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List of Speakers
 - DR LAURA ASSMUTH holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology and is Adjunct Professor of Sociology in the University of Helsinki. She was Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, in 2003-2007. Currently Assmuth is Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki. She has conducted research, including long periods of ethnographic fieldwork, in Southern Italy and Sardinia, and more recently in Estonia, Latvia and North-West Russia. Assmuth is the author of the book Women’s Work, Women’s Worth: Changing Lifecourses in Highland Sardinia (1997). She has directed several research projects on rapid cultural and social change in post-socialist Baltic countries and adjacent areas in Russia. Her ongoing research interests are the study of Europeanization, post-socialism, borders, gender, ethnic and national identities, peripheries, and local responses to globalization.
- DR JUHANA AUNESLUOMA, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences History, University of Helsinki, (b. 1967) Doctor of Philosophy (Modern History) Oxford 1998, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary history at the University of Helsinki, Finland since 2001. Main fields of interest are: history of international relations since 1945, Cold War history, European and Nordic integration history, Finnish foreign economic and trade policy 1917–, corporate and business history. His publications include Britain, Sweden and the Cold War, 1945–54: Understanding Neutrality (Palgrave Macmillan 2003), (editor) From War to Cold War: Anglo-Finnish Relations in the 20th Century (Finnish Literature Society 2005), as well as several other articles and edited volumes in international relations history, Nordic and Finnish history.
 - PROFESSOR PIERRE BECKOUCHE is Professor at Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University, of which he headed the Faculty of Geography from 2000 to 2005. His researches (lab “Ladyss”) deal with economic and regional geography, in particular with the European region and its limits. Specialised in the Euromediterranean area, he is the Scientific Adviser of the Institute for Economic Prospective of the Greater Mediterranean (IPEMed).
- DR DAVID ELLWOOD, Associate Professor in International History, University of Bologna, and Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Bologna Center. First major book Italy 1943 -1945 The Politics of Liberation, 1985, then Rebuilding Europe: America and West European Reconstruction America, 1992.. Dr Ellwood has also published numerous articles on British and American foreign policy in the World War II period and after, contemporary European-American relations, and film, television and history. He is currently the President of IAMHIST, the international history and media association. Dr Ellwood is currently Visiting Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, completing a large-scale study of America and the Politics of Modernization in Europe 1898 to the Present for the Oxford University Press.
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PROFESSOR MAX ENGMAN, is Professor of General History at the Åbo Akademi University since 1985. From 2000 to 2006 he was also the Research Director of the Research Institute of Åbo Akademi Foundation. In his research professor Engman has focused on immigration history, imperial history and Finnish-Russian relations. He has published a considerable number of books on a variety of topics and is widely recognised as one of the leading Finnish historians.
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DR PAUL FLATHER is Secretary–General of the Europaeum, an association of leading European Universities, and Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. He was the founding Secretary-General of the Central European University (1990-1994) originally set up in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw by George Soros, and director of international and external affairs for Oxford University (1994-1999). Formerly, he worked at the BBC, Times Newspapers, and served as Deputy Editor of the New Statesman. His research work is on Indian political development since Independence. He has worked with dissident movements in Central Europe in the 1980s, and with race equality groups in the UK. He was an elected member of the London Council in the 1980s (chairing its committee on post-school education 1986-1990). He currently chairs the Noon Scholarship Committee, and is on the board of the Roundtable.
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DR HEIKKI MIKKELI, Adjunct Professor, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is also Adjunct Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku. Dr. Mikkeli has specialized on intellectual history of Europe. He has also published on renaissance and early modern history of science and medicine as well as on the idea and identity of Europe.
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DR SAMI MOISIO is a senior research fellow of the Academy of Finland. He also serves as Docent of Political Geography, University of Turku, Finland, and Docent of Economic Geography at the Turku School of Economics. He has written extensively on issues of political geography, geopolitics and European integration mainly in Finnish but also in English. He has authored papers in these areas for National Identities, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Geography Compass, and Geopolitics. He is presently writing a book on the transformation of statehood in Finland. Moisio holds both M.A. and Ph. D from the University of Turku, Finland.
- DR CHRIS QUISPEL is an assistant professor of Social History at Leiden University and holds a PhD in History from the same university. He has worked mainly on the history of racism, ethnicity and migration. He specializes in the history of the difficult relationship between blacks and whites in the Unites States. He has published several books and many articles in the English and Dutch language. At present he is taking up historical border studies as a new field of interest.
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PROFESSOR PAULIINA RAENTO is Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Geography of the University of Helsinki. She specializes in political and cultural geography, leisure and recreation, field and visual methodologies, and academic writing. She is Editor of Chief of Terra, a journal of the Geographical Society of Finland, and Associate Editor of Political Geography, an Elsevier journal.
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DR ALAIN SERVANTIE, , Head of Unit for Communication, Information and Interinstitutional Relations, European Commission, DG Enlargement. Dr Servantie has served as an adviser to DG Enlargement, Coordinator for relations with the European Parliament and as a European Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston. In 2000-2001 Servantie was the Head of Turkish Team, in the DG Enlargement. He holds a Licence of Sociology, Faculty of Literature, Bordeaux, 1967 – 70 and a Licence of Law, Faculty of Law, Bordeaux 1964 – 69.
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PROFESSOR TEIVO TEIVANEN is Professor and Head of the Political Science Department at the University of Helsinki and Director of the Program on Democracy and Global Transformation at the San Marcos University in Lima. He was recently Distinguished Visiting Professor at Saint Mary´s University in Canada and IPE Section Chair of the International Studies Association. His newest books are Enter Economism, Exit Politics (Zed Books 2002, winner of the Hopkins Award of the American Sociological Association); Pedagogía del poder mundial (CEDEP 2003); A Possible World (Zed Books 2004, co-authored with Heikki Patomäki); and Democracy in Movement (Routledge, forthcoming).
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DR HENRI VOGT, Director, Network for European Studies, University of Helsinki. Dr Vogt holds a D.Phil. in politics from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford (2001) and a M.Soc.Sci. (International Relations) from the University of Helsinki (1994). He has previously been, among other things, Senior Lecturer (in 2004-5 and 2006-7) and Research Fellow (2005-6, Centre for European Studies) at the Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki. In 2002-2004 he was Senior Researcher and 2000-2002 Researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki. He has also taught at Örebro, Umeå, Tallinn and Humboldt (zu Berlin) Universities. His research has focussed on issues of Eastern European democratisation, the conditions of European integration, and the EU’s foreign policy in the context of globalisation. In 2005-2008 he serves as the President of the Nordic International Studies Association (NISA).
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