2008-12-14

Scandinavian Politics: Iceland, Bergen summer school

Dear all on the Scandinavian Politics list,

Two very quick notices.

1. The Economist this week has a special briefing on Iceland's economic woes (www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12762027).

2. Beneath this message is a copy of a call for papers for the NordWel Summer School 2009, June 7th-12th 2009, in Bergen.

Nick Aylott.
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Dr Nicholas Aylott, senior lecturer (docent) in political science
School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Stockholm
SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden
www.sh.se/samhallsvetenskaper

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Call for papers: NordWel Summer School 2009, 7-12 June 2009, Bergen
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:20:53 +0200
From: Anna Alanko

Dear recipients,

could you please forward the below message to suitable e-mail lists?
Thank you for your co-operation.

Best regards, Anna Alanko

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

NordWel Summer School 2009:

"State, Society & Citizen - Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare
State Development"

Bergen, 7-12 June 2009

NCoE NordWel in cooperation with the Rokkan Centre, the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion and the
Department of Comparative Politics at University of Bergen is
organizing a summer school in Bergen, 7-12 June 2009.

We welcome Ph.D.-students and young researchers from different
backgrounds both within and outside the Nordic countries to
participate in discussing the history of the welfare state, its
preconditions and how we ought to study it.

We invite proposals for papers that deal with welfare and welfare
state in a broad historical perspective.

Please find the detailed call for papers attached or at the NordWel
home page http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/summer-school/

PhD students and young researchers interested in participating in the
summer school should send an abstract (1/2 page) and a short biography
by email no later than 10 February 2009 to coordinator Anna Alanko
via e-mail: anna.alanko@helsinki.fi

With best regards,

Anna Alanko
Coordinator
NCoE NordWel
Nordic Centre of Excellence: The Nordic Welfare State - Historical
Foundations and Future Challenges

Dept. of Social Science History
P.O. Box 54 (Snellmaninkatu 14A)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki

Tel +358 (0)9 191 249 58
Fax +358 (0)9 191 249 42
E-mail anna.alanko@helsinki.fi
Www: http://blogs.helsinki.fi/nord-wel/
NordWel_summerschool_ Call for papers 2009.doc

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