Conference programme

12:00

Registration and snacks

12:30

Opening of conference

Host

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

Government representatives (tba)

ORGANIZERS

• Ulrik Pram Gad - Purpose and the format of the conference
• Sophie Rud - Practicalities

Plenary: Greenland going global – cultural inspiration and translation

Chair: Lill Bjørst 

[PHYSICAL] KEYNOTE 

• Ujammiugaq Engell (tba) 

Sandwich break

[physical] Roundtable

• Rosannguaq Rossen : The incluence of Christianity on the national costume in Greenland – the Greenlandic women’s inspiration from the European fashion
• 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 
• 1C) [Physical session] Ulrik Pram Gad: Comparing Greenland into Independence

Guided tour

• Bjarne Grønnow The Arctic Collections, The National Museum
• Mille Gabriel (tbc) The Colonial History Exhibition, The National Museum

DINNER/SOCIALIZATION ON OWN INITIATIVE/ACCOUNT

Registration and breakfast

Welcome to the second day of the conference

 Host

• Bjarne Grønnow: Welcome

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

• Iver Neumann: How Norway escaped Arctic imperialism
• Jens Heinrich: Greenland in the Arctic and/or in the North Atlantic
• Gestur Hovgaard: (tba) 

DEBATE/Q&A

Coffee break

Parallel panel sessions 2

• 2A) [Hybrid session] Naimah Hussain & Mette Apollo Rasmussen: Critical reflections on field work in Greenland
• 2B) [Hybrid session] Annemette Nyborg Lauritsen & Anette Storgaard: Straffe, lovgivning og magt i Grønland – før og nu
• 2C) [Hybrid session] Bart Pushaw & the Arc of Nordic Colonialism: Greenland Exhibited and Collected: Museums and the Mediation of Colonial Knowledge

Lunch

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

Chair: Jes Harfeld

Discussant: Astrid O. Andersen 

[virtual] keynote

• Richard Powell: New histories about, with, for the Arctic and the social world of scientists (tbc)

[HYBRID] ROUNDTABLE

• Naimah Hussain: Field Dependencies of Post-colonial Journalism
• Naja Carina Steenholt: Studying perceived Wellbeing in Tasiilaq
• Anne Merrild Hansen: Participatory Methods in Arctic Research
• Julia Christensen (tbc): Community co-creation of knowledge in the Canadian North (tbc)
• Janet Tamalik McGrath (tbc): Towards a Theory of Inuktitut Knowledge (tbc) 

debate/Q&A

Coffee break

Plenary: Memory politics

[HYBRID] KEYNOTE (TBA)

Debate/Q&A

Coffee break

Apéritifs and announcement of the winner of the Best Paper Award

Dinner

DINNER SESSION ON SCIENCE POLICY:  The role of the human sciences in the Greenland/Denmark relation 

Interviewer: Robert Thomsen

Henrik Halkier (Dean, Faculty of Humanities, AAU), Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam (MP), and Josephine Nymand (Head of the Greenland 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

Registration and coffee

Welcome to the third day of the conference

Parallel panel sessions 3

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

coffee break

PARALLEL PANEL SESSIONS 4

• 4A) [Hybrid session] Ulrik Pram Gad & Marc Jacobsen: Entangled (de)securitization dynamics under climatic thaw and geopolitical freeze II
• 4B) [Virtuel] Rasmus Berthelsens & Mariia Kobzeva: Great Power Engagement in the North Atlantic II        
• 4C) [Hybrid workshop] Lill Rastad Bjørst & Dag Avango: Denmark-Greenland mining after(lifes) and legacies
• 4D) [Physical session] Lene Søbjerg, Lise Koumaditis & Bo Rasmussen: Hvad kan vi lære af Grønland i det pædagoiske og sociale arbejde? 

Lunch

PARALLEL PANEL SESSIONS 5

• 5A) [Virtuel 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

Coffee break

PLENARY: CHALLENGING COLONIALITIES IN GREENLAND TODAY

Discussant: Naja Graugaard

[Hybrid] Roundtable

• Aviaaja Lyberth Hauptmann: Indigenizing scientific knowledge on Kalaallit food culture (tbc)
• Juno Berthelsen: Decolonizing power configurations (tbc)
• 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