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The Global Economy: Crisis Without End
Adriaen Isenbrant
Man Weighing Gold, 1515–20.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
The Friedsam Collection
Man Weighing Gold, 1515–20.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
The Friedsam Collection
From Europe to Beijing to Washington, Can the World’s Economic System Cope?
February 17, 2012; 6 p.m.
A panel discussion co-sponsored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Review of Books, and the Fritt Ord Foundation of Oslo.
The New York Review of Books brings together contributors Edmund Phelps, Paul Krugman, George Soros, and Jeffrey D. Sachs, to discuss the number one issue of the day: the financial crisis facing the world. Each panelist will present his views and then join in a discussion, followed by a question and answer session. Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Thomas P. Campbell introduces the evening, setting cultural production within the broader context of global economics.
Introduced by Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
With panelists:
Paul Krugman*
Edmund Phelps*
Jeffrey D. Sachs
George Soros
Chair: Robert Silvers
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Pre-premiere of ‘Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile’ and panel debate
The Fritt Ord Foundation invites the public to a debate and film screening of Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile on Thursday 9 February 2012, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Vika Cinema (Vika 1) in Oslo. There will be an introduction and a debate after the documentary film screening featuring director Beate Arnestad, and Bashana Abeywardane, journalist and writer from Sri Lanka living in exile, writer and former BBC Foreign Correspondent in Sri Lanka Frances Harrison and Sverre Tom Radøy, journalist in Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Co-organiser is Human Rights Human Wrongs Documentary Film Festival.
Due to great interest for this event we have decided to move the debate and film screening to sal 1 at Vika Cinema. There are still available tickets.
Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile is a film of freedom of speech and the messengers of truth to portray how much individuals are willing to offer to bring information to light. The film is told as a personal encounter with exiled journalists from Sri Lanka who have been “silenced” and almost killed in their home country because they exposed war crimes, corruption and massacres of civilians. They claim these crimes are being committed by the state. Sri Lanka is ranking one of the worst countries in Asia with respect to freedom of expression. In the past years, many have disappeared or are found tortured and killed. Close to 50 media workers have recently fled the country.
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Writing Competition on Freedom of Expression 2012
2011-prisvinnerne i Europaparlamentet, januar 2012
WRITING COMPETITION ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Our right to express our opinions, and to read, see or hear what we want should not be taken for granted. Throughout history, constraints have been placed on literature, art, music, the press and broadcasting, as well as on religious, scientific and political expressions. The Freedom of Expression Foundation invites young people between the ages of 12 and 20 to explore this theme.
REGISTRATION
Deadline for registration for 2012: 1 February 2012
Deadline for submitting contributions: 15 February 2012
POSSIBLE TOPICS
Major questions about freedom of speech have become very timely in the wake of the 22 July tragedy.
What is evil, and how can society deal with it?
What is the point of punishment? Should capital punishment be reconsidered in connection with the genocide and mass murder?
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The Russian-Swedish Treaty of 1812 and its Aftermath in Northern Europe
The Treaty was signed in St Petersburg on 5 April (24 March old style) 1812 by Tsar Alexander I and Crown Prince Carl Johan of Sweden. Carl Johan, until recently known as Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France and Prince of Ponte Corvo, had accepted an invitation to become Crown Prince of Sweden. The invitation was based on the expectation that Bernadotte would fortify, rather than terminate, Sweden’s links to France and Napoleon.
The Treaty had repercussions on both the European and regional level. Within the great power game, Sweden became a crucial participant on the allied side in the final phase of the Napoleonic wars. At the regional level, it paved the way for the constitutional upheaval in Norway in 1814 and, ultimately, the formation of the double monarchy of Sweden-Norway within which Norway enjoyed a high degree of autonomy based on the 1814 constitution.
The conference is organised by the Fritt Ord Foundation, Oslo, and the Institute for Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Department of History and Religious Studies, University of Tromsø and the Institute for Defence Studies, Norwegian Defence University College, Oslo.
Participants at the conference will discuss the Treaty in the regional and international context of the maelstrom of the Napoleonic wars, with a special view to the Treaty as one of the international prerequisites for the Norwegian constitution of 1814 and the establishment of the Norwegian nation-state. Prominent historians from Russia, Sweden, France, Great Britain, Norway and Finland will take part.
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The Public Sphere after July 22: Freedom of Expression in the Age of online Politics
The Department for Northern European Studies at Humboldt University and Fritt Ord invite the public to the mini-conference "The Public Sphere after July 22: Freedom of Expression in the Age of online Politics" at The Grimm Centrum Auditorium, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 3, Berlin, on Monday, 5 December 2011
The political public is online. With interactive information and decentralized communication the hold of political elites is being challenged, in democracies as well as dictatorships. But experiences from the countries that are world leading in internet connectivity; are unfortunately not only positive. One has seen a strengthening of the populist right wing in the Nordic countries, Holland and the USA, and now this horrible terrorist act performed by a Norwegian activist from the "dark web" of the "counterjihad". What are the upsides and downsides, promises and dangers involved in the ongoing shift of democracy to digital platforms?
