Thursday, May 14

9.00

Registration

9.30

Opening

Michael Böss: Introduction of the themes of the seminar.

Bodil Due, Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities.

Session 1 Chair: Michael Böss (Aarhus University)

9.50

Prof Francis Fukuyama (Johns Hopkins University/Aarhus University): “American Identity”

10.35

Prof Rogers M. Smith (University of Pennsylvania): “The Impact of Immigration on Stories of Peoplehood in the United States”

11.15

Prof Desmond King (Oxford University): “Immigration, Democratization and State-Building in the United States”

12.00

Lunch

Session 2. Chair: Ken Henriksen (Aarhus University)

13.15

Prof Eric Rauchway (UC Davis): “The Tension between Political Nation-Building, Immigration and Regional Narratives in American History”

13.55

Prof Leo Chavez (UC Irvine):  “The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants and the Nation in the United States”

15.00

Ass. Prof Tomás Jimenez (Stanford University): “The Replenished: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigration and the Dynamics of Ethnic Identity”

15.15

Coffee

Session 3. Chair: Michael Böss

15.45

Prof Emer. Martin Heisler (University of Maryland): “Our Stories, Our Selves: Collective Identities and the Dialogics of Narrative”

16.30

Helle Porsdam (University of Copenhagen): “Law as Cultural Glue in the United States and Europe”

19.00

Dinner at Restaurant Svineriet, Mejlgade 135

Friday, May 15

9.00

HE Peter Lundy, Canadian Ambassador to Denmark, re-opens the seminar

Session 4. Chair: Robert Chr. Thomsen (Aalborg University)

9.10

Distinguished Prof Emer. Jack Granatstein (York University): “Who Are We now? A Multicultural Canada in the 21 ^st Century”

9.45

Prof Andrew Cohen (Carleton University): “Canada's Story: The Urgency of

History”

10.30

Coffee

Session 5. Chair: Jesper Beinov (Berlingske Media)

11.00

Prof Ove Korsgaard (Aarhus University): “Grand Narratives in Danish History: From Functional Identity to Problematic Identity”

11.45

Ass. Prof Bernard Eric Jensen (Aarhus University): “Towards a Theory of Peoplehood as Social Imaginary – Its Presuppositions and Implications”

12.30

Ass. Prof Claus Møller Jørgensen (Aarhus University): “History-writing and National Identity – the Danish case”

13.15

Lunch

Session 6. Chair: Michael Böss (Aarhus University)

14.15

Panel 1

European narratives, immigration and integration

Bernard Eric Jensen

Ove Korsgaard

Claus Møller Jørgensen

Helle Porsdam

Martin Heisler

Ass. Prof. Mark Haugaard (NUI Galway)

15.30

Coffee

Session 7. Chair: Ass. Prof. Jørn Brøndal (University of Southern Denmark)

16.00

Panel 2

North American, narratives, immigration and integration

Francis Fukuyama

Rogers Smith

Desmond King

Erich Rauchway

Tomás Jimenez

Leo Chavez

Andrew Cohen

Jack Granatstein

17.00

 Reception hosted by the Embassy of Canada

19.00

Dinner