Program Sept 18-19

Utøya Island and The 22 July Centre

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

Open to all. Conference language September 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

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. Conference language September 18-19: English
Meeting presiders: 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 resistance
• 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.