Conference programme

12:00

Registration and snacks

12:30

Opening of conference

Host

• Christian Sune Pedersen - Welcome to the National Museum
• Gitte Adler Reimer - 300 years of research – what are the visions today? 

ORGANIZERS

• Ulrik Pram Gad - Purpose and the format of the conference

Plenary: Greenland going global – cultural inspiration and translation

Chair: Lill Bjørst 

[PHYSICAL] ROUNDTABLE 

• Rosannguaq Rossen : The incluence of Christianity on the national costume in Greenland – the Greenlandic women’s inspiration from the European fashion.

Sandwich break

[physical] Roundtable

• Aviaq Fleischer: From radioplay to decapitated statue – imaginations about Hans Egede the last 50 years
• Andreas Otte: Making global music genres Greenlandic

Debate/Q&A

Coffee break

Parallel panel sessions 1

• 1A) [Physical session] Peter Toft: Co-existence, conflicts and negotiations: The 18th Century Beginnings of Cross Cultural relations between Europeans and the Inuit of Greenland 
• 1B) [Hybrid session] Naja Graugaard & Amalie Høgfelt: Decolonizing Art and Research Practices in Greenland and Beyond 

Guided tour

Bjarne Grønnow & Martin Appelt:

• The Arctic Collections, The National Museum

Peter Toft:

• The Colonial History Exhibition, The National Museum

DINNER/SOCIALIZATION ON OWN INITIATIVE/ACCOUNT

Registration and breakfast [max 40 px - first come first serve]

Welcome to the second day of the conference

 Host

• Bjarne Grønnow: Welcome

Minister of Higher Education and Science

• Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen 

PLENARY: Greenland and Denmark - in the North Atlantic and in the Arctic

Discussant: Robert C. Thomsen

[physical] Keynote

Kirsten Thisted & Ann-Sofie Gremaud: Greenland and the New North Atlantic  

[Hybrid] Roundtable

• Ivar Neumann
• Jens Heinrich
• Gestur Hovgaard

DEBATE/Q&A

Coffee break

Parallel panel sessions 2

• 2A) [Physical session] Naimah Hussain & Mette Apollo Rasmussen: Critical reflections on field work in Greenland
• 2B) [Hybrid session] Ulrik Pram Gad: Comparing Greenland into Independence

Lunch

Plenary: Towards new fieldwork engagements: ethics, epistemologies, methods

Chair: Jes Harfeld

Discussant: Astrid O. Andersen 

[virtual] keynote

• Richard Powell: Making Arctics: Sociality and Science in the Circumpolar North 

[HYBRID] ROUNDTABLE

• Naja Carina Steenholt: Studying pandemics and perceived Wellbeing in Greenland
• Anne Merrild Hansen: Collaborative Methods in Arctic Research

debate/Q&A

Coffee break

Plenary: Memory politics - truth and reconcilliation processes in the Arctic

Discussant: lil rastad

[PHYSICAL] ROUNDTABLE 

• Sniff Andersen Nexø: Histories of Greenlandic children – the significance and challenges of commissioned research
• Jens Heinrich: The Greenlandic Commission on Reconciliation

Debate/Q&A

break

Session on science policy: The role of the human sciences in the Greenland/Denmark relation

Interviewer: Minik Rosing 

Henrik Halkier (Dean, Faculty of Humanities, AAU), Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam (MP), and Josephine Nymand (Head of theGreenland Research Council) in a discussion about how best to engage the human sciences in research that is relevant and beneficial to Greenland and the Arctic

Announcement of the winner of the Best Paper Award

Apéritifs and dinner

Registration and coffee

Parallel panel sessions 3

• 3A) [Hybrid session] Ulrik Pram Gad & Marc Jacobsen: Entangled (de)securitization dynamics under climatic thaw and geopolitical freeze I
• 3B) [Virtual panel] Rasmus Berthelsens & Mariia Kobzeva: Great Power Engagement in the North Atlantic I 
• 3C) [Virtual panel] Richard Powell & Peter Martin: Greenland-Denmark relations in history: Insights from the ERA Arctic Cultures project. 

coffee break

PARALLEL PANEL SESSIONS 4

• 4A) [Workshop session] Ulrik Pram Gad & Marc Jacobsen: Entangled (de)securitization dynamics under climatic thaw and geopolitical freeze II
• 4B) [Virtual] Rasmus Berthelsens & Mariia Kobzeva: Great Power Engagement in the North Atlantic II       
• 4C) [Physical session] Lene Søbjerg, Lise Koumaditis & Bo Rasmussen: Hvad kan vi lære af Grønland i det pædagoiske og sociale arbejde? 

• 4D) [Hybrid session] Lill Rastad Bjørst & Dag Avango: Denmark-Greenland mining after(lifes) and legacies

Lunch

PARALLEL PANEL SESSIONS 5

• 5A) [Virtual session] Naotaka Hayashi& Minori Takahashi: Reinterpreting contemporary issues derived frompast Japanese expansion to the Pan-Pacific region with insights gained from Greenland-Denmark post-colonial relations.
• 5B) [Hybrid session] Carina Ren & Rikke Becker: Economic development in Greenland - visions, strategies and practices
• 5C) [Hybrid session] The Conference Team: Ebbe Volquardsen, Mette Marie Harder, Robert Christian Thomsen: Current and historical, cultural and political aspects of the Greenland-Denmark relation

• 5D) [Hybrid session] Bart Pushaw & the Arc of Nordic Colonialism: Greenland Exhibited and Collected: Museums and the Mediation of Colonial Knowledge

Coffee break

PLENARY: CHALLENGING COLONIALITIES IN GREENLAND TODAY

Discussant: Naja Graugaard

[Hybrid] Roundtable

• Aviaaja Lyberth Hauptmann: Indigenizing scientific knowledge on Kalaallit food culture (tbc)
• Lili Frederiksen Chemnitz: What is Denmark without Greenland?
• Ebbe Volquardsen: On teaching colonial history at Ilisimatusarfik (tbc)

Debate/Q&A

Closing

• Lill Bjørst: Thank you for building a platform for a qualified tricentennial debate
• Mette Simonsen: The way towards publications
• Lisbeth Valgreen:The virtual afterlife of the conference