Program for den europeiske vitenskapskonferansen 2012
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Det europeiske vitenskapsakademiet
UiB er i år vertskap for konferansen “Northern Seas - the European Dimension”
Se hele programmet for konferansedeltakerne på det europeiske vitenskapsakademiets nettside
11. -13. september 2012, Studentsenteret, Parkveien 1
Tuesday 11 September |
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| 16.00-17.30 |
Introduction to the conference |
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| Welcome from the Academia Europaea President, Lars Walløe | |||
| Welcome from the University of Bergen Rector, Sigmund Grønmo | |||
| Academia Europaea Awards | |||
| Erasmus Medals - Sponsored by Heinz-Nixdorf Foundation | |||
| Burgen Scholarships | |||
| Honorary Membership | |||
| Introduction of New Members of the Academia Europaea | |||
| 17.30-18.30 | The 2012 Heinz-Nixdorf Erasmus lectures | ||
| Geoffrey Burnstock (President, Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, University College Medical School, UK) | |||
| The concept of cotransmission: focus on ATP as a cotransmitter and its significance in health and disease | |||
| Tomas Hökfelt (Professor Emeritus of Histology and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden) | |||
| Chemical signaling in the nervous system: A never-ending complexity | |||
Wednesday 12 September |
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| 08.30-10.00 | Session 1 - THE SAGAS AND THE LITERARY TRADITIONS | ||
| Chair: Else Mundal | |||
| 08.30-09.00 | William Ian Miller (University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor) | ||
| Feeling another’s pain: sympathy and psychology saga-style | |||
| 09.00-09.30 | Slavica Rankovic (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen) | ||
| Immanent Seas, Scribal Havens: Evolutionary Aesthetics of the Sagas of Icelanders | |||
| 09.30-10.00 | General discussion | ||
| 10.30-13.00 | Session 2 - TRADE & SHIPPING TRADITIONS | ||
| Chair: Sverre Bagge | |||
| 10.30-11.00 | Dagfinn Skre (University of Oslo) | ||
| Norðvegr - Norway: from sailing route to kingdom | |||
| 11.00-11.30 | Carsten Jahnke (University of Copenhagen) | ||
| The sea: challenge and stimulus in the Middle Age | |||
| 11.30-12.00 | Pieter Emmer (University of Leiden) | ||
| The organisation of global trade: the monopoly companies, 1600-1800 | |||
| 12.00-12.30 | Stig Tenold (Norwegian School of Economics) & Camilla Brautaset (University of Bergen) | ||
| From sailing northern seas to world wide shipping | |||
| 12.30-13.00 | General discussion | ||
| 14.00-15.00 | Session 3 - FROM ISOLATION TO RECOGNITION - MUSIC'S RÔLE IN PROMOTING A NATION | ||
| Chair: Ole Didrik Lærum | |||
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John Bergsagel (University of Copenhagen): "The Kingdom of Norway begins at the 58th degree of latitude and ends with the North Cape at 71° 10° North…" (review of Ole Bull’s debut concert in Paris, 1835) and Harald Herresthal (Norwegian Academy of Music): "Norway is tuned in A minor" - the search for a national music (*see concert option at 20.00 below) |
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| General discussion | |||
| 15.00-16.30 | Session 4 - THE WELFARE STATE | ||
| Chair: Agnar Sandmo | |||
| 15.00-15.30 |
Karl Ove Moene (Department of Economics, University of Oslo) | ||
| A future for egalitarianism? Lessons from the Scandinavian experience | |||
| 15.30-16.00 | Torben Andersen (University of Århus) | ||
| Ageing, health and pensions in Europe | |||
| 16.00-16.30 |
General discussion | ||
| 17.00-18.30 | Session 5 - ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL CRISIS | ||
| Chair: Jan I. Haaland | |||
| 17.00-17.30 | Victor Norman (Norwegian School Economics) | ||
| The nature of the European crisis | |||
| 17.30-18.00 | Paul de Grauwe (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) | ||
| Managing the fragility of the Eurozone | |||
| 18.00-18.30 | General discussion | ||
Thursday 13 September |
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| 08.30-10.00 | Session 6 - LIVING RESOURCES | ||
| Chair: Anne Gro Vea Salvanes | |||
| 08.30-09.00 | Nils Christian Stenseth (Department of Biology, University of Oslo) | ||
| Adapting to climate change: ecological dynamics, evolutionary changes and management adaptations | |||
| 09.00-09.30 | Mikko Heino (Department of Biology, University of Bergen/Institute of Marine Research) | ||
| Fishing as an evolutionary driving force: can we design fish populations? | |||
| 09.30-10.00 | General discussion | ||
| 10.30-12.00 | Session 7 - ENERGY RESOURCES | ||
| Chair: Jan Sigurd Vaagen | |||
| 10.30-11.00 | Bent Sørensen (Roskilde University, Denmark) | ||
| History of energy – impact of technological innovation | |||
| 11.00-11.30 | Sven Kullander (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and EASAC) | ||
| Energy-resources and waste in a northern seas perspective | |||
| 11.30-12.00 | General discussion | ||
| 13.00-14.50 | Session 8 - CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT | ||
| Chair: Eystein Jansen | |||
| 13.00-13.30 | Christoph Heinze (Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research) | ||
| The role of the ocean carbon cycle in climate change | |||
| 13.30-14.00 | Helga Kleiven (Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen) | ||
| What may cause the “Gulf Stream” to fail? | |||
| 14.00-14.30 | Frode Vikebø (Institute of Marine Research) | ||
| Ocean circulation & fish recruitment – is there a risk of collapse if currents change? | |||
| 14.30-14.50 | General Discussion | ||
| 15.20-16.20 | Session 9 - ICE COVER AND CHALLENGES | ||
| Chair: Olav Eldholm | |||
| 15.20-15.40 | Jørn Thiede (Alfred Wegner Institute, Bremerhafen) | ||
| Marine research in the central Arctic: a multitude of challenges | |||
| 15.40-16.00 | Bjørn Basberg (Norwegian School of Economics) | ||
| The economic history of the Antarctic | |||
| 16.00-16.20 | General discussion | ||
| 16.40-19.00 |
Session 10 - POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE NORTH | ||
| Chair: Lars Walløe | |||
| 16.40-17.10 | Jonas Gahr Støre (Minister of Foreign affairs, Norway) | ||
| Managing the High North: Norwegian perspectives | |||
| 17.10-17.40 | Arve Johnsen (First President and CEO of Statoil 1972-88) | ||
| The Norwegian petroleum story - policies, technologies, results and perspectives | |||
| 17.40-18.10 | Rolf Einar Fife (Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway) | ||
| A law of the seas applied to high latitude regions | |||
| 18.10-18.40 | General discussion | ||
| 18:40-19:00 |
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| The face of the north – Are we witnessing the last days of the Arctic? | |||
| 19.00-19:05 |
Closing Remarks | ||
| Lars Walløe, President of Academia Europaea |
Sist justert 5.09.12
05.09.2012