Conference programme
The conference programme below is being continuously updated – some information and details might still change.
Streams:
- Nordic cooperation and region-building
- Democracy, governance, and law
- Public policy, gender equality, and labour markets
- Imagining Norden – branding and Nordic reputation
- Multiculturalism and globalisation
- Nordic culture, education, and media
Day 1: 1 June
| 10:00 – 12:15 |
Registration (Venue: foyer in the MB-house – 5th floor) |
| 12:15 – 12:30 |
Opening Address (Venue: MB416) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 |
Keynote Juhana Aunesluoma – From Cold War to Post-Cold War Hysteresis. Security and Insecurity in the Baltic Sea Region from the 1990s to the Present (Venue: MB416) |
| Fika/Coffee break |
| Stream 1/6 (Venue: MB416) | Stream 2 (Venue: MB505) | Stream 3/5 (Venue: MB503) | Stream 4 (Venue: MB313 – Svarta lådan) | ||||
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14:00 –
15:30 Panel Session 1 |
Panel 1a: Pan-nationalism in the Nordic region | Panel 2a: (Re)writing the history of Nordic social democracy | Panel 3a: Conflicts and coalitions in redistributive issues | Panel 4a: Nordic models in global entanglements | |||
| Fika/Coffee break | |||||||
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16:00 –
17:30 Panel Session 2 |
Panel 1b: Peace, War, and Diplomacy | Panel 2b (part1): Border- and geopolitics of a pandemic | Panel 5a: Going Green? | Book Panel: The Making and Contestation of Nordicness Models | |||
| 17:45 – 19:30 |
Conference reception and gathering • Public outreach: A presentation of nordics.info (Venue: Allé Elva) |
| 19:00 – 21:00 |
Event: Film screening (Venue: MB313 – Svarta lådan) |
With reservation for changes.
Day 2: 2 June
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Welcome coffee | |||||||
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Stream 1/6
(Venue: MB416) |
Stream 2 (Venue: MB505) |
Stream 3/5 (Venues: MB503 & UB425) |
Stream 4 (Venue: MB313 – Svarta lådan) |
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09:00 –
10:30 Panel Session 3 |
Panel 6a: Higher Education in the Nordic Neighbourhood |
Panel 2b (part 2): Border- and geopolitics of a pandemic |
Panel 3b: Social Policies in the Nordic Welfare States Venue: MB503 |
Panel 4b: Nordic Spaces Abroad |
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| Fika/Coffee break | ||||||||
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11:00 –
12:30 Panel Session 4 |
Panel 6b: Media welfare state and data trust |
Panel 2b (part 3): Border- and geopolitics of a pandemic |
Panel 5b (part 1): Migrants, Ethnicity and Race Venue: MB503 |
Panel 4c (part 1): Belarusian and Polish Chronotopes of Norden and Nordic Chronotopes of Eastern Europe | ||||
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Panel 3c: Internationalization and the Gender Wage Gap Venue: UB425 |
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Lunch (Venue: Allé Elva) |
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| 13:30 – 14:30 |
Plenary Panel: Putin’s Russia, the Ukraine War, and Norden/the Baltic (Venue: MB416) |
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| Fika/Coffee break | ||||||||
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15:00 –
16:30 Panel Session 5 |
Panel 6c: Legacies of the Iron Curtain in Literature, Film and Political Discourse | Panel 2c: Nordic associations and models |
Panel 5b (part 2): Migrants, Ethnicity and Race Venue: MB503 |
Panel 4c (part 2): Belarusian and Polish Chronotopes of Norden and Nordic Chronotopes of Eastern Europe | ||||
| Fika/Coffee break | ||||||||
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17:00 – 18:30 Book Panels |
Event: Baltic-Nordic Encounters in the Wake of 1989: a Meeting with Lithuanian Writer and Playwright Marius Ivaškevičius | Book panel: Baltic hospitality from the middle ages to the twentieth century: Receiving strangers in Northeastern Europe |
Book Panel: CBEES State of the Region Report 2021 Venue: MB503 |
Book panel: Resourceful Civil Society. Navigating the Changing Landscapes of Civil Society Organizations | ||||
| 19:00 – 22:00 |
Conference Gala Dinner & Early Career Paper Prizes Awards
Featuring Orkestra Tres Esquinas Marcos Chagallo - violin Mona Peter - viola Amanda Hofman- Bang - piano Sameh Alhaddad - contrabras Daniel Gran – accordion Joined by musicians from Donetsk, Ukraine: Maria Zhylova and Ainura Safarova (Venue: Alle Elva) |
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With reservation for changes.
Day 3: 3 June
| 8.30 – 9.00 | Welcome coffee | |||||||
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Stream 1/6
(Venue: MB416) |
Stream 2 (Venue: MB505) |
Stream 3/5 (Venues: MB503) |
Stream 4 (Venue: MB313 – Svarta lådan) |
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09.00 –
10.30 Panel Session 3 |
Panel 1c: Gendering Nordic neighborhood | Panel 2d: Deliberation, Participation, Accountability | Panel 5c: Muslim organizations and the state | |||||
| Fika/Coffee break | ||||||||
| 11.00 – 12.20 |
Round table:The Changing Organisation of Party Relations: The 2022 Swedish Election in a Nordic Context Venue: MB416 |
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| 12.20 – 12.30 |
Goodbye note and closing information from ReNEW (Venue: MB416) |
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Details about venues
All venues marked MB-XYZ are located in the MB building. X (the first digit) is the level on which the venue is located. The main entrance to the MB-building is on the 5th floor.
Venue UB425 is located on the 4th floor of the University Library.
Allé Elva is a restaurant located on the 4th floor of the University Library.
Colour codes for different streams used for orientation at the conference location:
Stream 1/6 & Other Events – Venue: MB416
Stream 2 – Venue: MB505
Stream 3/5 – Venue: MB503 & UB425
Stream 4 & Other Events – Venue: MB313 – Svarta lådan
Other Venues
(specified for each event)