New book on the Baltic Sea Region and the Cold War
The Baltic Regionalism project has published a new book on Peter Lang Verlag. The volume focuses on the Baltic Sea region during the Cold War and is edited by Olaf Mertelsmann and Kaarel Piirimäe.
The aim of the research programme Nordic Spaces: Formation of States, Societies and Regions, Cultural Encounters, and Idea and Identity Production in Northern Europe after 1800 is to generate new research on Northern Europe and research collaboration within the region.
The Baltic Regionalism project has published a new book on Peter Lang Verlag. The volume focuses on the Baltic Sea region during the Cold War and is edited by Olaf Mertelsmann and Kaarel Piirimäe.
The Nordic Spaces research programme has secured an agreement with British academic publisher Ashgate for the the publication of a book series, "The Nordic Experience", consisting of five volumes. Three of the books will be included in the Ashgate History list, one in the Politics list and one in the Music list, but the series as a whole will be promoted across a variety of disciplines. In total the books contain close to 60 chapters addressing various aspects of the Nordic region. The series has been accepted after a rigorous peer review conducted by 10 international experts.
The scholars of the Nordic Dance in Nordic Spaces project have published a new book at Tapir forlag, Trondheim. This book fills a gap in existing dance studies literature on the Nordic countries, and contains eight chapters addressing different aspects of the role of dance in the formation of Norden.
Debate on the future of the Nordic region, with Birgitta Ohlsson, Gunnar Wetterberg, Jonas Harvard and Sofi Oksanen
The book "Ett nordiskt rum" (A Nordic Space), which features a range of contributions from scholars in the Nordic Spaces project, was launched at a seminar during the Almedalen political week in Visby, Gotland, under the headline: The Baltic Countries - 20 years after their regained independence.
At the 101st Annual Meeting of The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, held in Chicago on 28-30 April 2012, scholars from the Nordic Spaces programme featured in two sessions with paper presentations.
The journal Culture Unbound has a new issue out entitled "Uses of the Past: Nordic Historical Cultures in a Comparative Perspective", edited by Peter Aronsson. Of the articles no less than seven are written by scholars from Nordic Spaces, representing three of the sub-projects.
now has a personal webpage at http://nordicspaces.com/researchers/stuart-burch/
Nordic Spaces now has picture galleries at the picture sharing website Flickr. Here is a preview of some pictures and a link to the gallery webpage.
On 27–28 November 2010, an international workshop on the Cold War and the Baltic Sea region is held at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
As part of the Nordic Spaces in the North and North America project, Chad Eric Bergman has set up a theatre company, Akvavit Theatre, dedicated to exploring different dimensions of Nordicness in the theatre.
As part of her research, Lisbeth Lewander has visited a number of abandoned research stations and cold war facilities in arctic regions.
The research programme now has a channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/NordicSpaces.
…now has a personal profile at http://nordicspaces.se/researchers/jonas-harvard/
…now has a personal profile at http://nordicspaces.se/researchers/sverker-sorlin/