FRIDAY, 15 MARCH 2013
From 11:00 - Registration
11:30 – 12:30 - Guided Tour of the Exhibition of HL-Senteret
12:30 – 13:00 - Welcome & Introduction - Odd-Bjørn Fure, Oslo; Arnd Bauerkämper, Berlin; Guri Hjeltnes, Oslo
Welcome Address - Historical Research and the Impact of Academic Cooperation. How Norwegian Historians Developed a Transnational Perspective on their History - Steffen Bruendel, Essen
13:00 – 13:50 - PANEL I – The Evolving Meaning of Norwegian Patriotism
Societal Processes – Changing Constellations of Memories. The Case of Norway in Comparative Perspective – Odd-Bjørn Fure, Oslo
13:50 – 14:00 - Break
14:00 – 15:40 - PANEL II – Developments in Postwar Memory Culture in Norway and in the Netherlands
Beyond Resistance versus Collobaration: The Twisted Road to a Universalistic Narrative in Norway – Arnd Bauerkämper, Berlin
Competing Memories. Myth, Conflicts and Taboos in Dutch Memory Culture after 1945 – Tobias Temming, Münster
15:40 – 16:00 - Coffee
16:00 – 18:00 - PANEL III – Towards a Universalistic Narrative and the Role of the Holocaust in Norway
The Holocaust and the Question of Guilt in the Norwegian Historical Culture – Jon Reitan, Falstad
Linking Holocaust Education to Human Rights Education – a Symptom of the Universalization and De-Nationalization of Memory Culture in Norway? – Claudia Lenz, Oslo
SATURDAY, 16 MARCH 2013
09:00 – 12:00 - PANEL IV – The Changing Narratives in Action – Education & Representations
From Captivity into the Classroom – Educational Initiatives of Prisoner Associations in Denmark and Norway since 1945 – Robert Zimmermann, Berlin
The Representation of the Second World War and the Holocaust in the Norwegian Museum Culture – Doreen Reinhold, Berlin
Between “the Particular” and “the Universal” – the Dynamics in Dutch Memory Culture in Comparative Perspective – Ilse Raaijmakers, Maastricht
12:00 – 13:00 - Lunch
13:00 – 15:40 - PANEL V – Changing Perspectives on Marginal Groups in Postwar Norway
In Command of History? Historians, Memory Culture and German War Crimes in Norway – Gunnar D. Hatlehol, Trondheim
From Taboo to Compensation: How Children of Norwegian Women and German Soldiers Were Treated in Postwar Norway – Susanne Maerz, Freiburg
Norwegian Volunteers in the Waffen-SS and their Commemoration of the Second World War after 1945 – Sigurd Sørlie, Oslo
15:40 – 16:00 - Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 - Final Panel Discussion