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Rethinking Europe: detailed conference programme

„Cette Europe triomphante qui est née de l’échange de toutes choses spirituelles et matérielles, de la coopération volontaire et involontaire des races, de la concurrence des religions, des systèmes, des intérêts, sur un territoire très limité, m’apparaît aussi animée qu’un marché où toutes choses bonnes et précieuses sont apportées, comparées, discutées, et changent de mains. C’est une Bourse où les doctrines, les idées, les découvertes, les dogmes les plus divers, sont mobilisés, sont cotés, montent, descendent, sont l’objet des critiques les plus impitoyables et des engouements les plus aveugles. Bientôt les apports les plus lointains arrivent abondamment sur ce marché. D’une part, les terres nouvelles de l’Amérique, de l’Océanie et de l’Afrique, les antiques empires de l’Extrême-Orient envoient à l’Europe leurs matières premières pour les soumettre à ces transformations étonnantes qu’elle seule sait accomplir. D’autre part, les connaissances, les philosophies, les religions de l’ancienne Asie viennent alimenter les esprits toujours en éveil, que l’Europe produit à chaque génération ; et cette machine puissante transforme les conceptions plus ou moins étranges de l’Orient, en éprouve la profondeur, en retire les éléments utilisables.

Notre Europe, qui commence par un marché méditerranéen, devient ainsi une vaste usine ; usine au sens propre, machine à transformations, mais encore usine intellectuelle incomparable. Cette usine intellectuelle reçoit de toutes parts toutes les choses de l’esprit ; elle les distribue à ses innombrables organes. Les uns saisissent tout ce qui est nouveauté avec espoir, avec avidité, en exagèrent la valeur ; les autres résistent, opposent à l’invasion des nouveautés l’éclat et la solidité des richesses déjà constituées. Entre l’acquisition et la conservation, un équilibre mobile doit se rétablir sans cesse, mais un sens critique toujours plus actif attaque l’une ou l’autre tendance, exerce sans pitié les idées en possession et en faveur ; éprouve et discute sans pitié les tendances de cette régulation toujours obtenue. ”

Paul Valéry, “Note (ou L’Européen)” (1924)

Thursday, 28 May 2020

11.00-11.10: The opening of the Eleventh Annual International Conference on Baltic and Nordic Studies in Romania (video recordings)

Speakers: Silviu Miloiu, President of the Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies and Vice-Rector of Valahia University of Târgoviște & Adrian Pogacian, President of ReThinking Europe (video recordings)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdGUsYw-0gU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKvnxEa0ifg

11.10-12.00: From the fall of Communism to Brexit: is the EU a success?

Speakers:

The address of Her Excellency Dr. Violeta Motulaitė, Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of the Republic of Lithuania in Romania, Honorary President of the Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsKL2OkKQxI

The address of Her Excellency Ms. Marjut Akola, Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Finland in Romania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDNCA-zNiaQ

12.00-12.15: Piano mini-recital, Dragoş Andrei Cantea, Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and George Enescu National University of Arts in Iaşi (video recordings)

Dragos Andrei Cantea

Eyvind Alnæs – Sidste reis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rviy4AK9xGA

Constantin Silvestri – Bacchanale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM3eXo0JkhY

12.30-13.30: break

14.00-19.00: Conference sessions and plenary sessions

14.00-14.45: Plenary session I: The EU after Brexit: perspectives on the future of Europe

Chair: Kari Alenius

Speakers:

Radu Carp, Combining soft power with the geopolitical approach – how hard is it for the EU to change its attitude?

