| FALL 2001 |
| October 2001 |
| EDITOR SPEAKS ON SWEDEN’S
FUTURE AND THE EU AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S DEUTSCHES HAUS OCTOBER 15 |
| Henrik Berggren, an editor of a leading Swedish daily newspaper, will speak on the campus of Columbia University on October 15. |
| His topic will be “Sweden, the European Union, and the Future of National Democracy and the Welfare State.” The talk will be given at 6 P.M. on Monday, October 15, in Deutsches Haus, located at 420 W. 116th St. (between Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Dr.) in New York City. The public is invited, and admission is free. |
| Sweden’s welfare state faces new challenges today including integration into the European Union as well as globalization. Berggren will discuss these challenges and may touch upon the riots in Gothenburg during the EU summit in June 2001 as well as other crucial matters, such as gender politics that distinguish Scandinavia from the rest of Europe. |
| The speaker was named editor-in-chief of the cultural pages on Dagens Nyheter (the Daily News, a top Swedish paper) this year. Since 1991 he has served as a staff writer for the paper. He was awarded a Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1995, and his doctoral dissertation was entitled “Youth of the Century: Rhetoric, Politics and Modernity in Sweden 1900-1939).” He received an M.A. in history from the University of California at Berkeley in1986 and a B.A. from the universities of Stockholm and Gothenburg in1983. |
Today the “culture pages” of Dagens Nyheter are the main arena in which Swedish intellectuals debate the major issues of the day. Berggren’s mission is to continue the tradition of Swedish editor Arne Ruth, providing a space for culture as politics as well as for entertainment. |
| Respondents to the talk will be Lars Trägårdh, Asst. Professor of History, and Carl Wennerlind, Asst. Professor of Economics, both of Barnard College |
| Henrik Berggren’s talk is sponsored by the History Department of Barnard College and the Swedish Program of Columbia University in cooperation with the Institute for the Study of Europe and the Swedish Information Service. |