7–9th March 2018 HELSINKI, FINLAND Welcome to Helsinki Content WELCOME TO THE SECOND NORDIC CHALLENGES CONFERENCE Welcome to Helsinki ........................................................... 2 arranged by the Centre for Nordic Studies (CENS) at the University of Helsinki 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. 4 | CENS 2018 CENS 2018 | 5 Con fer ence pro gramme 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 More information and instructions, visit: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/nordic-challenges 6 | CENS 2018 CENS 2018 | 7 Con fer ence pro gramme 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 Nordic countries 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