History Camp Oslo 2014
Day 4: Exploring Norwegian history
Have you ever seen zombies? If not, take a group of people that were dancing all night long and make them go to breakfast at 7 a.m. That would be the perfect definition of what happened today. Somehow we managed to be at... (more)
Day 3: #BEDEMOCRACY
Today we started with an exchange about constitutions. We worked in groups and we discussed the differences and similarities of our countries‘ constitutions. By exchanging and discussing we worked out key elements of our... (more)
Simulating Politics: City Council Meeting in Sleepyville
How hard it can be to come to a consensus when different political interests are involved was the lesson of this afternoon. The participants of our History Campus had to simulate a city council meeting where they had to ... (more)
Trust Works! Day 2 in Oslo
Today on our second day of our seminar in Oslo we visited the Norwegian parliament. On our way there we walked by the government building that has been under reconstruction since the terrorist attack three years ago. The... (more)
Where Books are Born
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag is a publishing house, one part of Gyldendal group. Its history goes back to 1770, when it was founded by Søren Gyldendal, owner of a bookstore in Denmark. Now it’s independent company, which... (more)
Labor Union Archive
Today, we visited the Norwegian Labour Movement Archives and Library, where we were received by the director Frank Meyer. After getting stickers with our name on it, which is a point to remark, he showed to us many inter... (more)
Visiting Ombudsman for Equality (Likestillings og diskrimineringsombudet)
Mrs. Randi Hagen Eriksrud told us that there are several types of discrimination: it could be based on the gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, ethnicity or disability. The organization operates in five diff... (more)
Juss-Buss: Road Trip for Democracy
Juss-Buss is a Norwegian pro-bono law organisation that provides legal aid for free. The organisation was founded by law students in 1971 when they decided to do a research about the need for legal aid and drove a... (more)
Really the 4th power? The Role of Media in Norway
Today we went and met Havlar Tjønn who has been a journalist for 30 years. He is an interesting character and very knowledgeable about the the history os Oslo and the surrounding areas. Halvar was keen to show us around ... (more)
Knowledge is Power or What Does Climate Change Have to do with Democracy?
What does climate change have to do with democracy? This question was the first that came to our minds when we were given our institution, CICERO (Centre for international climate and environmental research). After, firs... (more)
Day 1: Exploring the Dimensions of Institutional Work in Norway
This whole day was dedicated to interviewing different kinds of people. We started off by interviewing each other aka getting to know each other a little better. After the whole group had been properly introduced includi... (more)
Big Arrival! History Camp in Oslo About to Start
Wednesday – Arrival day. All excited to go to Norway, we finally arrived. At dinner we were almost all represented, apart from 4 people, who had a very late flight. We all looked at each other with curiosity and we talke... (more)