UCL Nordic/Baltic Research Group
4 May 2011, University College London, SSEES (16 Taviton st), 431
Diversity and Tolerance in the Nordic and Baltic States
ESRC Seminar Series “The Nordic and Baltic States in the European Political Imagination”
09.30 - 10.00 Registration and Coffee/tea
10.00 – 10.15
Welcome Dr Claire Thomson
Head of Department, UCL Scandinavian Studies
10.15 – 12.00
Politics of Diversity in the Nordic Countries Dr Pasi Saukkonen
University of Helsinki
Children of Immigrants in Finland: Dr Elina Kilpi-Jakonen
Educational Achievement and Continuation University of Oxford
at Age 16
Religious and Ethnic Pluralism in Ringo Ringvee
Contemporary Estonia Estonian Ministry of the Interior
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
13.00 – 14.45
Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries and Dr Pauline Stoltz
China University of Malmö
The Baltics and LGBT rights − a Test for Linda Freimane
Democracy Ilga Europe/Latvia
Homophobic Political Discourse and the Dr Richard Mole
'National Threat' in Latvia UCL SSEES
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee/tea
15.00 – 16.00
Panel discussion: Chair: TBC
Diversity and Tolerance in the Nordic and
Baltic States