2012
July and August 2012
At the XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology i Lissabon from 29 July to 4 August Pia Heike Johansen participates with the paper ‘Desire and beliefs in the creation of the rural space. Malene Brandt Winther participates in the same conference with the paper: ‘Type III Bridging Jurisdiction: Positive Polycentrism Grants Civil Society a Greater Say’.
At IPA 2012, 7th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis: Understanding the Drama of Democracy. Policy Work, Power and Transformation on 5 to 7 July in Tilburg, Malene Brandt Winther participates with the paper: ‘Discourses of Democracy: Positive polycentrism empowers civil society’.
June 2012
Annette Michelsen la Cour participates in the ninth conference arranged by the European Association of Sport Sociology in Bern on 20 to 23 June with the paper: ‘Welfare policy through sport-for-all-clubs’, and in the fourth conference arranged by SRE – Sport, Race and Ethnicity – in Belfast from 27 to 30 June, also with a paper: ‘Civil society, sport for all and welfare policy – a casestudy of ethnic integration through sports in Denmark’.
May 2012
Niels Christian Nielsen and Pia Heike Johansen participate at the Nordic rural area conference ‘Rural at the Edge’ in Joensuu in Finland from 21 to 23 May with a paper: ‘Nature as a rural amenity – analysis of the spatial distribution in Denmark’ at a session on ‘Natural resources governance and socio-cultural aspects of the commons’.
Annette Aagaard Thuesen and Niels Christian Nielsen are participating with the paper: ‘The value added of LEADER to EU multi-level governance – the case of Denmark’ at a session on What’s new in the ‘new rural paradigm’?
Pia Heike Johansen participates with the paper: ‘Quiet please – a photoenthnographic story from rural Denmark’.
Jesper Fredborg Huric Larsen participates in the conference with the paper: ‘Rural Economies in Times of Crisis’.
April 2012
Head of Centre and professor Anne-Mette Hjalager participates at the TTRA konference in Bilbao from 18 to 19 April 2012 with the paper: ‘Who is in charge of innovation policy? The case of rural tourism’.
January 2012
Head of Centre and professor Anne-Mette Hjalager participates at the ENTER conference in Helsingborg, Sweden, from 26 to 28 January 2012 with a paper entitled ‘A typology of travelers based on their propensity to go online before, during and after the trip’. http://www.ifitt.org/congresses/website/enter2012/
2011
September 2011
Anne-Mette Hjalager takes up the office as Head of Centre as of 1 September.
27 September at 13.00 hrs at SDU, Esbjerg: Tove Brink defends her PhD thesis: 'Essays on Innovation and Growth in Food Networks - An Organisational Approach', see the pixi
August 2011
From 22 to 25 August 2011: Professor Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen and assistant professor Annette Aagaard Thuesen participate in the XXIV European Society for Rural Sociology Congress in Chania, Greece.
May 2011
From 24 to 27 May: Niels Chr. Nielsen participates in the Nordic Geographers Meeting 2011 presenting two papers, one entitled: ‘Farm holidays and the potential for innovation in rural tourism in Denmark’, prepared together with Kathrine Aae Nissen and Flemming Just and one entitled ‘Rural development in the EU: from production to multifunctional spaces’ prepared together with Annette Aagaard Thuesen.
February 2011
7. February: 1st year PhD seminar for PhD fellow Malene Brandt Winther. Subject: ‘Politics the rural way – a discussion of the research design for investigating the local political influence of rural dwellers after The Danish Municipal Reform of 2007’. Evaluators: Prof. John Andersen, associate professor Karl Löfgren, Roskilde University.
January 2011
19-20 January: Vital Rural Area project meeting in Husum. Head of Department Flemming Just and assistant professor Annette Aagaard Thuesen are participating.
2010
September 2010
19th Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research, Akureyri, Iceland, 21-24 September. Arranged by Icelandic Tourism Research Center.
Participants from CLF:
Niels Christian Nielsen
13-14 September: Assistant professor Annette Aagaard Thuesen participates in a geographical expert meeting in the European evaluation network for the rural development program in Brussels.
