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WELCOME TO THE SECOND NORDIC CHALLENGES CONFERENCE Welcome to Helsinki ...... 2 arranged by the Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS) at the in collaboration with UiO:Nordic. It is an international cross- Scientific board of the conference ...... 4 disciplinary conference, gathering scholars from the humanities, social sciences and beyond under a wider umbrella of Norden-related study Congress information ...... 4 and research. The language of the conference is English. The conference is the follow up to Global Challenges ‒ Nordic Experiences arranged by Keynote speakers ...... 5 UiO:Norden at the University of Oslo in March 2017. Conference programme ...... 6 The conference is a response to an articulated need for new research on the Nordic region and its global relations, and to promote debate Social programme ...... 19 on current challenges facing the Nordic societies. It is also the starting event for the new Nordic University Hub, ReNEW (Reimagining Map ...... 20 Norden in an Evolving World), a Nordic Studies Excellence Hub, funded by Nordforsk for the time period of 2018-2023, in cooperation with matching funding from the participating universities. ReNEW is lead by the Universty of Helsinki (CENS) and the other partners are: University of Oslo, Södertörn Unversity, Aarhus University, Iceland University and Copenhagen Business School.

2 | CENS 2018 CENS 2018 | 3 SCIENTIFIC BOARD OF THE CONFERENCE Keynote speakers Peter Stadius, chair, CENS Haldor Byrkjeflot, Oslo University Johan Strang, CENS/Oslo University GRETE BROCHMANN is professor of Sociology at the Mary Hilson, Aarhus University University of Oslo. She is a leading scholar on migration Norbert Götz, Södertörn University and immigration policy. She has published widely on Mads Mordhorst, Copenhagen Business School the subject often with a Nordic thematic approach. She was the leader of what was named the Brochmann- committee 2009-2011, whose task was to evaluate the CONGRESS INFORMATION effects of increased immigration on the Norwegian welfare state. She consequently also led the second Brochmann-committee during 2015- Registration desk at the university 2017. Brochmann has been a visting sholar at Université Catholique de Wednesday 7th March 12-18 Louvain in Brussels (1992-1993) and at UC Berkeley (1999-2000). She Thursday 8th March 8-12 is the author of the contemporary history section, 1975-2000, in the work covering Norwegian immigration history from 900 to 2000 (Norsk innvandrings historie 900-2000). In 2016, she elected member of the REGISTRATION FEES INCLUDE Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. • Conference program • Lunches and coffees BO STRÅTH was 2007–2014 Finnish Academy • University Reception Distinguished Professor in Nordic, European and World • Helsinki City Reception and Conference materials History and Director of Research at the Department of World Cultures / Centre of Nordic Studies (CENS), University of Helsinki. 1997–2007 he was Professor CONFERENCE OFFICE of Contemporary History at the European University Institute in Florence, and 1990–1996 Professor in History Confedent International at the University of Gothenburg. He is a principal investigator in the Harjukatu 30, 00130 Helsinki, Finland HERA Research Project, The Debt: Historicizing Europe’s Relations with Phone: +358 50 46 44 757 the ‘South’. Bo Stråth’s research has focused on philosophy of history e-mail: [email protected] and political, social and economic theory of modernity, from a conceptual www.confedent.fi history perspective with special attention to questions of what keeps societies together or divides them, and how community is constructed. More information and instructions, visit: A special field of interest in this perspective is the history of European https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/nordic-challenges integration and the exploration of Europe in its global historical (19th– 20th century) context through the method of conceptual history.

