11.30-12.00 Welcome by Claudia Lenz/HL-center, presentation of programme, practical information

12.00-13.00 Theoretical starting points - culture of history and political culture
Bernard Eric Jensen: Using people’s pasts in a democracy
Bodo von Borries: Coping with Burdening History

13.00-1400 Lunch break

14.00-15.30 Holocaust and WW II. In the Nordic countries - between historical events and the historicisation of effects
Kristian Gerner Holocaust and Memory Culture: the Case of Sweden
Jon Reitan: Along the traces to Auschwitz. Holocaust, the NS camp system and Norwegian historical culture 1945-2008
Tom Gullberg: Holocaust as History Culture in the Debate of World War II. in Finland

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.30 Memory culture, historical consciousness and uses of the past in a european and global context:
Cecilie Stockholm Banke: "The legacies of the Holocaust in Scandinavian small state foreign policy. The case of Denmark"
Tor Einar Fagerland & Trond Risto Nilssen: The NS-obelisk at Stiklestad
Helle Bjerg: Conscious of history? Didactical reflections on the culture of memory of the German Occupation within the younger generation in Denmark

17.30-18.30 Summing up day 1: possible consequences for didactics of history?