Programme
Thursday, April 18th

15.00 – 15.20 Opening & Welcome
Susanne Gaschke, Major of Kiel
Sven Erik Svedman, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway
Markus Hundt, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Kiel University

15.20 – 15.50 Steen Bo Frandsen (Sønderborg)
The sudden death of a small empire.
Reception
Denmark and the Peace of Kiel

16.40 – 17.20 Michael Bregnsbo (Odense)
The Danish decision to cede Norway and the conclusion of the peace treaty of Kiel.

17.20 – 18.00 Rasmus Glenthøj (Copenhagen)
Impacts of the defeat. The Danish state in the wake of the catastrophe of 1814.

18.00 – 18.40 Lars Clausen (Sønderborg)
Kiel 1814: Sociological observations of an improbable order.

Evening-lecture

19.00 Bernd Henningsen (Berlin)
Nicht nur 1814: Die Konstruktion einer Nation aus der Niederlage.

Friday, April 19th
Kiel 1814

9.00 – 9.40 Martin Rackwitz (Kiel)
The hardships of the Swedish occupation on everyday life in Kiel in the winter of 1813/14.

9.40 – 10.20 Lena Cordes (Kiel)
Between Denmark and Germany? The University Kiel around 1814.

Coffee break

10.30 – 11.00 Ruth Sindt (Kiel)
Northern Europe in the University Library
Kiel: Using the internet to find scientific information on the Peace of Kiel.

11.00 – 11.40 Sonja Kinzler (Bremen)
Peace for the North. The treaty’s anniversary exhibition in 2014.

11.40 – 12.20 Lunch Break
Norway

12.20 – 13.00 Ola Mestad (Oslo)
Under Danish-Norwegian law, the Kiel Treaty returned sovereignty to the Norwegian people.

13.00 – 13.40 Erik Jondell (Eidsvoll)
Eidsvoll – on constitutional ground. Sweden

13.50 – 14.30 Lars Ericson Wolke (Stockholm)
A European and a Scandinavian power? The Peace of Kiel and Sweden’s strategical situation in the years 1813-1815.

14.30 – 15.10 Robert Riemer (Greifswald)
Crisis in the periphery. Pomerania between 1803 and 1815.

Excursion

Saturday, April 20th
The North Sea, Atlantic and Indian Ocean

9.00 – 9.40 Anna Agnarsdóttir (Reykjavík)
The Treaty of Kiel 1814: The fate of the North Atlantic dependencies with special regard to Iceland.

9.40 – 10.20 Thorkild Kjærgaard
(Nuuk/Godthaab)

1814: Could it have been otherwise? The Peace of Kiel with special regard to Greenland.

10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break

10.40 – 11.20 Simon Rastén (Copenhagen)
Serampore – A Danish trading post in India during the Napoleonic Wars.

11.20-12.00 Martin Krieger (Kiel)
From Helgoland to Heligoland.

End of the Conference