12th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE)

15:30 - 18:30 - Registration

Venue: University of Latvia Main building (Raiņa boulevard 19)

16:00 - CBSE 2017 Opening plenary session

Venue: University of Latvia Large Hall (Lielā Aula)
Opening address by Prof. Indriķis Muižnieks, Rector of the University of Latvia
Opening address by Līga Lejiņa, State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Science
Key-note speech "The Baltics: The Uses (and Abuses) of Adversity" by Dr. Vita Matiss, Political scientist - Visiting Professor, Riga Graduate School of Law

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ8hdz8aqIk&feature=youtu.be
Photo http://foto.lu.lv/arhiivs/2017/f_jun/21/index.html

18:00 - Reception hosted by Riga City council

Venue: Latvian National Museum of Art (Janis Rozentāls Square 1)
Welcome by Riga City council

University of Latvia

Address: Raiņa bulvāris 19
Bus: 1, 14, 16, 40 - Inženieru iela
Trolleybus: 3, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
19, 20, 22, 24 - Inženieru iela
Trolleybus: 15, 18, 20, 23 - Latvijas Universitāte

TITLE	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	INSTITUTION	PAPER THEME/TOPIC
Dr.	Toms	Rostoks	National Defence Academy of Latvia	Extended deterrence in Northeastern Europe post-Ukraine: the case of Latvia
Dr.	Nora	Vanaga	National Defence Academy of Latvia	Extended deterrence in Northeastern Europe post-Ukraine: the case of Latvia
Ms.	Gabrielle	Gedo	Williams College	N/A
Mr.	Eriks K.	Selga	Riga Graduate School of Law	The Impact of a Legal Framework on Venture Capital Markets
MSc	Aiste	Zalepuga	Oxford University	Government Gone Digital
Ph.D.	Monika	Michaliszyn	Univeristy of Warsaw	"Polish historiography of Latvia in 20th and 21st century"
Ms.	Līga	Ozoliņa	Turiba University	Journalists in Latvia: profession after 20 years towards Western professional standards
Mrs	Ede	Schank Tamkivi	Tallinn University	Transnationalism in the Estonian Diaspora in the Bay Area, California”
	Merike	Kaunissaare	ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS	The Semantics of Societal Processes and Journalistic Photography in the Example of Päevaleht(Rahva Hääl), Pravda and Helsingin Sanomat 1924-1995)
Dr	Indrek	Ibrus	Tallinn University	no paper
Dr.	Marin	Laak	Estonian Literary Museum	No paper
PhD	Oleksandr	Maslak	Center of Humanitarian Education of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine	The category of "Tutejszość" in the political philosophy of the Lithuanian-Belarusian “Krajowcy” movement
Dr.	Klaus	Richter	University of Birmingham	Historical blueprints in the post-Soviet transformation of the Baltic States
Dr.	Anton	Weiss-Wendt	Norwegian Holocaust Center	“The Status of Research on Estonian Jewish History"
Mr.	Bohdan	Berezenko	:Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography in Kyiv	The Nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the Head of the Vilnius Orthodox Brotherhood in 1584-1594
Dr	Ieva	Beitika	National Electronic Mass Media Council of Latvia	Public Service Media in the Digital Age: Case Study of Latvia
Ms	Linda	Saulite	Turiba University	Media digitalization impact on media branding in Latvia.
Dr	Triinu	Ojamaa	Estonian Literary Museum	no paper
Dr	Una	Bergmane	Cornell University	Memory, myths and the end of the Empire: the debate on the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in the context of the Soviet disintegration
Dr	Alexander	Drost-Wollbrecht	University of Greifswald	The moment which turns the page The narrative turn in explaining the Baltic Sea Region(s)
Ms	Siobhan	Hearne	University of Nottingham	Resisting Regulation: Prostitutes in Riga in the early 1900s
Ms.	Ulla	Savolainen	University of Helsinki	not presenting
Ms.	Sofia	Laine	University of Helsinki	not presenting
Ms.	Kirsti	Salmi-Niklander	University of Helsinki	not presenting
Dr.	Mārtiņš	Mintaurs	University of Latvia	Industrial needs and ideological objectives: the construction of Pļaviņas hydropower station and national communism in Latvia, 1955-1961
Dr	Gautam	Chakrabarti	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München/Freie Universität Berlin	“An Ideology for Russia’s Future”?: Eurasianism and Cultural Politics in the Post-/Cold-War Baltic ‘Polyphony’
Professor	Priscilla	Harris	Vilnius University, Faculty of Law	A Fulbrighter in Lithuania
professor	Dzintra	Bond	Ohio University	Voices from the Past: Recited Songs and Poems in Recordings from WW I
Dr.	Bertrand	Patenaude	Stanford University	Close Encounters: Americans and Latvians in the Soviet Famine of 1921
Prof emer	Peeter	Vihalemm	University of Tartu	Media landscape in Estonia
Dr.sc.comm.	Sandra	Murinska-Gaile	Rezekne Academy of Technologies	Agenda Setting of Regional News on Latvian Public Television
Ms.	Kadri	Asmer	University of Tartu	not presenting
Prof.emeritus	Andrejs	Plakans	Iowa State University	chairing sessions
