Hjem
Styre og ledelse

Program for den europeiske vitenskapskonferansen 2012

Ansatte og studenter ved UiB kan delta på enkelte sesjoner på konferansen gratis og uten å registrere seg. Sjekk ut programmet og finn ut hva som er interessant for deg!

Hovedinnhold

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

 
16.00-17.30

Introduction to the conference

  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

 
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
 

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)

  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

 
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
Ragnar Axelsson (Iceland)
  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