Registration by December 2: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Programme:
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Your personal genome
The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board and the Fritt Ord Foundation invite the public to an open discussion entitled "Your personal genome" at Håndverkeren, Rosenkrantz’ gate 7, Oslo, from 11.30 a.m.–3.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 29 November 2011.
A revolution is taking place in genetics: These days, it is easy and inexpensive to map the DNA of each and every one of us. This opens up whole new opportunities in public health care as well as in research. Meanwhile, these opportunities raise some ethical dilemmas for individuals, families and society-at-large. What would you like to know about your hereditary traits and diseases? Should others be allowed to read your DNA code?
Lone Frank, scientific journalist in the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen, author of the book My Pretty Genome (2010).
Commentators:
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Due to great interest for this event we have decided to move the debate and film screening to sal 1 at Vika Cinema. There are still available tickets.
Silenced Voices – Tales of Sri Lankan Journalists in Exile is a film of freedom of speech and the messengers of truth to portray how much individuals are willing to offer to bring information to light. The film is told as a personal encounter with exiled journalists from Sri Lanka who have been “silenced” and almost killed in their home country because they exposed war crimes, corruption and massacres of civilians. They claim these crimes are being committed by the state. Sri Lanka is ranking one of the worst countries in Asia with respect to freedom of expression. In the past years, many have disappeared or are found tortured and killed. Close to 50 media workers have recently fled the country.
Read more >
Writing Competition on Freedom of Expression 2012
2011-prisvinnerne i Europaparlamentet, januar 2012
WRITING COMPETITION ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Our right to express our opinions, and to read, see or hear what we want should not be taken for granted. Throughout history, constraints have been placed on literature, art, music, the press and broadcasting, as well as on religious, scientific and political expressions. The Freedom of Expression Foundation invites young people between the ages of 12 and 20 to explore this theme.
REGISTRATION
Deadline for registration for 2012: 1 February 2012
Deadline for submitting contributions: 15 February 2012
POSSIBLE TOPICS
Major questions about freedom of speech have become very timely in the wake of the 22 July tragedy.
What is evil, and how can society deal with it?
What is the point of punishment? Should capital punishment be reconsidered in connection with the genocide and mass murder?
Read more >
The Russian-Swedish Treaty of 1812 and its Aftermath in Northern Europe
The Treaty was signed in St Petersburg on 5 April (24 March old style) 1812 by Tsar Alexander I and Crown Prince Carl Johan of Sweden. Carl Johan, until recently known as Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France and Prince of Ponte Corvo, had accepted an invitation to become Crown Prince of Sweden. The invitation was based on the expectation that Bernadotte would fortify, rather than terminate, Sweden’s links to France and Napoleon.
The Treaty had repercussions on both the European and regional level. Within the great power game, Sweden became a crucial participant on the allied side in the final phase of the Napoleonic wars. At the regional level, it paved the way for the constitutional upheaval in Norway in 1814 and, ultimately, the formation of the double monarchy of Sweden-Norway within which Norway enjoyed a high degree of autonomy based on the 1814 constitution.
The conference is organised by the Fritt Ord Foundation, Oslo, and the Institute for Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Department of History and Religious Studies, University of Tromsø and the Institute for Defence Studies, Norwegian Defence University College, Oslo.
Participants at the conference will discuss the Treaty in the regional and international context of the maelstrom of the Napoleonic wars, with a special view to the Treaty as one of the international prerequisites for the Norwegian constitution of 1814 and the establishment of the Norwegian nation-state. Prominent historians from Russia, Sweden, France, Great Britain, Norway and Finland will take part.
Read more >
The Public Sphere after July 22: Freedom of Expression in the Age of online Politics
The Department for Northern European Studies at Humboldt University and Fritt Ord invite the public to the mini-conference "The Public Sphere after July 22: Freedom of Expression in the Age of online Politics" at The Grimm Centrum Auditorium, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 3, Berlin, on Monday, 5 December 2011
The political public is online. With interactive information and decentralized communication the hold of political elites is being challenged, in democracies as well as dictatorships. But experiences from the countries that are world leading in internet connectivity; are unfortunately not only positive. One has seen a strengthening of the populist right wing in the Nordic countries, Holland and the USA, and now this horrible terrorist act performed by a Norwegian activist from the "dark web" of the "counterjihad". What are the upsides and downsides, promises and dangers involved in the ongoing shift of democracy to digital platforms?
Registration by December 2: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Programme:
Read more >
Your personal genome
The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board and the Fritt Ord Foundation invite the public to an open discussion entitled "Your personal genome" at Håndverkeren, Rosenkrantz’ gate 7, Oslo, from 11.30 a.m.–3.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 29 November 2011.
A revolution is taking place in genetics: These days, it is easy and inexpensive to map the DNA of each and every one of us. This opens up whole new opportunities in public health care as well as in research. Meanwhile, these opportunities raise some ethical dilemmas for individuals, families and society-at-large. What would you like to know about your hereditary traits and diseases? Should others be allowed to read your DNA code?
Lone Frank, scientific journalist in the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen, author of the book My Pretty Genome (2010).
