The Use and Abuse of History
Luleå University of Technology
October 28-31, 2004

Below is the program of the conference The Use and Abuse of History. It will be held within the NordForsk-network The Modernisation process in the Barents Region, at Luleå University of Technology, at the shore of the Gulf of Bothnia in Northern Sweden in October 28-31 2004. The aim of the conference is to investigate different aspects of the use of history for political, economical and social reasons. The organizer is the Divison of History, Department of Social Sciences at Luleå University of Technology.

For more information about the conference, please call:
Lars Elenius, Ph.D. in History,
Co-ordinator of the conference
Tel. +46-(0)920-491259
Cell. tel. 070-5719581
Fax. +46-(0)920-492035
lars.elenius@ies.luth.se

For information about practical things with the conference, please contact:
Ihréne Niva-Strande
Secretary of the conference
Tel. +46-(0)920-491432
Ihrene.Niva-Strande@ies.luth.se

Adress:
Department of Social Sciences
Luleå University of Technology
971 87 Luleå, Sweden

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The Program of the Conference

Thursday, October 28

9.15-10.00
Registration to the conference at Luleå University of Technology. The registration is outside the LKAB plenar hall, at the ALFA-house.

10.00-15.30
Excursion to the fortress of Rödberg in Boden, 40 km north of Luleå. It is located inside one of the mountains surrounding Boden, and was an important part of the defence of Upper Norland during the 20th century. You will see previously secret rooms inside the mountain like dining-halls and sickrooms and also the gun turret on the top of the mountain. Guiding. Lunch included.

On the way back to Luleå we visit the Medivial Church of the Old Town(Gammelstad) and also the surroundings. Guide: Fil.lic. Kjell Lundholm.

19.00-
We go to the pub Bishop Arms for a beer.

Friday, October 29

PLENAR LECTURES

9.00-9.05
Introduction. Practical things.
Co-ordinator Lars Elenius.

9.05-9.15
Welcome speach.
Rector Ingegerd Palmér.

9.15-9.45
The Modernisation Process in the Barents Region.
Co-ordinator Lars Elenius, Luleå, Sweden.

9.45-10.25
The Uses of History in the Baltic and Barents Regions.
Prof. Klas-Göran Karlsson, Lund, Sweden.

10.25-10.40 COFFE BREAK

10.40-11.20
Karelia as an Object of Overlapping History Writing? National Historiographies vis-a-vis State Policies. Prof. Ilja Solomeshch, Petrozavodsk.

11.20-12.00
The Construction of Kemi River and the Public Debates of Local People after the II World War.
Doc. Maria Lähteenmäki, Helsinki, Finland.

12.00-13.30 LUNCH

13.30-14.00
Komi People History in the Light of Changing Paradigms.
Prof. Lubov Maksimova and Prof. V.Semyonov, Syktyvkar, Russia.

14.00-14.30
The northern collections of The Imperial Russian Geographic Society and The Russian Museum of Ethnography 1845-1914 - treasuries for ethnic identification or reflections of state building?
B.A. Kari Myklebost, Tromsö, Norway.

Friday Session 1
THE USE OF HISTORY IN MINORITY POLICY

14.30-15.30
Chair: Åke Löfgren (Luleå)
The History of Studying the Lapps of Kola Peninsula and Lapland in 30-60's of XIX century.
Tatjana Kiseleva
Petrozavodsk State University

"Why sami history in the Harstad region?"
Tore Einar Johansen
College of Harstad

15.30-16.00 COFFE BREAK

16.00-17.30
Chair: Per Axelsson (Umeå)

The Use of Ethonyms in the Course of the Minority Policy in the European North 1800-2000.
Lars Elenius
Luleå University of Technology

The Narrative Construction of The Ethnic History of Finnish Settlers In Central Scandinavia.
Marja-Liisa Keinänen
University of Stockholm

The use of settlement history in the Sami identity politics in Finland - from indigenous people to landowners.
Jukka Nyyssönen
University of Tromsø

Friday Session 2
INDUSTRIALISATION

14.30-15.30
Chair: Niko Hänninen (Oulu)

