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Report on the 24th Annual conference: “Northern Seas - the European Dimension”
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A conference organized with the support from the University of Bergen and the Research Council of Norway, Sept. 11-13, Bergen, Norway
Academia Europaea Committee Meetings : See Short Report on Meetings
Academia Europaea Section Workshops (Sept. 10 and 11) :
- Physics and Engineering Section Workshop : Heavy Ions in Science and Health; Chair: Laszlo Csernai; csernai@ift.uib.no
- Physics and Engineering Section Committee Meeting and Physics and Engineering Section Business Meeting: Chair: Laszlo Csernai csernai@ift.uib.no
- Behavioural Sciences Workshop: Evidence base of psychosocial/behavioural interventions; Chair: Johannes Siegrist siegrist@uni-duesseldorf.de
- Informatics Section Workshop: New Frontiers in Informatics (NEFI); Chairs: Paul Spirakis (Patras University and CTI) spirakis@cti.gr ; Johannes Bergstra (Amsterdam University) j.a.bergstra@uva.nl ; See Report on NEFI
- Joint workshop for the sections for Literary and Theatrical Studies, Musicology and the History of Art and Architecture, History, and Philosophy: Maritime Cultures and Imaginations; Chair: Svend Erik Larsen (Aarhus University) litsel@hum.au.dk, http://www.acadeuro.org/index.php?id=313
- Classics and Oriental Studies; Section Meeting followed by Lectures: Chair: Harm Pinkster (University of Amsterdam, emeritus); h.pinkster@uva.nl. Lectures: Egil Kraggerud (University of Oslo, emeritus): Ibsen and Sallust; Irene J.F. de Jong (University of Amsterdam): After Auerbach: Ancient Greek literature as test case of European literary historiography
Tuesday 11 September: Opening of Conference – See Report on Opening of Conference
Reception hosted by the County of Bergen in Haakonshallen – See Bergen and Social Events Report
THE MAIN CONFERENCE
Wednesday, September 12
Session 1 - THE SAGAS AND THE LITERARY TRADITIONS; Chair: Else Mundal
- William Ian Miller Acad_Main/Past_and_Future_Activities/Report on the annual Conference in Bergen/The conference/Miller] (University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor): Feeling another’s pain: sympathy and psychology saga-style
- Slavica Rankovic (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen): Immanent Seas, Scribal Havens: Evolutionary Aesthetics of the Sagas of Icelanders
Session 2 - TRADE & SHIPPING TRADITIONS; Chair: Sverre Bagge
- Dagfinn Skre (University of Oslo): Norðvegr - Norway: from sailing route to kingdom
- Carsten Jahnke (University of Copenhagen): The sea: challenge and stimulus in the Middle Age
- Pieter Emmer (University of Leiden): The organisation of global trade: the monopoly companies, 1600-1800
- Stig Tenold (Norwegian School of Economics) & Camilla Brautaset (University of Bergen): From sailing northern seas to world wide shipping
Session 3 - FROM ISOLATION TO RECOGNITION - MUSIC'S RÔLE IN PROMOTING A NATION; Chair: Ole Didrik Lærum
- John Bergsagel (University of Copenhagen): "The Kingdom of Norway begins at the 58th degree of latitude and ends with the North Cape at 71° 10° North…" (review of Ole Bull’s debut concert in Paris, 1835) and Harald Herresthal (Norwegian Academy of Music): "Norway is tuned in A minor" - the search for a national music
Session 4 - THE WELFARE STATE; Chair: Agnar Sandmo
- Karl Ove Moene (Department of Economics, University of Oslo): A future for egalitarianism? Lessons from the Scandinavian experience
- Torben Andersen (University of Århus): Ageing, health and pensions in Europe
Session 5 - ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL CRISIS; Chair: Jan I. Haaland
- Victor Norman (Norwegian School of Economics): The nature of the European crisis
- Paul De Grauwe (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) : Managing the fragility of the Eurozone
CONCERT AT TROLDHAUGEN (Grieg’s home) Violinist Henning Kraggerud (Barrat-Due Music Institute) and pianist Håvard Gimse (Norwegian Academy of Music) play the music of Ole Bull and Edvard Grieg.
Continue with Thursday 13 September
