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The Steering Committee of Nordic Spaces: Marianne Yagoubi, Christer Kuvaja, Torbjörn Eng, Ove
Bring, Annika Sølvará, Meelis Sirendi, Jonas Harvard (Secretary/ Coordinator), Daniel
Tarschys. Missing from the picture are Henrik Meinander and Clas Zilliacus.

About the programme

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.

This international and multidisciplinary research programme includes nine research projects and will run 2007-2012. The final conference is scheduled to take place in the fall of 2012.

One Nordic and seven national funding organisations from three states contribute to the funding of the programme: The Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, who initiated the program, The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, The Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, The Estonian Science Foundation, The Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, The Foundation for Swedish Culture in Finland and Nordforsk.

The total budget of the programme is approximately 3 M. Euro.

The Centre for Baltic and East European Studies CBEES at Södertörn University College, is responsible for the scientific and administrative management of the programme. PhD Jonas Harvard is acting Programme Manager.

Members of the Steering Committee:

Professor Daniel Tarschys, The Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Chairperson.

Research Director Marianne Yagoubi, The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies.

Professor Ove Bring, The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

Manager PhD Meelis Serendi, The Estonian Science Foundation.

Professor Henrik Meinander, Professor Clas Zilliacus, Vice-Chairperson, Research Director Associate professor Christer Kuvaja, together representing: The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, The Foundation for Swedish Culture in Finland, and The Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Annika Sølvará, Director, Nordforsk.

Office representatives

Research Secretary PhD Torbjörn Eng, The Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Programme Manager PhD Jonas Harvard, CBEES Södertörn University College, Secretary of the steering committee.

projects
- Imaginative Geographies in late Soviet Russian Culture
  
  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.
- Distant news and local opinion: How the Telegraph Affected Spatial and Temporal Horizons in Northern Scandinavia, 1850-1880
  
  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.
- Arctic Norden: Science, Diplomacy and the Formation of a Post-War European North
  
  This project concerns the formation of “Arctic Norden” as a composite of science, diplomacy, and policy in the Cold War context.
- Nordic Profile: The Image of the Nordic Community in Latvian Printed Mass Media from the End of XIX Century to XXI Century
  
  This project studies images of the Nordic states in Latvian printed mass media from the end of the 19th century to the 21st century.
- Baltic regionalism: Constructing Political Space(s) in Northern Europe, 1800-2000
  
  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.
- Nordic Spaces in the North and North America: Heritage Preservation in Real and Imagined Nordic Places
  
  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 Nordic Model of Democracy: Diffusion, Competition, Europeanisation
  
  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.
- National History – Nordic Culture: Negotiating identity in the museums
  
  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.
- Dance in Nordic Spaces: The Formation of Corporeal Identities
  
  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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