THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE IN SCANDINAVIAN PUBLIC SPHERES 1970-2015
Professor Jostein Gripsrud and Postdoc Hilmar Mjelde participated at the workshop “Media Populism and European democracy” November 9. Professor Gripsrud held the presentation “Norway’s Progress Party: Populism and tabloidization”, and Postdoc Mjelde held the presentation “Crowning Moments: Transformative Populist Use of the Media and the Case of Carl I. Hagen and the 1987 No-Confidence Motion”. Read More …
On October 9th, the first SCANPUB book, “Norsk hamskifte? En kritikk av Terje Tvedt , et betinget forsvar for godheten og en etterlysning av midtbanen i innvandringsdebatten“, written by Professor Jostein Gripsrud, was published. As the book is a critique of Terje Tvedt`s “Det internasjonale gjennombruddet“, which got a lot of publicity in the Read More …
Professor Jens Kjeldsen gave a talk to the Norden Association (Foreningen Norden), Wednesday 19. september at Bergen Public Library. Kjeldsen spoke of SCANPUBs aims, presented ongoing work within the Project, and showed some of the results from the Projects quantitative analysis. Further, Kjeldsen elaborated on the results by giving examples on how the immigration debate Read More …
Next week, the SCANPUB research group will be conducting its second theory seminar in Les Arcs, France. The seminar, lasting from the 24th to the 26th of September, will focus on issues such as nationalism, citizenship, immigration, human rights and democracy. Read more about the program here.
SCANPUB just conducted its second annual Summer Symposium in the city centre of Bergen. The Symposium opened thursday 30 August focusing on quantitative comparative studies. Professor Jan Fredrik Hovden and Postdoctoral fellow Hilmar Mjelde held the first presentation, ”Immigration in Scandinavian newspapers 1970-2015”, with results from SCANPUB`s quantitative content analysis. As the program from August Read More …
Professor Jens Kjeldsen participated in the discussion “the Norwegian, the Swede and the Dane about the immigrant crisis“, Monday 27th of August. The issue discussed was Scandinavian immigration debate, and differences between the three countries. In addition to Kjeldsen, the discussion featured Lars Åberg and Sylo Taraku, coauthors of the newly published “Skandinavisk Uro“ – a Read More …