Conference programme

12-15

Registration

Main building (Fabiansgatan 33), Ground floor

University Main Building

15.00

Opening of the conference

Welcome from the organizers: Peter Stadius

Next Nordic Challenges conference invitation: Caroline de la Porte (Copenhagen Business School)

Small Hall, Main Building

15.15-16.15

Key Note Lecture

Professor Bo Stråth (European University Institute/University of Helsinki): Norden: the Whole and its Parts in a Global Perspective

Small Hall

Moderator: Peter Stadius

I-1 (hall 5): The Nordic countries in a cultural-evolutionary perspective: The case of sustainable modernity?

I-2 (hall 6): Post migration identities and generations in Nordic countries I

I-3 (hall 8): Early Nordic Political Narratives

I-4 (hall 10): Indexes in the making and circulation of Nordic models

I-5 (hall 12): Nordic Responses to Soviet/Russian Challenges, 1917-2017

Introduction by Nina Witoszek (University of Oslo)

Comments:

Atle Midttun (Norwegian Business School)

Lars Trägårdh (Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College)

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

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

Tero Erkkilä, Niilo Kauppi, Meng-Hsuan Chou: Global Indicators, Competition and the Nordic Model

Martin Boje Møller-Rasmussen: The idea(s) of a Nordic Model of National Competitiveness? Malcolm Langford, Tori Loven Kirkebø, Haldor Byrkjeflot, Johan Karlsson Schaffer: The role of indexes and rankings in the making of Nordic exceptionalism

Kari Aga Myklebost: The Russian Revolution of 1917: Responses in the Nordic area

Hallvard Tjelmeland: Nordic strategies towards the Soviet Union in 1970s and 1980s

Magnus Andersson: Norway, Finland and the “Pole Position” in Arctic affairs after the Cold War

Stian Bones: Countering the idea of a race for the Arctic. The Nordic countries and Russia 2005-2010

Chair: Stefan Nygård

Chair: Lotta Haikkola & Miika Tervonen

Chair: Jussi Kurunmäki

Chair: Johan Strang

chair: Ainur Elmgren

II-1 (hall 5): Experiences in Writing Nordic Historiography I

II-2 (hall 7): Post migration identities and generations in Nordic countries II

II-3 (hall 8): Branding the Nordic Welfare State

II-4 (hall 10): Making and circulation of Nordic ideas into models

II-5 (hall 12): Education in Norden

II-6 (Hall 13): Bridges and barriers in forming Nordic identities

Pertti Haapala: Opening and introduction: The power of methodological
nationalism in Nordic historiography
Marja Jalava: The rise of the idea of "history of society" in Nordic countries
Petteri Norring: Nordic history as a concept and tool in Eino Jutikkala's works

Antti Häkkinen: Ten Generations – Three Centuries: A Finnish History as Family Stories

Teemu Kemppainen: Crossing Borders for Health and Well-being – A mixed methods study on medical travel between Finland, Russia and Estonia.

Rusten Menard: Negotiating shifting networks of discourses from marked social positions

Alan Granadino: Between the Left and the North. The Swedish model in the PSOE’s discourse during the Spanish transition to democracy

Tom Hoctor: A research agenda with(out) a history: rediscovering the Freudian origins of national branding

Caroline de la Porte: The European Pillar of Social Rights meets the Nordic Model

Niels Fuglsang: The strange non-death of economic models

Irma Erlingsdóttir: From a Vilification to Celebration: International Perceptions of Iceland’s 2008 Financial Crash

Janne Holmén: Education 4.0 – Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian attempts at mitigating the challenges of technological change through education

Svein Ivar Angell: Education as a Nordic Brand During the Cold War

Zacharias Andreadakis: Sustainable Assessment in Nordic Higher Education: Learning from Award-winning Practices at the University of Oslo

Claus Elholm Andersen: 'For et dumt jævla idiotland det her var'. Homelessness and Exile in Knausgård’s My Struggle

Ainur Elmgren: Finnish Majority and Minority Intellectuals and the Politics of Belonging 1890-1944

John Dyce: Bron/Broen: a bridge across cultural differences? The branding of Norden as a Nordic

