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| 2006-11-15 11:30 | 13:00 | BAI co-organises three sessions in Arts Council Norway Annual Meeting Together with the Kirkenes cultural society "Pikene på broen" the Barents Institute contributes to three parallel sessions in Art Council Norway's travelling Annual Meeting. During the conference day in Kirkenes Barents Institute MA scholarship holder Anastasia Rugova, European University at St. Petersburg, will present her on-going research on the use of the Russian language in Kirkenes. Assoc. Prof. Johan Schimanski, University of Tromsø, will reflect on literature and borders, and Urban Wråkberg and Hilde Methi of "Pikene på broen" will discuss encounters between artists, scientists and people in the Norwegian-Russian borderland during this summer's art festival "Connection Barents." |  |
| 2007-02-01 15:00 | 17:45 | “Continuity and Change in the High North,” Barents Institute Open Mini Symposium Rica Arctic Hotel, Kirkenes, Hall "Jerntoppen" 15.00-15.15 Welcome, Urban Wråkberg, the Barents Institute 15.15-16.00 Cold War Military Patronage and the Environmental Sciences in the Far North, Ronald E. Doel, Oregon State University 16.00-16.45 Migration and Social Values in the Border Lands of the Barents Region, Ann Therese Lotherington, NORUT Social Science Research Ltd 16.45-17.00 Intermission 17.00-17.45 Challenges and Opportunities in Norwegian and Russian Governance in the High North, Helge Blakkisrud, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs | |
| 2007-03-19 | The Barents Institute hosts University of Lapland study visit in Kirkenes The Barents Institute hosts the University of Lapland Arctic Studies Program annual excursion visit in Kirkenes | |
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| 2007-03-29 09:00 | 16:00 | Master Students Spring Seminar 2007 The Barents Institute invites those interested to a work-in-progress seminar in Kirkenes with the eight Master Students whom have been chosen for support by the Barents Institute for the spring semester 2007 | |
| 2007-05-18 | 2007-05-21 | International Relations in the Barents Region: History and Historiography The Barents Institute co-organises and participates in the symposium "International Relations in the Barents Region: History and Historiography" at Murmansk State Pedagogical University. This symposium is the first follow-up in a planned bi-annual series of conferences starting with the 2002 “Arctic Encounter: Cooperation and Conflict in the Arctic in the 19th and 20th Centuries”. In collaboration with the University of Tromsø, MSPU and the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow | |
| 2007-06-14 | 2007-06-19 | 2007 North Calotte Academy The North Calotte Academy 2007 is planned for a series of sessions in succession at Inari, Finland, Kirkenes, Norway, and in Murmansk (awaiting confirmation). The tentative theme “New Northern Dimension” has been proposed as a politically relevant and academically interesting topic due to the approval of the new framework document for the Northern Dimension and the International Polar Year of 2007-8. This topic would also be a follow-up to the main theme of the Calotte Academy 2006 “New Geopolitics of the North Calotte.” Based on tentative discussions the following organizers have mentioned their interests to be involved as organizers: Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Lapland, Thule Institute at University of Oulu, Sami Parliament and Regional Council of Lapland, the Barents Institute in Kirkenes, Northern Research Forum (NRF) | |
| 2007-08-22 | Joint Meeting of the Boreas: CEE and the Field Studies Research Networks 22nd August, 13:00-16:45 at the Barents Institute, Kirkenes Minisymposium “Global Knowledge, Local Consequences” (The programme will offer the speakers about 25 minutes each, including discussion. The symposium is open to the public.) Urban Wråkberg, Barents Institute, "Opening Remarks" Presentations: Ron Doel, Oregon State University, “Lessons from the Northern Past: Assessing the Arctic Environment” Esther Fihl, Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University, “Danish Ethnography and Geography in the Late 19th Century: The Two Pamirs-expeditions to Central Asia 1896-99” Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, “The Microgeography of Authority: Site-specific Glaciology and the Formation of a School of Climate Scepticism, 1940-1975” Maiken Lolck, The Steno Dept. of Studies of Science and Science Education, University of Aarhus, "Motivation for Ice Core Research: Greenland Fishery and Climate Change“ 15:00-15:15 Coffee & Tea Jon Oldfield, Dept. of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, “Conceptualisations of Society-Nature Interaction: Russian Thought