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Open seminar, Forging Trusting Nordic Nations

Trustworthiness: The Rhetorical History of Trust in the Nordics.

Info about event

Time

Thursday 28 September 2023,  at 12:00 - 17:10

Location

Konferencecenteret AU, Frederik Nielsens vej 2-4. Building 1427, Room M2

Forging Trusting Nordic Nations
Trustworthiness: The Rhetorical History of Trust in the Nordics

  • Seminar at Aarhus University, Denmark - Thursday 28th September 2023
  • Building 1427, room 246, M2, Konferencecenteret AU, Frederik Nielsens Vej 2-4.
  • Free of charge, More information please contact Marie Lund

12.00-12.10: Welcome and introduction by Marie Lund, associate professor of rhetoric, Aarhus
University and Hanne Roer, associate professor of rhetoric, University of Copenhagen.

12.10-12.35: Anders Johansen professor emeritus, Bergen University.
Trust and distrust as conditions of communication in the liberalist doctrines of the 19th century.

12.35-13.00: Jens Kjeldsen Professor of rhetoric and media studies, Bergen University.
Feeling the right to speak, creating the ability to do it.

13.00-13.25: Gert Thinggaard Svendsen, professor of political science, Aarhus University
Forging Trusting Nordic Nations: Trade and social trust in Viking Age.

13.25-13.50: Mona Ringvej historian and writer, University of Oslo.
Cracks in the rhetoric of power – a way of disrupting order or letting the light in?

13.50-14.20: Coffee break

14.20-14.45: Ingela Naumann Professor of Social Policy, Social Work and Sociology, University of Fribourg.
The Trouble with Trust: An exploration of the religious roots of social cohesion in modern welfare systems.

14.45-15.10: Sascha Stopa post.doc., School of Social and Political Science, Edinburgh University.
Theological influence on the development of 19th and early 20th century Danish trust culture.

15.10-15.35: Marie Lund, associate professor of rhetoric, Aarhus University and Sofie Kristiansen, CEO at Danske Taler.dk
Trust and trustworthiness: the first female rhetors in Denmark.

15.35-16.00: Thea Ganville, ReNew network; producer and program manager 
The Recipe for a Martha - The Rhetoric in the Members’ Magazines Husmodern and Martha.

16.00-16.20: Break

16.20-16.45: Rolf Hugoson, associate professor of political science, Umeå University.
Trustworthy enough: Constructing realistic notions of politics in the Nordic countries.

16.45-17.10: Kristian Bjørkdahl, associate professor of rhetoric, University of Oslo
Sketching a Larger “We”. Johan Castberg’s Rhetoric of Solidarity.