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

Seminars and Discussion Groups, Curriculum vitae

After Full Employment

The point of departure of this seminar organised by Kar Klare, Silvana Sciarra and Bo Stråth was the major shift in the view on work which has occurred since the 1970s. The language of flexibility, deregulation and globalisation tried to cope with this change but hardly did so exhaustively, as little as the continued invocation of full employment did.

Conferences, Curriculum vitae

USA-Europe

Two workshops in 1999 explored the Transatlantic relationships, similarities, and differences between the USA and Europe in terms of culture, politics, consumption patterns, and production styles.

Seminars and Discussion Groups, Curriculum vitae

Cultural Constructions of Community

Bo Stråth’s EUI seminar 1997-2001 drew on and fed back to the research work within the project The Cultural Construction of Communities in the Process of Modernisation in Comparison. During these years, the project prepared several edited volumes. The work on the volumes provided input for the seminars and vice versa. The most important seminars are listed here.

Research projects, Curriculum vitae

CONDIS: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Scandinavian Democratization Process

A point of departure for the CONDIS project, Bo Stråth's first major project, was the bias in modernisation theories dominant among comparative social scientists not long ago that economic growth is the ultimate cause of welfare state development, where all states were thought to be caught up in a universal and evolutionist logic of industrialisation. Such theories pay insufficient attention to the political structures and cultural/ideological processes through which highly varied responses to industrialisation come about. During the research process, a critical view of its own historical, sociological point of departure was developed, questioning perspectives of path dependency and intrinsic driving forces in historical processes.

Curriculum vitae

Former Collaborators and PhD researchers

Collaborators in the EReRe-project (Helsinki University) 2009-2013 Adrian BriskuKelly GrotkeThomas HopkinsLiliana ObregónFrancisco OrtegaMarkus Prutsch Other Collaborators European University Institute:Anna TriandafyllidouVeronika Tacke Helsinki University:Norbert...

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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