Panels
Accepted panels are allotted 90-minutes-sessions and typically feature 3-5 panelists with time left for discussion. A panel proposal requires an abstract of no more than 500 words (excluding bibliography) describing the topic and scope of the panel and abstracts of no more than 300 words for each individual paper (excluding bibliography), names and affiliation of the authors, name of discussant (optional). Note that only one author should submit each panel proposal. Our Board of Reviewers will be reviewing the abstract and decide to reject or accept your proposal. The panel proposal should be uploaded as file by clicking on ‘panel description’ on the EasyChair. web portal.

Individual papers
Individual papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for questions and discussions. An individual paper submission must contain an abstract of no more than 500 words (excluding bibliography). Our Board of Reviewers will be reviewing the abstract and decide to reject or accept your proposal.

Posters
Our poster session is an ideal opportunity for Ph.D. students and other early career researchers to show their work in progress. The poster session will be scheduled at a separate time slot during the conference allowing presenters to present and engage in discussion about their posters. The poster session will take place at the spacious and centrally placed open canteen facing the waterfront. Posters will therefore also serve as visuals for people passing by and allow for increased exposure. To register for the poster session, note the title of the poster/your project, affiliated institution and an abstract of no more than 500 words (excluding bibliography) on your topic and areas you would like to receive feedback on. Note that the poster session is based upon registration and will not be reviewed by the Board of Reviewers.

With your permission, we would like to display the panel and individual abstracts as well as pictures of the individual posters at the NEHC2022 website following the conference. This allow people to academically reminisce and refer back to points they heard. Please write Simon at simonho@ikl.aau.dk if you do not wish to have your abstract or poster displayed on the NEHC2022.

You will be notified of the status of your abstract by February 1, 2022.

Submission date of abstracts for panels, papers and poster is October 1, 2021. We accept submission in all Nordic languages as well as English.

Press here to access EasyChair to upload your panel, paper or poster abstract.

Do remember to also register through our webshop!

EasyChair quick guide
Login to the conference submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nehc2022.

1. Existing users of EasyChair may login to EasyChair using their existing “user name” and “password” (e.g., if you have previously submitted an abstract for another conference using EasyChair). 
2. New users must sign up for an EasyChair account on the EasyChair website.  

When logged into EasyChair click on the ”New Submission” button in the top left corner.
 
Please fill in the mandatory information under ”Authors” for all authors of the paper/panel (please have the following information ready before you start the submission: name, email address, institutional affiliation of all authors).
 
Insert the title of your proposal.
 
Special guidelines for thematic panel proposals, abstracts and poster respectively:

• In the online submission form, please write the name, email address and affiliation of all authors. Please make sure to tick the “corresponding author” box for at least one author (only corresponding authors will receive notifications from the system).
•  Please select the speaker. In case of more than one presenter, please write the additional name(s) in the “Comments” box. 
• Paste your proposal text into the online form (max. 300 words including references for abstract and 500 for panel)

 
Add ”Keywords” (minimum three keywords on separate lines). 
 
Click on the ”Submit” button
(you can revise the abstract and author information etc. until the submission deadline).

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Please note that acceptance notifications will be sent via EasyChair. Unfortunately, emails from EasyChair are often caught in spam filters so please make sure that you check your spam filter and change your email settings so that EasyChair emails are never blocked.

Anna Larsson
Professor of History of Science and Ideas
Umeå University

Birgit Kirkbæk
Professor Emeritus of History of Disabilities
Danish School of Education

Bjørn Frithiof Hamre
Associate professor of Education, History and Special Needs Education
University of Copenhagen

Björn Lundberg
Ph.d. in History
Lund University

Bolette Frydendahl Larsen
Doctoral Student in History
Lund University

Bragi Guðmundsson
Professor of Education
University of Akureyri

Christian Larsen
Senior Researcher, Ph.D.
The Danish National Archives

Christian Lundahl
Professor of Education
Örebro University

Christian Sandbjerg Hansen
Associate professor of social pedagogy and pedagogical sociologi
Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

Daniel Lindmark
Professor of Church History
Umeå University

Heli Valtonen
Senior Lecturer of Social and Economic History
University of Jyväskylä

Jan Löfström
Associate Professor of History and Social Studies Education
University of Turku

Jesper Eckhardt Larsen
Postdoctoral Fellow of Comparative Education
University of Oslo

Johannes Westberg
Professor of Education
Örebro University

Jón Torfi Jónasson
Professor emeritus, School of Education 
University of Iceland

Lisa Rosén Rasmussen
Associate Professor of History of Education
Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

Nina Volckmar
Professor of Education
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Ning De Coninck-Smith
Professor of History of Education
The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

Trine Øland
Associate Professor of Pedagogy
University of Copenhagen

Vegard Kvam
Professor of History of Education
University of Bergen

The full programme will be released when the registration is finalized. 

