Programme:
9:00-9:30: WELCOME and INTRODUCTION:
9:30-10:30: SESSION I: SCANDINAVIA AND THE NAPOLEONIC WAR
Chair: Professor Ola Mestad, University of Oslo
The Danish Empire, Professor Iver Neumann, London School of Economics
Book Launch: Experiences of War and Nationality in Denmark and Norway, 1807-1815 (Palgrave Macmillan 2014) by Dr Morten Ottosen & Post. doc. Rasmus Glenthøj, University of Oslo & University of Southern Denmark
Comment (book launch): Professor Michael Broers, Oxford University
10:30-11:00: COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:00: SESSION II: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE CESSION OF NORWAY
Chair: Professor Dag Michalsen, University of Oslo
The Transformation of International Law and Norwegian Sovereignty in 1814, Professor Ola Mestad, University of Oslo
Book launch: “Like a Herd of Cattle”: Parliamentary and Public Debates regarding the Cession of Norway, 1813–1814 (Oslo Studies in Legal History, 9: 2014), Dr Ruth Hemstad, National Library of Norway
Comment (book launch): Professor Thomas Munck, University of Glasgow
12:00-13:00: UCL Students Celebrate 1814
UCL Students present their contribution to the 1814 jubilee celebrations
Chair: Dr Elettra Carbone, UCL
Hva er viktigst for deg? First Year Norwegian Students
An International Commemoration of 1814, Poster Presentation, Nordic Histories and Cultures students
Hvorfor er Grunnloven viktig for meg? Second Year Norwegian Students
Min familie i historien, Forth Year Norwegian Students
14:00-16:00: SESSION III: NORWAY, GREAT BRITAIN AND BEYOND – COMMUNICATION &
CULTURE IN 1814
Chair: Dr Mary Hilson, UCL Scandinavian Studies
Business and Communication: British Agents in Norway in 1814, Research Fellow Bård Frydenlund, University of Oslo
The Poetics of 1814: The Norwegian Constitution in Literature, Dr Elettra Carbone, UCL Scandinavian Studies
One Hundred Years On: The Art of Norway at the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition, Dr Sara Ayres
General discussion
16:30-17:30: SESSION IV: CONSTITUTIONS AND THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY SYSTEM
Chair: Professor Patrick Salmon, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The Virtues of Evolution in an Age of Revolution: Norway’s Enduring Constitution in Comparative
Perspective by Dr James Melton and Dr Tom Ginsburg, delivered by Christine Stuart, UCL Constitution Unit
The Nordic Countries, Great Britain and the Vienna System, Professor Dag Michalsen, University
of Oslo
17:30-18:00: CONCLUDING REMARKS AND FINAL DISCUSSION
Chair: Professor Patrick Salmon, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
18:00: RECEPTION