Active projects
Active projects
BLOCKADE
Geography and Map Division.
BLOCKADE investigates the blockades during the First and Second World Wars and their aftermaths.
Over the course of six years, researchers in Trondheim, Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Freiburg will analyse how the blockades affected households, states, corporations, war strategies, memory culture, and peace processes. They will also demonstrate that the blockades had significant and lasting impacts on the world.
Contact: Jonas Scherner
Cinema and Movie Audiences in the Nordic Region, 1930s-1950s
Oslo Museum.
The transnational network building project "Cinema, War and Citizenship at the Periphery: Cinemas and their audiences in the Nordic countries, 1935-1950", funded by the Nordic Research Councils, explores the social and societal functions of cinema in the mid 20th century.
By analysing audiences and their movie-going practices, film programming and distribution patterns we hope to identify linkages and networks, similarities and differences across Northern Europe.
Contact person: Maria Fritsche
COST-FOSTREN
/Øyvind Thomassen
COST-FOSTREN aims to reduce the degree to which mental health services use coercion in hospital and community mental health services. Many people receiving mental health care are subjected to coercive practices such as outpatient commitment in the community and physical restraint in hospital. Such practices can violate human rights. The researchers aim to find alternative treatments to coercion.
Contact person: Øyvind Thomassen
Explosive heritage
The research group “Explosive Heritage” brings together historians and scientists to identify sites where ammunition was dumped.
Their goal is to understand why this dumping happened in the first place — and why it has not been widely recognised as an environmental issue.
Contact: Mats Ingulstad
Fate of Nations
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Fate of Nations is a dynamic research group comprised of historians of a varied background. The focus is on natural resources. How have the authorities and the commonality managed this part of the economy? What is the current situation?
The international team members have published a large number of books and peer-reviewed articles on various natural resources, including bauxite, aluminium, tin and petroleum.
Contact person: Mats Ingulstad
From Ideology to Politics: German Occupation of Sami Everyday Life 1940–1945
A relatively underexplored aspect of wartime history is the relationship between the German occupying forces and the Sami population in Norway and the broader Nordic region.
Among other topics, the researcher examines how Nazi ideology shaped attitudes toward the Sami, explores individual soldiers’ encounters with Sami people, and investigates the various forms of contact between Sami communities and the occupying forces.
Contact: Andreas Eliassen Grini
Grey Zones of the Occupation: Czechoslovaks in German uniform and Norwegian society during WW II
The project takes its outset in the approximately 13 000 Wechmacht soldiers who were conscripted in Czechoslovakia. The aim is to scrutinize the national composition of the Wechmach soldiers in Norway and Finland.
Contact person: Hans Otto Frøland
Histories of Refugeedom in the Nordic Countries
Hjemmefrontmuseum
How have the histories of forced migrations shaped the Nordic region? These workshops bring together prominent Nordic scholars who draw attention onto a largly neglected research field.
Contact person: Hans Otto Frøland
In Search of Lost Homes
As part of the genocidal process of erasing Jewish life from Norway, the victims’ property was confiscated.
How did these institutions treat Norwegian Jews who applied to get their homes, belongings, and businesses back? The PhD Candidate also examines how Norwegian Jews reacted. In a larger perspective, the aim of the thesis is to shed light on how Norwegian authorities treated Norwegian Holocaust survivors and Norwegian-Jewish life in the post-genocide era.
Contact person: Elise Barring Berggren
Internal Fortress: Regulating European Freedom of Movement within the Nation-State, 1950-1980
Fotoarchiv Ruhr Museum
This project will trace migration history in the European Economic Community (EEC), which preceded today’s European Union (EU). It focuses on the period when freedom of movement was first implemented in the EEC, from the 1950s to the 1970s, exploring how this policy shaped social relations within the member states.
Contact person: Madeleine Dungy
Missing Girls
In many European countries girls were regarded as being of less value than boys. The Missing Girls project investigates if this discrimination caused a higher mortality rate among female children. Several factors contributed: Were they more likely to suffer from undernutrition than their brothers were? How hard did they have to work, and did they receive adequate health care when they were ill?
Contact person: Francisco Javier Beltrán Tapia
Mission Mjøsa (Oppdrag Mjøsa)
Nordahl
Pedersen
Mission Mjøsa is a research program which aims to facilitate sustainable use of Mjøsa as an ecosystem, while at the same time maintaining the ecosystem’s structure, function, productivity, socially critical infrastructure and natural diversity.
Contact person: Mats Ingulstad
Negotiating Community: Norwegian-Jewish Life and the Wider Society
Trondheim
The research group explores Norwegian-Jewish life after the Holocaust in relation to the wider society. Specifically, it examines the role of Norwegian-Jewish cultural heritage in integration and identity formation, as well as everyday and public interactions between majority and minority populations.
Contact: Maria Fritsche
The Prison of Madness
Justismuseet
The Prison of Madness project studies the history of forensic insanity in Norway in the period 1800-2020. The academic focus is on the connection between mental illness and crime.
Contact person: Øyvind Thomassen
Resources
The EU, the USA, and China are all competing to secure access to vital natural resources.
At the same time, Norway is facing new challenges — including unpredictable trade relationships and growing conflicts over how land is used.
To tackle these issues, researchers at NTNU are bringing together knowledge from geology, social sciences, and the humanities. Their goal is to improve how we manage resources, prepare for emergencies, and protect national security in an increasingly uncertain world.
Contact: Mats Ingulstad
Triple Deep
Triple Deep draws attention to deep sea mining:
- Is it possible to retrieve important minerals in a sustainable manner?
- Does it pay off to ruin the mainly unknown and unique ecology of the deep oceans in an attempt to solve the climate crises?
Contact person: Mats Ingulstad
Wehrmacht and SS- and Police Courts in Norway during World War II
German Wehrmacht courts played a central role as instruments of occupation in Norway during World War II. Norwegian civilians and German soldiers were brought before military tribunals. The punishments handed out were often severe. This project investigates the sentencing practices of these courts and compares them to the prosecution carried out by the SS and Polizeigericht Nord (IX).
Contact person: Maria Fritsche