Mr.	Károly	Tóth	Eötvös Loránd University	‘Kāpēc viņi mūs nokauj?’ The Socialist Realist Representation of the Latvian Holocaust
Dr	Vytis	Ciubrinskas	Southern Illinois University, Vytautas Magnus University	Social impact of transnationalism: cultural citizenship and homeland nationalism of the Lithuanian diaspora and return migrants from the USA
Dr.	Leonardo	Pataccini	University of Tartu	European integration and financialization in the Baltic countries: the role of the banking sector
Mr.	Edgars	Engīzers	Baltic International Academy	Deconstruction of mythology of 18th November, 1918 in Latvian historical understanding
Dr	Kaarel	Vanamölder	Tallinn University	How to unpuzzle Liisa Pulst’s shifting identities?
Prof.	Judith	Sedaitis	Berkeley College	language policy & ethnic minorities: A Comparison of Lt and Lv
Prof.	Juris	Dreifelds	Brock University	Disorder or Order in the Latvian Court System
Dr.phil.	Skaidrīte	Lasmane	University of Latvia	After glorification: the reinterpretation of Soviet reality in contemporary Latvian literature
Dr	Egert	Juuse	Tallinn University of Technology	The implications of Europeanization of financial regulation and supervision for national bureucracies – the case of Nordic countries
Prof.	Giedrius	Subačius	University of Illinois at Chicago	The Lithuanian Word Valstybė ‘state, polity’—A Loanword from Latvian by Simonas Daukantas (at about 1828–1834)
Dr.	Ulrike	Rohn	Tallinn University	The Estonian audiovisual industry in light of Europe’s initiatives for a pan-European audiovisual supply and demand
Ms	Karolina	Matuszewska	University of Warsaw	Non-political (?) theatre of Eimuntas Nekrošius against Soviet reality in the years 1978-1991
Dr.	Katja	Wezel	University of Pittsburgh	1) Roundtable discussion: “National Indifference” – A Category for Assessing Perceptions of Belonging in the Baltics? 2) Chair for panel Historiography and the Narrative Turn
Dr	Philippe	Perchoc	Université Catholique de Louvain	Chair of the panel “The Baltic question in the 1980s: a transnational perspective”
Professor	Alfred	Cuzan	The University of West Florida	A Fulbrighter in Estonia
Professor	Peteris	Vanags	Stockholm University/University of Latvia	The Lithuanian Word Valstybė ‘state, polity’—A Loanword from Latvian by Simonas Daukantas (at about 1828–1834)
Dr.	Mārtiņš	Kaprāns	University of Latvia	“Challenging the groupism of Russian-speakers: The in-group differentiation of the Latvian Russophones”
M.A.	Jānis	Ozoliņš	Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia	Masculine and Queer Subjectivity in Andra Neiburga’s Short Fiction
Dr	Mikko-Olavi	Seppälä	University of Helsinki	Estonian-Finnish theatre relations during the 20th century
Dr.	Pauls	Daija	ILFA UL	The Book Market, Reading and Social Change: The Case of the Early 19th-Century Latvia
Dr. phil.	Karlis	Verdins	Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia/ Washington University	Ecstasy and Labour: Sam-Hiors, Latvian Pioneer of Modern Dance
PD Dr.	David	Feest	Nordost-Institut (IKGN e.V.)	No Independence Without Money. The Banking House, Georg Scheel & Co., an Estonia’s State Finances
Mrs.	Agnese	Hermane	Latvian Academy of Culture	Artistic excellence and participation at the Nationwide Song and Dance Celebration: strategies applied by group leaders
Ms	Agnese	Treimane	Latvian Academy of Culture	Artistic excellence and participation at the Nationwide Song and Dance Celebration: strategies applied by group leaders
Ms.	Giedrė	Junčytė	Vilnius University	Middle marked intransitives in Lithuanian
Ms	Jūlija	Jerņeva	ZAB Vilgerts	The Genesis of Competition Law in Latvia: The Developments from the Beginnings and the Impact of EU Law on the Current Legal Regime
Ms.	Laima Vince	Sruoginis	Vilnius University	Does Lithuanian American Literature Deserve Its Own Category in American Multicultural Literature
Ms	Levke	Aduda	University of Greifswald	Nord Stream, Mediation, and the Baltics
Miss	Katrina	Peterson	KU Leuven	Estonia and the 60/40 Rule: A Bilingual Educational Model for the European Union?
Dr.	Lilita	Zaļkalne	Stockholm University	Gadgets and the Internet - Pedagogy and Methods for Teaching Latvian
Dr.	Katerina	Kesa	INALCO	The transnational action of the Baltic independence movements in USSR (1985-1991)
Dr	Andres	Jõesaar	Tallinn University	Day after. Case study: has Russian language channel ETV+ met all the expectations?
Dr.	Ragne	Kõuts-Klemm	University of Tartu	Local media in Estonia – what will happen after the administrative reform?
Ms	Johanna	Ross	University of Tartu	“The men are bored, the women are worried: Women’s emancipation in 1970s Estonian literature”
Prof.	Olavi	Arens	Armstrong State University	Toward an Unerstanding of U.S. Policy on the Baltic Question, 1918-22
Dr.	Lars Fredrik	Stöcker	Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University	Soviet Baltic visions of marketization: A 'systemic revolution' on the USSR's western fringes
