Enclosure
Most important papers for conferences, guest lectures, meetings, etc.
Click on the number to read a paper in full-text.
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Presentation in seminar series held by Arbejderhistorisk Cirkel at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen Amager, "Solidaritetsarbejde i forhold til Sydafrika, herunder fagforeningernes rolle" (International Solidarity Work by the Danish Trade Unions), 12 April 2011. |
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Conference paper, "Nordic support to South Africa during and after apartheid: how the history of solidarity was created and used by NGOs and governments", The University of Texas Africa Conference, Austin, March 25-27, 2011. |
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Paper on "History and Ideology in South Africa - the Intellectuals and the Struggle for Equality" presented at Centre for the Study of Equality and Multiculturalism, University of Copenhagen, 11 February 2011. |
ü4 |
Panellist
input and organising of seminar at CAS, University of Copenhagen, Sources of
Freedom Struggle - Anti-apartheid Archives and the Use of History in
Democratic Transition, 12 May 2009. |
ü5 |
Lecture
on ”Den demokratiske revolution og de intellektuelle: Ideologiske og pragmatiske historieopfattelsers signifikans under og efter apartheid” (on the significance of ideological and pragmatic history-views during and after apartheid) at Danish History
Seminar 2009, 13 March 2009. |
ü |
Presentation
at a book launch at DIIS, Copenhagen, 14 November 2006. |
ü |
Talk
on “How to write the history of South Africa” at a meeting arranged by the
English Speaking Union at the South African Embassy residence in Copenhagen 6
October 2005. |
ü8 |
Paper for AAM Conference, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 10-13 October
2004, “Competition and cooperation in the use of solidarity history: The case
of Nordic support to South Africa”. |
ü9 |
Paper for conference, SOAS/ICS, University of London, 10-12 September 2004,
“Historians in the New South Africa: Exposing Conflicts or Promoting
Reconciliation”. |
ü10 |
Paper,
“The unique and the universal in South Africa's development: conventional,
radical, and grassroots expectations in past and present” for the conference
South Africa Ten Years After on 24 May 2004, at the Danish Institute for
International Studies, Copenhagen. |
ü |
Paper
for NETREED-conference in Lillehammer, Norway, December 2003, “History
writing and history education in post-apartheid South Africa”. |
ü |
Paper
for NAI’s Africa Days October 2003, “The Role of Historians in the New South
Africa. Exposing Conflicts and Social Differences or Promoting Reconciliation
and National Unity”. |
ü |
Presentation
at South Africa Contact seminar meeting 0ctober 2003, “Who is Writing History
in the New South Africa and Why?” |
ü14 |
Own
conference as concluding activity for my research programme at NAI in
cooperation with Centre of African Studies in Copenhagen August 2002 under
the heading, Collective Memory and Present day Politics in South Africa and
the Nordic Countries, with more than 50 researchers participating. Two edited
works from this conference forthcoming. Own conference Paper: “The discussion
of the relationship between capitalism and apartheid: elaborations over Lipton’s
position”. |
ü |
Chair
at seminar EACLALS 2002, European Association for Commonwealth Language and
Literature Studies, Triennial Conference, University of Copenhagen, 21 – 27
March 2002. |
ü16 |
Paper
for the 9th Conference of Africanists Africa in the Context of North-South
Relations in Moscow, 21-23 May, 2002, “The discussion about South Africa: the
research debate on apartheid until 1994”. |
ü |
Organiser
and chair for several NAI Research Forums and Public Lectures 1999-2002. |
ü |
National
Conference on Values, Education and Democracy, Kirstenbosh, Cape Town, South
Africa 22/2-01. |
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Organiser
and paper, NAI Africa Days 2001 “History,
Mentality and Nationbuilding in South Africa”. |
ü20 |
Key
speaker, Conference on History for Democracy in Cape Town 23/2 – 1/3 2000,
Slave Lodge, South African Cultural History Museum. “History, Mentality and
Nation Building in Denmark and South Africa”. |
ü |
American
Anthropological Association 99th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 19/11-2000. |
ü |
Seminar
lecture at NAI 30/5-1999, “Use and Misuse of History in the Creation of
Identity in South Africa”. |
ü |
Lecture
at Economicum, Uppsala University, November 1999, “The Social and Economical
Situation in South Africa during Transformation”. |
ü |
Lecture
at Krogerup Folk High School August 1999, “The History of South Africa in
Overview”. |
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Lecture
at the Student Congregation University of Copenhagen, September 1996, Country
of upheavals, “The Contended past of South Africa”. |
ü |
Paper
on Higher Education in Africa at NAI’s Africa Days in Uppsala, 19/9-1997. |
ü27 |
Paper
delivered at Den Kgl. Veterinær- og Landbohøjskole (Faculty of Life
Sciences), Centre for Tropical Forestry 15/1 1997, “Divergent views on
African colonial history”. |
Media interviews etc.
U 1 |
Interview to Kristeligt Dagblad (Christian
Daily Newspaper), April 22 2009. |
U 2 |
Interview to Kristeligt Dagblad (Christian
Daily Newspaper), September 27, 2008. |
U |
Danish TV2 News on ANC Congress, December
17, 2007. |
U 4 |
Interview on book launch given to magazine WOZA,
No. 6, 2006. |
U |
Speech
at seminar meeting, NAI, Uppsala, December 4 2006, quoted in journal NEWS. |
U 6 |
Video
interview to African Activist Archive, Michigan State University, 2004. |
U 7 |
Interview
given to the Danish newspaper Berlingske’s Weekendavisen on the Truth
and Reconciliation Committee, October 27 1998. |
U 8 |
Interview
given to the Danish newspaper Aktuelt on Mandela’s eighty year’s
birthday, July 18 1998. |
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