Europaeum Summer School 2007 - Helsinki

The Borders of Europe

The University of Helsinki will host the 2007 Europaeum Summer School on The Borders of Europe. The six day programme will pose the question "where on earth should the borders of Europe end?", with reference to potential newcomers to the EU including Turkey, Moldavia, Morocco, even perhaps considering the claims of Israel, the pros and cons associated with the single market and migration, and the policing of borders.

Introduction

The event will be comprise a series of lectures and practical exercises, including simulations, negotiation, and policy‐briefing exercises designed to provide participants with opportunities to synthesise and apply the skills and knowledge they will acquire in the classroom, focusing on the themes:

• The Different Meanings of Borders
• The Historical Meanings of Borders
  * The Politics of Borders in Northern Europe
• Borders and Economy
• Borders and Culture
• Future Borders

The working language will be English.

All students are expected to participate in all activities described in the Programme below. Europaeum Summer Schools are highly interactive; we have organised various debates and student presentations during which all students will be required to take part. A Reading List has been prepared to assist students in preparing for the School, we highly recommend that all participants aquaint themselves with the literature in advance of their arrival in Helsinki.

Programme

For timings and further details, please see the full Programme.

Monday 27th August

ARRIVALS

• Tram Tour of the Centre of Helsinki: Meeting in front of the Eurohostel.
• Introduction to Summer School: Ravintola Katajanokan kasino. Laivastokatu 1; Dr Paul Flather, Secretary-General, The Europaeum
  Dr Henri Vogt, Director, Network for European Studies, Helsinki University
  Professor Teivo Teivanen, University of Helsinki
• Keynote Speaker: Astrid Thors, Minister of Migration and European Affairs

DAY 1: Tuesday 28th August Theme: The Different Meanings of Borders

Registration in Economicum
with Marie-Louise Hindsberg and Ville Vasaramäki

• Lecture: Bridges, fences and neighbours: The changing border regimes of the EU
  Economicum, Seminar Room 3-4, Chair: Dr Paul Flather
  Speaker: Dr Sami Moisio, Academy of Finland Senior Research Fellow, University of Turku
  Discussants: Two student participants (TBC)
  General Discussion
• Lecture: What is the "European Region"? - A geographical analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy
  Economicum, Seminar Room 3-4 Chair: Dr Henri Vogt
  Speaker: Professor Pierre Beckouche, Professor of Geography, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
  Discussants: Two student participants
  General Discussion
• Excursion: Visit and Tour of the Finnish Parliament (Eduskuntatalo)
  Speech: Mr. Sauli Niinistö, Speaker, the Parliament of Finland
• Informal Social Evening with the Political History Students Association in Kuppala, at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Snellmanninkatu 14 A.
  Including leisure activities, nordic summer games and buffet.
  Hostess: Susanna Bruun, deputy chair, POLHO ry.

• Title: Borders in Northern Europe - Finland and its neighbours
  Economicum, Seminar Room 3-4, Chair: Dr Paul Flather
  Speaker: Professor Max Engman, Professor of General History, Åbo Akademi
  Discussants: Two student participants
  General Discussion
• Title: Defining Europe? The Historical Borders of the Continent.
  Economicum, Seminar Room 3-4, Chair: Dr Henri Vogt Speaker: Dr Heikki Mikkeli, Adjunct Professer, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
  Discussants: Two student participants
  General Discussion
  
• Excursion: Visit to special exhibition Into the Borderworld – Images and Stories from Ukraine.
  Museum of Cultures (Salomonkatu 15, 2nd floor).

• Katri Pynnöniemi, researcher and photograph, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
• Vadim Kononenko, researcher, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
• Arseniy Svynarenko, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.