Chair: Pauli Kettunen

Chair: Lotta Haikkola & Miika Tervonen

Chair: Mary Hilson

Chair: Haldor Byrkjeflot

Chair: Ruth Hemstad

Chair: Johan Strang

III-1 Theater performance and lecture (Science Corner/ Stage):

Research project Divergining Fates: Travelling Circus People under National Socialism in cooperation with Teater Mestola

III-2: Book launch (Science Corner/ Basement):

A conceptual history approach to public health in Norden

III-3: Round table discussion (hall 5):

Nordic cooperation from abroad and from within

Inledande föreläsning: Malte Gasche

Performans: Alfred Molnar (1905-1988) - från rotlös kosmopolitisk rackare till stolt finsk lejontämjare (Performed in Swedish)

text och regi: Fabian Silén

På scenen: Ville Korander

Conceptualising Public Health: Historical and Contemporary Struggles over Key Concepts (Routledge 2018)

Presentation of the book by the editors and contributors:

Johannes Kananen, Merle Wessel, Sophy Bergenheim, Ainur Elmgren

A discussion on the current state of Nordic cooperation with perspectives by Tobias Etzold (Stiftung Wissenshaft und Politik, Berlin), Matilda af Hällström (Nordic Council’s office, Brussels), Johan Strang (UiONordic/CENS)

moderator: Peter Stadius

Discussant: Marja Jalava

moderator: Johan Strang

Small Hall

Key note lecture by professor Grete Brochmann (University of Oslo)

Equality, solidarity and cohesion. The Nordic diversity challenge

Moderator: Johan Strang

IV-1 (hall 5): Experiences in Writing Nordic Historiography II

IV-2 (hall 7): Public health policy in Norden

IV-3 (hall 8): The Nordic Welfare State – Still Social Democratic? I

IV-4 (hall 10): Cultural diversity and Nordic Societies

Pelle Oliver Larsen: National professorships and transnational
networks in Scandinavian history during the 1930s and 1940s
Peter Edelberg: Trans-Nordic neo-empiricism after WWII

Kari Tove Elvbakken: Reforming Nordic Public Health Institutes – from uniformity to diversity?

Zuzana Nordeng: Europeanisation of health care systems: implementation of EU Rules on Cross-Border Care in Norway

Sophy Bergenheim: Finnish population policy in the 1930s–1960s: from a homogenising bourgeois ‘defence strategy’ to universal(ish) welfare state policy?

Pauli Kettunen: The Nordic Welfare State – a Social Democratic Project?

Klaus Petersen (SDU) & Urban Lundberg (Stockholm University): Lost? - The Cultural Retrenchment of Danish and Swedish Social Democracy

Commentator: Christopher Lloyd (University of New England/University of Tampere/University of Helsinki)

Anna Derksen: Full Participation and Equality? Nordic Perceptions of Disability around the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981)

Marja Peltola: Masculinities and ethnicities in 11-14-year-old boys living in Helsinki

Jón Ingvar Kjaran & Jukka Lehtonen: Lost opportunities in the lands of “achieved equality”: Nordic perspectives on sexual diversity in education

Chair: Pertti Haapala

Chair: Johannes Kananen

Chair: Pauli Kettunen

Chair: Merle Wessel

IV-5 (hall 12): 19th Century Scandinavist Visions and Practices

IV-6 (hall 13): Negotiations and visions - Urban development and green areas in past and present Helsinki

IV-7 (hall 6): Shifting Foreign Images of Sweden During the Long 1990s

Jens Olesen: Scandinavianism: Visions of Unity and national interests

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?

Ranja Hautamäki: Negotiations between Landscape Preservation and Urbanism in Helsinki

Julia Donner: Modern green - historical perspectives and future questions

Mika Mäkelä: Urban renewal of the Kallio district in Helsinki

Carl Marklund: Shifts in “Sweden-bashing:” Themes and tropes in the critical discourse on Sweden – comparing the 1980s and the 2010s.

Nikolas Glover: From subversive aid provider to equal trade partner: attempts to capitalize on Sweden's image in South Africa in the 1990s.

