On 10 and 11 March 2016 there will be conference, organized by Associate Professor Laura McAtackney and Århus University, and hosted by the Moesgård Museum, Denmark.

The conference is entitled “Dark Heritage: Public Interest and Scholarly Engagement with Difficult, Recent Pasts”.  Among the international speakers is Lapland’s Dark Heritage Researcher Suzie Thomas, who will present a paper titled ‘“Wir sind noch Freunde”: Exhibiting the dark heritage of Finnish-German collaboration in the Second World War’. There is also a keynote presentation from Dr Philip Stone, Executive Director of the Institute for Dark Tourism Research at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

The conference is free to attend, but advance registration is required. To register, and to view further details about the conference including list of confirmed speakers, visit the conference web page.