and the Intellectual Underpinnings of the 1968 Biosphere Conference.” Suzanne Zeller, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, “Northern Wilds: The Animal Stories of Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), the Canadian North, and Post-Darwinian Biology” Robert Marc Friedman, Dept. of Archaeology, Conservation and Historical Studies, University of Oslo, “The Ethnographic Collection from Amudsen’s Gjøa Expedition at the University of Oslo’s Historical Museum: Some Cultural Political Reflections” Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen, The Steno Dept. of Studies of Science and Science Education, University of Aarhus, “Nationalism, Internationalism and Globalism on the three Danish Galathea Expeditions” | |
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| 2007-10-01 | 2007-10-02 | Second Thorvald Stoltenberg Symposium Research as a Basis for Cross Border Business and Competence Development The Second Thorvald Stoltenberg Symposium will be held in Kirkenes in cooperation between the Barents Institute, the Municipality of Sør-Varanger and the Barents Secretariat. It commemorates, on the day of the 20-years anniversary, Mikhail Gorbachev's path breaking speech held in Murmansk in 1987. In this Gorbachev proposed extensive disarmament in the Arctic and invited to discussions on a new policy of joint industrial development and international research cooperation on the Arctic. He envisioned a transformation of the High North from a heavily guarded militarized zone of secrecies, a potential theatre of war, to a ground where common interests of northern countries, not least the Scandinavian ones, should be articulated in open negotiations and implemented by all Arctic nations towards common goals of: peace, developments of economic growth and commerce, environmental protection, extended rights for indigenous peoples and improved life-quality for all northerners. Free entrance and participation, but there is a conference fee due for those who would like to participate in the lunch, excursion to Andersgrotta and dinner on 1st October: NOK 1000. Invited guests are exempted from this fee. Info: Svein Helge Orheim, Barents Institute (mob: 41544229) Registration by mail to post@barentsinsititute.org before 27th September For hotel booking: Rica Arctic Hotel, Kirkenes (78995900) 1. October 1130-1220: Lunch 1230-1245: Welcome by Research Dir. Urban Wråkberg, Barents Institute and Mayor Tone Hatle, Municipality of Sør Varanger 1245-1300: “Cross Border Cooperation” by the Samovar Theatre 1300-1330: Opening adress by Thorvald Stoltenberg: "From People-to-people Cooperation to Regional Foreign Policy – The Importance of Former President Gorbachev’s Speech in Murmansk 20 Years Ago" 1330-1430: "Opportunities within Cross Border Cooperation" A discussion between Dr. A. Sergunin, Dr. Pertti Joenniemi and Geir Westgaard, about cross-border issues of Kaliningrad and the Northern Dimension Policy of EU. 1430-1600: Extended coffee break with excursion to "Andersgrotta" 1600-1630: Dr. Dennis Zalamans, South Stockholm University College: "Kirkenes-Nikel: Twin Cities in Comparative Cases: Haparanda-Tornio and Valga-Valka" 1630-1700: Heikki Laine, Municipality of Imatra, Finland: "Twin Cities Cooperation between Imatra and Svetogorsk on the Border between States and Culture" 1700-1730: Panel discussion with the previous speakers 1730-1800: Advisor Nina Therese Maubach, Coordinator of the Research Strategy on the Arctic and Northern Regions, Research Council of Norway: "Presentation of the Norwegian Research Council’s Program for the Northern Areas" 2000--2300Dinner 2. October 0830-0900: Dr. Aileen Espíritu, Barents Institute: "Service Provision, Environmental Management, and Sustainable Communities: Comparative Studies of Quality of Life in the Barents Region" 0900-0930: Dr. Torbjørn Trondsen, University of Tromsø: "Research Cooperation with Northwest-Russia– Presentation of the Background for the Project: Marine Value Adding” 0930-1000: Rector Jarle Aarbakke, University of Tromsø: "How to Coordinate Research Resources to Optimalize Development within Competence Based Business?" 1000-1030: Dir. Lisbeth Isaksen, Kirkenes Adult Learning Center: "Sør-Varanger Municipality’s Strategy for Research Based Knowledge Building | |