Andreas Mørkved Hellenes: From Model to Copyist: Swedish Self-Promotion at the Threshold of Europe

Chair: Ruth Hemstad

chair: Peter Stadius

Chair: Ulla Manns

V-1 (hall 5): Experiences in Writing Nordic Historiography III

V-2 (hall 7): Nordic-Baltic Intersections after the Cold War

V-3 (hall 8): The Nordic Welfare State – Still Social Democratic? II

V-4 (hall 10): National and Nordic Narratives – Tensions and Transfers in Nineteenth Century Scandinavian Schools

Mervi Kaarninen: The co-operation of Nordic historians in the 20th
century
Ragnar Björk: The Nordic dimension in Swedish historiography.
Simon Larsson: Nordic historiography from nationalism to empirical
transnationalism

Jussi Kurunmäki: Finnish Foreign Policy and the Making of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference

Carl Marklund, Kazimierz Musial & Ylva Waldemarson: Reframing Identities, Interests and Strategies in a Time of Uncertainty in the Baltic Sea Region

Norbert Götz: Norden in Baltic Sea Cooperation: Semi-permeability and Demarcation

Ilkka Kärrylä (University of Helsinki) & Sami Outinen (University of 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

Ruth Hemstad: Images of ‘Scandinavia’ and ‘the Nordic’ in textbooks and maps after 1814

Merethe Roos: Inter-Scandinavian transfer and education debates in the mid-nineteenth century

Henrik Edgren: Textbooks and national narratives in comparative perspectives

Chair: Marja Jalava

Chair: Kari Aga Myklebost

Chair: Pauli Kettunen

Chair: Janne Holmen

V-5 (hall 12): State Control and Regulation of Sexuality and Normality in Forming the Nordic Welfare State

V-6 (hall 6, OBS! NEW LOCATION): The Nordics and issues of a global nature, ca. 1960-1980

V-7 (hall 4): Women in the Nordic Labour Market

Merle Wessel: The German Castration Legislation of 1970 in a Nordic Perspective

Cai Weaver: Gays, Perverts and Degenerates – The Chain of Perversion in Putin’s Russia

Daniela Alaattinoglu: The Forgotten Victims? Survivors of Involuntary Castration in the Nordic Countries

Melina Antonia Buns: Soiling Sky: On the Intention of Nordic Cooperation on Air Pollution
David Larsson Heidenblad: Rolf Edberg: A Pioneering Nordic Environmentalist in 1966
Björn Lundberg: Tracing the Ecological Turn in Nordic Foreign Aid 1960-1975
Sunniva Engh: The Nordics and the postwar population-resource quandary

Carol Azungi Dalega: Women's careers in technology-driven employment - focus on female media practitioners in Norway

Hilde G. Corneliussen: Women's career trajectory in technology-driven R&I in rural communities

Anna Karlsdóttir: Integration to the Labour Market, Indicators of Integration in the Nordic countries and regions

chair: Mary Hilson

chair: Andrew Newby

chair: Irma Erlingsdóttir

VI-1 (hall 5): Minority strategies in a Nordic majority society

VI-2 (hall 6): Criterias for inclusion and exclusion in Nordic societies

VI-3 (hall 7): Rhetorics of Nordicness

VI-4 (hall 8): Nordic labour market

VI-5 (hall 12): Region, environment and population

VI-6 (hall 13): Models for soft Nordic policy

Eija Stark: Quest of the Folk. Ethnicity representations in the Finnish folk narrative tradition

Simo Muir: Post-war Politics of Memory among Jews and Roma in Finland

Urban Claesson: The household as a synchronizing force in Nordic history

Mats Wickstöm: From historical fact and prerequisite of welfare to nationalist myth and retrogression: changing notions of homogeneity in Sweden

Marjukka Weide: Making New Citizens: Discourses of Political Incorporation in Denmark and Finland

Kristian Bjørkdahl: A Dugnad for the Displaced?: Making Good on Norway's Reputed Goodness in the 2015 Refugee Crisis

