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The Norwegian Historical Association
Founded in 1869, the Norwegian Historical Association (Den norske historiske forening), Acronym HIFO, is today an organization with extensive and varied activeties, serving the interests of professional historians in Norway. The association aims to promote historical research, encourage the teaching of history at all levels and strengthen the position of the discipline in the Norwegian society.
The association accepts as members history graduates and teachers who holde a historical degree at university level. Others can be accepted as members after an evaluation by the board.
Among our members are:
- 11 local branches are set up all over Norway.
- Historians employed in universities and colleges
- History teachers
- Historians in record offices, archives and museums
- Historians employed in historical research projects
- Historians in publishing houses, mass media, cultural administration etc.
- Graduate students in history
The tasks of the Historical Association:
A national conference [named HIFO-seminaret] is arranged anually. Co-operation between the board and a local branch.
The local branches arrange a number of seminars and social events each term
Post-qualifying courses are offered to history teachers
We promote the setting up of historical research projects sponsored by firms and organization in order to have our members write their history
The Association represents Norwegian historians in international bodies like the CISH or the committee for the Nordic history conferences
The Norwegian Journal of History (Historisk tidsskrift) is published under the auspices of the Association.
HIFO-nytt (Newsletter of the Norwegian Historical Association) is distributed to all members and a number of subscribers six times a year
In addition a series of books is published, wich contain papers from seminars and conferences staged by the Association
For further information, please contact:
Members of the board or
The secretary Halvor Wien Røre, The Historical Institute, University of Bergen, Postboks 7805, N 5020 Bergen, Norway. Tlf +47 55 58 32 60, fax +47 55 58 96 54. hifo@sv.uit.no
Updated Medio August 2006 GT
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