| 2007-10-11 | 2007-10-12 | Editorial meeting: Encyclopaedia of the Barents Region The first meeting of the Associate Editors of the Encyclopaedia of the Barents Region is to be held at the Barents Institute on the 11th October. The steering group has already met on several occasions, it includes Urban Wråkberg (BAI), Lars Elenius at Luleå University of Technology and Einar Niemi at the University of Tromsø. The Associate Editors are currently: Patrik Lantto, University of Umeå; Matti Salo, University of Oulu; Maria Lähteenmäki, Helsinki University; Jens-Petter Nielsen, University of Tromsø and from Russia: Lubov Maximova, State University of Syktyvkar; Ilja Solomeshch, Petrozavodsk State University; Vladislav Goldin, Pomor State University, Arkhangelsk and Vladimir Karelin, Murmansk State Pedagogical University. This major programme has recently been awarded Intereg IIIA Kola Arctic funding, and has previously funding from among others the Norwegian and Swedish out-reach committees for the International Polar Year 2007-2009. | |
| 2007-12-04 | 2007-12-14 | Lassi Heininen visiting professor at the Barents Institute Dr. Lassi Heininen of the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, is visiting professor of Northern securities at the Barents Institute. He will base his research and contribute to the scholarly interaction at the Institute during the first half of December 2007. He is expected to call again at the institute in the future as part of this visiting fellowship. Heininen is a partner in several research and out-reach undertakings of the BAI, especially the annual Calotte Academy travelling workshops and panel debates, organised jointly in recent years. We also collaborate on developing a new research programme named "northern securities", together with the Dept. of political science at the University of Tromsø, the Karelian Institute of the University of Joensuu and the University of Akureyri, Iceland. | |
| 2008-02-01 | The Twin Towns of Kirkenes and Nikel: Visions and Reality The Barents Institute and the Municipality of Sør-Varanger invites everyone interested to Open Seminar at the Borderland Museum / Grenselandmuseet/ in Kirkenes on the 1st February 2008 The presentations and discussions will be held in Norwegian, interpretation will be provided on demand in English and Russian. Programme 08.30-09.00: Coffee and waffles 09.00-09.10: Welcome by the chair person of the Board of the Sør-Varanger Municipality, Linda Beate Randal 09.10-10.15: "The Regional Background to Local Cross-border Collaboration," Outi Torvinen, Finnmark County Authority 10.15-10.30: Coffee break 10.30-11.15: ”The Twin Towns of Kirkenes and Nikel,” Dennis Zalamans 11.15-11.30: Pause 11.30-12.15: ”Transborder Kirkenes-Nikel,” Øystein Rø 12.15-12.30: Concluding remarks Svein Helge Orheim, Barents Institute General information This seminar is part of the events of the cultural festival "Barents Spectacle/ Barents Days" thus accommodations may be hard to find in Kirkenes at this time, but we recommend you to contact the following hotels and hostels: Rica Kirkenes, Svanhovd miljøsenter and the Neidenelven hotel. Participation Please, apply as soon as possible by e-mail to: tns@svk.no, fax: (+47) 78 99 15 08 or by regular mail to Kirkenes kompetansesenter, boks 37, 9915 Kirkenes. Please state: name, institutional affiliation and telephone number. Further information and assistance Contact Svein Helge Orheim, Barents Institute tel. (+47) 415 44 229 or Lisbeth Isaksen, Kirkenes Competence Centre, tel. (+47) 78 99 38 40. Travel agent: Via Travel – Kirkenes reisebyrå, e-mail via@kirkenes.no and tel. (+47) 78 99 19 81. | |
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| 2008-03-16 | 2008-03-23 | Alexey Komarov visiting professor at the Barents Institute In the fall of 2007 the Barents Institute opened a series of visiting scholars. Apart from the research this furthers the programme is useful in facilitating international interaction and network development with the Institute in Kirkenes. The second scholar to be invited as Visiting Professor to Kirkenes is  Dr. Alexey Komarov, Head of the Centre for Nordic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Dr. Komarov is a long-standing expert on Scandinavian society, languages and culture. He has extensive experience from collaboration in Nordic research and publishing programmes; in Norway e.g. with the University of Oslo, the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies and in recent years the Barents Institute.Dr. Komarov is likewise a recognised expert on Scandinavia in Russia and widely engaged as lecturer and censor at various universities such as the Murmansk State Pedagogical University and Petrozavodsk State University. He co-organised the programmes of two symposia in Moscow in 2007 in collaboration, among others, with the Barents Institute: an international conference of the Delegation of the European Commission in Russia in March "Russia and EU: Past and Present" and a round table discussion at the Russian Academy of Sciences “Russia a part of Europe” on the occasion of the Norwegian Prime Minister's official visit to Moscow on 7-8th June. | |
