Nordic Civicness Revisited in the Age of Association

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

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

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

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

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