Program for War, Literature and ideology (preliminary)

Tuesday, June 4 1800 h, Litteratursalen, Stormen bibliotek, Bodø

Screening of the film Weimar Express (Bulgaria 2023 1h 15min),                                                                               – A documentary about Joseph Goebbels’ Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung (European Writer’s Union) and three writers who supported the new cultural order of Nazi-Germany, Fani Popova-Mutafova, Robert Brasillach and Knut Hamsun.
19:15: Director Milena Fuchedjieva in conversation with researchers Tore Rem,
Alvhild Dvergsdal and Gisèle Sapiro. Host: Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen .
20:45. End
21:15 Boat to Kjerringøy (1 h).
22:15 Late night meal. Fish soup.

Wednesday 5 June

Site: Kjerringøy Bryggehotell https://www.kjerringoybryggehotell.no/ 

09:15. Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen. Welcome, practicalities and introductory lecture.
10:05 Technical break.

10:15 Sections
Section A chair Leiv Sem.
Birgitte Furberg Moe. Negotiations about Truth: On the Norwegian Literary Reception
of Feuchtwanger’s novel Die Geschwister Oppenheim (1933)
Alvhild Dvergsdal. Nazi rhetoric in Knut Hamsun’s political prose in the 1930s?
Erin Small Capistrano: Resistance from the Archives: Journalism, Performance and Censorship in the Federal Theatre Project’s Etiopia. (1936), a “Living Newspaper” created in the wake of the Italian
invasion of Ethiopia.
Section B chair Ronny Spaans.
Hallvard Kjelen.Viking Fredlaus as war literature
Diana Gor. The Contraband Ukrainian Translation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm
Nouzha Baba. Narrating 9/11 Terrorism, the War on Terror and Political Manipulation
in Driss Chraïbi’s L’homme qui venait du passé
Section C Chair Tanja Ellingsen.
Anemona Constantin: Conservative liberalism and liberal conservatism within two
transnational networks. Intellectuals between Europe, the United-States and Latin
America
– Kamilla Aslaksen: On women’s freedom of speech
-Oleksandr Avramchuk. The Exiled Mind. Anti-Soviet Defectors, Munich Institute, and
the Cold War Politics of Knowledge
12:00 Lunch

Early afternoon section chair Pål Halvorsen.                                                                                                     13:15. Anders Engberg-Pedersen. Inventing WWIII. Ideology, Warfare, and the
Securitization of the Novel
14:00. Alan Finlayson. “A Hero’s Journey? Ideological Entrepreneurs and Reactionary
Digital Politics”
14:45 Tanja Ellingsen. From Fascism to Traditionalism: The Legacy of Interwar
Intellectuals and the New Far Right.
15:25 Coffee/tea                                                                                                                                               

Late afternoon section chair Tore Rem.                                                                                                              ..15:45 Eve Gianoncelli “On the Culture Battlefield: Sexual Conservatism and
Metapolitics”
Valentin Behr (with Eve) : Variations of Metapolitics: France, Italy, and Poland in
perspective
16:30. Iryna Shuvalova. “Poetry at War. Resilience and Resistance in Ukrainian
Writing”
17:00 Narve Fulsås. The economics and culture of Kjerringøy trading post.
17:30. Village on foot with guided visit of Kjerringøy manor.
20:00 Conference Dinner.
21:30 Reading by Iryna Shuvalova plus musician.
22:30. Hot tube/sauna & midnight sun swim in the sea.

Thursday 6 June

Morning section chair Narve Fulsås
09:00 Rachel Potter ‘A sort of little United Nations’: International P.E.N.
09:45 Gisèle Sapiro & Peter McDonald – Conversation: A Discourse on Method:
Innovative words, Internationalism, Violence, and Peace, 1921-1946.
10.30. Coffee/Tea
10.45. Andreas Hedberg and Michelle Kelly: The Shifting Valence of Swedish
Neutrality and the Autonomous Literary Sphere in PEN International and Swedish
11.15. Erik Vassenden «Chapter the Last (1923/ Engl. 1929) – Knut Hamsun’s final
solution and its critical reception»
11.45. Tore Rem: Knut Hamsun from Kjerringøy to the Ossietzky debate
12:30. Lunch
Section A chair Pål Halvorsen
14:00 Ronny Spaans. New Norwegian Poets and the political impulses from the Folk
high school
Leiv Sem. Brothers in arms? The Christian Fascism, Psalms and Religious Poetry of
Dagfinn and Ludvig Daae Zwilgmeyer.
Jennifer Harvey. The Modernism/Fascism Nexus: Nation, History, and Form in the
Modernist War Poem
Section B chair Mario Kikas
14:00 Sofie Arneberg and Lars Johnsen on big data, digital reading and ideas for the
WV project.
Carlo de Nuzzo. Ideology and right-wing intellectuals’ European nationalism neofascism
Aidan O’Malley. Hubert Butler’s Reflections on Church-State Relations in Ustaša
Croatia and Ireland: Respectability and Crime.
15:45 Coffee/te
16:10 Closing lecture. Johs Hjellbrekke, Oppositions in literary spaces and
subspaces 1940-1945. A geometric data analysis.
16:55 Plenary discussions.
17:45. End of program.

Evening transport to Bodø:

18:30 Boat to Bodø with sightseeing (for those who stay the night in Bodø).

Important notice: If you have a plane to catch in the evening, there is a bus via ferry
from Kjerringøy at 16:45 arriving Bodø Airport at 17:57. Flights for Oslo, Trondheim,
or Tromsø in the evening. 

Accommodation
Participants do not need to reserve lodging, but we – the organizers – need a binding
confirmation that you are coming by May 1st at the latest. We need to know whether
you leave on the sixth or the seventh. Please confirm date of arrival and departure to
ivar.p.bakke@nord.no 
You pay the hotels with credit card upon departure.                                                                                                                                                      *                                                                                                                                  Early career researchers who have had their abstract accepted may be provided with
free board and lodging. Write us if you feel you qualify.                                                                                                RECIPIENTS MUST BE PREPARED TO SHARE ROOMS, CABIN OR APARTMENT.

Prices:
Kjerringøy Bryggehotel; 4-6 June
1795 NOK per night, all inclusive (About 160 Euros, includes breakfast, lunch, dinner
& snacks).
Hotel Scandic Havet Bodø: 6-7 June
1 120 NOK single room per night, breakfast included. 1420 NOK for doubles.

The airport is a ten minute walk (!) from Stormen Library and Scandic Havet Hotel in
Bodø center. The railway station also in the city center. Public transport by bus and
ferry from Bodø to Kjerringøy island only rarely.
If possible, please travel with the group, by the boat that we provide.
Hotels:
https://www.kjerringoybryggehotell.no/
https://www.scandichotels.no/hotell/norge/bodo/scandic-havet
Please confirm your participation and hotel reservation to
 ivar.p.bakke@nord.no by May 1st 2024.
Due to limited capacity at Kjerringøy bryggehotel you may have to share a room with
someone. Please tell us if you are travelling with a partner or have preferred
roommates. If not, we just mix same sex people.
Please tell us if you have any questions. ivar.p.bakke@nord.no 
For possible questions concerning academic matters: kjetil.jakobsen@nord.no

Publication.
Participants are encouraged to send their article manuscripts to a
special issue of Acta Sociologica on Authoritarianism and Culture.
This is the call:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00016993241232810

Joining the conference:  

A limited number of places for non-presenters are available. If you wish to participate please contact ivar.p.bakke@nord.no  by May 15 at the latest. Please make clear if you wish to stay overnight or just participate in daytime proceedings.