Neighbourly Asymmetry: Norway and Russia 1814-2014: Inter-social relations

Leader: Fredrik Fagertun, UIT

This is the first session devoted to presentations and analyses from the Norwegian-Russian book project “Neighbourly Asymmetry: Norway and Russia 1814-2014". The first volume “Getting closer. Norway and Russia 1814-1917”, edited by professor Jens Petter Nielsen, from UIT-Norway’s Arctic University, was published in October 2014 . This session will deal with the research behind the volume and will have an emphasis on the people-to-people cooperation and  the inter-social relations between Norway and Russia in the period 1814-1917. 

Keynote speaker: Professor Bertrand Badie, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

Program

• Eva Joly, UIT. Norway’s Arctic University, Opening address, (10- 15 min)
• Bertrand Badie,  Sciences Po, Paris. Neighbourhood and interdependence: how to build an international politics of alterity (30 min.)
• Jens Petter Nielsen, UIT. Norway’s Arctic University: Norwegian-Russian neighbourliness in the high north (20 min)
• Victoria Tevlina, UIT. Norway’s Arctic University, The Norwegian timber adventure in Northern Russia and Siberia, ca. 1890-1927(20 min)
• Alexey Komarov, Institute of universal history, Russian Academy of Sciences: Scandinavian and Arctic studies in Russia today (20 min)

This breakout session is the first of two sessions on "Neighbourly Asymmetry: Norway and Russia 1814-2014".

The second session is a side event on Wednesday 21 January.Arctic Frontiers Break