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

• Seminar at Aarhus University, Denmark - Thursday 28^th 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: Hanne Roer, associate professor of rhetoric, University of Copenhagen
Trust as rhetorical topos in 19th century Danish political culture: Sally B. Salomon’s satirical (fake) speech

13.50-14.20: Coffee break

14.20-14.45: Sascha Stopa post.doc., School of Social and Political Science, Edinburgh University.
Theological influence on the development of 19^th and early 20^th century Danish trust culture.

14.45-15.20: 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.

15.20-15.45:  Rolf Hugoson, associate professor of political science, Umeå University.
Trustworthy enough: Constructing realistic notions of politics in the Nordic countries

15.45-16.10: Break

16.10-16.35: Kristian Bjørkdahl, associate professor of rhetoric, University of Oslo
Sketching a Larger “We”. Johan Castberg’s Rhetoric of Solidarity.