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Opening Conference 2005
Go North! Baltic Sea Region Studies:
Past – Present – Future
APRIL 4–6, 2005,
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY BERLIN
IDEA
The conference will mark the first of a series of events
in the framework of the new BalticStudyNet programme. Its
aim is to map existing contents and definitions of Baltic Sea Region
Studies in and outside the region as well as to set cornerstones
for future developments of curricula and structures of international
co-operation.
Since the Erasmus Mundus programme focuses on scientific contacts
between EU and third country institutions, one important aspect
of the conference will be to discuss third country perspectives
on the European North and to discover parallels and differences
of existing approaches towards the region – in politics as
well as educational programmes.
Furthermore, the conference will address key issues of the Baltic
Sea region with a comparative view to another European region, namely
the Mediterranean. |
AGENDA
Monday, 4th April 2005
| 12.00–13.00 |
Registration
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| 13.00 |
Greetings
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| 13.30–14.30 |
Keynote lecture
Gerhard Sabathil
(European Commission Representation in Germany)
"Baltic Regional Cooperation after Enlargement"
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| 14.30–15.00 |
Coffee break
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| 15.00–16.30 |
Panel I:
Northern Dimension in Third Country Politics
Chair: Bernd Henningsen (Humboldt
University Berlin)
Government representatives and political
experts from the U.S., Canada, and Russia discuss whether
or not there is a ”Northern Dimension” in the
respective countries’ politics, and what ”Northern”
refers to in each particular case.
Presentations
Judith Cefkin
(U.S. State Department)
"The Enhanced Partnership in Northern
Europe –
The USA’s Northern Dimension"
Mari-Anna Suurmunne
(Canadian Embassy Finland)
"The Northern Dimension of Canada’s
Foreign Policy"
Alexander Sergunin
(Nizhny Novgorod State Lingustic University, Russia)
"Russian Foreign Policy Views on the
European North"
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| 16.30–17.00 |
Coffee break
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| 17.00–18.30 |
Panel I (continued)
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| Tuesday,
5th April 2005 |
| 9.30–11.00 |
Panel II:
Baltic Sea Region Studies in the World
Chair: Tarja Hyppönen
(University of Turku)
Selected examples of Baltic Sea Region
Studies, both from inside the Baltic Sea area and from third
countries, are presented in order to explore underlying definitions
of the term “Baltic (Sea) Region”.
Presentations:
Marko Lehti
(Tampere Peace Research Institute, Finland)
"Call for New Northern Agenda:
Mastering Regions – Training Masters"
Olavi Arens
(Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA)
(a) "The AABS, its conferences, activities,
and discussions on future
directions (including cooperation with the Society for the
Advancement of Scandinavian Studies)"
(b) "Teaching of Baltic studies at North
American universities and
cooperation with universities in the Baltic States -- exchanges
and studies abroad programs"
Viktor Trasberg
(University of Tartu, Estonia)
"Baltic Studies Master program at the
University of Tartu"
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| 11.00–11.30 |
Coffee break
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| 11.30–13.00 |
Panel II (continued)
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| 13.00–15.00 |
Lunch break
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| 15.00–16.30 |
Panel III:
The Baltic Sea Region – a European Role Model
Chair: Uffe Jakobsen (University
of Copenhagen)
Can the Baltic Sea Region be regarded
a role model for Europe? Researchers and scholars discuss
topical issues of regional co-operation.
Presentations:
Sami Moisio
(University of Turku, Finland)
"In what sense a region? European integration
and the Baltic Sea Region"
Clive Archer
(Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
" The Baltic Sea region: can it and should
it be a model for cooperation in the rest of Europe?"
Kazimierz Musial
(Gdansk University, Poland)
"Higher education in the Baltic Sea region
and the European ambition to create a common area for research
and higher education"
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| 16.30–17.00 |
Coffee break
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| 17.00–18.30 |
Panel III (continued)
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| 19.30–22.00 |
Reception in the Felleshus of
the Nordic Embassies in Berlin
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| 20.00 |
Keynote speech
Bjørn Tore Godal
(Norwegian Ambassador)
"Transatlantic Perspectives on the
Baltic Sea Region and the European North"
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| Wednesday,
6th April 2005 |
| 9.30–11.00 |
Panel IV:
Entre deux Mers: Two European Key Areas
Chair: Fabrizio Tassinari
(University of Copenhagen)
The Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea represent
key areas of Europe. The panellists present and discuss comparative
views on the two regions as spaces of science and education.
