VIEPÄ 08 - VII International Seminar of Russian and East European Studies
 
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The annual meeting of VIETS
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   Soili Nysten-Haarala
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Ohjelma

Kasarmin kampuksen iso auditorio (ravintolan yhteydessä), os. Paraatikenttä 5

Thursday 13.3.2008
9.00 - 9.30 Registration and coffee.
I PLENARY SESSION
9.30 - 9.45

Opening of the seminar.
Rector Ragnar Lundqvist, Kymenlaakson ammattikorkeakoulu
Professor Soili Nysten-Haarala, Chair of the Finnish Association for Russian and East European Studies

9.45 - 10.25 Professor Dmitrij Furman, RAS,  The politics of remembrance and forgetting
10.25 - 11.10 Docent, Senior Research Fellow, Helena Rytövuori-Apunen, Tampere Peace Research Institute,  The language of trust in cooperation - empty rhetoric or real significance?
11.10 - 11.45 Discussion
11.45 - 12.30 Lunch break
II PANEL
12.30 - 14.00 Transitoliikenne Venäjälle: kilpailua ja yhteistyötä
Russian transit through Finland: Competition and Cooperation (in Finnish)
Panelistit:
Osastopäällikkö Oleg Lemeshko, VF:n kaupallinen edustusto, Professori Olli-Pekka Hilmola, Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto, VTT Ilmari Larjavaara, erikoistutkija, Kuopion yliopisto Tutkija Yrjö Myllylä, Oy Aluekehitys RD TJ Timo Petäjä, ILP-group Oy, Espoo Puheenjohtaja dosentti Arto Luukkanen, Renvall-instituutti, Helsingin yliopisto
14.00 - 14.30 Coffee break
14.00 - 17.00 WORKSHOPS
17.00 - 18.00 Venäjän ja Itä-Euroopan tutkimuksen seuran vuosikokous The Annual meeting of the Finnish Society for Russian and East European Studies
19.00 - 20.30 Reception hosted by the Mayor of Kouvola, Officers club in the area of the seminar venue.
Friday 14.3.2008
9.00 - 11.30 Workshops continue
11.30 - 12.30 Lunch

III CLOSING PANEL

12.30 - 14.00 Russia after 2008: Challenges ahead
Panelists:
Dmitry Furman, professor, RAS, Moscow
Markku Kivinen, director, Aleksanteri-institute
Jyrki Terva, Consul, Moscow
Arto Luukkanen, docent, University of Helsinki
Marija Matskevich, Senior Research Associate, RAS

Chair, Kimmo Elo, docent, University of Turku

14.00 - 14.30 Closing of the seminar
     

Meeting arranged by:

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