The 12th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe
University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, 19-21 June, 2017
Riga is a compact city and many points of attraction in the city centre are within a walking distance. However, public transportation and taxis will be useful to reach more distant destinations.
Getting from the airport
There are two reliable ways to travel from the Riga airport to the city centre – bus No.22 and taxi.
Bus No.22: www.riga-airport.com/en/...
Taxi: www.riga-airport.com/en/...
The registration and the CBSE 2017 opening on 19 June will take place at the University of Latvia Main building, which is located in the heart of Riga's center, Raiņa blvd. 19.
All panel sessions and social events on 20-21 June will take place at Faculty of Social Sciences, which is located at Lomonosova street 1a.
Please note that all conference materials will be handed out in usb memory-sticks.
It takes about 10-15 minutes to get from the University of Latvia main building (Raina Boulevard 19), which is in the centre of Riga, to the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lomonosova Street 1A. The most convenient transport is the number 15 trolleybus (Latvijas Universitāte – Ķengarags), which leaves every 5 minutes from the bus stop next to the University Main building (corner of Raiņa boulevard and Inženieru street). The stop for the Faculty of Social sciences is “Lomonosova iela”.
Public transport tickets,
Types and prices of tickets,
Public transport routes and schedules,
Public transport in Riga
Wi-fi access at the Faculty of Social Sciences: EDUROAM
LU_WIFI / LU2017 / LU: Login – wlan10 / Password - riga062017
Manual: http://itserviss.lu.lv/?q=en/node/216
The 12th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE) aims to reflect on the past, present and future of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 99 years after their declarations of independence.
The conference will discuss achievements such as the battles for independence, the reconstruction of war-torn economies, the flourishing of cultural life and the swift ‘return to Europe’ as well as low points, for example, the dislocations caused by the two world wars, German and Soviet occupations as well contemporary economic development, innovation systems, social inequality and a pervading disenchantment with political life.
until 15th April 90 EUR
after 15th April 120 EUR
students 60 EUR
CBSE welcomes proposals for papers, panels and roundtable discussions in all academic fields related to Baltic studies. Contributions from the following disciplines, including interdisciplinary research, are particularly encouraged:
Paper, panel and roundtable proposals must include an abstract of no more than 200 words and a 1-2 page CV emailed to the conference contact:
Email: Ilze Kāposta
Proposals can be submitted until 15th January 2017.
Results will be announced on 1st of February.
From the 1st of March the registration will be open.
| HISTORY | MEMORY STUDIES | COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES | POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION | ECONOMICS | LINGUISTICS | CULTURE STUDIES, LITERATURE, MUSIC AND ART | GENDER STUDIES | LAW |
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9:00 – 10:30 1st PANEL SESSION | ||||||||
| HIST 1.1. Alternative perspectives on the proclamation of the new Baltic states in 1918: biographic, economic and historiographical approaches 9.00-10.30
/ Room: 203 HIST
1.1. ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE
PROCLAMATION OF THE NEW BALTIC STATES IN 1918: BIOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC AND
HISTORIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES Chair:
Gustavs Strenga (National Library of Latvia) David
Feest (Nordost-Institut, IKGN) No Independence
Without Money. The Banking House, Georg Scheel & Co., and Estonia’s State Finances Anja
Wilhelmi (Nordost-Institut, IKGN) 1918 - a Chance
for Economic Participation? Female Newcomers and Entrepreneurs in the German Baltic Minority HIST 2.1. The Baltic Question in the 1980s: A Transnational Perspective HIST 2.1. THE BALTIC QUESTION IN THE
