This presentation combines the story behind Swedish traditions celebrating the memory of the 17th century king Gustav II Adolf and recent archaeological research in the town of Jönköping. Finds suggest a much older custom, going back to the 1640:s, and suggests who might have been the first to arrange formal celebration of the dead king, The Lion of the North" - the savior of Protestant cause in the Thir
This presentation combines the story behind Swedish traditions celebrating the memory of the 17th century king Gustav II Adolf and recent archaeological research in the town of Jönköping. Finds suggest a much older custom, going back to the 1640:s, and suggests who might have been the first to arrange formal celebration of the dead king, The Lion of the North" - the savior of Protestant cause in the Thir
This lecture highlights the recent trend towards the development of Uncivil Society Organizations or UCSOs in the international system. The lecture also provides with one of the first definitions of the phenomena.
This lecture provides with an overview over the position of radicalization within International Relations. How can we approach the issue of radicalization from the perspectives of the international system?
Torn between sentiments of exile, the search for new loyalties and passionate socio-political activism in their new homeland, German émigrés to the U.S. during a significant part of the nineteenth century experienced serious conflicts of interest. Based on a hitherto untapped fund of sources (both in manuscript and print), this project will map a generation of politically aware Germans negotiating a consistent cultural identity exposed to transatlantic tensions. By carefully reconstructing civil society engagement, their personal connections, collective biographies, networks and arenas of sociability will be illuminated. Furthermore, the project will investigate how German immigrants in the case studied conquered a voice and positioned themselves in the contemporary and contested societal debates of the period. Moreover, due to the nature of archival findings, it will be possible to reconstruct the personal motives and backgrounds of key actors involved.
This lecture highlights the recent trend towards the development of Uncivil Society Organizations or UCSOs in the international system. The lecture also provides with one of the first definitions of the phenomena.
This lecture provides with an overview over the position of radicalization within International Relations. How can we approach the issue of radicalization from the perspectives of the international system?
Torn between sentiments of exile, the search for new loyalties and passionate socio-political activism in their new homeland, German émigrés to the U.S. during a significant part of the nineteenth century experienced serious conflicts of interest. Based on a hitherto untapped fund of sources (both in manuscript and print), this project will map a generation of politically aware Germans negotiating a consistent cultural identity exposed to transatlantic tensions. By carefully reconstructing civil society engagement, their personal connections, collective biographies, networks and arenas of sociability will be illuminated. Furthermore, the project will investigate how German immigrants in the case studied conquered a voice and positioned themselves in the contemporary and contested societal debates of the period. Moreover, due to the nature of archival findings, it will be possible to reconstruct the personal motives and backgrounds of key actors involved.
Aktuella debatter och publikationer inom digital humaniora (DH) i EuropaAndreas Önnerfors
Seminar presentation at the Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Thursday 16 September 2015. The lecture provided an overview over current themes in the dynamic debate on DH and challenges for the Swedish research community, in particular addressing the need for an intellectual agenda.
nveiling the Copiale-manuscript: layers of fraternalism, ritual and politics ...Andreas Önnerfors
In 2011 data-linguists from Sweden and the US decoded a manuscript written in cipher, the content of which has been unknown for at least the last two centuries. This so-called Copiale-manuscript and the story of its code being broken with methods of new information technology received trans-national media coverage, but its content remains still to be explored thoroughly. The manuscript can roughly be divided into three main parts: one part is devoted to the fraternal order of ‘Oculists’, the aim of which is to disclose the secrets of freemasonry and to undermine its spread and recruitment. A second part reveals rituals of craft lodges as practiced in Germany at the time and the third part the Scottish Master’s degree, one of the first higher degrees of freemasonry with both a chivalric and sacerdotal element. Furthermore intriguing is a continuation of the Scottish Master’s degree that clearly demonstrates awareness of civil and political rights and the need to recover freedom from tyranny by means of violent rebellion. Last but not least alchemical workings are also addressed. What are the sources of the manuscript? Does it describe German early eighteenth century freemasonry accurately? Why do we find an anti-masonic edge? How can we interpret the religious and political motifs of the higher degrees exposed? All in all, by addressing these questions it appears as if the Copiale-manuscript is like a Russian doll and plays with secrecy and transparency. It reveals significant insights into the state of fraternalism, ritual and politics in German territories of the late 1740s that beg further investigation.
Norge 1814: svensk politik mellan vision och verklighet
1. Norge 1814: den svenska politiken mellan
vision och verklighet
Doc. Andreas Önnerfors
Idéhistoria,
Göteborgs universitet
andreas.onnerfors@gu.se
Dikt av Hans Nansen i Carlstads Tidning,
november 1814
3. Hertig Carl av Södermanland,
Carl XIII,
Kung av Sverige 1809-1818
och Norge 1814-1818
4. Norges statsrättsliga läge 1814:
3 förutsättningar i ett folkrättsligt vakuum 1806-
1815 (Wienkongressen)
(1) Upplösningen av Tyskromerska riket 1806 genom
Napoleon och därigenom förverkandet av Westfaliska
Freden 1648 (Sveriges roll som garantimakt
försvinner)
(2) Frankrikes prekära ställning i den europeiska
allianspolitiken alltsedan revolutionen 1789
(3) Napoleons (politiska) segertåg: patriotism,
universalism, konstitutionalism
7. Sveriges läge 1806-1814
Krig på två fronter (Svenska Pommern och Finland)
Förlust av Finland 1809
Framtvungen abdikation av Gustav IV Adolf 1809 (bland
annat västarmén som stod i kontakt med norska kretsar)
Ny regeringsform (1809-1974)
Carl XIII bestiger tronen, tronföljden är ej säkrad
Dansk tronföljarkandidat Christian August (död 1810)
Jean Baptiste Bernadotte tronföljare 1810
1812 års politik (Finland lämnas åt Ryssland, Sverige
kompenseras med Norge)
1813: Bornhöft => Kielfreden