Presentations:
Uffe Østergård
(Danish Institute for International Studies)"
Two European Inlakes – the Baltic Sea
Region and the Mediterranean Compared"
Pertti Joenniemi
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
"Europe’s North and South and the
European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)"
Athanasios Moulakis
(University of Lugano, Switzerland)
"The Mediterranean: A problematic Regionalism"
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| 11.00–11.30 |
Coffee break
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| 11.30–13.00 |
Panel IV (continued)
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| 13.00 |
End of conference
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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
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Robin Allers
robinallers@yahoo.de
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Ph.D. Student
Faculty of Philosophy and History
University of Hamburg, Germany
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Clive Archer
C.Archer@mmu.ac.uk |
Professor
Department of Political Science
Manchester Metropolitan University
United Kingdom |
Olavi Arens
arensola@mail.armstrong.edu |
Professor
Armstrong Atlantic State University
Savannah/Georgia, USA |
Rahat Ashymov
ashymovr@mail.auca.kg
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Student
American University – Central Asia
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan |
Uta Bielfeldt
uta.bielfeldt@gmx.de
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Ph.D. Student
Administration Sciences
University of Potsdam, Germany |
Judith B. Cefkin
CefkinJB@state.gov |
Director
Office of Nordic Baltic Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Washington D.C., USA |
Tatiana Chekalina
astellar@mail.ru |
Vice-head of Strategic Development
Department for Research
University of Kaliningrad, Russia |
Janka Clauder
janka.clauder@gmx.de
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Student
Baltic Management Studies
Stralsund University of Applied Sciences |
Ólafur Davídsson
olafur.davidsson@utn.stjr.is
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Ambassador
Embassy of Iceland, Berlin |
Tobias Etzold
Etzold_Tobias@hotmail.com
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MA, Political Science
Kiel, Germany |
Bjørn Tore Godal
bgo@mfa.no
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Ambassador
Embassy of Norway, Berlin |
Daniela Gorsler
dgorsler@tf.tfh-wildau.de
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Dipl.-Ing., Coordinator
International Projects (SoWiTec)
University of Applied Sciences
Wildau, Germany |
Vladimir Gurov
gurov@bki.lv |
Professor, Vice-Director
Baltic Russian Institute
Riga, Latvia |
Zbigniev Haber
ktzmain@au.poznan.pl
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Professor Dr.
Department of Landscape Architecture
Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland |
Krister Hanne
hanne@zedat.fu-berlin.de
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Dipl.-Pol.
Research Group for Northern European Politics (FOR:N)
Humboldt University Berlin |
Katrin Hecker
katrin.hecker@rz.hu-berlin.de
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Coordinator
BalticStudyNet
Humboldt University Berlin |
Per Hedde
per_hedde@yahoo.de |
Ph.D. Student
University of Kiel, Germany |
Bernd Henningsen
bernd.henningsen@rz.hu-berlin.de
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Professor Dr.
Head of Baltic Sea School
Humboldt University Berlin |
Valeska Henze
vau@snafu.de |
Dipl.-Pol.
Research Group for Northern European Politics (FOR:N)
Humboldt University Berlin |
Jochen Hille
Jochenhille@compuserve.de
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Dipl.-Pol.
Research Group for Northern European Politics (FOR:N)
Humboldt University Berlin |
Paul Holtom
pholtom@glam.ac.uk |
Researcher
Centre for Border Studies
University of Glamorgan, UK |
Tarja Hyppönen
tahyppo@utu.fi
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Coordinator
Baltic Sea Region Studies
University of Turku, Finland |
Uffe Jakobsen
UJ@ifs.ku.dk |
Professor Dr.
Department of Political Science
University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
Pertti Joenniemi
pjo@diis.dk |
Senior Research Fellow
European Department
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) , Copenhagen |
Maciej Jonca
macjon78@yahoo.com |
Student
Lublin Catholic University, Poland |
Rainer Kattel
kattel@staff.ttu.ee
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Professor Dr.