1980S: A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Chair:
Philippe Phercoc (European Parliamentary Research Service) 1. Katerina Kesa
(Institut national des langues et
civilisations orientales) The transnational
action of the Baltic independence
movements in USSR
(1985-1991) 2. Lars
Frederik Stöcker (Uppsala University) Soviet Baltic visions of marketization:
A 'systemic revolution' on the USSR's
western fringes 3. 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
(1987-1991) |
MEMO 1.1. "Living Together with Difficult Memories and Diverse Identities" (Living memories) Part 1 9.00-10.30 / Room: Berlin’s auditorium MEMO 1.1. LIVING TOGETHER WITH
DIFFICULT MEMORIES AND DIVERSE IDENTITIES (LIVINGMEMORIES) PART 1 Chair: Ene Kõresaar (Tartu
University) Sanita
Burķīte (University of Latvia) Ritual and Discourse in “Latgalian Congresses
in Rēzekne: the Centenary Conference” Ulla
Savolainen (University of Helsinki) Understanding Silence: Interplay of Personal and
Public Memories of the Internment of German and Hungarian citizens in Finland Didzis
Bērziņš (University of Latvia) Memory of the Holocaust in Latvia: problems and
perspectives |
POL 1.1. Ethnicity and nationalism 9.00-10.30 / Room: 316 POL
1.1. ETHNICITY AND NATIONALISM Chair: Nora Vanaga (National Defence Academy of Latvia) Mārtiņš Kaprāns (University
of Latvia) Challenging the groupism of Russian-speakers: The in-group differentiation of the Latvian Russophones Ivan Lavrentjev (Tallinn
University) Narva Autonomy
Referendum in 1993: Making Little-Known
Story Big Epp Annus (Estonian Literature
Museum) “Us”
and “them”: National Essentialism
in Estonian Cultural Imaginaries,
from the Soviet Experience to the Present Day
Migration Crisis Ojārs Stepens (University
of Latvia) WW2 and Soviet Occupation Discourse in the Context of Relations Between Latvia and Russia and in the Context of Foreign Affairs Policy of Latvia, 1991 –
2015 |
ECON 1.1. International Economic Relations and Baltic countries 9.00-10.30
/ Room: 414 ECON
1.1. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND BALTIC COUNTRIES Chair – Viktor Trasberg (University
of Tartu) Jan Körnert, Jörn
von Elsenau (University of Greifswald) The
dominance of foreign‐controlled banks in the Baltic
states and their potential to exert power on EU institutions 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 Andrew Johansson, Dirk Linowski (Riga Graduate School of Law) Gauging the Impact of China’s
One Belt, One Road Initiative on the Baltic
Rim |
LING 1.1. Current studies on language structures: towards a dialogue between scholars of Baltic and Finnic languages: Argument realization Part 1 9.00-10.30
/ Room: 405 LING
1.1. CURRENT STUDIES ON LANGUAGE STRUCTURES: TOWARDS A DIALOGUE BETWEEN
SCHOLARS OF BALTIC AND FINNIC LANGUAGES: ARGUMENT REALIZATION. PART 1 Chair: Liina Lindström (University
of Tartu), Nicole Nau (Adam Mickiewicz University), Jurgis Pakerys (University
of Vilnius) Axel Holvoet (Vilnius University) The agentive construction in Latvian Maarja-Liisa Pilvik (University of Tartu) Factors influencing argument realization
of Estonian -mine action nominals Miina Norvik (University
of Tartu) Topics in Livonian syntax |
CULT 1.1. Culture and identity 9.00-10.30
/ Room: 406 CULT
1.1. CULTURE AND IDENTITY Chair: Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus (University of Jyväskylä) Qiaoyun Peng (University
of Glasgow) Nordic Hardcore Rocks the Baltic Sea:
A Cultural Study on the Estonian Rock Music and National Identity Jolanta Kuznecoviene
(Lithuanian University of
Health Sciences) Religious Identity Re-defined: Cultural Catholicism in Lithuania Agnese Hermane, Agnese Treimane (Latvian academy of Culture) Artistic excellence and participation at the Nationwide
Song and Dance Celebration:
strategies applied by group leaders |
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10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK11:00 - 12:30 2nd PANEL SESSION | ||||||||
| HIST 1.2. Multi-ethnicity and National Loyalty 11.00-12.30
/ Room: 203 HIST 1.2. MULTI-ETHNICITY
AND NATIONAL LOYALTY Chair: Anja Wilhelmi (Nordost-Institut,
IKGN) Christina Douglas (Södertörn
University) Tea evenings for the
sake of the nation. The Baltic