Dr.	Stefan	Ewert	University of Greifswald	1) Nord Stream, Mediation, and the Baltics 2) The moment which turns the page The narrative turn in explaining the Baltic Sea Region(s)
PhD	Guntis	Šmidchens	University of Washington	Estonian War Songs Today
Dr.	Deimantas	Jastramskis	Vilnius University	Changing Lithuanian media system in the global network environment
Professor	Nolan	Sharkey	Law School, University of Western Australia	Baltic States at 99 - Attracting and Retaining People and Talent: The role of international tax
Ms	Miina	Norvik	University of Tartu	Topics in Livonian syntax
Prof.	Per	Bolin	Södertörn University	The Sokolowski Affair: Cultural Struggles between Baltic Germans and Latvians in the 1920s
Dr.	Christina	Douglas	Södertörn University	1) Tea evenings for the sake of the nation. The Baltic German women’s movement and the Baltic German national project 1905-1919 2) The Sokolowski Affair: Cultural Struggles between Baltic Germans and Latvians in the 1920s
Prof. Dr.	Ainars	Dimants	Turiba University	Latvian media system as a clientelistic model
Dr.philol.	Jana	Dreimane	National Library of Latvia	Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg in Riga and its role in displacement of book collections of occupied Eastern territories (1941-1944)
Professor	Jolanta	Kuznecoviene	Lithuanian University of Health Sciencesth	Religious Identity Re-defined: Cultural Catholicism in Lithuania
Ms	Eglė	Večorskytė	Vytautas Magnus University	Health inequalities among youth in Lithuania: Bourdieu social practice theory application
MR	Kenneth Ikenna	Unachukwu	Fridahos school academy	None
Miss	Joy	Osas	Lagos State University	None
M.A.	Irēna	Zeiza	University of Latvia	Understanding of public relations (PR) and their role in business among the Latvian businessmen
Ms	Epp	Lauk	University of Jyväskylä	No paper
Dr.	Kestutis	Raškauskas	Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania	The final liquidation of nobility estates in Lithuania in 1940-1942: the case of cultural legacy
Ms.	Anna	Ruskan	Vilnius University	An overview of evidential adverbials in Lithuanian
Mr.	Mārtiņš	Pričins	University of Latvia	Strategic Communication and Narratives of Political Parties represented in Saeima during the Campaign of Municipal Elections 2017
Mr.	Raivis	Vilūns	University of Latvia	Online Media Tabloidization of Maxima collapse
Mr.	Raimonds	Gekišs	University of Latvia	Political History of Latvian Sport Journalism
Ms.	Anastasija	Tetarenko	University of Latvia	Constructing Russia as a Threat: Securitization of Russia in the Parliament and Government of Republic of Latvia
Researcher	Oskars	Gruziņš	University of Latvia	Ideology and Intergender Contact in Nazi Occupied Latvia: Policy and Reality
Dr.	Marita	Zitmane	University of Latvia	Fear of feminism. Discourse of Anti-genderism in discussion of Istanbul convention in Latvian mass media (2016)
Mg.art.	Sanita	Burķīte	University of Latvia	Latgalian Congresses in Rēzekne: the Centenary Conference. Discourse of Ritual in Latvian Public Sphere
Mg.sc.	Aija	Rozenšteine	University of Latvia	Hero or anti-hero. The case study of movie the “Richard, I Remember Everything!”
Dr.	Zane	Radzobe	University of Latvia	A century of Latvian heroes: metamorphosis of the idea of heroism in Latvian theatre
Dr.	Laura	Ardava	University of Latvia	Living Next to Russia: Media as Active Agents of Social Memory in Latvia
Dr.	Jurijs	Ņikišins	University of Latvia	Social Memories of Ethnolinguistic Communities: Disputed Opinions on Events in the 20th Century History of Latvia
Dr.	Didzis	Bērziņš	University of Latvia	Memory of the Holocaust in Latvia: problems and perspectives
Prof.	Vita	Zelče	University of Latvia	Soviet Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Latvia
Dr.	Viktors	Freibergs	University of Latvia	Politics of Memory and Cultural History in the Latest Latvian Films
M.sc.soc	Ilze	Šulmane	University of Latvia	Refugee problems and annexation of Crimea: representation in Latvian and Russian news portals
Ms.	Klinta	Ločmele	University of Latvia	The Challenges of Media Policy in Latvia
Ms.	Helle	Tiikmaa	Tartu University	Public Service Media Changing Role in Public Sphere on the Example of Estonia
Mrs	Loreta	Zydeliene	University of Hull	The butterfly effect of a small discovery: new data on forestry employment in interwar Lithuania in a macroeconomic perspective
Dr.	Tilman	Plath	University of Greifswald	Uncomfortable Heroes - Comparing Thoughts a bout Latvian Riflemen and SS - Legionnaires in Latvias Culture of Memory 1920 - 2017
Dr. iur.	Jānis	Neimanis	Constitutional Court of Latvia/University of Latvia	Transformation of Understanding of the Application of Law in Latvia: Recent Tendencies and Acceptance in Society
Mg. iur.	Jānis	Maizītis	Constitution Protection Bureau of the Republic of Latvia	Simplification of the Criminal Procedure in the Baltics during the 20th Century. The Current Future`s Perspective
