Peipsi
Center for Transboundary Cooperation, together with Institute of Government and
Politics of Tartu University and Center for Baltic and East European
Studies of Södertörn University (Sweden) are organising workshop on
twin cities and border identities; in Narva-Jõesuu,Estonia; November
20-21, 2010.
This
workshop is a concluding event of a larger project, aiming to enable
administrators and researchers working in/on twin cities in the Baltic Sea
region to share their experience and to benefit from pooling their resources.
The event will bring together appr 25 scholars and practitioners from Denmark,
Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Russia and Sweden. The key idea of the workshop is to
enable the scholars and administrators learn from each other by presenting
their insights into theory and practice of cross-border city-twinning and on
the ways in which identity dynamics and everyday practices shape and transform
each other.
The case
studies from Valga-Valka (Estonia-Latvia), Imatra-Svetogorsk (Finland-Russia),
Narva-Ivangorod (Estonia-Russia), Kostomuksha-Kuhmo (Russia-Finland) and some
other twin cities will be presented
For more information:
Margit Säre
Tel 3725088409