Event programme
Wednesday May 25:

• Registration from 8:00 - 9:00
• Conference begins 9:00
• Welcome Reception and Guided Tour (in the afternoon)

Thursday May 26: Galla

Friday May 27: Conference Conslusion

• Conference ends at 12:30

• July 1, 2021 - Registration opens
• October 1, 2021 - Submission date of abstracts for panels, papers and poster is October 1, 2021. Submission system to come
• February 1, 2021 - Notice of acceptance
• March 15, 2022 - Registration deadline
• 25-27 May 2022 - Conference in Aalborg 

Professor Pirjo Markkola
Tampere University, Professor of History, Co-director of the Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences

TITLE: EDUCATION AS LIVED WELFARE. A HISTORY OF EXPERIENCE PERSPECTIVE ON CHILDREN AND THE WELFARE STATE
The concept lived welfare state provides a new approach to the building, legitimation, success and failures of the welfare state. Welfare states are constructed both in political decision making and in the everyday practices of welfare state institutions, such as the educational system. In daily life, welfare states materialize through the ways in which children experience their school system. ‘Experience’ refers to a theoretically and methodologically conceptualized study of human experiences, not to study of ‘authentic’ or ‘essentialist’ experiences. Children’s encounters with their teachers and the school system give shape to their individual and collective ways of experiencing the welfare state. In my presentation, I would like to emphasize the process of experiencing, i.e. the varying preconditions, factors, and possibilities shaping past experiences among children in the Nordic welfare states.

Key words: Lived welfare state, history of experiences, education, childhood, citizenship, Nordic model, historical justice.
 

Progessor Dr. Daniel Tröhler
Department of Education, Foundations of Education, University of Vienna

GIVING LANGUAGE TO TABOOS: NATION AND RELIGION IN MODERN EDUCATIONAL REASONING 
Like all taboos, nation and religion are so powerful precisely because they are often not brought to language. As a rule, educators around the world see themselves as secular, not religious, and rational, not national, and they develop their elegant, moral, and bland arguments precisely on this premise. This is, of course, capable of gaining majority support because it keeps the sociological machinery of educational thinking stably alive, but epistemologically it is unsatisfactory.

Educational reasoning is sometimes as elegant as the freestyle of a virtuoso ice skater, sometimes as captivating as a rhetorically gifted village preacher, sometimes as clumsy as a plow horse that thinks it is a dressage horse. Some are the stars in the arena of academic education, others the moralizers, and others the bland extras. This rather simple sociology of educational reasoning emphasizes the different roles that Academics occupy in what Ludwik Fleck (1935) called a “thought collective,” but it obscures that “thought collectives” share common “thought styles” in which, often carefully administered by national professional associations, truth is produced. In education, these “thought collectives” – and this is the thesis of this paper – have historically been shaped by two fundamental elements. They are veritable taboo subjects, which are presupposed but hardly ever reflected upon, namely religion and nation. The paper therefore undertakes to give language to these taboo elements in the history of the collective of educational thought and asks what educational thinking can be when it takes into account its own thinking presuppositions.

Plenary panel:
This panel brings together researchers of the history of education and the history of knowledge, to discuss developments and changes in the history of the universities in Scandinavia. The two presentations will provide insight into new themes in university history: From a gender perspective, Ning de Coninck-Smith will focus on the second woman to be employed as professor at Aarhus University, Grethe Hjort, and the gendered encounters with colleagues, students, and administrators, while Johan Östling will show how novel perspectives have opened and given new impulses to how to write the history of the universities. The panel begins with an introduction to recent research in Scandinavian university history by Maria Simonsen.

