20 March
Nedre Lysthuset auditorium (Centre for Peace Studies)
Open seminar. Russia, Eastern-Europe and the Arctic
09:00-12:00
Welcoming by Rasmus Bertelsen, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, UIT - The Arctic University of Norway
TBC
Jón Ólafsson, Professor, School of Humanities, University of Iceland
The importance of Russian language, culture, and society to understanding the chaos around media representations of “the other”
Yngvar B. Steinholt, Department of Language and Culture, UIT - The Arctic University of Norway
Russian history - what are we missing our conversations with and about Russia? - aiding debate and conversation
Jens Petter Nielsen, Professor, Department of Archaeology, Religious Studies and Theology UIT – The Arctic University of Norway
Moderator: Rasmus Bertelsen, UIT – the Arctic University of Norway