Wednesday
04. February
Kirkenes Conference
Thon Hotel
11:00
Photo: Bernt Nilsen
Kirkenes Conference
Thon Hotel
Wednesday 11:00 - 17:50

Politics – Industry – Logistics – Community development in the High North.

The Kirkenes Conference is arranged for the eight time and are proud to announce that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Børge Brende, will give the opening speech. The conference has become an important venue in the region for business and decision-makers at all levels, local to national. 

More info and full program: Kirkenes Conference.

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Thursday
05. February
Kirkenes Conference
Thon Hotel
08:30
Photo: Bernt Nilsen
Kirkenes Conference
Thon Hotel
Thursday 08:30 - 12:15

Politics – Industry – Logistics – Community development in the High North.

The Kirkenes conference has become an important venue in the region for business and decision-makers at all levels, local to national. The conference is arranged for the eight time.

More info and full program: Kirkenes Conference.

Price (Kr): 0
Border Seminar 2015
Thon Hotel
16:00
Border Seminar 2015
Frontline or basecamp Barents?
Thon Hotel
Thursday 16:00 - 18:00

Is Kirkenes situated at a political frontier, or at a frontier towards northern nature and its traditional and still remaining natural resources? Will Kirkenes, Nikel and Murmansk be basecamps for travelers into the High North in the future or will they develop further as good places to live?

The seminar on the Russian-Norwegian borderland is placed in a context of current geopolitical tensions in Eastern and Central Europe, in times when several countries are exhibiting slow growth and even recession. However, most signs up north are still positive.

During the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Kirkenes and the Finnmark region, Kirkenes was visited not only by the Norwegian King and Prime Minster, but also by the foreign ministers of Russia and Norway, Mr. Sergey Lavrov and Mr. Børge Brende. Everyone is interested in keeping Northern Europe as a good example for the future, with its longstanding partnership between Scandinavia and Russia and consensus on important environmental, economical and cultural matters. This seminar will address recent trends in bilateral relations in the Russian-Norwegian borderland when the political affairs in Central Europe and internationally between East and West is more tensed. 

Opening speech by the Mayor.

 

Time schedule:

Ordstyrer Svein Helge Orheim UiT-Norges Arktiske Universitet, Barentsinstituttet

16:00 Velkommen til grenseseminar 2015. Ordfører Cecilie Hansen, Sør-Varanger kommune

16:05 Kirkenes: Frontlinje eller Basecamp Barents?

Universitetslektor Peter Haugseth, UiT-Norges Arktiske Universitet, Campus Kirkenes.

16:10 Geo-økonomi i Nord: Noen perspektiver

Førsteamanuensis Urban Wråkberg, UiT-Norges Arktiske Universitet, Campus Kirkenes

16:25 Politisk kommunikasjon og media i det russiske grenselandet

Professor Olga Ivanishcheva, Det statlige humanistiske universitet i Murmansk (MSHU)

16:40 Lokal – regional politikk i norsk-russisk barents

Førsteamanuensis Kjell Hines, UiT-Norges Arktiske Universitet, Campus Alta

17:55 Ethnographies of Northern Landscapes

Phd.student Morgan Ip, AHO Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo & UiT- Norges Arktiske Universitet, Barentsinstituttet

17:10 The Urbanization in the Arctic: Socio-Economic Transitions and sustainability of Urban Systems

Phd.student Karolina Banul, UiT- Norges Arktiske Universitet, Barents Instituttet

17:25 Det russiske markedet i Kirkenes - kunstneriske intervensjoner

Hilde Methi, Mobile Kulturbyrå

17:40 Oppsummering. Marianne Soleim Neerland, Instituttleder Barentsinstituttet

17:45 «Allsang ved grensen» med Gruppa Krovy (NO)

 

Seminarinnleggene blir tolket.

 

Price (Kr): 0