• Title: Which frontiers for which Europe?
  Economicum, Seminar Room 3-4, Chair: Dr Paul Flather
  Speaker: Dr Alain Servantie, Adviser, Interinstitutional Relations, DG Enlargement – European Commission (Click here to download Dr. Servantie's presentation)
  Discussants: Two student participants
  General Discussion
• Title: Enlarging Europe? Encounters and asymmetries at the European Union border facing Russia, Chair: Dr Henri Vogt
  Speaker: Dr Laura Assmuth, Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Helsinki
  Discussants: Two student participants
  General Discussion
• Student Presentations: (TBC)
• Student Workshop: Preparing for the debate
  Chair: Dr Paul Flather

• Title: Borders and Economic Activity: Protectionism and Integration in Northern Europe 1945–2007
  Economicum, Seminar Room 3-4, Chair: Dr Paul Flather
  Speaker: Dr Juhana Aunesluoma, Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Science History, University of Helsinki
  Discussants: Two student participants
  General Discussion
• Title: Italy, the hinge of Europe: what can we say about Europe’s Mediterranean borders?
  Economicum, Seminar Room 3-4, Chair: Dr Henri Vogt
  Speaker: Professor David Ellwood, Associate Professor in International History, University of Bologna.
  Discussants: Two student participants
  General Discussion
• Title: When Borders Move, an Agenda for Historical Research
  Economicum, Seminar Room 3-4, Chair: Dr. Henri Vogt
  Speaker: Dr Chris Quispel, Assistant Professor of Social History, Leiden University
  Discussants: Two student participants
  General Discussion
• Visit to Fortress Island by boat: Informal tour on the Island

DAY 5: Saturday 1st September, Theme: Borders and Culture

• Title: Boundaries, Cultures and Identities in Contemporary Europe
  University Main Building, Auditorium II, Chair: Dr Henri Vogt
  Speaker: Professor Pauliina Raento, Professor of Human Geography, University of Helsinki
  Discussants: Two student participants
  General Discussion
• Concluding Debate: The Impacts of EU Enlargement on Transatlantic Relations?
  University Main Building, Auditorium II, Chairs: Dr Paul Flather & Dr Henri Vogt
  Proposers: Two Student Presenters (TBC)
  Opposers: Two Student Presenters (TBC)
  Conclusions

DEPARTURES

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

Student Participants

• Ms Marta Regalia, MA in Political Sciences (IR) from the University of Bologna
• Ms Caterina Giusberti, MA in Political Sciences (IR) from the University of Bologna
• Ms Valentina Palmieri, 4th year in Political Sciences (Communicatio Sciences, IR) from the University of Bologna
• Ms Catharina Wasner, 4th year in Political Sciences from the University of Bonn
• Ms Sandra Anika Elgaß, 3rd year in Political Sciences from the University of Bonn
• Mr Tim Maschuw, 4th year in Political Sciences from the University of Bonn
• Mr Benjamin Buckland, 5th year in Political Sciences (IR) from HEI, Geneva
• Ms Caroline Denise Miri Ko, MA in International Economics from the HEI, Geneva
• Ms Irina Angelescu, MA in Political Sciences (History) from the HEI, Geneva
• Ms Ana-Maria Stoian, 5th year in Political Sciences (History) from HEI, Geneva
• Ms Laura Dib, MA in Political Sciences (European Studies) from the University of Helsinki
• Mr Timo Miettinen, MA in Philosophy from the University of Helsinki
• Ms Yamina Guerfi, MA in Political Sciences (IR) from the University of Helsinki
• Mr Ville Vasaramäki, 5th year in Political Sciences (Economics) from the University of Helsinki
• Ms Veera Eliisa Nisonen, 5th year in Political Sciences (History) from the University of Helsinki
• Ms Agnieszka Sadecka, 5th year in European Studies from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow
• Mr Mach Micha, 2nd year in Sociology from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow
• Ms Nienke E. van den Berg, 4th year in Law from the University of Leiden
• Ms Narin Tezcan, MA in Law from the University of Leiden
• Mr Sergiu Gherghina, MA in Political Sciences from the University of Leiden
• Mr Michael J. Turvey, 6th year in Law from the University of Leiden
• Ms Cristina Fernández Rodríguez, 3rd year in Law and Economics from the Compultense Universidad, Madrid
• Ms Beatriz Fraguela Martínez, MA in Political Sciences (History) from the Compultense Universidad, Madrid
• Mr Jake Benford, MA in Political Science (IR) from the University of Oxford
• Mr Guillaume Fonouni-Farde, 2nd year in Political Science (IR) from the University of Paris I-Sorbonne
• Mr Miroslav Klusák, 5th year in Sosiology from the Charles University, Prague
• Mr Miloš Koci, 5th year in Law, Political Science (IR) from the Charles University, Prague
• Mr Tomas Hozik, 2nd year in Economics from the Charles University,
• Ms Eva Ferraira Damião Ferraira Margarida, MA in Law from the Catholic University of Lisbon