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WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH FRIDAY 9 MARCH 12.00-15.00 Registration 9.15-10.45 Session VI 15.00-16.15 Opening ceremony, first key note (Bo Stråth) 10.45-11.00 Coffee 16.30-18.00 Session I 11.00-12.30 Session VII 18.00-19.30 University Reception 12.30-13.15 Lunch 13.15-15.00 Final Session THURSDAY 8 MARCH 9.00-10.30 Session II 10.30-11.00 Coffee 11.00-12.00 Event Session (Session III) 12.00-13.00 Lunch 13.00-14.00 Second key note (Grete Brochmann) 14.15-15.45 Session IV 15.45-16.15 Coffee 16.15-17.45 Session V 19.00 Helsinki City Reception Place: Old Court House, Aleksanterinkatu 20

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WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH Tero Erkkilä, Niilo Kauppi, Meng-Hsuan Chou: Global Indicators, 12.00-15.00 Registration Competition and the Nordic Model University Main Building, Third floor (Fabiansgatan 33) Martin Boje Møller-Rasmussen: The idea(s) of a Nordic Model of National Competitiveness? 15.00-15.15 Opening of the conference SMALL HALL, MAIN BUILDING Welcome from the organizers: Peter Stadius Chair: Johan Strang Next Nordic Challenges conference invitation: I-5 (hall 12) Nordic Responses to Soviet/Russian Challenges, 1917-2017 Caroline de la Porte (Copenhagen Business School) Kari Aga Myklebost: The Russian Revolution of 1917: Responses in 15.15-16.15 Key Note Lecture SMALL HALL the Nordic area Professor Bo Stråth (European University Institute/ Hallvard Tjelmeland: Nordic strategies towards the Soviet Union in University of Helsinki) 1970s and 1980s Norden: the Whole and its Parts in a Global Perspective Magnus Andersson: Norway, Finland and the “Pole Position” in Moderator: Peter Stadius Arctic affairs after the Cold War 16.30-18.00 Session I Stian Bones: Countering the idea of a race for the Arctic. I-1 (hall 5) The in a cultural-evolutionary perspective: The Nordic countries and Russia 2005-2010 The case of sustainable modernity? Chair: Ainur Elmgren Introduction by Nina Witoszek (University of Oslo) 18.00-19.00 University Reception TEACHERS LOUNGE, MAIN BUILDING Comments: Atle Midttun (Norwegian Business School) Hosted by Hanna Snellman, Dean of the Faculty of Art Lars Trägårdh (Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College) The reception is co-organized between The Second Nordic Chair: Stefan Nygård Challenges Conference and the conference Digital Humanities in I-2 (hall 6) Post migration identities and generations in Nordic countries I the Nordic Countries. Tuire Liimatainen: “Morning Coffee always tastes better in a Moomin Mug” - Representations of Sweden-Finnishness in a Social Media Campaign Maïmouna Jagne-Soreau: “Allt i denna diktsvit är fiktion / förutom problemen”. Postmigration literature in the Nordic countries Daria Krivonos: Making migrant workers: labour, racialisation and gender in young unemployed Russian-speakers’ encounters with labour activation in Finland Chair: Lotta Haikkola & Miika Tervonen I-3 (hall 8) Early Nordic Political Narratives Odd Arvid Storsveen: The birth of a Nordic political narrative? Torbjörn Nilsson: Conservatives at the crossroad – Distance or nearness to populism and extremism? Andreas Mørkved Hellenes: From Geneva to Pontigny: Sites of Nordic Democracy in Late Interwar Europe Chair: Jussi Kurunmäki I-4 (hall 10) Indexes in the making and circulation of Nordic models Malcolm Langford, Tori Loven Kirkebø, Haldor Byrkjeflot, Johan Karlsson Schaffer: The role of indexes and rankings in the making of Nordic exceptionalism

