How to talk about racism?

August 28 2024

Debate seminar at the Fritt Ord Foundation premises, Uranienborgveien 2, from 6-7.30 p.m. on Monday, 9 September

Teachers at the Oslo Cathedral School were recently awarded the Freedom of Expression Foundation Tribute for their argumentation positing that unpleasant and hurtful texts have a place in the classroom. The school and the surrounding community got involved in the matter. We invite the public to further explore the issues.

Introduction by Grete Brochmann, chair of the Board of the Fritt Ord Foundation

Panel discussion:

Kristin Ask, teacher at the Oslo Cathedral School. One of a group of colleagues to receive the Freedom of Expression Foundation Tribute.

Binta-Victoria Jammeh, post-graduate fellow at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, previously a teacher at Kuben Upper Secondary School.

Khadija Lalla Jobarteh, pupil at Edvard Munch Upper Secondary School, Oslo

Paul Thomas, professor of Teachers’ Education at the University of South-Eastern Norway

The moderator will be Shazia Majid.

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Is your master’s project about freedom of expression, social debate or journalism? If so, you can apply for a student grant from the Fritt Ord Foundation.

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The Fritt Ord Foundation and the Zeit Stiftung Bucerius hereby announce that the Free Media Awards for 2024 will be presented to journalists and media from Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia and, for the first time, Hungary.

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Tuva Rognås Strømmen from Valdres Upper Secondary School won the history competition ‘My family in History’ with the story entitled “An ordinary life, out of the ordinary” about the life choices that her Great Aunt Ragnhild made in the late 1800s. Liv Conradi Andersen from Kråkerøy Lower Secondary School won an award for “First she lost her home, then they wanted to take away her language” about how her Sámi grandmother Marit Elvira experienced the Norwegianisation policy prevalent in Finnmark County in the 1950s.