Technology and social change - A technological megasystem in the north of Sweden.
Staffan Hansson
Luleå University of Technology

The European impact on the origin and development of metallurgical industry in Russian Karelia from the midseventeenth century up to the year 1917
Alexandr M. Pashkov
Petrozavodsk State University

15.30-16.00 COFFE BREAK

16.00-17.30
Chair: Alexei Goloubev (Petrozavodsk)

Development of the Naval Ship-Building in the Russian North at the Time of Formation of the Soviet Military-Industrial Complex.
M.B. Balova
Pomor State University, Arkangelsk

Hydro-electric power and the discovery of the history of the landscape - a case of use or abuse of history?
Bo Sundin
University of Umeå

Women, Reindeer and Mechanisation.
Anna-Lill Ledman
University of Umeå

Friday Session 3
MIGRATIONS AND REGIONALISATION

14.30-15.30
Chair: Sergey Verigin (Petrozavodsk)

A political and economical experiment that failed
Kaa Eneberg
Stockholm
Policy of regionalism Norway and Sweden, modernization and development (second half of the XXth century)
Oxana Zaretskaia
Pomor State University, Arkangelsk

15.30-16.00 COFFE BREAK

16.00-17.30
Chair: Johan Hellstrand (Luleå)

Myths and misinterpretations that have developed around a phenomenon in North America known as Karelian fever.
Alexis Pogorelskin
University of Minnesota

A national factor in the partisan movement in Karelian Republic in 1941-1944.
Oleg I. Kulagin
Petrozavodsk State University.

The emigration to Sovietunion during the 20s and 30s from northern Sweden - How was the emigrants looked at under their contemporary time and afterwards?
Thorbjörn Wikström
Luleå University of Technology

Saturday, October 30

Saturday Session 1
CULTURE, POLITICS AND SCIENCE IN HISTORY WRITING

9.00-10.00
Chair: Lubov Maksimova (Syktyvkar)

Continuity or change? Science and Sami during the 20th century.
Per Axelsson
University of Umeå

Museums and creation of Myths of Soviet History.
Tatyana Nikulina
Petrozavodsk State University

10.00-10.30 COFFE BREAK

10.30-12.00
Chair: Jukka Nyyssönen (Tromsö)

Ethnonyms and History, Use and Abuse of Archaeology. The Case of Northern Scandinavia.
Thomas Wallerström
University of Lund

Historical realities and symbols in elementary school textbooks (data on Karelia in the first half of the XX century)
Olga Ilyukha
Karelian Research Centre, Petrozavodsk

The Russian Academy of Sciences in the Modernisation Process of the European North-East: Historiographic Aspect.
Larisa P. Roshchevskaya
Syktyvkar State University

12.00-13.30 LUNCH

13.30-15.30
Chair: Kristina Söderholm (Luleå)

The Finland's Issue, Observed in Russian Conservative Newspapers in the End of the XIX Century.
Julia Kiriljuk
Petrozavodsk State University

Modernization Theory and its Interpretation by Russian Science.
Lubov A.Maksimova, Ludmila V.Lyamtseva
Syktyvkar State University

Russian impression of "Kalevala"
Shafranskaia Ksenia Valerievna
Petrozavodsk State University

Cultural changes and theater life of the Republic of Karelia in 1920-1930s.
Liubov Arinina
Petrozavodsk State University

Saturday Session 2
INDUSTRIALISATION AND MIGRATIONS

9.00-10.00
Chair: Michael Suprun (Arkangelsk)

Abundant Natural Resources in the Growth Process; an Advantage or Disadvantage for a Region?
N-G Lundgren
Luleå University of Technology

Hired Workers in Republic of Komi
G.V. Lapin
Syktyvkar State University

10.00-10.30 COFFE BREAK

10.30-12.00
Chair: Mattias Strand (Luleå)

Concessions as an element of Soviet modernization for Russian North (20th years of XX century).
Andrey V.Repnevsky
Pomor State University, Arkangelsk

Mechanisms of the industrial management in the North in official and informal sources.
V.Vychugzhanina
Syktyvkar State University

Swedish-Americans in Sweden's America Returned Swedish-American engineers in northern Sweden, 1890-1930.
Per-Olof Grönberg
University of Trondheim.

