Knowledge on the Nordics

Listen to an interview with PhD in Arctic Studies Rosannguaq Rossen, and hear about the history of the West Greenlandic dress and a picture from 1862 showing two women wearing pearl beads round the neck for the first time.

Read more on nordics.info. This is the latest in the podcast series 'The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from Greenland' about Greenland's history and art.

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Listen to an interview with Director of Nuuk Art Museum Nivi Christensen and hear about how two key Greenlandic artists - Pia Arke and Anne-Birthe Hove - have informed her own work.

Read more on nordics.info. This is the latest in the podcast series 'The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from Greenland' about Greenland's history and art.

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Lyt til et historisk overblik over mennesker med handicap: aktivisme og politiske strømninger i Norden siden 1945. Artiklen er originalt skrevet på engelsk af Anna Derksen og oplæst af Kieu Anh Nguyen fra nordics.info.

Du kan lytte til podcasten på engelsk her, eller læs artiklen på engelsk her.

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Listen to an historical overview of disability policies and movements in the Nordic countries since 1945. You can also listen to this podcast in Danish by clicking here.

You can also read the podcast as an article, which is by Anna Derksen, here.

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Lyt til historien om Islands historie. Artiklen fra danmarkshistorien.dk om Islands historie  er oplæst af Kieu Anh Nguyen fra nordics.info.

Læs artiklen på dansk her eller på engelsk her.

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Listen to a potted history of Iceland from the Viking Age to today. It is an article found on nordics.info in English and on danmarkshistorien.dk in Danish. It is read by editor of nordics.info, Nicola Witcombe.

You can read the article in English here and in Danish here.

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Hot topics in current academic research on the Nordic region today include welfare, colonialism and heterogeneity. These – as well as a host of other issues - form the content of this podcast, the last in the series ‘The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from the Region’. 

Editor of nordics.info, Nicola Witcombe, is joined by Mary Hilson Professor of History at Aarhus University in Denmark and  Peter Stadius Research Director at the Centre for Nordic Studies at Helsinki University. Their conversation also takes in: 

• Traditional histories versus new perspectives.
• A Europe of Regions e.g. the Oresund.
• The rise of nationalism.
• Finnish colonialism.

Find out more on nordics.info.

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Listen to this podcast if you are interested in how Sweden’s policymaking successes and failures since the Cold War have been perceived domestically and outside the region, including: 

• Sweden’s early involvement in humanitarianism;
• The ‘utopian trap’;
• Sweden-bashing;
• Perspectives on social engineering. 

Carl Marklund is a researcher and Research Director at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University,  and he talks to Nicola Witcombe, editor of nordics.info.

This is the tenth virtual visit around the Nordic countries in the podcast series ’The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from the Region’ and was recorded in May 2021.

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Listen to this podcast if you are interested in: 

• Women’s role in business from around 1900 to today.
• The Norwegian gender quota system on business boards.
• Why we should question our love of ‘quick fix’ global indexes which often place the Nordics at the top. 
• The fact that there is usually a host of other political reasons for gender-positive action that have nothing to do with equality.

Eirinn Larsen, Professor in History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo, and editor of Gender Equality and Nation Branding in the Nordic Region , helps editor of nordics.info Nicola Witcombe understand why and how gender is used as a tool for branding the Nordics.

This is the ninth virtual visit around the Nordic countries in the podcast series ’The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from the Region’ and was recorded in May 2021.

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This nordics.info podcast will be about the practicalities of history-making and how commercial and non-commercial organisations use history to sell tickets or a particular version of the past.

Listen to this podcast if you want to hear more about:

• What role do museums play?
• The specific heritage portrayed by country houses in and outside the Nordics.
• What we forget is just as important as what we remember: mobilising the past for the future.
• The tradition for folk and open air museums in the Nordics.
• How can negative histories be useful?
• Tourism and national heritage: The Little Mermaid.
• What are the responsibilities of commercial and non-commercial history-makers?

The editor of nordics.info and Danish history student Vibeke Sandager Rønnedal interview two historians from Aarhus University and the Danish Centre for Urban History.

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