8 | CENS 2018 CENS 2018 | 9 THURSDAY 8 MARCH II-6 (Hall 13) Bridges and barriers in forming Nordic identities 9.00-10.30 Session II Claus Elholm Andersen: ‘For et dumt jævla idiotland det her var’. II-1 (hall 5) Experiences in Writing Nordic Historiography I Homelessness and Exile in Knausgård’s My Struggle Pertti Haapala: Opening and introduction: The power of Ainur Elmgren: Finnish Majority and Minority Intellectuals and the methodological nationalism in Nordic historiography Politics of Belonging 1890-1944 Marja Jalava: The rise of the idea of “history of society” in Nordic John Dyce: Bron/Broen: a bridge across cultural differences? countries The branding of Norden as a Nordic Petteri Norring: Nordic history as a concept and tool in Chair: Johan Strang Eino Jutikkala’s works 10.30-11.00 Coffee Chair: Pauli Kettunen 11.00-12.00 Event Session (Session III) II-2 (hall 7) Post migration identities and generations in Nordic countries II III-1 Theater performance and lecture (Think Corner/ Stage) Antti Häkkinen: Ten Generations – Three Centuries: A Finnish Research project Divergining Fates: Travelling Circus People under History as Family Stories National Socialism in cooperation with Teater Mestola Teemu Kemppainen: Crossing Borders for Health and Well-being – Inledande föreläsning: Malte Gasche A mixed methods study on medical travel between Finland, Russia Performans: Alfred Molnar (1905-1988) - från rotlös kosmopolitisk and Estonia. rackare till stolt finsk lejontämjare (Performed in Swedish) Rusten Menard: Negotiating shifting networks of discourses from Text och regi: Fabian Silén marked social positions På scenen: Willehard Korander Chair: Lotta Haikkola & Miika Tervonen Moderator: Peter Stadius II-3 (hall 8) Branding the Nordic Welfare State III-2 Book launch (Think Corner/ Basement): Alan Granadino: Between the Left and the North. The Swedish A conceptual history approach to public health in Norden model in the PSOE’s discourse during the Spanish transition to democracy Conceptualising Public Health: Historical and Contemporary Struggles over Key Concepts (Routledge 2018) Tom Hoctor: A research agenda with(out) a history: rediscovering the Freudian origins of national branding Presentation of the book by the editors and contributors: Irma Erlingsdóttir: From a Vilification to Celebration: International Johannes Kananen, Merle Wessel, Sophy Bergenheim, Perceptions of Iceland’s 2008 Financial Crash Ainur Elmgren Chair: Mary Hilson Discussant: Marja Jalava II-4 (hall 10) Making and circulation of Nordic ideas into models III-3 (hall 5) Round table discussion Caroline de la Porte: The European Pillar of Social Rights meets Nordic cooperation from abroad and from within the Nordic Model A discussion on the current state of Nordic cooperation with Niels Fuglsang: The strange non-death of economic models perspectives by Tobias Etzold (Stiftung Wissenshaft und Politik, Berlin), Matilda af Hällström (Nordic Council’s office in Brussels) Chair: Haldor Byrkjeflot and Johan Strang (CENS/UiO:Norden) II-5 (hall 12) Education in Norden Moderator: Mary Hilson Janne Holmén: Education 4.0 – Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian 12.00-13.00 Lunch attempts at mitigating the challenges of technological change through education 13.00-14.00 Second Key Note Svein Ivar Angell: Education as a Nordic Brand During the Cold War Plenary Zacharias Andreadakis: Sustainable Assessment in Nordic Higher Key note lecture by professor Grete Brochmann Education: Learning from Award-winning Practices at the University (University of Oslo) of Oslo Equality, solidarity and cohesion. The Nordic diversity challenge Chair: Ruth Hemstad Moderator: Johan Strang