Adrian Pogacian, From migration issue to COVID-19 crisis

14.45-16.30: Session 1

Panel 1 Panel 2
Intercultural relations in the Nordic and Baltic countries Rethinking the Baltic Sea Region in Europe during the interwar period
Chair: Enikő Molnár Bodrogi Chair: Mihai Dragnea
Dorijan Hajdu and Sabira Ståhlberg: A fly in amber? Nordic-Balkan citizen cultural connections then and now Kari Alenius: Rethinking Romania in Finland, 1918-1944
Crina Leon: Spreading Romanian Language and Culture in Norway after Year 2000 Silviu Miloiu: Rethinking Europe in a renewed Baltic Sea Region: the Finnish foreign policy and Baltic regionalization after World War I
Ildikó Varga: Cultural relations between the Nordic and the Baltic countries and the rest of Europe – The case of the La Fontaine Literary Society Bogdan-Alexandru Schipor, Romania, Poland and the difficult path towards a regional alliance in early 1920s
  Gintaras Druckus: Kaunas in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century: modern architecture as evidence of Europe oriented modern city
  Sándor Földvári: Former and Recent Baltic Capitals between the Central European and Nordic (Scandinavian) Trends: The Case of Kaunas as for the Urban Culture

16.30-16.45: Break

16.45-17.15: Plenary session II: Constructions of Christian Identity and the Idea of the Holy Land in the Northern Periphery: The Sawley World Map in Twelfth-Century England

Chair: Costel Coroban

Speaker: Mihai Dragnea

17.15-19.00: Session 2

Panel 3 Panel 4
Teaching and use of Nordic languages Encounters, fantasies and perceptions in shaping Europe
Chair: Crina Leon Chair: Sándor Földvári
Ioana-Andreea Mureşan and Raluca Pop Petruş: SKAM – The Language Terminator (Språkterminatoren)? Norwegian, English and Global Success Alexandra Gruian: Heading to the North and back – the influence of the Arctic expedition on the 19th-century travelers of Sibiu
Adél Furu: Paths to learning second languages in Finland Sabira Ståhlberg: Window to a world beyond: A journey to the Black Sea in 1963
Raluca Pop Petruş: Overcoming challenges of teaching smaller languages. The case of teaching Norwegian as a foreign language Shan Huang: Reality and fantasy of the Baltic Tunnel: In comparison with the British-French Channel Tunnel
Karoliina Salo: Directives given by the L2-doctor on multicultural primary care consultations  

Friday, 29 May 2020

09.30-13.00: Conference sessions and plenary sessions

Panel 5 Panel 6
Rethinking Europe in Nordic and Baltic cultures Reception of Nordic literature
Chair: Roxana Dreve Chair: Adrian Pogacian
Enikő Molnár Bodrogi: Modernization and Language Loss Gianina Druţă: Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” and the star-actor tradition on the Romanian stage (1894-1947)
Donato Gagliastro: Alberto Moravia in Swedish literary culture Ovio Olaru: The place of crime. The case of Scandinavian Noir
Johanna Domokos: Saami Poetic Criticism of Nordic and Global Antroposcene Marian-Alin Dudoi: Halldór Laxness and the Romanians

Session 4: 11.00 – 13.00

Panel 7 Panel 8
New perspectives on Norwegian literature Rethinking Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea Region in Europe during the two world wars
Chair: Gianina Druţă Chair: Bogdan-Alexandru Schipor
Ioana-Andreea Mureşan: Norwegian Emigration and the Emergence of Modernity in Norway. America Letters and the Case of Knut Hamsun and Sigbjørn Obstfelder Costel Coroban: The Idea of Europe in Women’s Diaries from the Great War
Raluca-Daniela Răduţ: The Sense of Space and Arctic Nature in Cora Sandel’s Kranes Konditori: Interior med figurer (Krane’s Café: An Interior with Figures) Kriss Kapenieks: Latvians’ Image of Europe During First World War: Change of Viewpoint from Russian Imperial Citizen to European National Subject
Roxana Dreve: Standing out vs. Standing still? Children, adults and Janteloven in Thorbjørn Egner’s book People and Robbers of Cardamon Town (Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by) Andreea Dahlquist: Romanian-Swedish trade relations during the Second World War, a way of rethinking the economic perspectives
  Artur-Lóránd Lakatos: April 1940: The German Invasion of Norway in Romanian Diplomatic Sources
  Luiza Filimon, Rewind and replay: mainstream parties and the pull of radicalization. The Nordic experience

13.00-13.15: Closing Session
Chairs: Crina Leon and Silviu Miloiu

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