Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:50:02 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Maunu H{yrynen <hayrynen@csc.fi>
Subject: Seminar on Borderlands/National Peripheries, 22-23.11. HY
To: H-verkko <h-verkko@sara.cc.utu.fi>
THE DIVIDING LINE. SEMINAR ON BORDERS AND NATIONAL PERIPHERIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, 22 - 23 NOVEMBER 1996
Organizers: Renvall Institute of Area and Cultural Studies, Academy of Finland & Finnish Landscape Network
Place: Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki
Friday 22 November
8:30 Registration, coffee
9:00 Opening: Director Eino Lyytinen, Renvall Institute
9:05 Plenary session
Director Rob Shields, Lancaster University, UK/Carleton University, Canada: Border issues of Quebec and the new province of Nunavut in Canada.
Discussion
10:00 Panel sessions
Session 1: Borders and Identity
Associate Professor Roald Berg, Stavanger College, Norway: Borders, Minorities, International Politics and Nation Building in Northern Fennoscandia.
Mr Paul Fryer, University of Cambridge, UK & Dr Nicholas Lynn, University of Edinburgh, UK: Boundaries and Identities: the republics of the Russian North.
Dr Marko Lehti, University of Turku, Finland: Sovereignty, territory and making of national identities in Estonia and Latvia.
Dr Mikhail Molchanov, University of Alberta, Canada: Borders of Identity: Ukraine's Political and Cultural Significance for Russia.
Dr Jyrki Paaskoski, University of Helsinki, Finland: Russian Empire and its Western Borderland - some dimensions of 18th-century Russian Finland.
Session 2: Defining the Borders
Assistant Professor Guntram H. Herb, Middlebury College, USA: Stretching the Limits: Geographers and National Boundaries in Interwar Germany.
Professor David Kirby, ]bo Akademi, Finland/University of London, UK: Maritime boundaries of the Northern Seas.
Mr Pellervo Kokkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland: Obsessed with Borders: Russian Cartography and Expansion to the Northwest.
Ms Irina Popova, Institute of Slav and Balkan Studies, Russia/Central European University, Hungary: Representation of the Hungarian borders between the 18th and the early 19th century.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Panel sessions
Session 1: Formation of Borders
Professor Ken Coates, University of Waikato, New Zealand: Lines Across Homelands: National Boundaries and the Indigenous Peoples of North America - An historical Perspective.
Assistant Professor Troels Rasmussen, Danish Institute of Border Region Studies, Denmark: The old Danish- German border and its impact on North Schleswig and the Danish Monarchy in 1864 - 1920.
Dr Oleg Reut, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia/Central European University, Poland: Patterns of Emergence of Sub-Regions in Comparative Perspective: The Baltic and the Barents Regions.
Mr Anti Selart, University of Tallinn, Estonia: Formation of Estonian Eastern Border.
Assistant Professor Ludmila Vampilova, St-Petersburg University, Russia: The Northern Ladoga Region and Karelian Isthmus as routes of migration for nations.
Session 2: Borders and Images
Dr Doris Dohmen, South Bank University, UK: Stereotypes, national identity and the border: Images of Ireland and the Irish in German literature.
Assistant Professor Michelle Facos, Indiana University, USA: The role of Norway in defining Swedishness to artists and writers in the 1890s.
Dr Maunu H{yrynen, Academy of Finland/Helsinki University of Technology, Finland: The Movable Periphery: Borderlands in the Finnish National Landscape Imagery.
Dr Gregory Isachenko, University of St-Petersburg, Russia: Karelian Isthmus and the Ladogan Area: Function of Landscape in Changing Political Conditions.
16:00 Coffee
16:30 Plenary session
Professor Ken Coates, University of Waikato, New Zealand: Border Crossings: Pattern and Process in the History of the Pacific Northwest, 1846 - 1996.
- 17:30 Discussion
18:00 Reception at the University Main Building
20:00 Dinner (optional)
Saturday 23 November
9:00 Panel sessions
Session 1: Borders and People
Mr Edwin Rocabado, San Francisco State University, USA: Redefining Community on the U.S. - Mexico border: El Paso TX - Cd. Juarez Mexico as a transnational community.
Associate Professor Alexander Pashkov, Petrozavodsk State University, Russia: Russian view on Karelians, 1802 - 1904.
Associate Professor Alexis Pogorelskin, University of Minnesota, USA: "Karelian Fever": the recruitment of North American Finns to Soviet Karelia in 1931 - 1934.
Dr Venke ]sheim Olsen, Norway: Where the West ends. Northern Norway: The Borderland to Russia and Finland.
Session 2: Border Conflicts
Ms Riitta Laitinen, University of Turku, Finland/Arizona State University, USA: Navajo-Hopi Border of 1974 - Its Impact on Navajo Identity.
Mr Tadas Leoncikas, Polish Academy of Sciences/Central European University, Poland: Change of Borders and Identity Shifts: Poles of Vilnius Region in the 20th Century.
Professor John Lind, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: The Border of Noeteburg Treaty in 1323.
Assistant Professor Pauliina Raento, University of Helsinki, Finland: Basque borderland culture and boundary disputes and their changing context in the 1980s and the 1990s.
Mr Tapio Salminen, University of Tampere, Finland: "In Razeborghes scheren" - Expressions of Possession, Otherness and Power in the Correspondences between Finnish Bailiffs and the Council of Reval in the Late Middle Ages.
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Plenary session
Professor Daniele Conversi, Syracuse University, USA: Boundaries: theories in the study of ethnic conflict.
- 14:00 Conclusion
Contact information:
Dr Lars-Folke Landgren Renvall Institute/Norden University of Helsinki P.O.B. 4 FIN-00014 U of Helsinki E-mail: landgren@helsinki.fi
Dr Maunu H{yrynen Academy of Finland Unioninkatu 45 E 51 FIN-00170 HELSINKI E-mail: hayrynen@csc.fi