Knowledge on the Nordics

Listen to global historian Annette Skovsted Hansen from Aarhus University and legal expert Ellen Eftestöl from the University of Helsinki, amongst others, on climate issues, research and  the latest currents in the green transition and shipping.  This is the second of two podcast on The Maritime Nordics . For further reading and links, go to nordics.info . Follow us on Instagram , Facebook and Lin...

Editor of nordics.info Nicola Witcombe looks into why the Nordic countries are seen – and see themselves – as maritime nations, and how this has connected them with the rest of the world. To help her, she speaks to global historian Annette Skovsted Hansen from Aarhus University and legal expert Ellen Eftestöl from the University of Helsinki. This is the first of two podcast on The Maritime Nordics...

Listen to a podcast about the Women’s International Democratic Federation during the  Cold War period and why is was important to women from the Nordic region to be involved. With Yulia Gradskova Associate Professor at Södertörn University and Nicola Witcombe, editor of nordics.info. Read more on nordics.info . Follow us on Instagram , Facebook and LinkedIn .

The Nordics are often seen as ethical countries because they have a reputation for being environmentally friendly and for giving a lot in development aid. Listen to a podcast on how Nordic cooperation works through politicians, civil servants and civil society, and how it is often more driven by self-interest than at first appears. Editor of nordics.info Nicola Witcombe speaks to Sunniva Engh who...

Listen to an interview with indigenous arctic archeologist Kirstine Eiby Møller and hear about the Qilakitsoq mummies and how they have informed her work. Read more on nordics.info . This is the latest in the podcast series ' The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from Greenland ' about Greenland's history and art. Sound credits from freesound.org including "Noir" Reel by...

Listen to an interview with PhD in Arctic Studies Rosannguaq Rossen, and hear about the history of the West Greenlandic dress and a picture from 1862 showing two women wearing pearl beads round the neck for the first time. Read more on nordics.info . This is the latest in the podcast series ' The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from Greenland ' about Greenland's history and art....

Listen to an interview with Director of Nuuk Art Museum Nivi Christensen and hear about how two key Greenlandic artists - Pia Arke and Anne-Birthe Hove - have informed her own work. Read more on nordics.info . This is the latest in the podcast series ' The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from Greenland ' about Greenland's history and art. Sound credits from freesound.org includin...

Lyt til et historisk overblik over mennesker med handicap: aktivisme og politiske strømninger i Norden siden 1945. Artiklen er originalt skrevet på engelsk af Anna Derksen og oplæst af Kieu Anh Nguyen fra nordics.info . Du kan lytte til podcasten på engelsk her , eller læs artiklen på engelsk her. #nordicsinfo #ReNEWHub Follow us on Instagram , Facebook and LinkedIn .

Listen to an historical overview of disability policies and movements in the Nordic countries since 1945. You can also listen to this podcast in Danish by clicking here . You can also read the podcast as an article, which is by Anna Derksen, here . #nordicsinfo #ReNEWHub Follow us on Instagram , Facebook and LinkedIn .

Lyt til historien om Islands historie. Artiklen fra danmarkshistorien.dk om Islands historie  er oplæst af Kieu Anh Nguyen fra nordics.info . Læs artiklen på dansk her eller på engelsk her . #nordicsinfo #ReNEWHub Follow us on Instagram , Facebook and LinkedIn .

Listen to a potted history of Iceland from the Viking Age to today. It is an article found on nordics.info in English and on danmarkshistorien.dk in Danish. It is read by editor of nordics.info, Nicola Witcombe. You can read the article in English here and in Danish here . #nordicsinfo #ReNEWHub Sound credits from freesound.org including Flock of seagulls.wav by juskiddink and bricks hitting by Ro...

Hot topics in current academic research on the Nordic region today include welfare, colonialism and heterogeneity. These – as well as a host of other issues - form the content of this podcast, the last in the series ‘ The Nordics Uncovered: Critical Voices from the Region ’.  Editor of nordics.info , Nicola Witcombe, is joined by Mary Hilson Professor of History at Aarhus University in Denmark and...

