Jews, Roma and the Nordic Countries – Current Research, New Perspectives
University College London, 6-7 September 2018
Venue: School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW https://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ssees-building
Programme
Thursday 6 September
10:00-11:00 WELCOME & KEYNOTE, Room: 431
- Lily Kahn, Simo Muir, Riitta Valijärvi
- Peter Stadius (University of Helsinki) Nordic societies and tolerance: On research challenges and conceptual traditions
11:00-11:30 TEA AND COFFEE Masaryk Senior Common Room, 4th floor, SSEES
11:30-13:00 SESSION 1, Room: 431
- Pontus Rudberg (Uppsala University) The Swedish Jews and the Holocaust
- Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini Fracapane (Indipendent scholar) "Konnt Ihr mir mal etwas Lebensmittel senden?" Relief and aid to Danish Jews in Theresienstadt: The point of view of the deportees
- Oula Silvennoinen (University of Helsinki) Finland and the Final Solution: Writing a comprehensive Holocaust history of Finland
13:00-14:00 LUNCH Masaryk Senior Common Room, 4th floor, SSEES2
14:00-15:30 SESSION 2 Room: 431
- Simo Muir (UCL/University of Helsinki) Post-war politics of memory among Jews and Roma in Finland
- Eija Stark (University of Helsinki) In pursuit of progress: Narratives of education among the Finnish Roma
- Marko Stenroos (University of Helsinki) Roma agency, inclusion and integration
15:30-16:00 TEA AND COFFEE Masaryk Senior Common Room, 4th floor, SSEES
16:00-17:30 PRESENTATIONS AND RECEPTION SPONSORED BY THE FINNISH INSTITUTE Room: 431
- Ninni Lehtiniemi (The Finnish Institute in London) Kati Pietarinen (freelance journalist) The Stopped project: Challenges and successes of collaboration between research, journalism and art in investigating ethnic profiling in Finland
- Heidi Piiroinen and Kimmo Oksanen (Helsingin Sanomat) The invisibles – Story of a beggar family
Wine reception in Masaryk Senior Common Room, 4th floor, SSEES
17:30-19:00 FREE TIME 19:00-21:00 DINNER (restaurant to be confirmed)
Friday 7 September
10:00-11:00 SESSION 3 Room: 431
- Maja Hultman (University of Southampton) Urban places of Jewish precedence, 1870-1939: What the construction of synagogues and kosher shops in Stockholm can teach us about Jewish/non-Jewish relations
- Tyson John Herberger (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences) Expanding estimates of Norway’s Jewish population
11:00-11:30 TEA AND COFFEE Masaryk Senior Common Room, 4th floor, SSEES3
11:30-13:00 SESSION 4 Room: 431
- Laura Ekholm (University of Helsinki) ʽJewishʼ marriages and occupational choices in Sweden and Finland from the late 19th to the mid- 20th century
- Lily Kahn (UCL) & Riitta Valijärvi (UCL/Uppsala University) Notes on linguistic practices in the Finnish Jewish community as reflected in Jewish publications
- Riikka Tuori (University of Helsinki) Boundaries of Jewish identities in contemporary Finland
13:00-14:00 LUNCH Masaryk Senior Common Room, 4th floor, SSEES
14:00-15:00 FINAL DISCUSSION AND END OF SEMINAR Room: 431
The seminar is organized jointly by the Center for Nordic Studies (CENS), the UCL Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) with a generous support from the Finnish Institute in London.