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 program is funded by a consortia of research agencies:
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland
The Foundation for Swedish Culture in Finland
The Finnish Cultural Foundation
The objective of this project is to examine the ways geographical and imperial space is imagined and represented in Russian cultural practices in the decades preceding the fall of the Soviet Union.
The electric telegraph lines constructed across Europe starting in the late 1840's profoundly changed conditions for long-distance communication in the region. This project analyses the effects of the electric telegraph on northern Scandinavia.
This project concerns the formation of “Arctic Norden” as a composite of science, diplomacy, and policy in the Cold War context.
This project studies images of the Nordic states in Latvian printed mass media from the end of the 19th century to the 21st century.
The project studies the long-term formation of regional identities in Northern Europe. It focuses on a case study of the area of the current Baltic States.
How are Nordic spaces created expressively in the Nordic countries and North America? How do such spaces give shape to cultural heritage, delimit identities and draw boundaries via recognition of difference?
The project concerns the Nordic "model" of democracy – defined in terms of both institutional patterns and the values with which political discourse is laden – and its relation to the Baltic states.
This project investigates how images of Norden as a supranational identity have provided, and continue to provide, arenas for negotiating political, military, social, economical, ethical and cultural understandings of community in specific public and nationalised contexts, using museums as the focal point.
The project Dance in Nordic Spaces aims to investigate dance and dancing as participants in the development of “Norden”, with a focus on comparative perspectives from the late 19th through the 20th century. The project group consists of eight scholars, from four Nordic countries, who represent a large field of current dance research in Norden.
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Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, S-14189 Huddinge, Sweden.