Words and Violence is an international research project focused on the role of literary intellectuals during periods of democratic decline, using both statistical and qualitative approaches. Researchers in sociology, political science, history, and literature examine why writers, translators, and intellectuals made the choices they did when faced with censorship and terror, as well as a new form of public investment in culture orchestrated by the dictatorship. The goal is to produce solid knowledge on historical issues that are the subject of intense debate and remain highly relevant today but are rarely studied in a systematic way.
The language of the symposium is English, except for the first five talks on Wednesday 9, that are in Scandinavian.
Wednesday 09 April
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09:15 Marianne Neerland Soleim. Forfattere i fangenskap. Commentary Guri Hjeltnes.
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10:15 Anette Storeide Norske Folkebiblioteker under tysk okkupasjon 1940-45: Nazifisering eller motstandskamp? En casestudie av Trondheim Folkebibliotek". Commentary Kommentar Leiv Sem.
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11:15 Guri Hjeltnes, Nord. Den amerikanske utenriksreporteren Leland Stowe og norske forfatteres informasjonskampanje i USA. Commentary: Andreas Mørkved Hellesnes, Clare Hall, Cambridge.
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Lunch
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13:00 Leiv Sem, Nord. Kanskje vi trenger offerblodet på våre øyne’. NS-biskopane og salmediktarane Dagfinn og Ludvig Zwilgmeyer. Commentary Torben Jelsbak. Uni Copenhagen.
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14:00 Ronny Spaans, UiO. Norskdomsrørslas diktere i møte med fascismen. Commentary Torben Jelsbak.
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15:00 Anne Simonin, EHESS. "Proud to be outraged: Céline in the Afterwards of the Second World War".
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16:00 Mario Kikas, Nord. Towards a Sociology of the Intellectuals in Early Socialist Yugoslavia (1941-1952). Commentary Pål Halvorsen, Nord/Oslo Met.
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17:00 Tanja Ellingsen, Nord: International traditionalist networks and the extreme right. Commentary Eve Gianoncelli, Nord.
Thursday 10 April
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09:00 Welcome. Marte Mangset CUNP, MSH and Kjetil Jakobsen EHESS/Nord.
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09:15 Torben Jelsbak, Uni Copenhagen: The poetics of collaboration and resistance in War-time Denmark 1940-45.
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10:15 Pål Halvorsen, Oslo Met; The Norwegian NS – writers, Legal purges and moral reckoning In the field of literature. Commentary Tore Rem, Oxford All Souls.
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11:15. Willem Huberts: The Collaborating writers in The Netherlands and the legal and moral purges.
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12:15 Lunch
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13:30 Karine Le Bail EHESS: The Purer, the Punished: Purge of the Performing Arts in France at the Liberation.
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14:30 Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen. Nord/EHESS: Occupying art: Fascists, resistants and “degenerates” in the Norwegian field of visual art 1940-45. Commentary by Johan Popelard, Musée Picasso, Paris.
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15:30 Vincent Berthelier, Paris, Cite: "Fostering and forgetting: French fascists' literary and stylistic strategies, 1930-1950.
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16:30. Gisèle Sapiro, EHESS/CNRS: Words that kill and the moral responsibility of the writer.
Friday 11 April
- 09:00 Narve Fulsås, UiT. Johan Falkberget og Tarjei Vesaas in the Third Reich. Translations and sales of Norwegian Literature in Germany during World War II. Commentary Ine van Linthout.
- 10:00 Ine van Linthout, VUB, Brussels: Foreign Classics in the Third Reich. Commentary Narve Fulsås.
- 11:00 Sofie Arneberg and Lars Johnsen – National Library of Norway: The population in fictional texts – a socio-political machine reading of Norwegian literature from 1920 to 1945. Commentary Pål Halvorsen.
- 12:00 Eve Gianoncelli, "Radicalisation and its Roots: The Case of The European Conservative" - Commentary Kjetil Jakobsen
- 13:00 Lunch.
- 14:30 Guided visit to the Picasso Museum’s special exhibition on Degenarate Art and the Nazi time. L'art "dégénéré" : Le procès de l'art moderne sous le nazisme | Musée Picasso Paris
The symposium is open to the public and to colleagues, but please register by sending an email to kjetil.jakobsen@nord.no.
Organizer: Kjetil Jakobsen, Nord universitet