Listen to this podcast if you are interested in how Sweden’s policymaking successes and failures since the Cold War have been perceived domestically and outside the region, including:  Sweden’s early involvement in humanitarianism; The ‘utopian trap’; Sweden-bashing; Perspectives on social engineering.  Carl Marklund is a researcher and Research Director at the Institute of Contemporary History at...

Listen to this podcast if you are interested in:  Women’s role in business from around 1900 to today. The Norwegian gender quota system on business boards. Why we should question our love of ‘quick fix’ global indexes which often place the Nordics at the top.  The fact that there is usually a host of other political reasons for gender-positive action that have nothing to do with equality. Eirinn L...

This nordics.info podcast will be about the practicalities of history-making and how commercial and non-commercial organisations use history to sell tickets or a particular version of the past. Listen to this podcast if you want to hear more about: What role do museums play? The specific heritage portrayed by country houses in and outside the Nordics. What we forget is just as important as what we...

Listen to this podcast if you are interested in finding out more about: Minorities in Finland; Myths  of homogeneity in the Nordics; The politicising and categorising of minorities and migrants;  History-writing. Miika Tervonen , Senior Research Fellow at the Migration Institute of Finland and Docent at the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki, helps editor of nordics.info Nicol...

Listen to this podcast if you want to hear more about: Memory studies. Why is our relationship with the past so important for society? How do we deal with different versions of the past? Scandinavian memory culture: the dangers of complacency. The editor of nordics.info and Danish history student Vibeke Sandager Rønnedal interview two historians from Aarhus University and the Danish Centre for Urb...

Listen to this nordics.info podcast if you are interested in finding out more about: The traits of the Nordic Model; Examples of policy successes and policy challenges in the Nordics; The relationship between the Nordics and the EU; The provision of universal services, like early years childcare in Denmark and Sweden. Editor of nordics.info Nicola Witcombe interviews Caroline de la Porte, a Europe...

Listen to this podcast if you are interested in : How a collective mindset has been discernable in Denmark and the Nordic countries at points in history – and whether this still applies today; Mass education in the nineteenth century in Denmark and greater emphasis on vocational training; Labour market relations; Neoliberalism and threats to collectivism. Join the editor of nordics.info, Nicola Wi...

The interplay between popular culture and the ’real’ world is an interesting one: Can cultural products really have an effect on geopolitics ? And can geopolitical actors learn from them? Robert Saunders thinks so. He is Professor in the Department of History, Politics and Geography the State University of New York and is interviewed by editor of nordics.info Nicola Witcombe. Find out more about h...

Listen to this podcast if you want to hear more about: The North Atlantic Islands of Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands; Denmark-Norway colonialism in the modern-day Caribbean and Ghana and its legacies; The Greenlandic flag, 'Erfalasorput', and how it is used to respond to the Danish flag, the 'Dannebrog'; Contemporary cultural and political debates on racism, including...

Listen to this nordics.info podcast on the social, political and literary movement from around 1870 to 1900 in Scandinavia! Dubbed the Modern Breakthrough, it was a backlash against conservatism, both culturally and politically, and led to countless challenging and fascinating pieces of fictional and non-fictional literature and art. Authors were like celebrities, propounding social justice for th...

Listen to this podcast if you are interested in finding out more about: Contemporary Icelandic literature to read in English translation; Currents in Icelandic and Nordic literature on rewriting the past; The exoticising of Iceland and the North; and, Nordic noir as a category in literature and film. Join the editor of nordics.info , Nicola Witcombe on her fourth virtual visit around the Nordic co...

Children being exposed to a certain level of risk is not always seen as a bad thing in the Nordics; exposure can give children the tools to deal with risk and help them to become resilient and independent. The attitude of caregivers, teachers and children in the Nordics to online risk also reflects this approach - while elsewhere in the world a more stringent view is often taken. How we tackle chi...

This podcast tackles a wide-range of factors about the educational systems of the Nordic countries, focusing primarily on Sweden and comparisons with Finland. On the way, it answers the following questions:  Why does the Finnish education system have such a good reputation around the world?  After decades of reform, is the Swedish education system in crisis?  How does decision-making and the polit...