The final TranCit Workshop
- VID Stavanger, Misjonsmarka 12, Room 261k
- May 11th 2026, 11:30 – May 13th 2026, 12:00
Transloyalities in Citizenship Education (TranCit) is an NFR-funded project that has run over three years (2023-2026) and is now in its final phase. TranCit explores how the teaching of history in secondary school has promoted citizenship, both historically and today.
Over the last year of TranCit, we host four workshops in South Africa (September 2025), Mauritius (January 2026), Madagascar (April 2026), and Norway (May 2026). We chose to hold four decentralized workshops instead of a larger conference to actively include and engage local researchers, practitioners, and postgraduate students in sharing research and experiences from their local contexts. More than 80 historians, educational researchers, and postgraduates have participated and explored how history teaching shapes citizenship in diverse and globalized societies.
The TranCit workshop in Norway will be our fourth and final workshop, where we aim to draw threads together and look forward. Keynote speeches will be delivered from Professor Emerita Audrey Osler and Professor Johannes Seroto. The workshop will feature presentations from brilliant national and international scholars from the field of history and citizenship education.
The keynote speeches are open to the public.
Please contact Mari Refve Østerhus if you have any questions about the workshop or would like to stop by.
Registration link is coming.
Program
Monday 11 May: 11:30 – 16:00 (Introduction, keynotes, presentation with discussion workshops)
11:30 - 12:00
Introduction by Ellen Vea Rosnes
(Room: 261K)
Coffee and tea
12:00 – 13:00
Keynote speech by Professor Johannes Seroto
Title of keynote speech: “Transloyalties and Citizenship Education in South Africa”
Introduction of keynote by Ellen Vea Rosnes
Last 15 min: open plenary discussion
(Room: 261K)
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45
15-minutes presentation by Martha Shaw: Understanding the Interplay; Education, Lived Worldviews and Citizenship, followed by 30 minutes discussion
Moderator: Geir Skeie
Chair: Mari Refve Østerhus
(Room: 257K)
14:45 – 15:00
Coffee and tea break
15:00 – 15:45
15-minute presentation by Marianne Bøe & Kjersti Gjerde Brekklund: Teaching citizenship through controversial issues: Inquiry-based teaching in Norwegian upper secondary school, followed by 30 minutes discussion
Moderator: Kerenina Dansholm
Chair: Marie-Sophie Caroline Lafleur-Yallappa
(Room: 257K)
16:00
Excursion, more information will come
Tuesday 12 May: 09:00 – 16:00 + dinner at 19:00 (Keynote, presentations with workshop discussions, workshop dinner)
09:00-09:30
Coffee and welcome
09:30 – 10:30
Keynote speech by Professor Emerita Audrey Osler
Title of keynote speech: Education for flexible citizenship in an inflexible and intolerant age
Introduction by Øystein Lund Johannessen
Last 15 min: open plenary discussion
(Room: 261K)
10:30 – 10:45
Break
10:45-11:30
15-minutes presentation by Knut Vesterdal: Human Rights Education in the Norwegian Context, followed by 30 minutes discussion
Moderator: Øystein Lund Johannessen
Chair: Frieder Ludwig
(Room: 257K)
11:30-12:30
Lunch
12:30-13:15
15-minutes presentation by Marta Magdalena Stachurska-Kounta: Critical Race Theory as a lens for inclusion and representation in history education in Norway, followed by 30 minutes discussion
Moderator: Sheetal Sheena Sookrajowa
Chair: Sanjana Arora
(Room: 257K)
13:15-14:00
15-minutes presentation by Vidar Fagerheim Kalsås: Provincialising history education in Norway? An exploration of possible pathways for exploring colonial entanglements, followed by 30 minutes discussion
Moderator: Geir Skeie
Chair: Cliff Chinyama
(Room: 257K)
14:00-14:15
Coffee and tea break
14:15-15:00
15- minutes presentation by Marialuisa Lucia Sergio: Unmasking Colonial Biopolitics: From Fascist Propaganda to Migrant Memories and Postcolonial Human Rights Education, followed by 30 minutes discussion
Moderator: Frieder Ludwig
Chair: Marie-Sophie Caroline Lafleur-Yallappa
(Room: 257K)
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:00
15- minutes presentation by Merethe Skarås: NFR-project: History education for reconciliation and justice: Difficult history in divided societies, followed by 30 minutes discussion
Moderator: Brit Marie Hovland
Chair: Kerenina Dansholm
(Room: 257K)
19:00
Workshop dinner at Kjerringholmen Brasserie (Kjeringholmen Brasserie - Kjeringholmen Brasserie)
Wednesday 13 May 09:00 – 12:00 (closing day, TranCit focus)
09:00-09:15
Mingling and Coffee
09:15-10:15
WP presentations of TranCit findings from Norway, Madagascar, Mauritius, and South Africa
15 min: Brit Marie (Norway)
15 min: Helihanta (Madagascar)
15 min: Sheena (Mauritius)
15 min: Kalpana (South Africa)
Moderator and chair: Frederique Brossard Børhaug
(Room: 257K)
10:15-10:20
(5 min)
Break
10:20-11:05
10-minute Ph.D. thesis presentations by Marie-Sophie Caroline Lafleur-Yallappa, Cliff Chinyama & Mari Refve Østerhus
Followed by 15 minutes discussion at the end
Moderator and chair: Kalpana Hiralal
(Room: 257K)
11:05-11:15
Break
11:15– 11:45
Brainstorm session: Learning from and future potential of TranCit
Opportunities and limitations
Future collaborations: results from the workshop discussions
Moderator and chair: Ellen Vea Rosnes
Chair: Mari Refve Østerhus
(Room: 257K)
11:45 – 12:00
Closing of workshop by Ellen