Founding Visions of the Academia Europaea

A project funded by the AE new initiatives fund and lead by prof.Anne Buttimer (University College Dublin).

Summary

This "new initiative" is a proposal for video-recorded interviews with members of Academia Europaea's founding generation, inviting each one to express the ideas and motivations which inspired the venture. DVD copies of these recordings could then be made available via the AE website so that all members, and particularly Section Chairs, could use them as catalysts for discussions and plans for continued pursuit of the Academy's :Mission. Feedback from such discussions, including specific questions could then be communicated back to the interviewees with invitations for either direct responses to questions or for written autobiographical essays, eventually to form the basis for a "Silver Jubilee Volume" entitled Academia Europaea: Founding Visions (2013). This proposal requests financial support for a pilot phase of the project, i.e., "seed money" to cover 3-5 recordings during 2009. If successful other sources of support would be sought to allow for other interviews to be conducted during the 21st Annual Conference in Naples (24-26 September, 2009). Upon evaluation of this phase, proposals for more substantial financial support to continue this process would be submitted to other Foundations, especially those based in the countries of the "founders".

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Key Dialogue references:

Buttimer, A. and T. Hägerstrand, Invitation to dialogue.Lund, Sweden: DIA Paper No. 1. 

Buttimer, A.1983a. The practice of geography. London: Longmans. 

Buttimer, A. 1983b. Creativity and context. Lund, Sweden: Lund Studies in Human Geography, Ser. B, No. 50. 168 pp. 

Buttimer, A. 1986. Life experience as catalyst for cross disciplinary communication. Lund Sweden. DIA Paper No.3. 

Buttimer, A. and T. Hägerstrand, Geographers of Norden. Reflections            on career experiences. Lund Sweden, Lund University Press.  

Buttimer, A. 1993. Geography and the human spirit. Baltimore:Md  The Johns Hopkins University  Press.

Buttimer, A. and T. Mels 2006. By Northern Lights. On the making of geography in Sweden. Oxford: Ashgate.

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To view the interviews with individual founding members click on the links below:

Prof David Spearman (IRL):  click here for video (Quicktime)

Prof. Sir Arnold Burgen  (UK): click here to view the video (Quicktime)

Prof. The Lord Flowers (UK): video;  transcribed interview ; photo

Prof. David Magnusson (SWE): click here to view the video; written article

Prof. Dan Brandstrom (SWE): click here to view the video (quicktime)

Prof. Eugen Seibold: written article () click here;  photo

Prof. Stig Stromholm (SWE): click here to view the video interview (Quicktime)

If you need to install the free quicktime player click here

For more information contact: Anne Buttimer