Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:18:11 +0200 (EET)
From: Maunu H{yrynen <hayrynen@csc.fi>
To: h-verkko@sara.cc.utu.fi
Subject: National Peripheries / Borders
NATIONAL PERIPHERIES / BORDERLANDS
Time: 22.1. - 19.2.1995, Mondays & Tuesdays 12 am - 2 pm (exceptionally on Thursday 1 February at the same time).
Place: Renvall Institute of Historical Research (Vuorikatu 6 A 4) Common Room.
Target group: Advanced/higher degree students of history, art history, geography etc.
The course corresponds 1 credit. To pass the course an essay on agreed topic is required, based on lectures and literature. The course is directed by Dr Maunu Häyrynen.
The course deals with the concept of "national landscape" and its significance in Finnish nation-building, concentrating on the particular role of peripheral or border areas in the demarcation of national space. Different cases of national periphery are d iscussed. Emphasis is laid on the cultural transformation of 'Otherness' to the basis of national self-definition in successive stages.
22.1 Introduction. (Maunu Häyrynen.)
23.1. Maunu Häyrynen: The National 'Gallery' of Landscapes in Finland.
29.1. Merete Mazzarella: The Land of the Finland-Swedes - Reality or Fantasy?
30.1. Antti Laine: Finns and Karelian as Nationalities in Two Neighbouring States with Different and Changing Political Climates.
1.2 Yrjö Kaukiainen: Between Sweden and Russia - The "Old Finland". Please note exceptional day!
5.2. Kalle Michelsen: Defining the Periphery - The Case of Petsamo.
6.2. Jorma Puranen: Representations of Lapland and the Sami.
12.2. Anssi Paasi: Territories, Boundaries and Social Consciousness.
13.2. Liisa Häyrynen: The Psychology of a Border Area.
19.2. Pellervo Kokkonen: The Making of Political Units: The Emergence of Boundaries in the Maps of Northern Europe.