Conference about Scandinavia
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Seems to be interesting: political, social and cultural analysis of the creation of the Scandinavian region. Nobody from Lithuania is presenting though.
Nordic
Spaces Midway Conference
Vilnius 27 August 2009
Preliminary Programme
Location: Hotel Panorama, Vilnius,
Lithuania (near the bus station)
09.00-09.15 Welcome, Programme Manager Torbjörn Eng, Södertörn University
09.15-10.
00 Keynote speaker: Dr Norbert Götz, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of Helsinki
Fixed vs. Flexible Regimes: The Spatial Politics of Norden and the Baltic Sea Region
10.00-17.10 Project presentations
10.00-10.40 Professor Peter Aronsson, Linköping University
National History – Nordic Culture. Negotiating identity in the museum
10.40-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.40 Dr Lizette Gradén, University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm
Nordic Spaces in the North and North America: Heritage Preservation in Real and Imagined Nordic places
11.40-12.20 Professor Sverker Sörlin, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Arctic Norden: Science, Diplomacy and the Formation of a Post-War European North
12.20-13.20 Lunch
13.20-13.50 Dr Jonas Harvard, Mid Sweden University
Distant news and local opinion: How the telegraph affected spatial and temporal horizons in northern Scandinavia, 1850-1880
13.50-14.30 Professor Petri Hoppu, University of Tampere
Dance in Nordic Spaces: The Formation of Corporeal Identities
14.30-15.00 Dr Sanna Turoma, University of Helsinki
Imperial Space and Beyond: Imaginative Geographies in Late Soviet Russian Culture
15.00-15.20 Coffee
15.20-15.50 Dr Valters Ščerbinskis, Riga Stradiņš University
Nordic Profile: The Image of the Nordic Community in Latvian Printed Mass Media from the end of XIX Century to XXI Century
15.50-16.30 Dr Pärtel Piirimäe, University of Tartu
Baltic regionalism. Constructing political space(s) in Northern Europe, 1800-2000
16.30-17.10 Dr Nicholas Aylott, Södertörn University
The Nordic Model of Democracy: Diffusion, Competition, Europeanisation