Greenlandic maneuvers in the Hague? Revisiting the case of Norway vs Denmark over Greenland
This lecture deals with the case of the Legal Status of Eastern Greenland, Denmark v. Norway at the Permanent Court of International Justice 1931-1933, which took place after Norway had declared a piece of Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland as Norwegian. The lecture is based on Andersen’s new book Monumentet (Gad 2025), and will focus on the Greenlandic statements to the court. These statements have not previously been researched, and offer a rare glimpse into how Greenlandic politicians perceived and maneuvered the situation - a situation which share certain similarities to the current pressure on sovereignty over Greenland.
Astrid Nonbo Andersen is senior researcher at the Danish Institute for Intrnational Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen.
Her primary research area is historical justice and the politics of history and memory theory. More broadly, her research centres on modern political intellectual history with a special focus on Danish, Scandinavian, and US intellectual history, modern global history and legal history. Theoretically she is particularly interested in soveriegnty studies; memory theory; post- and decolonial studies; legal philosophy; and philosophy of history.