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Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy and War, Memory and Literature
8-10 April 2010 at the Playfair Library Hall, Old College
You may be interested in an event that the University of Edinburgh is hosting on 8-10 April 2010, to mark the 70th anniversary of the German invasion of Scandinavia.
- On Thursday 8th, at 5.15pm there will be a Public Lecture by Professor Richard Overy on ‘Scandinavia and the Second World War’.
- On Friday 9th, there will be a full-day Conference for researchers and postgraduates on ‘Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy: The wartime and post-war consequences of the German invasion of 9 April 1940’.
- On Saturday 10th, a half-day open Conference, ‘War, Memory, and Literature: Effects of the Second World War on Nordic Culture, 1939–2009’ will conclude the event.
You will find further details of Programmes and Speakers on the Conference website.
Register for the Public Lecture | Register for the Friday or Saturday events
Please distribute this information to anyone who might be interested in it.
If you have any further questions, please contact the Conference Secretary: Pauline Maclean, Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars (CSTWW) +44 131 651 1254 (Monday: afternoon only; Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: all day) P.Maclean@ed.ac.uk.