Dr. iur.	Christoph	Schewe	University of Latvia	The Genesis of Competition Law in Latvia: The Developments from the Beginnings and the Impact of EU Law on the Current Legal Regime
Dr. iur.	Vadims	Mantrovs	University of Latvia	The Civil Act of the Republic of Latvia and its Relationship with Special Legal Acts: The Example of Law of Obligations
Dr. iur.	Irene	Kull	University of Tartu	Information Obligations in Pre- Contractual Negotiations and Transformation of Estonian Contract Law
LL.M.	Madis	Ernits	University of Tartu	Crisis and Reform in Constitutional Mirror. Three important judgements of Estonian Supreme Court since 2010
Dr.iur.	Artūrs	Kučs	University of Latvia	The Past and Present Relationships between the Jurisprudence of Constitutional Courts of Baltic States and the European Court of Human Rights
Prof.	Jānis	Rozenfelds	University of Latvia	Protection of Property since Reestablishment of the Latvian Civil Law
Prof.	Anita	Rodina	University of Latvia	Chair of panel: Transformation of the Legal System: Past and Challenges. Public Law.
Dr.hist.	Uldis	Krēsliņš	Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia	May 15, 1934, coup d’etat in Latvia: regularity of development the existed parliamentary system or a break-through called by actual situation. The view of the US embassy in Latvia.
Dr.hist.	Muntis	Auns	Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia	The Latvian peasant household of the 18th century: kin and non-kin
Dr.hist.	Ineta	Lipša	Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia	Channelling Western Influences. Foreigners and Female Citizens of the USSR: Places of Friendship in the Social Geography of Riga (1956-1963)
Dr.hist.	Daina	Bleiere	Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia	The Discussion about the New Latvians in 1958
Prof.	Māris	Baltiņš	State Language Centrum	Diskussant. Panel: History of Science from the Fresh Perspective of Cultural History
Mg. hist.	Ineta	Didrihsone-Tomaševska	The National Archives of Latvia, Latvian State Historical Archives	The Latvian Honorary Consulate in Sydney (1921 – 1958): New Sources and New Approaches
Asociate Professor	Arnaud	Serry	University Le Havre Normandie	Baltic cities and ports, interfaces between Europe and Eurasia
Dr.	Eugenijus	Zmuida	The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklor	The Lithuanian at war: IWW in the Lithuanian man’s and woman’s writings: some main aspects
Mr	Aleksandrs	Cepilovs	Tallinn University of Technology	The Crisis Experience and Policy Learning by Civil Servants
Dr.	Ginta	Remeikis	Private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis	Eating Disorder in Oksanen's "Stalin's Cows": Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma and the Withholding of the Mother Tongue
Dr.	Paul	Gedo	The George Washington University	Trauma and dissociation in Gint Aras' "The Fugue"
Dr	Egge	Kulbok-Lattik	University of Tartu	To Become Cultured: community houses in Estonia and Latvia
Dr.	Kristina	Juraite	Vytautas Magnus University	Appreciating journalism through news literacy: Media user’s perspective
Mr.	Vilius	Ivanauskas	Lithuanian Institute of History	Soviet ethnopolitics and “sandwiched” Lithuanian ethnic particularism: case of Soviet writers
Dr	Edijs	Bošs	RSU	panel discussant
Prof.	Axel	Holvoet	Vilnius University	The agentive genitive in Latvian
Ms	Kadri	Tüür	Estonian Centre for Environmental History	Environmental history in Estonia: activities, outreach, organisation
Prof.	Ina	Druviete	University of Latvia	Roundtable
Dr	Kaarel	Piirimäe	University of Tartu	“The Estonian Assamalla, the Estonian Waterloo” of 1992 – a new look into the roots of the Estonian-Russian crisis
Mr.	Christian	Pipal	Klaipeda University	Children Born of War in Lithuania: Conceptualizing Identity and Citizenship in Post-Conflict Research
Ms	Heli	Reimann	University of the Arts, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki	On the dynamics of public and private spheres in late-Stalinist Estonian jazz culture
Dr.	Viktor	Trasberg	University of Tartu	Baltic countries: who drinks what?
Dr	Didzis	Klavins	University of Latvia	The Nature of Changes in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the Baltic Countries, 2004-2012
Dr.	Gustavs	Strenga	National Library of Latvia	Moderation of a panel
Mrs.	Emilija	Pundziute-Gallois	Sciences Po	A brief sociological study of the Baltic diplomatic attitudes towards Russia.
Dr	Mart	Kuldkepp	UCL	no paper
Dr.	Liisi	Esse	Stanford University	Not applicable
Dr	Uku	Lember	Tallinn University	Chair/discussant. Panel: Queering Baltic Pasts. Perspectives on Life-Stories and Arts.
Prof.	Juris	Rozenvalds	University of Latvia	Communist party membership patterns in Soviet Baltic republics and its impact on the post-Soviet development of the Baltic states
Dr.	Dovile	Budryte	Georgia Gwinnett College	From Masculine Heroism to Everyday Violence? A Gendered Perspective on the Partisan War in Lithuania
Dr.	Bernard	Maegi	Normandale Community College	Fulbright Roundtable