| 2008-05-22 | 2008-05-26 | 2008 Calotte Academy: Climate Change Defining Human Security The Calotte Academy 2008 will take place on the 22-26th May 2008 in three locations in Finland, Norway and Russia. There will be sessions with presentations and open discussions in Inari, Finland, 23rd May (back-to-back with Ijahis Idja Saami Music Festival), in Kirkenes, Norway, 24th May and in Murmansk, Russia, on 26th May 2008. The main theme of the 2008 Academy is Climate Change Defining Human Security; the theme will be subdivided and papers presented under a series of integrated sub-themes, for further details, and to propose a paper, please see the second call for participation in the News section of the Barents Institute web site. | |
| 2008-09-11 | 2008-09-13 | 2008 European Conference of the Association of Borderland Studies The Barents Institute and the University of Tromsø, in collaboration with the Association for Borderland Studies, will organise an European Conference "Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders" in Kirkenes on 11-13th September 2008. Increasing focus has been given recently by geographers and social scientists to the role of cultural production and negotiation in social and territorial bordering processes. The ongoing flurry of movies, documentaries, art projects, novels, websites, festivals and tourist attractions concerning borders has given this aspect of bordering renewed topicality and economic importance, and has attracted research both in the humanities and in the social sciences. Papers on both theoretical questions and on border zones worldwide, and particularly on the Norwegian-Russian-Finnish borderland, are welcome. For further information, and to apply, please see the News section of the Barents Institute web site | |
| 2008-10-01 | 2008-10-02 | The Third Thorvald Stoltenberg Symposium Twin Cities Collaboration and Cross Border Research Wednesday 1st October | |
| 2009-01-28 | 2009-02-01 | 2009 Barents Spektakel The Barents Institute will participate in the events of the Kirkenes cultural festival 2009 Barents Spektakel. The details are specified below in the Barents Institute event calendar.  La Compagnie Malabar in Kirkenes during the 2008 Barents Spektakel | |
| 2009-01-29 13:00 | 17:30 | Borders: Manifestations of Social Construction In collaboration with Pikene på Broen, BORDERS: MANIFESTATIONS OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS
Grenser for fall – Et (be)grenset seminar Venue: Rica Arctic Hotel, Kirkenes, Hall Stoltenberg I
(Talks will be held mainly in Norwegian, and some in English)
Preliminary programme:
PART I: KIRKENES: A TOWN WITHIN BORDERS
"Welcoming remarks: Research in Cross-border Collaboration," Urban Wråkberg
"The University College in the Borderland: Experiences from Campus Kirkenes," Peter Fischer
"Border Studies in Kirkenes – A Programme and An Example," Arvid Viken & Stina Karisari
"The Narrative Construction of a Border Town," Torill Nyseth
"Boundaries on the Ground, Borders of the Mind: Narratives on Landscapes, Being and Belonging," Peter Haugseth
COFFE BREAK PART II: FOUR BORDERS – ONE REALITY?
"Do Languages Open Doors? On Developments in Language Practices in the Norwegian-Russian Borderland," Marit Bjerkeng & Soni Olsen
"Transcending Locality: Bordering the Good Life," Aileen Espiritu "Social Relationships in the North of Norway and Russia: The Way to Transformation," Victoria Tevlina "Karelian Border Tourism," Stein Roar Mathisen "The Adjarian Situation: A Georgian Border Region," Bjarge Schwenke Fors – Participation is open free of charge to all interested persons – | |
| 2009-05-28 | 2009-06-01 | 2009 Calotte AcademyCalotte Academy 2009
Inari, Finland / Kirkenes, Norway / Murmansk, Russia | |
| 2009-08-24 | 2009-08-28 | Business Practice in Norway – 2009: Focus on High North Logistics Joint course arrangement in Kirkenes by the High North Centre for Business at Bodø Graduate School of Business in cooperation with the Barents Institute, the Centre for High North Logistics and the University of the Arctic. The programme can be downloaded here. The sessions are part of the student training of Bodø Graduate School of Business; those interested in sitting in on some of the presentations should contact Svein Helge Orheim: svein.helge.orheim at barinst.no | |
| 2009-10-01 | 2009-10-02 | Fourth Thorvald Stoltenberg Symposium The 2009 Thorvald Stoltenberg Symposium will be an event for sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas in the initial phase of the European Border Dialogue project. The symposium will take place in Kirkenes on the 1st and 2nd of October, from lunch to lunch. The programme can be downloaded by the link below. It consists of presentations by invited speakers and is developed by Dr. Aileen Espíritu, Barents Institute (aileen.espiritu at barinst.no).