August 2010
2010 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada, 6-10 August
Participants from CLF: Tove Brink
June 2010
June 15: Professor of Rural Sociology Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen gives speech in Trondheim, Norway
14th Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK.
Participants from CLF: Professor of Rural Sociology Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen presents a paper: From Vikings to Welfare: Early State Building and Social Trust in Scandinavia with Gert T. Svendsen (Aarhus University)
May 2010
May 12 from 10 a.m to 1 p.m.,
May 2010May 12 from 10 a.m to 1 p.m., Annette Aagaard Thuesen defends her ph.d. with the title PARTNERSHIP ORGANISING OF RURAL AND COASTAL DEVELOPMENT IN DENMARK. Democratic effects of governance networks in the form of local action groups (LAGs).
at the University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg. As opponents are one of the world's leading rural sociologists Mark Shucksmith from University of Newcastle and Toril Ringholm, senior research at Norut Tromsø (Northern Research Institute Tromsø AS)
May 2010
may 12 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Seminar with Mark Shucksmith with the title "Sustainable rural communities: are rural policies across Europe promoting sustainable ruralities?"
May 2010
Nordic Rural Futures: Pressures and Possibilities, Sweden, 3-5 May 2010
Participants from CLF: Pia Heike Johansen and Annette Aagaard Thuesen
May 2010
16th Nordic Conference on Small Business Research, Kolding
Participants from CLF: Tove Brink
March 2010
2nd International Seasonal homes and Amenity Migration Workshop (2. ISHAM), Trondheim, Norway, 22-24 March. Arranged by Centre for Rural Research, Norway.
Participant from CLF with paper: Niels Christian Nielsen
December 2009
Klaus Lindegaard attended the 2nd international conference 'Inclusion and Exclusion in Higher Education' of the Southern African-Nordic Centre, hosted by Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (7-9 December). The conference explored how higher education reflects, extends or transcends inequalities of gender, race, class, health and culture. Drawing on Southern African and Nordic experiences, the conference explored diverse challenges and experiences in both regions in order to develop a comparative perspective.
Vital Rural Area Project meeting in Amsterdam, 7 December. Participant: Flemming Just
SURF Partner project meeting in Aberdeen, 3-4 December. Participant: Villy Søgaard.
International conference on Governance Networks: Democracy, Policy Innovaton and Global Regulation. 2-4 December
Annette Aagaard Thuesen participated from IFUL.
'Rural project market place' in Bruxelles. 1 December. Participant: Pia Heike Johansen
The market place aimed at organizing a rural project development platform for partners working with rural development. 12 partners from 11 EU-countries met. Among the IFUL-suggestions were projects on rural tourism, second homes and networks on local food.
October 2009
18th Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research – Esbjerg, 22-25 October 2009
Participants from IFUL: Flemming Just (key note speaker), Pia Heike Johansen (chair), Klaus Lindegaard and Niels Christian Nielsen
Dynamiques de proximité: le temps des débats, University of Poitiers, 14-16 October
Participant from IFUL: Klaus Lindegaard with paper: Education Led and Inter-Cluster interaction for Innovation in the Periphery. Dynamic Proximities and Learning for Regional Development.
September 2009
5h ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, 10-12 September
Participant from IFUL with paper: Annette Aagaard Thuesen
Creative Economy and Beyond conference, Helsinki, 9-10 September
Participant from IFUL: Klaus Lindegaard
August 2009
XIII ESRS Congress, Vaasa, 17-21 August
Participants from IFUL, all with one or two papers: Flemming Just, Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen, Annette Aagaard Thuesen, Tove Brink, Niels Christian Nielsen.
May 2009
AFHVS/ASFS 2009 Annual Conference, 28-31 May
Informing Possibilities for the Future of Food And Agriculture
Participant from IFUL with paper: Flemming Just
April 2009
Vital Rural Area Project meeting in Amsterdam, 20 April. Participant: Flemming Just
4th EDP workshop, Barcelona, 2-3 April
Participant from IFUL with paper: Pia Heike Johansen
February 2009
Seminar on the new rural paradigm, in Esbjerg on 23 February
Seminar arranged by IFUL