European Voluntary Associations
in the Modern and the Contemporary Period

Nordic Civicness Revisited in the Age of Association

November 23-25, 2006
Tallinn University

Organized by the Centre for Civil Society Study and Development (KUAK) at Tallinn University in collaboration with the Network on European Voluntary Associations

Programme

Thursday, November 23
(Tallinn University, Main Building, Uus-Sadama 5, room 648)

12.30 Registration and coffee

13.00 Opening words by Mats Estonius (Vice-Rector of the University of Tallinn), Erle Rikmann (KUAK, Tallinn) and Henrik Stenius (University of Helsinki)

13.20-18.30 Panel sessions (1 & 2 parallel)
(20 min. presentation + 15 min. discussion for each participant. 30 min. coffee break around 15.30.)

Panel 1: Civil societies in national contexts (room 648)

Chair: Karl Henrik Sivesind (Institute for Social Research, Oslo)

Martti Siisiäinen: (University of Jyväskylä): The annual varve of 1997 – New associations in Jyväskylä at the end of the 3rd Millennium (abstract, powerpoint slide show)

Johanna Rainio-Niemi (University of Helsinki): Bridging between state and society: historical perspective to shifting frameworks of democratic participation in Finnish and Austrian cases

Eeva Luhtakallio (University of Helsinki): Practising Local Citizenship: Deliberations on Municipal Services in Helsinki

Peter Hilger (University of Helsinki): The Finnish Approach to Civic Engagement

Adriana Margareta Dancus (University of Washington): Civil Society: The Renegade Child of Neoliberalism - A Study of Norwegian Fisheries (abstract)

Rasma Rozenberga (Central European University, Budapest): Ways of Civil Participation at the End of Transition: Experience of Latvia

Sanna Saksela (University of Helsinki): The participation of immigrant associations in the Finnish civil society: new forms of civic engagements

Panel 2: Transnationalization of Civil Societies (room 649)

Chair: Henrik Stenius (University of Helsinki)

Marta Reuter (Södertörn University College in Stockholm): Transnationalization of Civil Society: Lessons from the Baltic Sea Area

Pelle Åberg (School of Social Sciences/Baltic and East European Graduate School (BEEGS)
Södertörns Högskola): Transnational Socialization - Cooperation between Swedish and Estonian Adult Education Organizations (abstract)

Suvi Ervamaa (University of Helsinki): The development of transnational forms of collective action in Finland

Andrew Prescott (Centre for Research into Freemasonry, Douglas Knoop Centre): Transnational membership of masonic lodges in England and Wales

Tuomas Ylä-Anttila (University of Helsinki): Policy Networks – An Organizational Form for Reflexive Policy Discourse on Global Governance?

Riitta Mäkinen (University of Turku): The influence of the Finnish foreign policy to the voluntary associations’ contacts with their Scandinavian and Baltic counterparts during the interwar period (abstract)

Leon E. Irish (International Center for Civil Society Law): The legal challenges and the harmonization of laws affecting the NPOs

Friday, November 24
(Academic Library of Tallinn University, Rävala Avenue 10)

Keynote lectures

Chair: Risto Alapuro (University of Helsinki)

9.45-10.30 Karla W. Simon (Catholic University of America): A Legal History of the Association Form in Europe

10.30-11.15 Mikko Lagerspetz (Åbo Akademi University, Turku and KUAK, Tallinn): State and Civil Society Relations in Estonia

11.15 -11.45 Coffee

11.45-12.30 Norbert Götz (University of Greifswald): Non-Governmental Organizations: Why a Conceptual Non-Starter Gained Currency

12.30-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Panel

Chair: Sidsel Eriksen (University of Copenhagen)

Kristin Strømsnes (University of Bergen) and Dag Wollebæk (University of Bergen): Mapping voluntarism – Scandinavia in comparison

Henrik Stenius (University of Helsinki): Nordic Associational Life in European and Inter-Nordic Perspectives

Karl Henrik Sivesind (Institute for Social Research, Oslo): The Scandinavian voluntary sector in comparison

15.30-16.00 Coffee

16.00-18.00 Panel
Chair: Erle Rikmann (KUAK)

Niklas Egels-Zandén (Göteborg University) & Peter Hyllman (Stockholm School of Economics): Translating Competing Models of Industrial Relations. Local Bargaining versus Global Rules in the Swedish Clean Clothes Campaign

Sidsel Eriksen (University of Copenhagen): Global Social Movements

Risto Alapuro (University of Helsinki): Finnish Solidarity Movements from the 1960s to the Present: Continuities and Discontinuities (abstract)

Annette Zimmer (Universität Münster): Beyond Advocacy: Civil Society Organizations and European Governance

19.30 Reception (University Main Building, Uus-Sadama 5, 2nd floor atrium)

Additional information

• The location of the Tallinn University Main Building.
• The location of the Academic Library of Tallinn University.
• Tourist map of Tallinn.

Contact details

If you have any questions concerning practical details of the Seminar, feel free to contact the Centre for Civil Society Study and Development (KUAK); tel. +372-6-117500 or the e-mail address of Mr. Tanel Vallimäe: vallimae@tlu.ee