12.00-13.30 LUNCH

13.30-15.30
Chair: Aleksander Pashkov (Petrozavodsk)

The Unexplored History of Northern Finland - the Black Gaps and the Charted Areas of the Modernisation Process of Northern Finland
Niko Hänninen
University of Oulu

Soviet - Bulgarian Cooperation in Wood-working Industry in the Komi Republic (1960-1980)
S.G. Maksimov
Syktyvkar State University

Northern Russia - Norway: new tendencies in economic relations (at the close of the XIX century - early in XX century).
Rouslan Vasiljevich Peressadilo
Pomor State University, Arkangelsk.

Second world war & the industrialization process in the Russian north area.
Michael Souprun
Pomor State University, Arkangelsk

Saturday Session 3
REGIONALISATION

9.00-10.00
Chair: Staffan Hansson (Luleå)

Conceptions and Ideology of the Russian Modernization.
Vladimir Korotaev & Nikolai Terebikhin
Pomor State University, Arkangelsk

The Swedish-Norweigan Consulate in Arkangelsk During the Late 18th Century and the First Decade of the 19th Century. Johan Hellstrand
Luleå University of Technology

10.00-10.30 COFFE BREAK

10.30-12.00
Chair: Oksana Zaretskaya (Arkangelsk)

Administrative Territorial Changes in the Republic of Komi in XX c.
T.M.Khorunzhaya
Syktyvkar State University

The problem of collaboration in the Republic of Karelia during the Second World War.
Sergey Verigin & Einar Laidinen
Petrozavodsk State University

The concept of economic development in economic consciousness of Karelian leaders in 1920s.
Alexey V. Goloubev
Petrozavodsk State University

12.00-13.30 LUNCH

13.30-15.30
Chair: T.M. Khorunzhaya (Syktyvkar)

Soviet and Post-soviet Literature on a History of Industrial Centres in the European North-East.
A.Belovol
Syktyvkar State University

The Peculiarities of Alcohol Policy in the Great Dutchy of Finland (XIXth - the beginning of the XXth century)
Olga Zalesnova
Petrozavodsk State University

Peculiarities of the Modernisation in the Russian North.
Vladislav Goldin, Arkangelsk.
Pomor State University, Arkangelsk.

Did any Swedes protest against Swedish Sami policy?
Rolf Sjölin

15.30 - 15.50 COFFE BREAK

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

15.50 - 16.20
Ethnic revitalisation:
Prof. Klas-Göran Karlsson (Chair), University of Lund, Sweden.
Ph.D. Lars Elenius, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.
Prof. V.A. Semyonov, Syktyvkar State University, Republik of Komi, Russia.
Prof. Nikolai Terebikhin, Pomor University, Arkangelsk, Russia.
Oleg Kulagin, Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia, Russia.
B.A. Kari Myklebost, University of Tromsø, Norway.

16.20 - 16.50
The Industrialisation Process:
Prof. Nils-Gustav Lundgren (Chair), Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.
Niko Hänninen, University of Oulu, Finland.
Prof. Michael Suprun, Pomor University, Arkangelsk, Russia.
Prof. Tatyana M. Khorunzhaya, Syktyvkar State University, Republik of Komi, Russia.
Prof. Ilja Solomeshch, Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia, Russia.
Prof. Bo Sundin, University of Umeå, Sweden.

16.50 - 17.30
Concluding discussion
The coming conferences. The plans on a history book.

Sunday, October 31

9.00-17.45
Excursion to The Torne Valley. We go by bus to the border town Haparanda which played an important role during First World War. There we have lunch. From Hapranda we go further to the beautiful stream of Kukkula. If we have time we also go north to visit the churh of Övertorneå and the famous hill Aavasaksa the Finnish side with a monumental hill view. There you will see the hunting-lodge of the Tsar.