Reading List

• Avery Graham, Where will the EU's borders end? in Challenging Europe, Issue 16. Europe@50: back to the future. European Policy Centre, 2007, p. 101-109.
• Diez Thomas, The Paradoxes of Europe’s Borders. Comparative European Politics, Issue 4/2006, 235-252
• Engman Max, '"Norden" in European History', Gerald Stourzh (Hrsg.), Annäherungen and eine europäische Geschichtsschreibung (Wien 2002), 15-34.
• Garton Ash Timothy, Where on earth will Europe end? Europaeum Review, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (2003)
• Hagen J., Redrawing the imagined map of Europe: the rise and fall of the ‘center’. Political Geography Vol. 22, Issue 5 (June 2003), 489–517.
• Kenny Anthony, What is it to be European? Europeaum Review, Vol. 6, Issue 2/2005
• Eder Klaus, Europe's Borders. The Narrative Construction of the Boundaries of Europe. European Journal of Social Theory Vol. 9, Issue 2/2006, 255-271.
• Lewis Geoffrey, Why we must see Turkey as already European? Europaeum Review, Vol. 6, Issue 2/2005.
• Mayer Hartmut, Vogt Henri (eds.), A Responsible Europe? Ethical Foundations of EU External Affairs.

  *Especially articles The EU as a Regional Power: Extended Governance and Historical Responsibility by Kristi Raik and The EU, Russia and the Problem of Community by Pami Aalto.

• McCarthy Patrick (ed), Italy since 1945 (esp essay by J.HArper on Italian foreign policy), Oxford, OUP, 1995.
• Kuus Merje, Europe's eastern enlargement and the re-inscription of otherness in East-Central Europe. Progress in Human Geography Vol. 28, No. 4 /2004, 472-489.
• Moisio Sami (2007), Re-drawing the map of Europe: Spatial formation of the EU's eastern dimension. Geography Compass Vol. 1, No. 1/2007, 82-102.
• Newman David, The Lines That Continue to Separate Us: Borders in Our 'Borderless' World. Progress in Human Geography Vol. 30, No. 2/2006, 143-161.
• Olensen Thorsten Borring, Choosing or Refuting Europe? The Nordic Countries and the European Integration, Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 25 No. 1–2/2000, 147–168.
• Sonne Lasse, Nordek. A Plan for Increased Nordic Economic Co-operation and Integration 1968–1970 (The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Helsinki 2007), 50–73.

  *Chapter 3 of the book, provides a summary of main trade trends in the 1940s to 1960s in the Nordic countries and in their international economic relations

• Zielonka Jan, How New Enlarged Borders will Reshape the European Union. Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 39, No. 3 /2001.

• Andersson Lars Fredrik, Convergence and Structure of Trade: The Swedish-Finnish Case, Scandinavian Journal of History, No 1/2004, 1–25.
• Balibar Étienne, Nous, citoyens d’Europe ? Les frontières, l’État, le peuple, Paris, La Découverte, 2001
• Christiansen,T., Petito F., Tonra B., Fuzzy Politics Around Fuzzy Borders: The European Union’s Near abroad, Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 35, No. 4/2004, 389-415
• Delanty Gerard, Borders in a Changing Europe: Dynamics of Openness and Closure, Comparative European Politics, Issue 4/2006, 183-202
• Eriksen Erik O., The EU – a cosmopolitan polity? Journal of European Public Policy, March 2006, 252-269
• Ojala Jari et al (eds), The Road to Prosperity. An Economic History of Finland. Finnish Literature Society 2006.
• Neumann Iver B., Uses of the Other: "The East" in European Identity Formation, 1999
• Newman D., Paasi A., Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography. Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 22, No 2/1998, 186–207.
• Scandinavian Economic History No 2–3/2004
  *A theme issue dedicated on the Nordic countries’ trade liberalisation in the 1950s, it may be useful to familiarise oneself with at least one the country cases
• Servantie Alain, Sur les frontièrs de l’Europe et les fractures culturelles. (11.2.2004) Tägil Sven (ed.), Ethnicity and Nation Building in the Nordic World (London 1995)