10 | CENS 2018 CENS 2018 | 11 THE RESEARCH PROJECT DIVERGING FATES: TRAVELLING CIRCUS PEOPLE UNDER NATIONAL SOCIALISM IN COOPERATION WITH TEATER MESTOLA 14.15-15.45 Session IV www.divergingfates.eu www.mestola.com IV-1 (hall 5) Experiences in Writing Nordic Historiography II Pelle Oliver Larsen: National professorships and transnational networks in Scandinavian history during the 1930s and 1940s Peter Edelberg: Trans-Nordic neo-empiricism after WWII Chair: Pertti Haapala EN PERFORMATIV IV-2 (hall 7) Public health policy in Norden Kari Tove Elvbakken: Reforming Nordic Public Health Institutes – from uniformity to diversity? FÖRELÄSNING Zuzana Nordeng: Europeanisation of health care systems: implementation of EU Rules on Cross-Border Care in Norway TORSDAG 8.3.2018 KL. 11–12 Sophy Bergenheim: Finnish population policy in the 1930s–1960s: TIEDEKULMA / SCIENCE CORNER, UNIVERSITETSGATAN 4 from a homogenising bourgeois ‘defence strategy’ to universal(ish) welfare state policy? Chair: Johannes Kananen IV-3 (hall 8) The Nordic Welfare State – Still Social Democratic? I INLEDANDE FÖRELÄSNING Pauli Kettunen: The Nordic Welfare State – a Social Democratic Project? av Dr Malte Gasche Klaus Petersen (SDU) & Urban Lundberg (Stockholm University): Europas glömda kosmopoliter: Cirkusfolkets Lost? - The Cultural Retrenchment of Danish and Swedish Social olika öden under nationalsocialismens tid Democracy Commentator: Christopher Lloyd (University of New England/ University of /University of Helsinki) Chair: Pauli Kettunen TEATERPERFORMANS IV-4 (hall 10) Cultural diversity and Nordic Societies Alfred Molnar (1905–1988) – från rotlös Anna Derksen: Full Participation and Equality? Nordic Perceptions of Disability around the International Year of Disabled Persons kosmopolitisk rackare till stolt finsk lejon tämjare (1981) Text och regi: Fabian Silén Marja Peltola: Masculinities and ethnicities in 11-14-year-old boys living in Helsinki På scenen: Willehard Korander Jón Ingvar Kjaran & Jukka Lehtonen: Lost opportunities in the lands of “achieved equality”: Nordic perspectives on sexual diversity in education The monologue performed in Swedish by actor Willehard Korander tells the story about Alfred Molnar and his struggle to adjust as an Chair: Merle Wessel immigrant in Finland after the Second World War. IV-5 (hall 12) 19th Century Scandinavist Visions and Practices Based on the autobiography Suuri Ilveily (“The Great Buffoonery”) Jens Olesen: Scandinavianism: Visions of Unity and national by Alfred Molnar it is adapted for this specific event my dramaturg interests and author Fabian Silén from Teater Mestola. Andrew Newby: “Brothers From the Nordic Tribe” – Scandinavia, Finland and Famine Relief, 1857-1870 Mikael Björk-Winberg: Scandinavianism and Finland: how were Finns active in Scandinavist networks during the mid-19th century and what consequences did it have? Chair: Ruth Hemstad

CENS 2018 | 13 IV-6 (hall 13) Negotiations and visions - Urban development and green areas in V-4 (hall 10) National and Nordic Narratives – Tensions and Transfers in past and present Helsinki Nineteenth Century Scandinavian Schools Ranja Hautamäki: Negotiations between Landscape Preservation Ruth Hemstad: Images of ‘Scandinavia’ and ‘the Nordic’ in textbooks and Urbanism in Helsinki and maps after 1814 Julia Donner: Modern green - historical perspectives and future Merethe Roos: Inter-Scandinavian transfer and education debates questions in the mid-nineteenth century Mika Mäkelä: Urban renewal of the Kallio district in Helsinki Henrik Edgren: Textbooks and national narratives in comparative Chair: Peter Stadius perspectives IV-7 (hall tbc) Shifting Foreign Images of Sweden During the Long 1990s Chair: Janne Holmen Carl Marklund: Shifts in “Sweden-bashing:” Themes and tropes in V-5 (hall 12) State Control and Regulation of Sexuality and Normality in the critical discourse on Sweden – comparing the 1980s and the Forming the Nordic Welfare State 2010s. Merle Wessel: The German Castration Legislation of 1970 in a Nikolas Glover: From subversive aid provider to equal trade partner: Nordic Perspective attempts to capitalize on Sweden’s image in South Africa in the 1990s. Cai Weaver: Gays, Perverts and Degenerates – The Chain of Andreas Mørkved Hellenes: From Model to Copyist: Swedish Perversion in Putin’s Russia Self-Promotion at the Threshold of Europe Daniela Alaattinoglu: The Forgotten Victims? Survivors of Chair: Ulla Manns Involuntary