Ms	Sigita	Černevičiūtė	Vilnius university, Faculty of History	Political crimes phenomena: some aspects of espionage in Lithuania in 1919–1940
Dr	Anda	Rozukalne	Riga Stradins University	How to capture local media in Latvia?
Mr.	Jurgis	Pakerys	Vilnius University	Causee marking in periphrastic causatives in Baltic
Prof.	Peeter	Müürsepp	Tallinn University of Technology	Roundtable discussion: History of Science from the Fresh Perspective of Cultural History
Prof.	Marc	Deapaepe	University of Leuven	Roundtable discussion: History of Science from the Fresh Perspective of Cultural History
Professor	Iveta	Kestere	University of Latvia	Round Table HISTORY OF SCIENCE FROM THE FRESH PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURAL HISTORY
Dr.	Mara	Lazda	Bronx Community College, City University of New Yo	The Post-War Legacy of Gendered Power in Latvia
Dr.	Ryo	Nakai	The University of Kitakyushu	Attitude toward Non-European Outsider Migrants in the Baltic States: An Empirical Analysis with Social Survey Data.
Prof. Dr.	Karsten	Brüggemann	Tallinn University	"We finally defeated our historical enemy". The Battle of Cēsis in June 1919 and the Celebration of Victory Day in Estonia, 1934-1940
Dr.	Ieva	Karpavičiūtė	Vytautas Magnus University	National Security Dynamics and Threat Perception in Lithuania
Dr.	Laura	Dean	Millikin University	Criminalizing Human Trafficking in Latvia: The Evolution and Implications of Human Trafficking Policies
Dr.	Kara	Brown	University of South Carolina	"PRESENT AND FUTURE OF LANGUAGE POLICIES IN ESTONIA: LANGUAGE POLICY BEYOND THE STATE?"
Miss	Qiaoyun	Peng	University of Glasgow	Nordic Hardcore Rocks the Baltic Sea: A Cultural Study on the Estonian Rock Music and National Identity
Associate Professor of History	Edward	Cohn	Grinnell College	Intimidation, Reeducation, and the Management of Dissent: The KGB’s Use of “Prophylactic Measures" in the Baltic Republics
-	Gerda	Jakstaite	Vytautas Magnus University	1) US-BALTIC STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP DURING THE SECOND TERM OF B. OBAMA 2) -
Dr.	Claudio	Barna	University of Milan	without paper
Ms	Ilona	Bruveris	INOSOCTEREHI	Managing student behaviour in post-Soviet Latvia: Latvian teacher beliefs and Western practices
Dr	Kadri	Koreinik	University of Tartu	ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION "PRESENT AND FUTURE OF LANGUAGE POLICIES IN THE BALTIC STATES: LANGUAGE POLICY BEYOND THE STATE?
Mrs.	Elina	Apsite Berina	University of Latvia	Young emigrant communication and links to Latvia
Ms.	Lori	Weekes	Stanford University & Tallinn University of Techno	Dispatches from a “Digital Diaspora:” e-residents as e-Estonians
PhD	Aile	Möldre	Tallinn University	From the Cornerstones of World Literature to Light Novels – Translations of Belles-lettres in Estonian Book Production in 1918 ̶ 1940.
Mr.	Maris	Mantenieks	independent	Franklin D. Roosevelt to Stalin: "Deal or no Deal"?
Dr.	Rosario	Napolitano	University of Naples "l'Orientale"	Censorship and "bad censors": an analysis of the Latvian Glavlit in the 70s
Dr., Assoc.Prof.	Laimute	Balode	University of Helsinki/University of Latvia	The latest tendencies in Latvian anthroponymy
Dr.	Pauli	Heikkilä	Vytautas Magnus University	Plan for Baltic Federation by Martinas Anysas (1954)
Assistant Professor	Alessandro	Vitale	University of Milan	The concept of “Baltoscandia” and the work of Kazys Pakštas. Actuality and problems of an idea in the contemporary Baltic space
Dr	Anja	Wilhelmi	IKGN	1918 - a Chance for Economic Partizipation. Female Newcomers and Entrepreneurs in the German Baltic Minority
Mr.	Kestutis	Kilinskas	Vilnius university	Army as maker of modern republic: soldiers and officers in Constitutive Seim of Lithuania
Dr.	Viktorija	Šeina	Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore	National Literary Canon as Self-Fashioning of Modern Lithuanian Culture
M.A.	Vera	Volkmann	Herder-Institut Marburg	not presenting
Prof. Dr. habil.	Nicole	Nau	Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan	Modality in constructions with the present passive participle in Latvian
Ms.	Erika	Jasionytė	Vilnius university	Tendencies of the use of the passive in Lithuanian: A comparison to English
Ms	Mykolė	Lukošienė	Vytautas Magnus university	Between disaster and a way of life. Everyday experiences of people living in the flooded area of Pamarys, Lithuania
Dr.	Aija	Abens	Museum of the Occupation of Latvia	CHALLENGES OF DEMOCRATIC TEACHING PRACTICE IN LATVIA
Dr	Andrejs	Kulnieks	University of Toronto	Songwriting literacies as cultural studies: Using Poetic Inquiry to develop intergenerational curriculum
docent	Marja	Leinonen	University of Helsinki	Body part location in impersonal constructions in the Baltic linguistic area
Prof.dr.	Vygantas	Vareikis	University of Klaipeda	Remembrance of the World War I in Lithuania
