Seminar “Together or Apart: Searching for the Middle Ground” (in Narva)

08.11.2022 11:00 - 15:00
Narva College of the University of Tartu (Raekoja plats 2, Narva)

Programme of the Seminar

10.30-11.00 Registration, morning coffee

11.00-11.40 Venla Bernelius (University of Helsinki, Finland) ’Living together, learning apart? Socially mixed neighbourhoods, school segregation and residential mobility in Finnish cities’

11.40-12.20 Hanno Kruse (University of Bonn, Germany) ‘Ethnic segregation in secondary schools – why is it so persistent and what can we do about it?‘

12.20-13.10 Lunch

13.10-13.50 Lena Leipe (Åre Municipality, Sweden) ‘Sustainable Integration in Åre – How we have worked to increase participation in the local community and shortened the path to employment and self-sufficiency among third-country nationals’

13.50-14.30 James Laurence (The Economic and Social Research Institute and Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) ‘Together and apart: dynamics of prejudice and social cohesion at the intersection of ethnic diversity and residential segregation’

14.30-15.00 Questions, discussion

Seminar presentations are in English, simultaneous translation is offered into Estonian and Russian. The seminar is free for participants.

Please be sure to register to participate: https://konverentsimeistrid.wufoo.com/forms/zc20b840x6tw84 

The seminar is part of the program of the international integration conference "Together or Apart: Searching for the Middle Ground" organized by the Integration Foundation. Please find more information on the conference website www.integrationconference.ee

The event is being run by the Integration Foundation in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture. The 2022 conference is the ninth in the series. The conference is also supported by the British Council.