The European Border Dialogues project is a collaboration of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat and the Barents Institute. It is related to the development of a European Border Dialogue Centre at the Barents Secretariat. The European Border Dialogue project aims to bridge practice with academic research (theory) to build and support sustainable transnational dialogues among international regimes in Europe such as the Barents Region, the Baltic Sea Region, the Black Sea Region, and beyond. The European Border Dialogues project works to advance and strengthen human capacity in cross-border and cross-national relations in these regions. Researchers, experts and out-reach professionals have crucial functions as cultural translators, as mediators, in reaching across the borders of practice and theory, presenting policy analysis that has the potential to lead to positive policy change and action in transitional economies in the European borderlands. The official opening of the European Dialogue project will take place during the 2009 Thorvald Stoltenberg Symposium, an invitatiion is linked above. | |
| 2010-02-05 | Workshop on Northern Qualities of Life, part of the Barents Spektakel 2010 2010 Barents Spektakel The Barents Institute will participate in the Kirkenes cultural festival Barents Spektakel 2010. The festival is organised by the Kirkenes art curator and activist group "Pikene på broen" and engages wide issues of current concern in the Euroarctic with a focus on the northern borderland between Norway, Russia, Finland and Sweden. The title of the 2010 festival is “Arctic Calling”. The scope is the contrast between real life in the north and die-hard southern visions of the subarctic as a frontier society based on natural resources and an open source of wilderness experiences. A north which is in need of the south for most things: economic support, defence, investments, regulations, expertise, innovation and new ideas. The Barents Spektakel will present counter currents to this imagery, and the Barents Institute will contribute a workshop with presentations of research in progress on the realities of living in the north, and what it is that tips the balance in favour of staying there. For further information, and to propose a paper, please contact Senior Researcher Aileen Espíritu or Administrative Manager Svein Helge Orheim of the Barents Institute. | |
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| 2010-04-08 | 2010-04-13 | 2010 Calotte Academy Calotte Academy 2010 The final programme is available for download The Calotte Academy 2010 (CA 2010) will take place on the 8-13th April 2010 in Apatity and Murmansk, Russia, in Kirkenes, Norway and in Inari, Finland. The Calotte Academy has been organised annually since 1992. It is a travelling series of seminars comprising a mix of public presentations with open discussions, and specialised research workshops. | |
| 2010-08-25 | Russians in Norway, Norwegians in Russia
Russians in The research programme, “Neighbourly Asymmetry: Norway and Russia 1814-2014” is based at the University of Tromsø. It is undertaken in cooperation with the Pomor State University in Arkhangelsk, the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and the Institute for Defence Studies, Oslo. Victoria Tevlina is Barents Institute research fellow of the programme; Urban Wråkberg has participated in its research with a paper on contemporary northern geopolitics. The main aim of the programme is to analyse the historical relations between Norway and Russia/the Soviet Union/ from 1814, when Norway acquired its Constitution, to 2014, when the two-hundredth anniversary of this event will be celebrated.
In collaboration with this research programme the Grenseland (Borderland) museum of Kirkenes and the Barents Institute will host a one-day public seminar on 25th August, 2010 at the Grenseland museum. Everyone interested is invited.
There are more Russians living in Norway today than ever before. They have become one of its fastest growing groups of immigrants. Though the expansion of the phenomenon is recent, individuals have since long been crossing the northern border lands in both directions, and have established themselves in the neighbouring country. This seminar will focus the histories of individuals. It will convey personal stories of hope and adventure, of escapes and conquests, of new possibilities and new challenges; dating from the “defectors” of Pomor vessels trading in northern Norway and the Norwegian colonists of the Murman coast, to post-soviet women marrying in Norway and present-day businessmen and entrepreneurs in the new Russia. The personal stories of the migrants tell us about the society they left, but also about the society to which they arrived; they mirror the struggles to establish a good life in a new environment, revealing prejudices and stereotypes confronted in their new home country. The seminar will include some twenty lectures by Norwegian and Russian scholars. The programme is forthcoming. For further information, and to register for participation in the open seminar on the 25th August, please contact Petia Mankova at Tromsø University (petia.mankova at uit.no) or Svein Helge Orheim of the Barents Institute (svein.helge.orheim at barinst.no).
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| 2010-10-24 | 2010-10-27 | Northern Research Forum 6th Open Assembly
The 6th Open Assembly of the Northern Research Forum (NRF), Our Ice Dependent world, is to be held on October 24th - 27th, 2010 in Oslo and Kirkenes, Norway. The event is organized together with the 6th NRF Host Planning Committee. Download copy of the draft programme as pdf-file Travel Funding Eligibility
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