German women’s movement and
the Baltic German national project 1905-1919 Per Bolin, Christina Douglas (Södertörn University) The Sokolowski Affair: Cultural Struggles between Baltic Germans and Latvians in the 1920s Adam Brode (University
of Pittsburgh) Ethnicity,
Space, and Collective Memory: Lieux-de-Mémoire in
Interwar Riga HIST 2.2. Culture Wars and Connections in Soviet Latvia, 1955-1963 11.00-12.30 / Room: 217 HIST
2.2. CULTURE WARS AND CONNECTIONS IN SOVIET LATVIA, 1955-1963 Chair:
Edward Cohn (Grinnell College)
Michael Loader
(Higher School of Economics)
Cultural Struggles: The Battle over
Cultural Policy between Stalinists and National Communists in Soviet Latvia Daina
Bleiere (Institute of Latvian
History, University of
Latvia) The Discussion about the New
Latvians in 1958 Mārtiņš
Mintaurs (University of Latvia) Industrial Needs and Ideological Objectives: The Construction of Pļaviņas Hydropower
Station and National Communism
in Latvia, 1955-1961 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) |
MEMO 1.2. "Living Together with Difficult Memories and Diverse Identities" (Living memories) Part 2 11.00-12.30 / Room: Berlin’s
auditorium MEMO 1.2. LIVING TOGETHER WITH
DIFFICULT MEMORIES AND DIVERSE IDENTITIES (LIVINGMEMORIES) PART 2 Chair: Andrejs Plakans (Iowa State University) Jurijs
Ņikišins (University of Latvia) Social Memories of Ethnolinguistic
Communities: Disputed Opinions on Events in the 20th Century History of Latvia Kirsti Jõesalu,
Ene Kõresaar
(Tartu University) What’s
in a Name? The Case of the Estonian Museum of Occupations Laura
Ardava (University of Latvia) Living Next to Russia: Media as Active Agents of Social Memory in Latvia |
COMM 1.2. Media History 11.00-12.30
/ Room: 210 COMM
1.2. MEDIA HISTORY Chair: Kristina Juraitė (Vytautas
Magnus University) Raimonds Gekišs (University
of Latvia) Political History of Latvian Sport Journalism Merike Kaunissaare (Estonian Academy of Art), Marja Lõhmus The Semantics of Societal Processes and Journalistic Photography in the Example of “Päevaleht” (Rahva Hääl), “Pravda” and “Helsingin Sanomat” (1924-1995) Līga Ozoliņa (Turiba
University) Journalists in
Latvia: profession after 20
years towards Western professional standards Andris Straumanis (University
of Wisconsin-River Falls) "300,000
Thrifty Letts in
U.S.": Reliability of Press Reports
About Early Latvian Immigrants in America |
POL 1.2. The Soviet Union, Russia and the Baltic states 11.00-12.30
/ Room: 316 POL
1.2. THE SOVIET UNION, RUSSIA AND THE BALTIC STATES Chair: Mārtiņš Kaprāns (University
of Latvia) 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 Boriss Pupčenoks
(Marist College) The Russian Challenge to Norms of Humanitarian Intervention: Implications for the Baltics Levke Aduda, Stefan
Ewert (University of Greifswald)
Nord
Stream, Mediation, and the Baltics |
LING 1.2. Current studies on language structures: towards a dialogue between scholars of Baltic and Finnic languages: Argument realization Part 2 11.00-12.30
/ Room: 405 LING
1.2. CURRENT STUDIES ON LANGUAGE STRUCTURES: TOWARDS A DIALOGUE BETWEEN
SCHOLARS OF BALTIC AND FINNIC LANGUAGES: ARGUMENT REALIZATION. PART 2 Chair: Liina Lindström (University
of Tartu), Nicole Nau (Adam Mickiewicz University), Jurgis Pakerys (University
of Vilnius) Marja Leinonen (University of Helsinki) Body partlocation in impersonal constructions in the Baltic linguistic area Liina Lindström (University
of Tartu) Experiencer marking in Estonian: What motivates the choice
between constructions? Jurgis Pakerys (Vilnius
University) Causee marking in periphrastic causatives in Baltic |
CULT 1.2. The individual and social in arts and literature 11.00-12.30
/ Room: 406 CULT
1.2. THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL IN ARTS AND LITERATURE Chair: Andrejs Kulnieks (Trent University) Aija Poikāne-Daumke
(University of Economics
and Culture) The Meaning of Trauma in Nesaule's In
Love with Jerzy Kosinski 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 and others Laima Vince Sruoginis (Vilnius University) Does Lithuanian-American Literature Deserve its own
Category in American Multicultural
