Sari Autio-Sarasmo (University of Helsinki and University of Tampere), and Hanna Ruut (University of Helsinki) delivered talks as a part of a presentation of the project “Knowledge Through the Iron Curtain – Transferring Knowledge and Technology in Cold War Europe “ and the new book Reassessing Cold War Europe, ed. by Sari Autio-Sarasmo & Katalin Miklóssy. Routledge, 2010.

Eunice Blavaskunas (University of California) gave a presentation about discussions of future of Poland's Bialowieza Forest. The actors of numerous debates about Bialowieza Forest use the civilizational rhetorics and call images of traditional cultures, royal hunting pasts and also the more recent twentieth century logging past. Bialowieza Forest becomes a border point across the mythical boundary between East and West. Abstract

The joint seminar of the Department of Economics and the Center for Environmental and Technological History: presentation by Stanislav Shmelev (RSEE; The Open University, UK).

Conference is devoted to life, political and scientific activity of Nikolai Borodin – a representative of Ural Cossacks, who became prominent public and political figure in Russia, an internationally known expert in ichthyology and fisheries and professor of Harvard University. 

The school is intended for pre-degree students with different areas of specialization (historians, biologists, geographers, ecologists, engineers, sociologists, economists, journalists etc.) who are interested in the historical and social aspects of the interaction of man, nature and technology.