Budget: NOK 19,4 million
Funders: Nord University and NRC
Start and finish date: 01.06.2022 - 31.12.2026
Consortium: Nord University, University of Oslo, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, The Falstad Centre – Levanger and The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies – Oslo
Researchers:
- Professor Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen, Nord (project leader)
- Professor Tore Rem, UiO/Nord
- Professor Johs Hjellbrekke, UiB/Nord
- Professor Guri Hjeltnes, Holocaustsenteret/Nord
- Associate professor Tanja Ellingen, Nord
- Associate professor Leiv Sem, Nord
- Associate professor Ronny Spaans, Nord
- Associate professor Synne Corell, HL-senteret/UiB
- Associate professor Anette Homlong Storeide, Falstad-senteret
- Associate professor Marianne Neerland Solheim, UiT
Expert group:
- Professor Gisèle Sapiro, CNRS, Paris
- Professor Tor Agnar Korneliussen, Nord
- Professor emeritus Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes, UK
- Professor Terje Emberland, HL-senteret
- Professor Narve Fulsås, UiT
Abstract:
The Words and Violence project analyses the democratic resilience and vulnerability of cultural life in the 1930s and ’40s, using both statistical and qualitative approaches. The Norwegian experience is compared with that of other countries under fascist occupation during World War II, notably France. Focus is on the field of literature before, during and after the occupation. Researchers examine why writers, translators, and intellectuals made the choices they did, faced with censorship and terror, but will also explore a new kind of public investment in culture, orchestrated by the dictatorship. The aim is to produce solid knowledge about historical issues that are hotly debated and of obvious contemporary relevance, but that are rarely researched in a systematic way. Problems of memory politics and public history are emphasised.