Scientists and students are invited to share and develop knowledge on the impact and meaning of increased cooperation, social encounters, communication, and globalization in the North. The conference is also being offered as a PhD course, where participating students can earn five European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) credits.
People throughout the vast areas of the North today solve common problems and develop visions for their societies by communicating across regional and state borders. The situation is characterized by ethnic diversity and major cultural, economic, political, and social differences, especially between northwestern Russia
experiences differ between generations - those who lived within the reality of the Iron Curtain and the young generation accustomed to global forms of communication and ideas and expectations, which are not framed by the old borders and images of borders.
The conference is meant to foster the formation of new knowledge and to challenge many of the traditional conceptions about growing up and living in the North. By combining perspectives, by looking across sectoral divisions, and with a strong focus on involving not only the corporate sector and public authorities but also citizens and civil society in northern development issues, the conference should produce both valuable insights for practitioners and also stimulate increased research efforts in scientific communities.
Northern Encounters is a cooperation between Citizenship, Encounters and Place Enactment in the North (CEPIN), a research school in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Tromso
Registration Deadline: 1st of May 2007 (can be postponed under special circumstances)
For further information and to register for the conference, please go to:
Or contact:
Eva S. Braaten by email at evab@sv.uit.no