Bo Stråth (born 1943) is a professor emeritus. He was the 2007-2014 Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor in Nordic, European and World History and Director of Research at the University of Helsinki. From 1997-2007 he was Professor of contemporary history at the European University Institute, Florence and from 1991-1996 Professor of History at Göteborgs Universitet. Member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Visiting fellow/professor at Universität Kiel and Glasgow University (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (SCASSS) in Uppsala and at Aarhus universitet, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Universität Bielefeld, Saitama Daigaku, Tokyo Daigaku (Todai, Japan Foundation Fellow), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Lunds universitet, Stockholms universitet (SCORE), Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (STIAS) and University of Barcelona. He has been a member of the International Committee for Social History and a member of several selection committees, advisory boards, evaluation panels, and editorial boards.
Details as to curriculum and research
Under this heading are the outlines and programmes of six conferences/workshops at the EUI between 2000 and 2006. They deal with Europe's unity and internal divisions and the role of the nation-states and their citizenships in European integration. Other teams are the connection between religion and modernity and the meaning of Europe.
This project studied innovatively the European public sphere. It questioned the prevailing conceptualisation of public spheres as nationally bounded and developing together with the nation state. It proposed an alternative, networked, and fluid conception of the public sphere that captures best the dynamic nature of the European public sphere, or indeed any public sphere in the 21st century.
Four workshops between 1998 and 2006 explored the connections, overlaps, and demarcations between art and history,fiction and fact. There was a particular focus on film.
The four conferences here were organized 2004-2006 within the framework of Bo Stråth's and Peter Wagner's research project "Europe's Cultural Heritage Reconsidered. Rupture and Continuity in European Culural Orientations" at the EUI.
Here are the details about ten conferences and workshops between 1998 and 2006 at the EUI organized in the fanework of several projects exploring the preconditions of a social Europe and the economy as a polity from a historical perspective.
Here are two seminar series in the framework of Bo Stråth's and Peter Wagner's project EUI Europe's Cultural Heritage Reconsidered: Rupture and Continuity in European Cultural Orientations.
The union between Sweden and Norway was established in 1814 after the continental turbulence provoked by the Napoleonic wars. It was dissolved in 1905 when Norway broke up from the arrangement imposed upon them by the European power game in the post-Napoleonic reordering. The book is an in-depth study of the union and its preconditions.The rise of the German empire shook its basis and the issue of democracy broke it up.
The project's focus was multicultural metropolitan spaces for exploring the new challenges and opportunities associated with contemporary social and
cultural transformations; especially those associated with migration.
The project's aim was to explore the preconditions of European social citizenship given the historical fact that the social dimension of citizenship is deeply entrenched in national histories. What did the expanding market radicalism in the 1990s mean for the preconditions?
Here are twelve conferences/workshops and one book launch between 1998 and 2004 supporting several book projects under the umbrella of The Cutural Construction of Community exploring the contradictions of modernity and addressing the question of what keeps modern societies together and what divides them.
