Program 18-19 september

Utøya Island and The 22 July Centre

Friday September 18th on Utøya – Conference & Tour to memorial site

Open to all. For registration full conference (Sept 17-19), open link HERE
Conference language Sept 18-19: English
Chairs for today’s meeting: Marion Grau, Tor Einar Fagerland & Gitte Buch-Hansen

07.20
Meetup at meeting point: Fridtjof Nansens plass, next to Oslo City Hall

07.30
Departure from Oslo to Utøya (Meeting point: Fridtjof Nansens plass, next to Oslo City Hall)

09.00-10.45
Welcome and guided tour on Utøya by Jørgen W. Frydnes and Tor Einar Fagerland

10.45-11.15
Coffee/fruit break

Sharp & short: Critical conference summaries so far by keynotes

11.15-12.45

• Cora Alexa Døving [Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo]: Homeland ritualized: An analysis of written messages placed at temporal memorials in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 22 July 2011.
  Respondent: Ronald L. Grimes
• Ida Marie Høeg [KIFO]: Negotiating identity in interreligious funerals for the victims of 22 July 2011.
  Respondent: Paul-Francois Tremlett

12.45-13.30
Lunch

13.30-15.00
Short presentations

• PhD Line Gjermshusengen [Cultural Heritage Studies, NTNU]: Memorializing July 22, 2011: Private and public initiatives.
  Respondent: Kyrre Kverndokk (UiB)
• PhD Ingeborg Hjorth [Cultural Heritage Studies, NTNU]: The Norwegian national memorial process after July 22, 2011.
  Respondent: Kyrre Kverndokk (UiB)
  
• PhD Birte Nordahl [Theology, UiO]: The Public’s Ritual Gestures at Oslo Cathedral.
  Respondent: Carl Petter Opsahl [Dr.Theol, Kirkens Bymisjon]
  

15.00-15.15
Short coffee break

15.15-16.45

• Terje Emberland [Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, Oslo]: The Perfect Knight. The SS phantasies of Anders Behring Breivik.
  Respondent: Roger Griffin
• Jone Salomonsen [Theology, UiO]: Democracy and ritual. Breivik’s trial as case.
  Respondent: Thorgeir Storesund Kolshus

16.45-17.00
Short break with coffee and cake

17.00-18.15

• Jørgen W. Frydnes, Tor Einar Fagerland and James E. Young: «Hegnhuset» and the road ahead: memory and new life on Utøya.
• General discussion.

18.30
Departure from Utøya to Oslo

Saturday September 19th at The 22 July Centre in the government quarter in Oslo – Conference & Round table discussion

Open to all. For registration full conference (Sept 17-19), open link HERE
Conference language Sept 18-19: English
Presider for today’s meeting: Nina Hoel & Paul-Francois Tremlett

08.45 Registration

09.00-10.00 Guided tour in the 22July Centre by Tor Einar Fagerland

10.00-10.10 Short coffee break

10.10-10.50  Evil, responsibility and theological meaning making

• Kjetil Hafstad [Theology, UiO]: Contesting evil: Developing theological understanding of resistence
• Trond Bakkevig [Rev. Dr & Canon]: Christian Preaching when Faced with Extremist Action

10.50-12.30  Interrogating Evil: Responsive and critical engagements with Church, ideologies and personhood after July 22

• Round table discussion
  Participants: Bishop of Copenhagen Peter Skov-Jakobsen; Bishop of Borg Atle Sommerfeldt; Senior Minister in Oslo Cathedral Elisabeth Thorsen; Dean Faculty of Theology, UiO, Aud Valborg Tønnessen.

12.30-13.00   Sharp & short: Conference summaries by Grzegorz Brzozowski, keynotes et al.

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Presiders, presenters, discussants, schedule and a list of participants will be updated as it is finalized.

For registration, click HERE

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How do I get to there? Find directions here:

The bus from Oslo to Utøya on Sept 18 will be leaving from Fridtjof Nansens plass, next to Oslo City Hall.

The House of Literature (Sept 17)
Meeting point at Fridtjof Nansens plass (Sept 18)
The 22 July Centre (Sept 19)

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