The scientific programme consists of three keynote lectures by Mathias Danbolt, Merike Kurisoo and Anna Ripatti as well as 28 sessions listed below:
Ambiguous Antiquity—classicism and its reception in the Nordic countries during the 18th and early 19th century Session chairs: Tonje Haugland Sørensen & Amalie Skovmøller
Architecture in Sápmi
Session chairs: Carlos Mínguez Carrasco , Petteri Kummala & Bente Aass Solbakken
Art and Creative Practices in Healthcare Institutions—a Nordic Context
Session chair: Hedvig Mårdh
The Artist’s Role and “Nordic” Identity
Session chairs: Andrea Kollnitz & Øystein Sjåstad
Biennials in the Nordic Countries: histories, places, practices, and politics
Session chairs: Hanne Hammer Stien & Elin Haugdal
Crafting the Nordic, Mapping, Archiving, and Disseminating Session chairs: Johanna Rosenqvist, Anneli Palmsköld & Karin Gustavsson
Cross-Border Contacts in Nordic Art: public interfaces of artistic circulation 1900–2000
Session chairs: Marta Edling & Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe
Dreams of the South: Nordic architecture and the Mediterranean
Session chair: Panagiotis Farantatos
From Taxonomy to Fluxus: Nordic art at the borders between Medieval and Early Modern
Session chairs: Kristin Kausland & Julia Trinkert
Mediation of Nature in Nordic Design Cultures
Session chairs: Niels Peter Skou & Anders V. Munch
Myth, Mythology, and Mythmaking in the North
Session chairs: Oscar Ortiz-Nieminen, Terhi Utriainen & Alexandra Bergholm
Nation-Building and the Collaboration Between Antiquarians and Restorers in (Re)Creating Church Interiors in the Nordic Region
Session chairs: Elisabeth Andersen & Susanne Kaun
Negotiating Systems of Power: Nordic artists working within or in resistance to institutional spaces
Session chairs: Wylie Schwartz & Katherine Jackson
The Network of Images in the 19th Century Nordic Countries
Session chair: Ringa Takanen
“The Nordic Art”—the knowledge circulation by women artists from the Nordic countries at the turn of the 20th century
Session chairs: Kerstin Lind & Karin Ström Lehander
The "Nordic Miracle": exhibition histories from the 1990s to the present
Session chairs: Katharina Alsen & Maike Teubner
Nordic Prefabricated Housing in an International Perspective
Session chairs: Mia Åkerfelt, Tzafrir Fainholtz & Martti Veldi
Nordic Rural Modernity
Session chairs: Kesia E. Halvorsrud & Tove Haugsbø
Nordic Women, Art, and Esotericism
Session chairs: Marja Lahelma & Nina Kokkinen
Nordik/Not Nordik: Scandinavian artists abroad (1850–1950)
Session chair: Mary Peterson Zundo
Pre-modern Art Histories of Migration and Exchange: moving images, objects, and artistic expressions from, to, and between the Nordic countries
Session chairs: Ylva Haidenthaller, Charlotta Krispinsson & Clara Strömberg
Public Art Policies in the Post-Welfare Phase
Session chairs: Håkan Nilsson & Oscar Svanelid
Representing the Nordic and Nordicness in Cultural Diplomacy before and after 1989—art and design exhibitions as cultural diplomacy in, from, and to the Nordic Countries
Session chairs: Kristian Handberg, Maija Koskinen & Camilla Larsson
Sensing the Nordic: multisensory art and exhibitions in a Nordic perspective
Session chair: Viveka Kjellmer
Søsterskap—on contemporary Nordic photography
Session chairs: Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir & Anna Tellgren
Under the Protection of the Nordic Democracy and Welfare: artist collectives, collectivism, and activist future-making of the 1970s and beyond
Session chairs: Riikka Haapalainen, Hanna Johansson & Riikka Niemelä
Was there a Nordic Renaissance?
Session chairs: Johan Eriksson & Henrik Widmark
Why a Nordic History about Early Women Photographers?
Session chairs: Mette Sandbye & Sigrid Lien
Pre-conference get-together, Architecture & Design Museum
8.30–18.30 Conference Scientific Program
19.00 Reception at the Helsinki City Hall (free of charge: registration required, the registration will open by September)
8.30–17.00 Conference Scientific Program
19.00 Conference Dinner at Hima & Sali (registration required)
8.30–17.30 Conference Scientific Program