Who Fought Against Christmas, and Why?

Christmas is often presented as a season of shared traditions, but it has also been a battleground. Behind familiar rituals are arguments about taste, morality, family, religion, class, and what a proper celebration should look like.

Historian Caroline Nyvang explores the surprising history of Danish Christmas traditions, including the people and movements that resisted, reshaped, or tried to regulate them. Rather than treating Christmas as timeless, she shows how customs become traditions through social negotiation and disagreement.

Expect an accessible evening about celebration, conflict, and everyday life, followed by questions and conversation about how competing social norms and ideals still shape the way we gather today.