Torleif R. Hamre is a writer and historian and works at Eidsvoll 1814 which is part of Norsk Folkemuseum. He has also worked as a jounalist for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). His publications include Norgeshistorier (2005), Vak (2009) and Bygda og storpolitikken : Eidsvoll og begivehetene i 1814 (2009).

Pasi Ihalainen is professor of General History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has studied the secularization of the concept of the political party, the modernization of national identities, the redefinition of democracy in parliamentary debates and interaction between scientific and political discourses, often in a comparative perspective. His books include The Discourse on Political Pluralism in Eighteenth-Century England (1999), Protestant Nations Redefined (2005), Agents of the People (2010) and the co-edited volume Scandinavia in the Age of Revolution (2011).

Martin Krieger is professor of Northern European History at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany. His has researched widely on german-danish relations, the history of danish East-India and the cultural history of the Baltic area. His publications include Kaufleute, Seeräuber und Diplomaten. Der dänische Handel auf dem Indischen Ozean (1998), Kaffee. Geschichte eines Genußmittels (2011), European Cemeteries in South India, 17th-19th Century, (2013).

Ola Mestad is professor of Law, University of Oslo. He works mainly in contract law, oil and gas law, international economic law, company law, legal history and legal method. Since 2010 he has headed the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund. He is also the chair of the research committee for the bicentennial celebration of the Constitution (Research Council of Norway). Among others, he has edited and contributed to these publications: The rising complexity of European law (2014), Frihetens forskole. Professor Schlegel og eidsvoldsmennenes læretid i København (2013) and Human rights, corporate complicity and disinvestment (2011).

Kari A. Myklebost is Barents Chair in Russian Studies at the UiT and participates within the research project “Neighbourly Asymmetry. Norway and Russia 1814 – 2014”. Her research interests are in the history of the northern countries (18th and 19th century), especially in norwegian-russian relations, in history of science (19th and 20th century) and in the history and politics of minorities. Her publications include Borealisme og kulturnasjonalisme. Bilder av nord i norsk og russisk folkeminnegransking 1830-1920 (2010) and Caution and Compliance. Norwegian-Russian Diplomatic Relations 1814-2014 (co-edited with Stian Bones, 2012).

Markus J. Prutsch holds a PhD in History. Between 2009 and 2012, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Helsinki within the international research project "Europe 1815-1914", funded by the European Research Council. His research interests are in early 19th century political history and theory with a particular interest in post-Napoleonic constitutional transfer and reception processes. Since December 2011 he is senior researcher and research administrator at the European Parliament, responsible for Culture and Education. His publications include Fundamentalismus. Das ‘Projekt der Moderne' und die Politisierung des Religiösen (2007), Making sense of constitutional monarchism in post-Napoleonic France and Germany (2013) and  Constitutionalism, Legitimacy, and Power. Nineteenth-Century Experiences (co-edited with Kelly L. Grotke, 2014).

Michael Schmidt is professor of German Literature and Culture at the UiT and editor of “TROLL. Tromsøer Studien zur Kulturwissenschaft”. He has published widely on german literature from 16th – 20th century, on german-jewish relations (18th – 20th century), on history of science and on dilettantism and on text-image-relations. His publications include Judenbilder. Kulturgeschichte antijüdischer Mythen und antisemitischer Vorurteile (together with Stefan Rohrbacher, 1991), Anarchie statt Chaos oder: Bakunin – ein deutscher Diskurs? Zur Biographie des russischen Anarchisten (2012) and Chamisso als Illustrator (2013).

Cathrine Theodorsen, is vice dean at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, UiT. She is Dr. Art. in German literature, and her publications include Leopold Andrian, seine Erzählung Der Garten der Erkenntnis und der Dilettantismus in Wien um 1900 (2006), Elfriede Jelinek – Tradition, Politik und Zitat (co-editor 2008), Reiser og ekspedisjoner i det litterære Arktis (co-editor 2011). She has also published articles on nineteenth-century German travel writing (Theodor Mügge) and Cosmopolitanism in the Norwegian Fin de Siècle. She is affiliated with the research group "Arctic Discourses".