Chair of Public Administration and
European Studies
Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia |
Terje Knutsen
terje.knutsen@isp.uib.no
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Research Fellow
Department of Comparative Politics
University of Bergen, Norway |
Birgit Küstner
birgit.kuestner@sk.hamburg.de
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Senior Adviser on Baltic
Sea Co-operation
Senate Office
State Government of Hamburg, Germany |
Yuliya Larycheva
julia.larycheva@web.de
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Student
BalticStudyNet
Humboldt University Berlin |
Marko Lehti
malehti@utu.fi |
Ph.D. Docent
Tampere Peace Research Institute University of Turku, Finland
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Klaus von Lepel
Klausvon.Lepel@lv.hamburg.de
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Representation of the State
of Hamburg at the Federal Government in Berlin |
Victor Makarov
makarov@navigator.lv
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Ph.D. Student
Riga, Latvia |
Hartmut Marhold
hartmut.marhold@cife.org
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Dr., Director General
Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE),
Nice/Berlin |
Sami Moisio
sami.moisio@utu.fi
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Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
University of Turku, Finland |
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Athanasios Moulakis
moulakia@usilu.net
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Professor
Institute for Mediterranean Studies
University of Lugano, Switzerland |
Kazimierz Musial
musial@univ.gda.pl |
Dr., Lecturer
Department of Scandinavian Studies
Gdansk University, Poland |
Aare Pere
aare.pere@ut.ee |
Project Manager
Centre for Baltic Studies
University of Tartu, Estonia |
Gerhard Sabathil
gerhard.sabathil@cec.eu.int
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Dr., Head of European Commission
Representation in Germany, Berlin |
Silke Schielberg
schielberg@schiff.uni-kiel.de
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MA, Political Science
Schleswig-Holstein Institute for Peace Research (SCHIFF), Kiel,
Germany |
Magdalena Schönweitz
suschi79@web.de |
Student
University of Greifswald |
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Jan Hecker-Stampehl
jan.hecker-stampehl
@rz.hu-berlin.de
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M.A., Lecturer
Institute for Northern European Studies
Humboldt University Berlin |
Robert Schulz
robert.schulz@interreg3c.net
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Programme Assistant
Joint Technical Secretariat
Interreg III C North Zone |
Tom Schumacher
schumachertom@hotmail.com
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Dr.
Research Group for Northern European Politics (FOR:N)
Humboldt University, Berlin |
Carsten Schymik
carsten.schymik@staff.hu-berlin.de
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Dipl.-Pol., Coordinator
BalticStudyNet, Berlin |
Alexander Sergunin
sergunin@lunn.ru |
Professor
Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University, Russia |
Diana Sileikaite
Diana.Sileikaite@flf.vu.lt
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Dr., Lecturer
Department of German Philology
University of Vilnius, Lithuania |
Mari-Anna Suurmunne
Mari-Anna.Suurmunne@
international.gc.ca |
Ph.D., Manager - Political
Program
Canadian Embassy
Helsinki, Finland |
Oleksandr Svetlov
svetlov@companion.ua
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Companion Journal
Kiew, Ukraine |
Fabrizio Tassinari
FT@ifs.ku.dk |
Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
Viktor Trasberg
Viktor@ec.ut.ee |
Head of Centre for Baltic
Studies
University of Tartu, Estonia |
Christiane Viertel
suschi79@web.de |
Student
University of Greifswald |
Bengt-Arne Wickström
wick@wiwi.hu-berlin.de
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Professor Dr.
School of Business and Economics
Humboldt University Berlin |
Leena-Kaarina Williams
kaarina.williams@ib-sh.de
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Dr., Project Manager
Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein
Kiel, Germany |
Vaiva Zeimantiene
vaiva.zeimantiene@flf.vu.lt
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Lecturer
Department of German Philology
University of Vilnius, Lithuania |
Magdalena Zolkos
MZ@ifs.ku.dk |
Ph.D., Student
Department of Political Science
University of Copenhagen |
Uffe Østergård
uos@diis.dk |
Professor
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen
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Presse coverage of the Go North! conference
GERMANY
| Neues Deutschland
The Berlin daily covered the Go North! conference in an article
by Stephanie Reisinger entitled »The special Berlin view on
the North« (»Die besondere Berliner Sicht auf den Norden«).
It was published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the
Department for Northern European Studies at Humboldt-Universität:
»Graduates of the Department for Northern European Studies
at Humboldt-Universität can be found in almost every profession.
This is atypical of an institution actually dedicated to language
training, literature and medieval studies, with focus on the core
countries of Scandinavia. Yet the Berlin department is the only
one in Germany that also offers cultural studies. Moreover, the
perspective of the discipline has been broadened to also include
the "wide North". This means that for the Department
for Northern European Studies, the North begins at the southern
shores of the Baltic Sea reaching out from there to Greenland
in one direction and via the Baltic states to Russia in the other.
