Symposium for Per Selle - Social Science and the Study of Civil Society and Indigenous Politics
On July 30 this year, our colleague Professor Per Selle turned 70 and retired from the Department of Comparative Politics. On November 15, the Department organises a symposium in honour of Per and his academic achievements.
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Professor Selle completed his Cand Polit degree in 1980 and defended his Dr Polit degree on the Norwegian Communist Party (1945-1950) in1986, both at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen. Since 1992 he has been full professor at the Department and has contributed actively to the Department’s activities through his teaching, research and supervision. Selle has also been affiliated with LOS-senteret and Rokkansenteret (now NORCE), the University of Tromsø (as professor II for many years), in addition to being a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Washington. From 1998 to 2003, he was part of the leading group of the Norwegian Power and Democracy Project.
Selle has written numerous books and articles (see a list of his publications in Cristin) and made significant contributions to several fields within comparative politics and sociology. He has been a leading scholar of the voluntary sector/civil society, cultural theory/political culture, party organisations, environmental movements, and for the last 20 years Sami and indigenous politics, and politics of the high north.
We welcome all to join the Department of Comparative Politics in celebrating Per Selle.
Programme
08.30 Welcome
08.45-11.30 Civil Society (chaired by Aaron Spitzer)
08.45 – 09.45
Kristin Strømsnes (Universitetet i Bergen): Is Norway really the World Champion of volunteering - and was everything better before?
Helmut Anheier (Hertie School): Civil Society – The Long View
09.45-10.00 Break
10.00 -10.30
Lars Skov Henriksen (Aalborg universitet): Civil society and the market for projects. Critical reflections on the importance of institutional donors in the Nordic welfare states
10.30 -11.30 Panel Discussion
11.30-12.30 Lunch
12.30-15.15 Indigenous Politics (chaired by Gunnar Grendstad)
12.30-13.30
Martin Papillon (Université de Montréal): Comparing Indigenous Politics in Canada and Norway: Potential, Limits and Lessons Learned
Aaron Spitzer (Universitetet i Bergen): Sami-governance research: Where to go from here?
13.30-13.45 Break
13.45-14.45
Ulf Mörkenstam (Stockholm Universitet): Attitudes towards self-determination within the Swedish Sámi electorate: the effects of perceived discrimination, social integration and self-identification
Torvald Falch (Sametinget): Modernism and traditionalism in indigenous institutionalization and politics - a politicized research field
14.45-15.15 Panel Discussion
15.15-15.30
Per Selle – Reflections
15.30 End
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