Plane
Situated in Northern Denmark, Aalborg is well connected in several ways. With an excellent internal air, rail and road network, getting to Aalborg has never been easier. For visitors from the Nordic countries there are direct flights to Aalborg from Oslo and Stockholm or connecting flights to Aalborg via Copenhagen Airport which has a virtual air bridge to Aalborg with more than 30 daily connections and a flight time of only 35 minutes. For further information about flights to and from Aalborg, see Aalborg Airport’s website or Momondo.

Ferries
Stenaline and Colorline offer several connections from Sweden and Norway to Hirtshals (70 km from Aalborg), Frederikshavn (65 km from Aalborg) or Grenå (115 km from Aalborg). Fjord Line offers a connection from Kristiansand, Stavanger-Bergen in Norway to Hirtshals (70 km from Aalborg).

Travelling by train and regional busses
In Aalborg's city centre you will find the main train station and bus station, which are connected with direct routes to many cities across the country, as well as Europe. Intercity trains between Copenhagen and Aalborg run on an hourly basis.

For planning your trip with train or/and regional bus, please visit Rejseplanen. The site combines train, regional and city busses to provide you with the fastest and most convenient travel plan.

The conference will take place at Rendsburggade 14, 9000 Aalborg. The location is central and near the beautifully restored harbor. We have gathered special discounts for two centrally located hotels at different price ranges

Special Discount for conference participants

Kompas hotel Aalborg
Press here to access Kompas Hotel Aalborg's website.

The hotel offers a special price if you use the booking reference "Nordic Education History Conference, NEHC2022". Price pr. night including breakfast: 895 DKK

The discounted price is valid for booking made at least one month prior to arrival.

Cabinn Aalborg
Press here to access Cabinn Aalborg's website.

The special discount is working on their website and is valid for bookings between 24th of May and until 28h of May 2022.

Booking: You must use the code "CME22" when booking rooms. By using this code you can receive a 10 % discount and can be booked by the following 2 methods:

• Sending an e-mail to the hotel manager – jm@cabinn.com
• Booking on Cabinn website – www.cabinn.com – Here you will need to enter the code CME22 in the booking code link.

Price level 2020:
Single room start at 499 DKK – up to 675 DKK pr. Night

Twin room start at 625 DKK – up to 805 DKK pr. Night

Breakfast can be added for 90 DKK pr. Person pr. Day

10 % on the above prices will be deducted the above prices when booking.

The conference fee is 2500 DKK (approximately 340€).

For PhD Fellows, the conference fee is 1500 DKK (approximately 200€).

The fee includes a welcome reception and lunch, coffee, tea, cake and fruit for the conference days. You can additionally purchase a guided tour (75 DKK/10€) and a galla dinner (680 DKK/90€).

Please register through our webshop!

Deadline for registration is March 15, 2022

Note that Aalborg University aim to keep conferences accessible by keeping fees at a minimum and prohibits profiting from conference activity. If the conference has a surplus, the proceeds go toward the Nordic Journal of Educational History.

Any question regarding registration to the conference should be emailed to simonho@ikl.aau.dk or ellersgaard@ikl.aau.dk. 

Aalborg City is buzzing during the last weeks of May. Northern Europe’s largest carnival takes place on Saturday May 28, while the week prior, May 21, the city turns into a children-friendly mecca during the family-oriented version of the carnival. Enjoy the architectural wonder of the newly renovated waterfront, grab a drink at the infamous Jomfru Ane Gade or delve into a historic guided tours – also available on bike and covers topics such as famous local myths and mysteries to a history of the time during the German occupation. Aalborg offers entertainment suitable for children, adults and historians! It will be a scenic and vibrant city during the time of NEHC2022. The conference is placed over Christ’s Ascension (May 26th in 2022) which opens up for an extended weekend in Aalborg.
Practical Information will be updated. We are currently gathering offers from hotels at multiple price ranges and creating an overview over transportation options.

We will arrange for an optional historical and social activity announced upon registration opening on July 1st 2021. 

Learn more about Aalborg as a destination
Both the Guardian and The New York Times have visited our city:

• The Guardian
• The New York Times

 
The conference takes place in the carnival week of Aalborg

• Link of Aalborg Carnival on Wikipedia

PLEASE NOTE
At the conference pictures, and sometimes videos, will be taken. By registering for and attending the conference, you agree to appearing in these pictures and/or videos. The pictures and/or videos may be used to promote the conference and the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University.