Time: Thursday April 23 at 08.00-09.30 NB! MORNING SESSION PRE-CONFERENCE OPENING
Auditorium: To be announced
Chair: Professor Steen Bo Frandsen, University of Southern Denmark

During the 19th century the cultural and political relations between Denmark and Germany changed dramatically. The spread of national ideologies and the coming of nation states were incompatible with close relations and flowing borders. The development gave the question of size a new and hitherto unknown importance in the relationship. The one time expanding Danish neighbour was reduced to a small state almost fighting for the existence as an independent country. At the same time the Prussia dominated German state became more and more associated with military power and economic strength. The traditional picture of a Kulturnation composed of many small states was fading. A growing German self-confidence was met with a stronger reserve by the neighbouring countries, and the nation-building process demanded a clarification of physical and mental borders: Political, economical and cultural borders were re-invented, kinship and relations redefined.

Speakers:

PhD-student Dean J. Guarnaschelli, St. John’s University, New York:
The Lady and the Dane: Lydia Baer and the championing of J.P. Jacobsen

PhD- student Ryan J. Gesme, University of Tennessee-Knoxville:
To Remain in Our Native Home: Danish and German Reponses to the Deportations of Oberpräsident Köller

Associate Professor Anna Sandberg, University of Copenhagen:
Danish-German Cultural Relations and Danish Nation-Building after 1864

PhD student Frederik Forrai Ørskov, University of Helsinki:
Germany, the United States of Norden, and European Federalism in Late-19th Century Scandinavist Political Visions

Time: Thursday April 23 at 15.15-16.45
Auditorium: To be announced
Chair: Associate Professor Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Aarhus University

1919 is a watershed moment in European history. With the Treaties of Versailles and Saint Germain, Europe’s two central land empires, Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were broken up, and the nation states that define Europe today emerged out of the peace settlements. This panel will focus on the new German-Danish border that emerged out of the peace settlement. The presenters will discuss how the new border was linked to and used to promote different ideas about nationality, statehood and German-Danish relations in Copenhagen, Berlin as well as in the border region.

Speakers:

Post-doc Jens Lei Wendel-Hansen, University of Southern Denmark:
The 1864 trauma and the political framing of Danish foreign policy 1864-1920

Associate Professor Michael Jonas, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg:
Tiedje and Beyond: The 1920 Schleswig Plebiscites in German Politics and Memory

Head of Department, Axel Johnsen, Museum Sønderborg:
Political Uses of History: The North Schleswig Unification with Denmark and National Self-Determination

Commentator:
Professor Emeritus Uffe Østergaard, Aarhus University

Time: Friday April 24 at 10.30-12.00
Auditorium: To be announced
Chair: Senior Researcher Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke, Danish Institute for International Studies

The belief that 1989 not only marked the end of the Cold War, but also the end of history with "the universalisation of Western liberal democracy" has not been able to stand the test of history. As the long-standing liberal consensus on key principles such as free trade, multilateralism and human rights crumbles, the international society of states is seemingly reverting to a more traditional nationalist mode of politics. This is seen globally, but also more specifically in Europe, where a more assertive Russia, Trump declaring the EU a foe, Chinese investment strategies, Arctic rivalries, and even Brexit point in the direction that European states need to rethink their security and international policies in a very fundamental way. This may prove a real challenge as it might involve a new German responsibility in the field of security, new ways of perceiving security, new political alignments and cooperative frameworks and new efforts to strengthen political and security cooperation in the EU with impact on the relationship between Denmark and German. During this panel,  "Germany, Denmark and the New Geopolitical Turn" we will revisit 1989 and take a closer look at the role of Germany in both Danish and European foreign and security policy.

Speakers:
Associate professor Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Aarhus University:
1989 as an European Geopolitical Turning Point

Professor Anders Wivel, University of Copenhagen:
Germany in Danish Foreign and Security Policy after the Cold War

Former ambassador and Secretary General of the EU Council of Ministers, Niels Ersbøll  

Time: Friday April 24 at 13.15-14.45
Auditorium: To be announced
Chair: Associate Professor Rasmus Mariager, University of Copenhagen

1945 is often described as Germany’s Stunde Null, but no more than ten years later, it was rather the German Wirtschaftswunder that captured the headlines. By combining catholic inspired welfare state philosophy and a liberal market, West Germany soon outmatched its Eastern counterpart and re-established itself as the dynamic engine of the Western European economy. However, critics in the OEEC and elsewhere maintained that the economic recipe - later known as the German economic model - consisting of tight state budgets, price stability policies and increasing export surpluses worked well for Germany, but not for Europe. Similar criticism was voiced during the oil crisis of the 1970s, mainly within the EC and the G7, now further sustained by the argument that West Germany had a special responsibility due to its control of the strongest currency of the time, the D-Mark. In other words, it is obvious that the German model has been a topic of discussion long before the establishment of today’s Eurozone. In this workshop, we will focus on the role and perception of the German economic model for the reconstruction and growth of the European post-war economy from 1945 to 1989.

Speakers:
Associate Professor Jan Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
Expert Advice on Economic Policy: The Independent Councils in the FRG and Denmark, c. 1965-1989   

Professor Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, University of Glasgow
Germany and the question of the incompleteness of EMU    

Associate Professor Alfred  Reckendrees, Copenhagen Business School
German Wirtschaftswunder and Modell Deutschland in a European Context