Commentators:
Read more >
The Treaty had repercussions on both the European and regional level. Within the great power game, Sweden became a crucial participant on the allied side in the final phase of the Napoleonic wars. At the regional level, it paved the way for the constitutional upheaval in Norway in 1814 and, ultimately, the formation of the double monarchy of Sweden-Norway within which Norway enjoyed a high degree of autonomy based on the 1814 constitution.
The conference is organised by the Fritt Ord Foundation, Oslo, and the Institute for Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Department of History and Religious Studies, University of Tromsø and the Institute for Defence Studies, Norwegian Defence University College, Oslo.
Participants at the conference will discuss the Treaty in the regional and international context of the maelstrom of the Napoleonic wars, with a special view to the Treaty as one of the international prerequisites for the Norwegian constitution of 1814 and the establishment of the Norwegian nation-state. Prominent historians from Russia, Sweden, France, Great Britain, Norway and Finland will take part.
Read more >
The Public Sphere after July 22: Freedom of Expression in the Age of online Politics
The Department for Northern European Studies at Humboldt University and Fritt Ord invite the public to the mini-conference "The Public Sphere after July 22: Freedom of Expression in the Age of online Politics" at The Grimm Centrum Auditorium, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 3, Berlin, on Monday, 5 December 2011
The political public is online. With interactive information and decentralized communication the hold of political elites is being challenged, in democracies as well as dictatorships. But experiences from the countries that are world leading in internet connectivity; are unfortunately not only positive. One has seen a strengthening of the populist right wing in the Nordic countries, Holland and the USA, and now this horrible terrorist act performed by a Norwegian activist from the "dark web" of the "counterjihad". What are the upsides and downsides, promises and dangers involved in the ongoing shift of democracy to digital platforms?
Registration by December 2: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Programme:
Read more >
Your personal genome
The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board and the Fritt Ord Foundation invite the public to an open discussion entitled "Your personal genome" at Håndverkeren, Rosenkrantz’ gate 7, Oslo, from 11.30 a.m.–3.00 p.m. on Tuesday, 29 November 2011.
A revolution is taking place in genetics: These days, it is easy and inexpensive to map the DNA of each and every one of us. This opens up whole new opportunities in public health care as well as in research. Meanwhile, these opportunities raise some ethical dilemmas for individuals, families and society-at-large. What would you like to know about your hereditary traits and diseases? Should others be allowed to read your DNA code?
Lone Frank, scientific journalist in the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen, author of the book My Pretty Genome (2010).
Commentators:
Read more >
A revolution is taking place in genetics: These days, it is easy and inexpensive to map the DNA of each and every one of us. This opens up whole new opportunities in public health care as well as in research. Meanwhile, these opportunities raise some ethical dilemmas for individuals, families and society-at-large. What would you like to know about your hereditary traits and diseases? Should others be allowed to read your DNA code?
Lone Frank, scientific journalist in the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen, author of the book My Pretty Genome (2010).
Commentators:
Read more >
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Supported projects – examples
One Day in History
Photographer Andrea Gjestvang has been granted NOK 100 000 for a portrait project with the working title "One Day in History". Gjestvang will photograph a large number of the young people who survived the Utøya tragedy on 22 July now as they are resuming their regular lives. The portraits will be accompanied by the young people's own words. The project will initially be published in magazines in Norway and abroad and be displayed at several exhibitions. In the long term, the goal is a book publication. "One Day in History" is Gjestvang's contribution to the European photo project "The Rise of Populism".
A list has now been published of the major grants made by the Fritt Ord Foundation in December 2011.
Folk Music and Nazism
Valdres Museum of Cultural Heritage has been granted NOK 100 000 for an exhibition on folk music and Nazism in cooperation with master's degree student Bjørnar Blaavarp Heimdal, the magazine Folk Music and the Holocaust Centre. The exhibition will focus on the Occupation Forces' fascination with Norwegian folk music and dance. Further, it will show how (and why) Norwegian folk musicians and folk dancers played a part in national socialist propaganda. Posters, texts and images from the German propaganda machine will be central in the exhibition, which is scheduled to open in June 2012.
A list has now been published of the minor grants awarded by the Fritt Ord Foundation in November 2011.
Photo: Ola Brenno playing for Heinrich Himmler
A list has now been published of the minor grants awarded by the Fritt Ord Foundation in November 2011.
Photo: Ola Brenno playing for Heinrich Himmler
To kill a rabbit. The life of Henriette Schønberg Erken
Maria Berg Reinertsen has received a grant of NOK 125 000 for the book project "To kill a rabbit. The life of Henriette Schønberg Erken (1866–1953)". Erken completely dominated the Norwegian cookbook market in the early half of the 1900s, not least with her masterpiece The Big Cookbook. Using the story of Henriette Schønberg Erken, Reinertsen seeks to understand the moral overtones of the food and the place of the cookbook in Norway, as well as to show the development of the role played by women in the past century. Reinertsen has signed a contract with CappelenDamm, and the book is scheduled for publication in autumn 2013.
The list of the major grants made by the Fritt Ord Foundation in October 2011 has now been published.
The list of the major grants made by the Fritt Ord Foundation in October 2011 has now been published.