Ms.	Signe	Irbe	University of Latvia	The Advantages of Artists Admitted to the Artists’ Union of the LSRR and the Possible Marginalization of Refused Artists. Example of Painter and Minister Miervaldis Ķemers.
Dr	Sigrid	Kaasik-Krogerus	University of Jyväskylä	Cultural heritage in politics of belonging: analysis of European Heritage Label initiative
Professor	Anna	Verschik	Tallinn University	Swedish-Estonian returnees: reflections on language maintenance
Mr.	Lars	Gronbjerg	Private	none
Ms	Linda	Ozers	University of Technology Sydney	Ethnic identity and heritage language in the diaspora - third generation Australian Latvians
Ms.	Riikka	Taavetti	University of Helsinki	Queer Pasts and Soviet Legacies in and around Jaanus Samma’s “NSFW. A Chairman’s Tale”
Doc.PhDr.	Luboš	Švec	Charles University in Prague	The Baltic Gateway to Russia and Czechoslovak Investment: Expections nad Reality of the Czechoslovak Investment in the Baltics in the 20´s.
Dr.	Heidi	Hein-Kircher	Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East C	The uses and abuses of the past in the Baltic States - Introducation and Commentary
Mr	Matiss	Veigurs	University of Latvia	Portrayal of Militarization in Baltic states by Western Media
Dr	Ene	Kõresaar	University of Tartu	What’s in a Name? The Case of the Estonian Museum of Occupations
M.A.	Detlef	Henning	Nordost-Institut Lüneburg	Emerging New States and Historiography
Mr.	Iurii	Prykhodko	NGO Kyiv-Inform-Space	Sarmatism in the Institutional System of Lithuania in the 17th Century
PhD	Helen	Plado	University of Tartu, Võro Institute	Variation in conditional marker in Võro
Ms.	Maarja-Liisa	Pilvik	University of Tartu	Factors influencing the argument realization of Estonian -mine action nominals
Professor	Hilmar	Hilmarsson	University of Akureyri	Do as we say and not as we do: Crisis response and post crisis results in the Baltic States and the consequences of interlinkages with the Nordic countries.
Lecturer	Iveta	Grīnberga	University of Washington	Working Smarter, Not Harder. Teaching Latvian at the University of Washington
PhD	Katarzyna	Kamińska-Korolczuk	University of Gdańsk	The Estonian and Latvian media research from the Polish point of view
Dr.	Joanna	Chojnicka	University of Bremen	Researching constructions of femininity, masculinity and sexuality in Latvian social media discourses
PhD	Liina	Lindström	University of Tartu	Experiencer marking in Estonian: What motivates the choice between constructions?
Dr.	Regina	Kvašytė	Šiauliai University	Proper names of Latvian Language in Lithuanian: Change of Standarts
Bc.	Krista Anna	Belševica	Rakstniecības un mūzikas muzejs	The Individual, the Social and the Postcolonial. The economic exile in the contemporary Latvian literature.
Mr.	Adam	Brode	University of Pittsburgh	Ethnicity, Space, and Collective Memory: Lieux-de-Mémoire in Interwar Riga
Dr.	Monika	Frėjutė-Rakauskienė	Lithuanian Social Research Centre, Institute for E	The aspects of social justice in political and civic participation: the case of Russian ethnic minority in Lithuania
Dr	Epp	Annus	Estonial Literature Museum	“Us” and “them”: National Essentialism in Estonian Cultural Imaginaries, from the Soviet Experience to the Present Day Migration Crisis
Dr	Dace	Strelēvica-Ošiņa	University of Latvia, Latvian Language institute	The Livonian Mystery: the Controversies over a Language, a Dialect and Some Linguonyms
Prof. Dr.	Ulrike	Plath	Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Sciences	1) “Mina olen Eesti poiss!”: Childhood and switching national identities among German late resettlers (Nachumsiedler) from Estonia 2) Environmental history in Estonia: activities, outreach, organisation
Associate Professor, PHD	Jolanta	Šinkūnienė	Vilnius University	The constructions with GALIMA "it is possible": from complement taking predicate to discourse marker
Mrs	Francoise	Pichonnier	European Commission	None
Dr	Matthew	Kott	UpssalaUniversity/Södertörn University	The History of Antiziganism in Latvia: The Case of the Police, 1900–1945
Mr	Stanley Paul	Nnoli	Olabisi Onabanjo University	None
Dr.	Olev	Liivik	Estonian History Museum	Pure ethnic Germans or national indifferent or multiethnic Estonians? How the national identity of the “Baltic-German” Nachumsiedler’s reflects from the NKVD investigation files in 1941?
Dr	Vasilijus	Safronovas	Institute of Baltic Region History and Archaeology	Who Fought for Lithuanian Independence? On the Politics of Remembrance in Interwar Lithuania
Ms	Aiga	Veckalne	Ventspils Augstskola	Not presenting
Ms.	Rasa	Zakeviciute	University of Jyväskylä	Rural communities in the Baltic states: coping through networking during post-Soviet transformation
Dr.	Jānis	Lūsis	Physician	None
Dr.	Olga	Rajevska	University of Latvia	Involvement of the state in pension systems of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania
Associate Professor	Feliciana	Rajevska	Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences	Involvement of the state in pension systems of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania
Mrs.	Marta	Tripāne	University of Latvia	Health inequality in Latvia in the context of self-rated health
Associate Professor	Vents	Sīlis	Riga Stradins University	Moral rhetoric of the Saeima
Ms.	Diāna	Kalniņa	Riga Stradins University	Socio-demographic profile of active actors and the institutional constraints of civic agency
Ms.	Aija	Kažoka	Riga Stradins University	Socio-demographic profile of active actors and the institutional constraints of civic agency
Ms.	Baiba	Baikovska	Riga Stradins University	Representation of people with physical disabilities in political discourse and the Government regulations
Mr.	Normunds	Kozlovs	Riga Stradins University	Disappearance of the political. Discourse analysis of the Saeima Corpus
Ms.	Ksenija	Mirošņika	Riga Stradins University	Government communication: Right intentions, wrong legal regulations
Ms.	Valērija	Kačane	Riga Stradins University	From ‘Oligarchs’ to Liberals: Does the political discourse change?
Dr	Peter	Wörster	independent	The Year 1918 in teh History of the City of Mitau
Mrs.	Danute	Petrauskaite	Klaipeda University	Co-operation between musicians of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in 1920-1990
Doctor	Michael	Loader	Higher School of Economics	Cultural Struggles: The Battle over Cultural Policy between Stalinists and National Communists in Soviet Latvia
Mr.	Colin	Glinkowski	Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald	The relevance of cooperative banks before and during the first independence of the Baltic states
Associate Professor	Andris	Straumanis	University of Wisconsin-River Falls	"300,000 Thrifty Letts in U.S.": Reliability of Press Reports About Early Latvian Immigrants in America
prof., dr.habil.philol	andrejs	VEISBERGS	University of Latvia	TRANSLATION POLICIES IN LATVIA AS A REFLECTION OF OCCUPATIONAL POLICIES (1940-1945).
Mr	Dmitrijs	Andrejevs	University of Liverpool	Not Presenting
Dr	Tina	Tamman	independent	Soviet Baltic border as silent battleground in London
Prof. Dr.	Jan	Körnert	University of Greifswald	The dominance of foreign‐controlled banks in the Baltic states and their potential to exert power on EU institutions
Mr	Akinwunmi David	Coker	Shoaki Consultants Limited	None
Mr.	Andrew	Johansson	Steinbeis University Berlin & Riga Graduate School	1) Gauging the Impact of China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative on the Baltic Rim 2) Introducing Tax Increment Financing as a Mechanism to Spur Economic Development in the EU
Mr.	Harry	Merritt	Brown University	Becoming Latvian by Serving in the Army of the Occupier: National Identification among Minorities in the Latvian Legion and Latvian Rifle Corps
Dipl.-Kfm.	Klemens	Grube	Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald	The relevance of cooperative banks before and during the first independence of the Baltic states
Ms	Inese	Āboliņa	University of Latvia	Political leadership in Latvia: past, present and future
Dr. Phil.	Aija	Poikane-Daumke	The University of Economics and Culture	The Meaning of Trauma in Nesaule's In Love with Jerzy Kosinski
Mr	Rene	Mäe	Tallinn University	Estonia as a Creative Hub: Branding the nation through culture, creativity and digital technology
Miss	Catherine	Gibson	European University Institute	Inscribing the Baltic Provinces into the Russian Empire: Imagined Geographies of 19th-Century Ethnographic Cartography
Ms	Dorothee M.	Goeze	Herder-Institut	1) Statehood and Independence of Estonia in two biographical perspectives 2) ß
Dr.	Juris	Pupčenoks	Marist College	The Russian Challenge to Norms of Humanitarian Intervention: Implications for the Baltics.
Mg. philol.	Jana	Taperte	University of Latvia	Silence and speech in film narrative structure (Laila Pakalniņa's 'The Shoe' and Dāvis Sīmanis' 'Exiled')
Dr. philol.	Sanda	Rapa	University of Latvia	Silence and speech in film narrative structure (Laila Pakalniņa's 'The Shoe' and Dāvis Sīmanis' 'Exiled')
Dr. sc. comm.	Jānis	Buholcs	Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences	Social networking site use and interpersonal ties of Latvian emigrants
Mr.	Norman	Kuusik	University of Tallinn	Contrasting suffixes between Estonian and English
Ms	Birutė	Spraunienė	Vilnius University	Tendencies of the use of the passive in Lithuanian: A comparison to English
Professor of History and Public Policy	Maris	Vinovskis	University of Michigan	Not Presenting
Mr	Joern	von Elsenau	Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald	The dominance of foreign‐controlled banks in the Baltic states and their potential to exert power on EU institutions
Dr. iur.	Justyna	Ciechanowska	University of Rzeszow	Constitutional principles on relation between church and state in Poland and Estonia
Dr. iur.	Katarzyna	Szwed	University of Rzeszow	Constitutional complaint as a means of human rights protection - the example of Poland and Baltic States