Mary Hilson, Jani Marjanen & Johan Strang: Rhetorics of Nordicness

Matti La Mela: Nordicness of allemansrätten, a right of public access to nature

Ruth Hemstad: ‘Nordic Unity’ and ‘the Scandinavian Idea’ – Nordic and Scandinavian as Rhetorical Concepts in the Nineteenth Century

Mary Hilson & Tom Hoctor: The Nordic Model

Johanna Ahola-Launonen: Maintaining Nordic values: Against the trend of responsibilization of the individual, towards an institutional account of responsibility

Ole Jacob Thomassen & Trond Løyning: Towards an Audit Society? Transformations in Justification for Supervisory Agencies in the Nordic Countries

Ingrid Birce Muftuoglu: Global trends in non-financial corporate reporting: The transition from labour rights to human rights in Nordic energy companies

Simo Laakkonen: Making of the first environmental convention in the Baltic Sea Region: Nordic Countries, United Nations, and OILPOL 1954

Corinna Casi: The Value of the Barents Region: Cultural diversity and its Natural Environment

Karoliina Snell & Heta Tarkkala: Nordic Population as a Cohort for Competetiveness

Kristine Kjærsgaard: The Rise, Fall and Potential Revival of the Nordic Peacekeeping Model

Amanda Cellini: The Use of Soft Law in Humanitarianism: Towards a Nordic Brand of Refugee Resettlement

Agnieszka Legutko: Welfare state and civil participation - favourable conditions to create Nordic model of NGO?

Chair: Peter Stadius

Chair: Miika Tervonen

Chair: Johan Strang

Chair: Caroline de la Porte

Chair: Stian Bones

Chair: Norbert Götz

VII-1 (hall 5): Bureaucracy, democratization, civil society and language in 19th century Norden

VII-2 (hall 6): Work and labour market

VII-3 (hall 7): Transfers of Nordic culture

VII-4 (hall 8): Higher education and knowledge capital

VII-5 (hall 12): Internal and external patterns on Branding Norden

VII-6 (hall 13): Historical encounters and minority strategies in Norden

Lars Mjøset: Bureaucracy, church and administrative language in Norway and Iceland in the 19th century

Mette Frisk Jensen: The building of the Scandinavian states: establishing Weberian bureaucracy and curbing corruption from the mid-seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century

Risto Alapuro: Notes on the Bureaucracy in Finland and in Norway in the Nineteenth Century

Apostolis Papakostas: State Autonomy and Infrastructural Capacities: Sequences and Contingencies.

Reima Launonen: The role of work in Nordic welfare states

Sami Outinen: Vanguards of Social Democratic Third Way Policy: Nordic Social Democrats, Employment and Emerging Economic Globalization 1975−1986

Shah Murad: How to Manage Nordic Labour Market: In Search of the Perfect Model

Åsa Arping: “The Great Nordic Light”: American Bremer-mania and transfer identities in the 1840s

Eija Niskanen: Moomin in Japanese animation – Finnish or Japanese original work?

Jana Lainto: Imagining Denmark in the Central European Czech lands/Czechoslovakia through the works of Arnošt Kraus

Jouni Kekäle: Changing Higher Education Policy and the Quest for the Ideal of Socially Responsible University.

Services in Nordic Academia

Sissel Fossat: Nordic television as national defense. Danish narratives of Nordic television 1968-1988

Yohann Aucante: Paradoxes of universalism: Scandinavian welfare between national and global imaginations

Michael Livingston: Dreamworld or Dystopia?: Internal and External Perspectives on the Nordic Model in the 21st Century

Jon Reiersen: Americans Prefer Sweden and Norwegians Prefer Norway

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: Andrew Newby

Chair: Klaus Petersen

Chair: Claus Elholm

Chair: Jani Marjanen

Chair: Malcom Langford

Chair: Eija Stark

15.15: Presentation of ReNEW: Peter Stadius, Haldor Byrkjeflot

Small Hall

15.50: Panel: Visions for research on Norden

Panelists: Thomas Wilhelmsson, Claus Elholm Andersen, Mary Hilson

moderator: Johan Strang

14.50: Closing of Conference