Session 1: Friday 5 October at 15.30–18:00

Hans Erik Stolten

Introduction.

“History, Mentality and Nationbuilding in South Africa.”

Discussant: Giulia Ray.

Birthe Rytter Hansen

”Inclusion of Difference in the Making of History: Celebrating Difference and Promoting Unity on Heritage Day 2000, South Africa.”

Discussant: Björn Lindgren.

Steffen Jensen

“The Eternal Gangster? Young Coloured Men’s Coping With Negative Stereotyping and Marginalization on the Cape Flats.”

Discussant: Susanne Branner Jespersen.

Karolijna Saajos

“The Personal and the Political: Motherhood in African Nationalism and Feminism in Twentieth Century South Africa.”

Discussant: Steffen Jensen.

Session 2: Saturday 6 October at 09.30–10.30

Susanne Branner Jespersen 

”Heroes should not push wheelbarrows. War veterans and the call for unity in Guinea-Bissau’s civil war.”

Discussant: Muddle Suzanne Lilius.

Risto Marjomaa

“The Marital Spirit of the Yao: The Yaos of Nyasaland (Malawi) in British Military Service During Peace, 1895-1939.”

Discussant: Märta Salokoski.

Session 3: Saturday 7 October at 14.30–16.30

Giulia Ray

“Wherever Something Stands, Something Else will Stand Beside It: Identity Formation and Cultural Clash in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and No longer at Ease.”

Discussant: Karolijna Saajos.

Märta Salokoski

“Myth and History in the Representation of Owambo Origins and Kingship.”

Discussant: Risto Marjomaa.

Björn Lindgren

“History and Identity: Representing the Ndebele Past in the Present.”

Discussant: Christine Smith-Simonsen.

Session 4: Sunday 31 October at 10.00–12.00

Christine Smith-Simonsen

“Norwegian Relations to Eritrea.”

Discussant: Hans Erik Stolten.

Holger Weiss

“The Northern Factor in Ghanaian and Nigerian historiography.”

Discussant: Birthe Rytter Hansen.

Muddle Suzanne Lilius

”‘African History’ vs ‘Historiography of Africa’. A Critical Examination of Naming.”

Discussant: Holger Weiss.

Concluding discussion on History and Identity.