Activities
I Project Conferences / Workshops / Schools
 International
Interdisciplinary Conference in Riga, Latvia, 10.-13.02.2005
Political Cultures, Values and Identities in the Baltic Sea Region:
Transcending East and West, Moving Towards a Common Agenda
Conference
in
Berlin, Germany, 27. - 29.5. 2004
Changes, Challenges and Chances Conclusions and Perspectives
of Baltic Sea Area Studies
International
Workshop in Riga, Latvia, 23. - 24.04.2004
"Old" and "New" Europeans: Mapping Political Cultures in the Baltic
Sea Region
Political
Workshop in Södertörns högskola University College,
17.04.2004
Integration and Northern Dimension of EU
Södertörns
högskola - University College
Workshop
in Tallinn, Estonia, 5. - 8.02.2004
Cross Border Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region: Euro Regions
and Region Building
PhD Euro Conference "Challenge
of Mobility in the Baltic Sea Region" rounded off the
series of conference on "The Baltic Sea Region 2010".
Workshop
in Gdansk, Poland, 22.10.2003
Energy Resources, Energy Policy and Democratic Development in
the Baltic Sea Region
Mid-term
review
The
Baltic Sea Region 2010. Theories, Methods and Practicalities.
Euro Summer School Baltic Sea Region 2010: Methods, Theories and
Practicalities Virtual colloquium, May 19th - June 13th and workshop
in Greifswald, 7th - 13th July 2003
Winter
School in Greifswald, 7.-12.2.2003
Loss, Decline and Doom in the Baltic Sea Area
High-Level
Scientific Conference, Copenhagen 26. - 27.9.2002
Baltic Sea Region 2010. Encountering the Past - Mapping the Future
Workshop
in Vilnius, 14. - 17.3.2002
Political Implications of Integration of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
and Poland into Euro-Atlantic Structures
Winter
School on Methodology of Area Studies, November/December
2001
Workshop
in Riga, 11. - 14.10.2001
Russia’s integration into Regional Structures
Workshop
in Helsinki, 5. - 7.04.2001
II Other Conferences
The Transformation of Working Society in North-Eastern
Europe
Berlin, 8th - 9th December 2002
The conference will address one of the most pressing topics of
our time: the transformation of the labour society. From a unique
North-East European perspective these key questions will be discussed:
How do the states of the Baltic Sea Region react to challenges as
the erosion of demographic structures or the emergence of learning
and knowledge-based societies? How do they attempt to shape the
social dialogue and harmonise new forms of employment into existing
social security systems? The conference is arranged by Forschungsgruppe
Nordeuropäische Politik e.V.
Educational Fair (Riga)
March 7-11, 2001, the project administrators Kazimierz
Musial and Kaarina Williams took part
in an educational convention in Riga, presenting the essentials
of the project and getting in touch with the local educational and
academic institutions.
51st International Atlantic Economic Conference, Athens
(13-20.03 2001)
Prof. Tiiu Paas organised a session on Regional
Integration And Economic Development In The Baltic Sea Region
at the 51st
International Atlantic Economic Conference. Three senior researchers
of the BaltSeaNet participated in the session: Tiiu Paas on "Regional
Integration and Competitiveness of the Baltic Economies", Prof.
Tatyana Muravskaya on "Foreign Direct Investment and
Multinational Corporations in the Process of Economic Transformation
with Special Reference to Latvian Experience" and Prof.
Anna Kisiel-Lowczyc (Gdansk) on "FDI in the Baltic
Countries in Transition in 1990s".
The presentations are planned to be published in the forthcoming
conference-publication.
Baltic Studies Conference (Tartu)
Project administrator Kazimierz Musial presented
the BaltSeaNet at the Fourth Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe
27-30 June, 2001, at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region (Greifswald)
Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region was the title
of a conference organised by the Institute of Nordic History of
the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University in Greifswald from August 31-September
2, 2001.
The BaltSeaNet-project was prominently represented: Prof.
Henrik Stenius gave a speech on “Civil society without
bourgeois society?”. Prof. Bernd Henningsen presented
the project and Dr. Kazimierz Musial spoke on “University
exchange and civil society transfer of culture”. Furthermore,
Jyrki Hakapää and Kaarina Williams
participated.
The Baltic-refugee-net presents the conference more thoroughly
at their newssite.
Nationalism, Identities, Regional Co-operation: Compatibilities
and Incompatibilities
BaltSeaNet was present at this convention of the Association
for the Study of Nationalities (4th- 9th June 2002 Forlì,
Italy). A panel Regional Constructions in Search of Identity:
the case of the Baltic Sea Area included:
- Pertti Joenniemi and Christopher Browning,
COPRI (Copenhagen Peace Research Institute)
“The Identity of Kaliningrad: Russian, European or a Third
Space?”
- Fabrizio Tassinari, BaltSeaNet
“Baltic Sea regional Soft security Co-operation: a Critical
Review of the Issues”
- Nicola Catellani, Swedish Institute for International
Affairs
“European and Baltic identities: incompatible or complementary?”
This effort contributed to Task 4 of the BaltSeaNet work programme:
Institutions and Values in Transformation by comparing
and discussing issues related to the Baltic identity-building project
and its conncections with the process of European integration. The
panel was well-attended and raised the interest of the local academic
community.
Norden at Crossroads
Aimed at scholars in the social sciences, humanities, theology,
law and environmental sciences, Norden
at Crossroads, a multidisciplinary conference in Nordic studies,
was held at the University of Helsinki in 30 October – 2 November
2002, bringing together an international group of scholars discussing
Nordic characteristics and experiences.
The conference was aimed at anyone with an interest in regional
and trans-national issues in culture, society and politics, the
construction of identities, cultural exchange and comparative studies
as well as women´s studies and gender research.
The conference coincided with the Nordic Council’s 50th
anniversary Jubilee Session, which was held in Helsinki between
28-31 October 2002, and with which the conference hads a joint session
bringing together politicians, academics and civil servants. |
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