Planning and coordination of the activities are made as common initiatives of the Academy. The more practical organization of the activities are in the hands of the host institution but the different activities can take place at any of the partner institutions.

The Activity List, Spring 2004 for AMID
(in collaboration with the School for Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Research on Interculturalism and Transnationality (SPIRIT) and the European Research Unit).

JANUARY

Thursday 15
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Andrea Teebken (PhD Candidate, SPIRIT): Language and Nation: A Comparative Study of the Role of the German Language in the Development of a National Identity in Schleswig and East Frisia during 1815-1867 (Methodological Aspects).
Discussant: Marianne Rostgaard

Thursday 22
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15.30
Simona Vonica (Visiting Marie Curie Fellow, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Bucharest University, Romania): Social Policy Reform in Post-communist Romania.
Discussant: Poul Thøis Madsen
Venue: room 7

FEBRUARY

Wednesday 11
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 18:30
Social get-together for associates (AMID, SPIRIT and ERU)

Friday 13
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 13:00
PhD Defence (in Danish): Peter Kvistgaard (SPIRIT): Regional turisme som policyfelt. Nye ansatser til forståelse af aktørrelationer og problemopfattelser.
Venue: Lecture Theatre C (next to the bus road)

Thursday 26
European Research Unit Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Mike Smith (Loughborough University, UK): A Europe That Can Say No? Collective action problems in EU relations with the USA before and after Iraq.

MARCH

Thursday 4
SPIRIT and IBE Activity
Time: 14:15-15:30
Tadeusz Kowalski (Poznan Economic University, Poland): Corporate Governance and Foreign Direct Investment (especially in the Banking Sector) in the New Member States.
Organised in cooperation with IBE

Tuesday 9
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14:15-15:30
Chik Collins (Paisley University) "The lame duck", "the butcher" and "the right to work": Using Voloshinov to Understand the U-Turn of the UK Government of Edward Heath (1970-1974).

Thursday 11
AMID Activity
Time: 14:30
Ulf Hedetoft (AMID): Power, Ethnic Minorities, and the Modernized Danish Assimilation Regime (This seminar is part of the Research Day at the Institute for History, International and Social Studies).
Discussant: Tordis Borchgrevink
Venue: Fibigerstraede 5, Room 74

Thursday 25
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Sandra Geelhoed Aidara (SPIRIT Visiting Fellow, Centre for Studies on Social Action and Sociological Intervention, France): Publishers, Territory and Identity in Modernity and late Modernity.
Discussant: Inge Degn

Tuesday 30
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Victor D. Bojkov (Visiting Marie Curie Fellow, London School of Economics, UK): Conflicting Discourses of the International Society in Europe – the Balkans in the process of EU enlargement.
Discussant: Jeppe Plenge Trautner

APRIL

Tuesday 6
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Laura Salciuviene (Visiting Marie Curie Fellow, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania): The Influence of cross-cultural Consumer Values on perceived Brand Image.
Discussant: Malene Gram

Tuesday 20
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Grzegorz Rdzanek (University of Wroclaw, Poland): The Future Shape of NATO and the Potential Roles of Poland in the Alliance.
Discussant: Staffan Zetterholm

Thursday 22
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Carole Clavier (Visiting Marie Curie Fellow, University of Rennes 1, France): Words of Health: Public Health Campaigns, multi-level Governance and Discourse Analysis.
Discussant: Peter Kvistgaard

Wednesday 28
AMID Activity
Time: 13-14:30
Tordis Borchgrevink (Visiting AMID scholar, Institute for Social Research, Norway): Dishonourable Integration. The "Honour/Shame Syndrome" in Western Welfare States; anthropological doubts in the face of murder.
Discussant: Lisanne Wilken

MAY

Tuesday 4
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Rasa Krutulyte (Visiting Marie Curie Fellow, Vilnius University, Lithuania): Cultural Variation in Country-of-Origin Effect: a study of Lithuanian and Danish Consumers.
Discussant: Anette Therkelsen

Tuesday 11
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Ole B. Jensen (Dept. of Development & Planning, Aalborg University): Making European Space. Mobility, Power and Territorial Identity.
Discussant: Henrik Halkier

Wednesday 12
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Sandra Geelhoed Aidara (SPIRIT Visiting Fellow, Centre for Studies on Social Action and Sociological Intervention, France): Local Book Publishers and Grass-root Globalization.
Discussant: Lisanne Wilken

Tuesday 18
AMID Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Trine Lund Thomsen (PhD Candidate, AMID): Immigrant Entrepreneurship as Gendered Social Positions - a preliminary study on biographical self-transformation among male and female immigrant owners of low-income businesses.
Discussant: Annick Prieur

Tuesday 25 - CANCELLED
AMID Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Camilla Elg (PhD Candidate, AMID): "What a beautiful hair you've got" How Young Immigrant Women Experience Public Space in Denmark - a presentation of empirical material.
Discussant: Tordis Borchgrevink

Thursday 27
AMID Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Kirsten Hviid (PhD candidate, AMID): The Construction of Excluded Identities: Subjective strategies and meaning in social space.
Discussant: Lars Holmberg

JUNE

Tuesday 1
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30

Claire Campbell (University of Alberta, Canada): A Dominion from Sea Unto Sea: Making Sense of Canada.

Thursday 3
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Henrik Halkier & Anette Therkelsen (International Studies Research Unit): Umbrella Place Branding.
A study of friendly exoticism and exotic friendliness in coordinated national tourism and business promotion.
Discussant: Malene Gram

Monday 7-8
AMID Activity
Time: 13-15
Jere Behrman (Dept. of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, USA): Understanding How Parents Affect Children A General Perspective and Some Particular Examples.
Venue: U30, Aarhus School of Business
Organizers: AMID in cooperation with the Graduate School for Integration, Production and Welfare, Aarhus School of Business.

See program for the whole workshop. Please note that participants must register by contacting Bjørg Colding

Wednesday 9-10
AMID Activity
Workshop with Jere Behrman (Dept. of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, USA): From Parent to Child.
Venue: Bispetorvet 3, 3rd Floor, Room 323, (CAM), University of Copenhagen
Organizers: AMID in cooperation with the Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM), University of Copenhagen.

See program for the whole workshop. Please note that participants must register by contacting Peter Jensen

Thursday 10
European Research Unit Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Jeppe P. Trautner (PhD candidate, ERU): Analysing how Politicians Exercise Democratic Control with their Military Forces Abroad.
Discussant: Victor D. Bojkov

Tuesday 15
SPIRIT Activity
Time: 14-15:30
Victor D. Bojkov (Visiting Marie Curie Fellow, London School of Economics, UK): Is there an EU Nordic dimension: Is there a common Nordic dimension as regards the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights?
Discussant: Wolfgang Zank

The schedule is subject to change