Jonas Harvard, CBEES, and Sofi Oksanen, participants in a debate on the future of the Nordic              region at the Swedish Book and Library fair in Gothenburg.

Jonas Harvard, CBEES, and Sofi Oksanen, participants in a debate on the future of the Nordic region at the Swedish Book and Library fair in Gothenburg.

Events Okategoriserade Debate on the future of the Nordic Region

Debate on the future of the Nordic region, with Birgitta Ohlsson, Gunnar Wetterberg, Jonas Harvard and Sofi Oksanen

Published on nordicspaces.com on November 23, 2011

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On September 25, Jonas Harvard, manager of the Nordic Spaces research programme, participated in a televised debate at the Swedish Book and Library fair in Gothenburg. The theme was the future of Nordic cooperation and the Baltic region.

Participants in the debate were Jonas Harvard, Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author and winner of the Nordic prize for literature in 2010, Birgitta Ohlsson, Swedish minister for the EU, and Gunnar Wetterberg, proponent of a Nordic federation. The debate was led by journalist Bengt Lindroth, for many years Nordic correspondent at Sveriges Radio.

Description of the session:

Att stärka Norden – att uppdatera nordismen

Vad förenar de nordiska länderna idag, och vad skiljer dem åt? Finns det en meningsfull nordisk identitet på 2000-talet? Och om det gör det, varför vänder sig kulturkonsumenter i Norden ständigt till den anglosaxiska kultursfären? Medverkande: Gunnar Wetterberg, historiker och debattör knuten till SACO, som utformat ett uppmärksammat förslag om en nordisk förbundsstat, Birgitta Ohlsson, EU-minister (FP), Jonas Harvard, historiker vid Mittuniversitetet och Södertörns högskola, Sofi Oksanen, författare, 2010 års mottagare av det i år 50-årsjubilerande Nordiska rådets litteraturpris.

Moderator: Bengt Lindroth, journalist, tidigare Nordenkorrespondent.

Read more at http://www.bok-bibliotek.se/sv/program/program-2011/?eventid=5152

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  • Jonas Harvard

    Manager for the Nordic Spaces programme, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University. Research fellow at the Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University. Leader of the Distant News and Local Opinion project.

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