Acommodation in Riga

Hotels mentioned below have made special offers for participants of CBSE 2017.
Please see the prices and conditions for the booking for each hotel.

Hotel Radi un draugi

Adress: Mārstaļu str. 3

Hotel offers 8 single-bed rooms and 20 double-bed rooms.

Prices: standard single-bed room - 55 EUR/per night; standard double-bed room 65 EUR/per night. Breakfast, WIFI, VAT included in price.

Booking by contacting the hotel by email - reservation@draugi.lv, the remark of Conference of Baltic studies or code 11561 has to be included in the message.

Hotel ASTOR Riga

Adress: Zigfrīda Annas Meierovica blvd. 10

Hotel offers 20 rooms.

Prices: standard single-bed room: 85 EUR/per night; standard double-bed room: 95 EUR/ per night. Breakfast, WIFI, VAT included in price.

Booking by contacting the hotel by email reservations@astorrigahotel.lv, code CBSERIGA2017 has to be included in the message.

Hotel Park Inn by Radisson Riga Valdemara

Adress: Krogus str.1

Hotel offers 20 rooms.

Prices: standard single-bed room: 65 EUR/per night; standard double-bed room: 95 EUR/ per night. Breakfast, WIFI, VAT included in price.

Booking by following the link (click here).

Hotel Park Inn by Radisson Residence Riga Barona

Adress: Kr. Barona str. 40

Prices: standard single-bed room: 99 EUR/per night; standard double-bed room: 109 EUR/ per night. WIFI, VAT included in price. Breakfast is not included in price, but rooms are equipped with small kitchen.

Booking by following the link (click here).

Hotel Art Hotel Laine

Adress: Skolas str. 11

Hotel offers 15 rooms.

Prices: standard single-bed room 43 EUR/per night; standard double-bed room 53 EUR/ per night. Breakfast, WIFI (in public zone), VAT included in price.

Booking via hotel web page www.laine.lv, code CBSE2017RIGA.

REGISTRATION FORM

* Participation fee: until 15th April 90 EUR, after 15th April 120 EUR, students 60 EUR

Cancellation and refunds

Any cancellation of registration should be notified in writing to University of Latvia by e-mail to cbse2017@lu.lv. The Conference organisers will confirm your cancellation in writing.

Cancellations will be subject to the following conditions:
For cancellations received on or before 1st May, 2017: refund of 70% of the registration fee (30% of the fee will be charged for processing).

For cancellations received after 1st May, 2017: no refund will be given.
All bank charges must be covered by the participant, therefore the refund will be smaller by the amount of bank costs.