Bo Stråth

Professor

Bo Stråth (Curriculum Vitae) was 2007-2014 Finnish Academy Distinguished Professor in Nordic, European and World History and Director of Research at the Department of World Cultures / Centre of Nordic Studies (CENS), University of Helsinki. 1997-2007 he was Professor of Contemporary History at the European University Institute in Florence, and 1991-1996 Professor in History at the University of Gothenburg. He is a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Curriculum vitae

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

Curriculum vitae

About the homepage

Once upon a time, this was the first and only individual professorial homepage on the website of the European University Institute. The Institute’s first webmaster Sieglinde Schreiner asked Bo Stråth to create it as a test case, and they began the experiment...

Research projects, Curriculum vitae

Conceptual History and Global Translations

An experiended need for new world history, an alternative to the globalization narrative, was behind the initiation of this project in 2008. An alternative with a focus on how we conceptualize cohabitation on Earth, realizing that humans are not the only inhabitants, as opposed to the story about the transportation of commodities on a world market without borders where human labour, too, became commodities. This experienced need for a new conceptualization in 2008 has since then gained profile and precision in the argument for a planetary perspective on cohabitation on Earth.

Curriculum vitae

Concluded projects

2009-2013 Between Restoration and   Revolution, National Constitutions and Global Law: an Alternative View   on the European Century 1815-1914 (EReRe) Conceptual History and Global Translations: The Euro-Asian and African Semantics of the Social...

Seminars and Discussion Groups, Curriculum vitae

Helsinki Research Seminars: The Past and the Future: Europe’s Ordering the World and Towards a Planetary Perspective for the World.

Here are listed the seminars and workshops from the autumn of 2007 to the end of 2008 at the Helsinki University that prepared the two projects Europe 1815-1914: Creating Community and Ordering the World and Conceptual History and Global Translations. The seminars and the projects dealt with fact-finding missions into the past with normative questions about the future in the back of the mind, questions about a better world, whatever that means. Here is also the last conclusing seminar of the Europe 1815-1914 project in 2013.

Conferences, Curriculum vitae

Conceptual Histories of the World and Global Translations: The Euro-Asian and -African Semantics of the Social and the Economic

The project Conceptual Histories of the World and Global Translations that started in 2008 was a joint venture between Bo Stråth, Helsinki Uniersity and Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Århus University. Here texts and photos from the project's conferences until 2012 as well as its method, theory, and organization.

Research projects, Curriculum vitae

European Solidarities

Perceptions of social inequality at a European level were behind the initiation of this project. An important question was whether the emergence, interpretations and regulations of social inequalities is transformed by new centre-periphery structures in the EU. The project addressed the tension in the fact that EU is an economy but not a polity, a market but not a state. The focus was on the tension that emerges when social disintegration in the wake of market integration cannot be matched by redistributive politics to adjust for inequalities however they are defined.

Seminars and Discussion Groups, Curriculum vitae

EUI Research Seminars

To connect Bo Stråth’s research interests with those of the PhD researchers working with him at the EUI, they organized several seminar series initiated by the researchers as a joint venture. The focus was on theory and methodology questions connected to the practices of historians. There were often invited guests to broaden their intellectual input.

Publications

  • Monographs
  • Anthologies
Creating Community and Ordering the World
A European Memory
A European Memory?
European Solidarities
European Solidarities
Reflections on Europe
Reflections on Europe
The Economy as a Polity
The Economy As a Polity
A European Social Citizenship
A European Social Citizenship?
Representations of Europe and the Nation in Current and Prospective Member States
States and Citizens History Theory Prospects
States and Citizens
Homelands
Homelands
The Meaning of Europe
The Meaning of Europe
From the Werner Plan to the EMU
From the Werner Plan to the EMU
Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other
Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other
Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community
Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community
AFTER FULL EMPLOYMENT European Discources on Work and Flexibility
After Full Employment
Enlightenment and Genocide Contradictions of Modernity
Enlightenment and Genocide, Contradictions of Modernity
Department of History and Civilization Nationalism and Modernity EUI Working Papers
Nationalism and Modernity
The Postmodern Challenge Perspectives East and West
The Postmodern Challenge
The Cultural Construction of Norden
The Cultural Construction of Norden
Comparativ Wohnungsbau im Internationalen Vergleich Heft 3-1996
Wohnungsbau im internationalen Vergleich
Language and the Construction of Class Identities
Language and the Construction of Class Identities
Idylle oder Aufbruch
Idylle oder Aufbruch?
Democratisation in Scandinavia in Comparison

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