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The VIII Tampere Club Meeting
The meeting will take place on 7-9 September 2009 at the
Tampere Hall. More details will be posted later this year.
Russell Hardin holds the VIII Tampere
Lecture
Professor Hardin will hold the VIII Tampere Lecture
9 September 2009 on "Corporate Democracy". The
Lecture venue is the Tampere Hall. More
details to be announced later this year.
Martti Ahtisaari receives Nobel
Peace Prize
The Nobel Committee has chosen member of the Tampere Club,
President Martti Ahtisaari as the laureate of the Nobel
Peace Prize 2008.
Martti Ahtisaari was elected President of
the Republic of Finland in February 1994. He held office
from the 1st of March 1994 to the 29th of February 2000.
Upon leaving office, President Ahtisaari founded the Crisis
Management Initiative. In this capacity he facilitated the
peace process between the Government of Indonesia and the
Free Aceh Movement in 2005. This process lead to the signing
of a peace treaty which ended the three decade-long war
in Aceh.
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Aulis Aarnio Received Honorary Doctorate
Secretary General of the Tampere Club, Professor
Emeritus Aulis Aarnio, has received honorary doctorate from
the University of Pécs (Hungary) because of his significant
input for international legal philosophy. He has also strengthen
the scientific relationship between Finland and Hungary.
Professor Aarnio has previously been
nominated honorary doctorate at University of Lund (Sweden)
and University of Lapland (Finland). He is also a member
of several foreign associations including Academia of Russia
and Académie Européenne.
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The Varieties of Freedom Seminar
was held at the Tampere Hall on 3rd September 2008. Speakers
were: President of the Tampere Club, Professor Ernesto Garzón
Valdés (Opening Words) and Plenum lectures by Professors
Ilkka Niiniluoto and Jose Luis Marti.
-> Varieties
of Freedom -poster
Guest lectures at Helsinki
Professor Mendus held a lecture at the Helsinki Collegium
for Advanced Studies on 3rd September 2008. Her topic was
Democracy and Pluralism. Professor Philip Pettit
held a lecture at the Bank of Finland on 3rd September 2008.
The topic of the lecture was "Public Representatives,
Elected and Unelected".
The Tampere Club Meeting 2008
The meeting was held at Tampere Hall
on 4-6 September. The general theme of the meeting was "Democracy
and Social Progress". Professors Michael Baurmann,
Ruth Zimmerling, Reinhard Zintl and Teivo Teivainen opened
the sessions. Contents of discussions will be published
on the Tampere Club Series volume 4 in 2009.
Democracy and Innovation
In the Autumn of 2008 the Tampere Club organized a special
seminar for the Finnish audience on "Democracy and
Innovation". The seminar was held at the Tampere Hall
on Friday 5th September and it was open for public.
-> Democracy
and Innovation -poster (In Finnish)
Seminar in Tartu
The Tampere Club is proud to announce a new form of co-operation
with the University of Tartu (Estonia). On 8th September
the members of the Tampere Club held a seminar at Tartu.
Speakers were: President of the Tampere Club, Professor
Ernesto Garzón Valdés, Professor Ruth Zimmerling
and the Secretary General of the Tampere Club, Professor
Aulis Aarnio.
