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CWA delegates to explore the spirit of Denmark

January 30, 2006

DaneFlag.thumb.jpgMore than 200 members of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) of NSW will gather at The University of New England this Friday for a weekend of lectures, discussions and cultural events focusing on Denmark.

The 36th Annual CWA Weekend Country of Study School will run from Friday (3 February) to Sunday (5 February). Delegates to the Study School will represent CWA branches throughout the State.

Hosted by UNE’s Earle Page College and organised by the UNE Conference Company, the Study School takes a deep and informative look at a different country each year. This year’s country is Denmark (while last year’s was Vietnam).

The lectures, to be held at UNE’s Wright Centre, will explore subjects including Danish history, society, food and festivals, travel in Denmark, and the life of the most famous Danish writer – Hans Christian Andersen. In a talk about Danish agriculture, Dr Lene Mikkelson, a Research Fellow at UNE, will outline the principal farming activities in her native Denmark, and discuss some social, economic and environmental consequences of their industrialisation. The Cultural Attache from the Royal Danish Consulate General in Sydney, Mrs Birgitte Engholm, will give a talk in which she will explain how the work of N.F.S. Grundtvig, the great Danish poet, philosopher, theologian and historian, established (in the early 19th century) the freedom-loving national consciousness of modern Denmark.

At a formal dinner on Friday evening, Mrs Engholm will present a “Welcome to Denmark”, while the Armidale Dumaresq Mayor, Councillor Peter Ducat, and the Acting Vice-Chancellor of UNE, Professor Robin Pollard, will welcome delegates to Armidale and its University.

The weekend’s program will include an ecumenical church service at St Mark’s Chapel, UNE, on Sunday morning and, on Saturday evening, an entertaining “cultural experience” drawing on Denmark’s Viking heritage.


Media contact: Sharon Gallen, UNE Conference Company, UNE (02) 6773 2987 or Jim Scanlan, Public Relations, UNE (02) 6773 3049.

Posted by Jim Scanlan at January 30, 2006 04:42 PM