Ehrlich’s ‘Ice Trilogy’ and a New Salvage Paradigm for a Melting World
Dr. Sigfrid Kjeldaas
09.50-10.20 The Polar Bear in Nordic Literature for Children and Young Adults
Prof. Henning H. Wærp
10.20-10.30 Questions
10.30-10.45 Break (coffee/tea)
10.45-11.15 Denmark’s Historical, Current and Future Relationship with the North Atlantic: great power politics, ideas, human capital and economic development
Prof. Rasmus G. Bertelsen
11.15-11.45 Urban Transformation in a Warming Arctic: an experimental interdisciplinary exhibition project
Dr. Hanne H. Stien
11.45-12.15 Concurrent Voices, Competing Claims: Qalaseq/Qalasirssuaq and the British civilising mission in the Arctic
Dr. Ingeborg Høvik
12.15-12.30 Questions