Castration in the Nordic Countries 15.45-16.15 Coffee Chair: Mary Hilson 16.15-17.45 Session V V-6 (hall 13) The Nordics and issues of a global nature, ca. 1960-1980 V-1 (hall 5) Experiences in Writing Nordic Historiography III Melina Antonia Buns: Soiling Sky: On the Intention of Nordic Cooperation on Air Pollution Mervi Kaarninen: The co-operation of Nordic historians in the 20th century David Larsson Heidenblad, Rolf Edberg: A Pioneering Nordic Environmentalist in 1966 Ragnar Björk: The Nordic dimension in Swedish historiography. Björn Lundberg: Tracing the Ecological Turn in Nordic Foreign Aid Simon Larsson: Nordic historiography from nationalism to empirical 1960-1975 transnationalism Sunniva Engh: The Nordics and the postwar population-resource Chair: Marja Jalava quandary V-2 (hall 7) Nordic-Baltic Intersections after the Cold War Chair: Andrew Newby Jussi Kurunmäki: Finnish Foreign Policy and the Making of the V-7 (hall tbc) Women in the Nordic Labour Market Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference Carol Azungi Dralega: Women’s careers in technology-driven Carl Marklund, Kazimierz Musial & Ylva Waldemarson: Reframing employment - focus on female media practitioners in Norway Identities, Interests and Strategies in a Time of Uncertainty in the Baltic Sea Region Hilde G. Corneliussen: Women’s career trajectory in technology- driven R&I in rural communities Norbert Götz: Norden in Baltic Sea Cooperation: Semi-permeability and Demarcation Anna Karlsdóttir: Integration to the Labour Market, Indicators of Integration in the Nordic countries and regions Chair: Kari Aga Myklebost Chair: Irma Erlingsdóttir V-3 (hall 8) The Nordic Welfare State – Still Social Democratic? II 19.00 Helsinki City Reception at the Old Court House Ilkka Kärrylä (University of Helsinki) & Sami Outinen (University of (Aleksanterinkatu 20) Helsinki): The Changing Views of Finnish and Swedish Social Democrats on Regulation and Democracy in Economy and Working Life Heidi Vad Jønsson: Nordic Social Democracy, Migration and the Welfare State Commentator: Christopher Lloyd Chair: Pauli Kettunen 14 | CENS 2018 CENS 2018 | 15 FRIDAY 9 MARCH VI-5 (hall 12) Region, environment and population 9.15-10.45 Session VI Simo Laakkonen: Making of the first environmental convention in VI-1 (hall 5) Bureaucracy, democratization, civil society and language in 19th the Baltic Sea Region: Nordic Countries, United Nations and century Norden OILPOL 1954 Lars Mjøset: Bureaucracy, church and administrative language in Corinna Casi: The Value of the Barents Region: Cultural diversity Norway and Iceland in the 19th century and its Natural Environment Mette Frisk Jensen: The building of the Scandinavian states: Karoliina Snell & Heta Tarkkala: Nordic Population as a Cohort for establishing Weberian bureaucracy and curbing corruption from the Competetiveness mid-seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century Chair: Stian Bones Risto Alapuro: The change from Swedish to Finnish as administra- VI-6 (hall 13) Models for soft Nordic policy tive language in Finland in the 19th century Kristine Kjærsgaard: The Rise, Fall and Potential Revival of the Apostolis Papakostas: State Autonomy and Infrastructural Nordic Peacekeeping Model Capacities: Sequences and Contingencies. Amanda Cellini: The Use of Soft Law in Humanitarianism: Towards Chair: Andrew Newby a Nordic Brand of Refugee Resettlement VI-2 (hall 6) Criterias for inclusion and exclusion in Nordic societies Agnieszka Legutko: Welfare state and civil participation – Mats Wickstöm: From historical fact and prerequisite of welfare to favourable conditions to create Nordic model of NGO? nationalist myth and retrogression: changing notions of homo- Chair: Norbert Götz geneity in Sweden 10.45-11.00 Coffee Marjukka Weide: Making New Citizens: Discourses of Political 11.00-12.30 Session VII Incorporation in Denmark and Finland VII-1 (hall 5) Higher education and knowledge capital Kristian Bjørkdahl: A Dugnad for the Displaced?: Making Good on Jouni Kekäle: Changing Higher Education Policy and the Quest for Norway’s Reputed Goodness in the 2015 Refugee Crisis the Ideal of Socially Responsible University. Chair: Miika Tervonen Romulo Pinheiro: Universities’ Technostructures: Investigating VI-3 (hall 7) Rhetorics of Nordicness the Role of Support Services in Nordic Academia Mary Hilson, Jani Marjanen & Johan Strang: Rhetorics of Sissel Fossat: Nordic television as national defense. Danish Nordicness narratives of Nordic television 1968-1988 Matti La Mela: Nordicness of allemansrätten, a right of public access Chair: Jani Marjanen to nature VII-2 (hall 6) Work and labour market Ruth Hemstad: ‘Nordic Unity’ and ‘the Scandinavian Idea’ – Nordic Reima Launonen: The role of work in Nordic welfare states and Scandinavian as Rhetorical Concepts in the Nineteenth Century Sami Outinen: Vanguards of Social Democratic Third Way Policy: Mary Hilson & Tom Hoctor: The Nordic Model Nordic Social Democrats, Employment and Emerging Economic Chair: Johan Strang Globalization 1975−1986 VI-4 (hall 8) Nordic labour market Shah Murad: How to Manage Nordic Labour Market: In Search of Johanna Ahola-Launonen: Maintaining Nordic values: Against the the Perfect Model trend of responsibilization of the individual, towards an institutional Chair: Klaus Petersen account of responsibility VII-3 (hall 7) Transfers of Nordic culture Ole Jacob Thomassen & Trond Løyning: Towards an Audit Society? Åsa Arping: “The Great Nordic Light”: American Bremer-mania and Transformations in Justification for Supervisory Agencies in the transfer identities in the 1840s Nordic Countries Eija Niskanen: Moomin in Japanese animation – Finnish or Ingrid Birce Muftuoglu: Global trends in non-financial corporate Japanese original work? reporting: The transition from labour rights to human rights in Nordic energy companies Jana Lainto: Imagining Denmark in the Central European Czech lands/Czechoslovakia through the works of Arnošt Kraus Chair: Caroline de la Porte Chair: Claus Elholm

16 | CENS 2018 CENS 2018 | 17 VII-4 (hall 8) Minority strategies in a Nordic majority society Eija Stark: Quest of the Folk. Ethnicity representations in the Social pro­gramme Finnish folk narrative tradition Simo Muir: Post-war Politics of Memory among Jews and Roma in Finland UNIVERSITY RECEPTION Urban Claesson: The household as a synchronizing force in Nordic DATE: Wednesday, March 7 history TIME: 18.00–19.30 Chair: Peter Stadius PLACE: Helsinki University VII-5 (hall 12) Internal and external patterns on Branding Norden Yohann Aucante: Paradoxes of universalism: Scandinavian welfare between national and global imaginations HELSINKI CITY RECEPTION Michael Livingston: Dreamworld or Dystopia?: Internal and External DATE: Thursday, March 8 Perspectives on the Nordic Model in the 21st Century TIME: 19.00 Jon Reiersen: Americans Prefer Sweden and Norwegians Prefer PLACE: Old Court House, Norway Aleksanterinkatu 20 Chair: Malcom Langford VII-6 (hall 13) Historical encounters and minority strategies in Norden Johanna Wassholm & Ann-Catrin Östman: Trading minorities and cultural encounters on town markets in late 19th century Finland Malte Gasche: Security Practices of Circus People with Transnational Backgrounds during the Early Years of the Nordic Welfare States Maren Jonasson: Bewildering narratives and constant mobility: Survival strategies of two African-American women making their living in the Nordic countries 1874–1897 Chair: Eija Stark 12.30-13.15 Lunch 13.15-15.00 Final session Presentation of ReNEW SMALL HALL Peter Stadius, Haldor Byrkjeflot, Mary Hilson 14.00 Visions for research on Norden Panel: Thomas Wilhelmsson Caroline de la Porte, Claus Elholm Andersen, Mary Hilson 14.50 Closing of Conference

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