Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy: the wartime and post-war consequences of the German invasion of 9 April 1940
Event type:
Conference
Date:
8 April 2010 - 10 April 2010 - On Thursday 8th, at 5.15pm there will be a Public Lecture by Professor Richard Overy on ‘Scandinavia and the Second World War’.
- On Friday 9th, there will be a full-day Conference, open to the public, on ‘Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy'. Leading Scandinavian scholars will deliver papers on the wartime and post-war consequences of the German invasion of 9 April 1940 for Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
- On Saturday 10th, a half-day open Conference, ‘War, Memory, and Literature: Effects of the Second World War on Nordic Culture, 1939–2009’ will conclude the event.
For further details please see the conference website:www.shca.ed.ac.uk/conferences/scandinavian_legacy
Organiser(s):
John Gilmour, Hon Fellow, Scandinavian Studies (on behalf of Professor Jill Stephenson)
Venue:
University of Edinburgh
Location:
Old College, University of Edinburgh 