Aarhus University

This is a list of all the materials published by academics at Aarhus University in the order they were published, starting with the most recent first.

Map showing where Greenland is located on the map.

10 September 2019 - Thorsten Borring Olesen

In the summer of 2019, the Trump Administration voiced an interest in buying Greenland from Denmark. The historical background for this stretches at…

Icelandic scenery. Blue sky, white snow in a forest with pine trees

04 September 2019 - The Quick Read

After a referendum almost unanimously in favour, Iceland was declared an independent republic on 17th June 1944 at Þingvellir. Denmark did not,…

28 August 2019 - Biography

The Danish theatre actress Asta Sophie Amalie Nielsen became a silent screen world star overnight after her leading role in the silent movie Afgrunden…

26 August 2019 - Article

Read a potted history of Iceland from the Vikings to today.

Three men sitting beside eachother at a table with the sign "DENMARK". Behind them stands an elderly man

19 August 2019 - Simon Mølholm Olesen

An international discussion on decolonisation followed in the aftermath of the Second World War in the mid-1940s. The newly formed United Nations…

Large ship arriving at the shore with a large crowd of people cheering and waiting for them

12 June 2019 - Film

Go to Flensborg, Germany, in 1920 and see firsthand what it was like during the plebiscite on 14th March. Would Flensborg and central Schleswig remain…

Poster showing two portraits of elder men in suits with the writing "STEM FOR DANMARK" which translates into "VOTE FOR DENMARK"

07 June 2019 - Film

Go with Klaus Tolstrup Petersen, historian and director of the Schleswig Collection (Danish Central Library for South Schleswig), back to 1920 when a…

Child surrounded with a bunch of autumn leaves

03 June 2019 - Helle Strandgaard Jensen

Children’s departments in Scandinavian broadcasting corporations (in Denmark, Norway and Sweden) were clearly influenced by the call for equality and…