The notion of the "wide North" made itself quite clear
during the Baltic Sea conference in the senate hall of Humboldt-Universität
that ended on Wednesday. Participants and speakers came from Denmark
and Norway but also from Russia, Poland and Estonia. The conference
marked the first in a series of events in the framework of a new
programme run by the Baltic Sea School at the Department for Northern
European Studies – the BalticStudyNet. This new programme
which gets funding from the EU aims at enhancing the attractiveness
of Europe as an educational destination.
Since the establishment of the Department for Northern European
Studies ten years ago, there have been continuous efforts to promote
Baltic Sea Region Studies. Hence it is fair to say that today
Berlin and Humboldt-Universität represent the centre of Baltic
Sea Region Studies in Germany. The new BalticStudyNet programme
was selected by the EU as one of seven projects in a competition
among 57 applicants. Now the Baltic Sea researchers at Humboldt-Universität
aim at establishing Baltic Sea Region Studies as a master degree
programme, with all courses given in English. This master degree
programme will be the first of its kind in Germany.«
[From: Neues Deutschland, April 8, 2005; translation by
Carsten Schymik]
LITHUANIA
universitas vilnensis
Diana Šileikaite und Vaiva Žeimantiene, lecturers at
the Department of German Philology of Vilnius University and participants
in the Go North! conference, reported from Berlin for the university
journal universitas vilnensis. Their article was originally published
in Lithuanian under the title »Berlyne pradetas vykdyti naujas
ES ERASMUS MUNDUS programos projektas „BalticStudyNet“«
(»New ERASMUS MUNDUS programme launched in Berlin: "BalticStudyNet"«)
»Discussions centred around these key questions: "What
makes the Baltic Sea area attractive? How can interest in the
region be aroused in order to attract the greatest possible number
of students from different countries?" It was pointed to
newly emerging possibilities, as almost all Baltic Sea countries
have become members of the EU. The Baltic Sea area could be seen
as a role model of co-operation for other European countries,
particularly in the socio-economic, educational and cultural fields;
it could become a kind of laboratory where different social and
economic problems are being solved in a dialogue of cultures.
In this respect, the future will bring about new challenges.«
[From: universitas vilnensis, no. 4 (1660) 2005; translation
by Carsten Schymik]
GERMANY
Berliner Zeitung
The BalticStudyNet was also featured in »View to the North«
(»Blick nach Norden«) an article written by Henrike
Schulte for the Berlin daily Berliner Zeitung and published in the
run-up to the Go North! conference:
»In the early 1990s, following the breakdown of the Soviet
Union, it seemed remarkably natural to re-discover the idea of
the Baltic Sea as a region with a homogeneous culture, and then
to proclaim it as a project of promoting co-operation and mutual
understanding between the different countries. Predictions of
a bright future characterised by economic growth, technological
innovation, high educational standards and scientific co-operation,
made the Baltic Sea a pilot region within the enlarging European
Union. Despite this development, however, Germans have little
knowledge about the Baltic Sea region; we know a lot more about,
for instance, the Mediterranean. This is particularly noteworthy
since German history shows that there have always been close ties
and relations with Scandinavia and the wider Baltic Sea area.
And until today there exists a lively exchange in politics, culture,
and the economy. (…)
Since January 2005, the BalticStudyNet programme conducted by
the Baltic Sea School at the Department for Northern European
Studies receives funding from the EU. The Baltic Sea School is
going to host an international conference about present and future
perspectives of studies and research related to the Baltic Sea
region.«
[From: Berliner Zeitung, March 30, 2005; translation by
Carsten Schymik]
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Pictures of the Go North! conference
Welcome! by Uwe Brandenburg,
Head of Office of International Affairs at Humoldt University,...
...and Bernd Henningsen, Head of Baltic Sea School.
Judith Cefkin, U.S. State Department.
Panel I (from left to right):
Sergunin, Suurmunne, Henningsen, Cefkin
Panel discussion.
Kazimierz Musial, University of Gdansk (right),
and Uffe Jakobsen, Copenhagen University.
Panel III (from left to right):
Archer, Moisio, Jakobsen, Musial
Panel III (from right to left):
Musial, Jakobsen, Moisio, and Archer.
Panel II (from right to left):
Trasberg, Lehti, Hyppönen.
Coffee break.
Speaking: Olavi Arens,
Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA.
Marko Lehti, University of Turku, Finland.
Panel IV (from left to right):
Joenniemi, Moulakis, Tassinari, Østergård
Evening reception (from left to right):
Østergård, Joenniemi, Sergunin, Jakobsen
Evening reception (from left to right):
Knudsen, Henningsen, Schymik
Evening reception (from left to right): Hanne, Bielfeldt
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