Literature? Krista Anna Belševica (Literature and Music museum) The Individual, the Social and the Postcolonial. The economic exile in the contemporary Latvian literature |
GEND 1.2. Gender, History and Media 11.00-12.30
/ Room: 216 GEND
1.2. GENDER, HISTORY AND MEDIA Chair: Māra Lazda (Bronx
Community College) Joanna Chojnicka
(University of Bremen) Researching constructions of femininity, masculinity and sexuality in Latvian social media discourses Marita Zitmane (University
of Latvia) Fear of
feminism. Discourse of Anti-genderism
in discussion of Istanbul convention in Latvian mass media (2016) Siobhan Hearne (University of Nottingham) Resisting Regulation: Prostitutes in Riga
in the early 1900s |
LAW 1.2. Transformation of the legal system: past and challenges private law 11.00-12.30
/ Room: 325 LAW
1.2. TRANSFORMATION OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM: PAST AND
CHALLENGES. PRIVATE LAW Chair – Kaspars Balodis (University of Latvia) Jānis Rozenfelds (University
of Latvia) Protection of Property since Reestablishment of the Latvian Civil Law Irene Kull (University of Tartu) Information Obligations in Pre- Contractual Negotiations and Transformation of Estonian Contract
Law 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 |
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12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH13:30 - 15:00 3rd PANEL SESSION | ||||||||
| HIST 1.3. Nation-Making and Revolution 13.30-15.00
/ Room: 203 HIST
1.3. NATION-MAKING AND REVOLUTION Chair: Mathew Kott
(Uppsala University/Södertörn University) Peter Wörster
(Independent researcher) The year 1918 in the history of the city of Mitau/Jelgava Kestutis Kilinskas (Vilnius
University) Army as maker of modern
republic: soldiers and officers in Constitutive Seim of Lithuania 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 HIST 2.3. Soviet Politics: Management of Surveilance 13.30-15.00 / Room: 217 HIST
2.3. SOVIET POLITICS: MANAGEMENT OF SURVEILANCE Chair: Daina Bleiere (Institute
of Latvian History, University of Latvia) Vilius
Ivanauskas (Lithuanian Institute
of History) Soviet ethnopolitics
and “sandwiched” Lithuanian
ethnic particularism: case of Soviet writers Edward
Cohn (Grinnell College) Intimidation, Reeducation,
and the Management of Dissent: The KGB’s
Use of “Prophylactic Measures” in the Baltic Republics Rosario
Napolitano (University of Naples "l'Orientale") Censorship and "bad censors":
an analysis of the Latvian Glavlit
in the 70s Gautam
Chakrabarti (Ludwig-Maximilian University
of Munich / Free University
of Berlin) An Ideology for Russia’s
Future”? Eurasianism and Cultural Politics in the Post-/Cold-War Baltic ‘Polyphony’ |
MEMO 1.3. Memory, Theater and Cinema 13.30-15.00 / Room: Berlin’s
auditorium MEMO 1.3. MEMORY, THEATRE AND
CINEMA Chair: Laura Ardava (University
of Latvia) Mikko Olavi Seppälä (University of
Helsinki) Estonian-Finnish
theatre relations during the 20th century Aija
Rozenšteine (University of Latvia) Hero or anti-hero. The case study of movie the
“Richard, I Remember Everything!” Zane
Radzobe (University of Latvia) A
century of Latvian heroes: metamorphosis of the idea of heroism in Latvian
theatre Viktors Freibergs
(University of Latvia) Politics
of Memory and Cultural History in the Latest Latvian Films |
COMM 1.3. Media Representations 13.30-15.00 / Room: 210 COMM
1.3. MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS Chair: Ainārs Dimants (Turiba
University) Raivis Vilūns (University
of Latvia) Online Media Tabloidization of Maxima collapse Anastasija Tetarenko (University of Latvia) Constructing Russia as a Threat:
Securitization of Russia in
the Parliament and Government of Republic of Latvia Matīss Veigurs (University
of Latvia) Portrayal of Militarization in Baltic states by Western
Media Ilze Šulmane (University of
Latvia) Refugee problems
and annexation of Crimea: representation in Latvian and Russian news portals |
POL 1.3. The making of the Baltic foreign policies: Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian diplomatic practices 13.30-15.00
/ Room: 326 POL
1.3. THE MAKING OF THE BALTIC FOREIGN POLICIES: ESTONIAN, LATVIAN, AND
LITHUANIAN DIPLOMATIC PRACTICES Chair: Edijs Bošs (Riga Stradins
University) Kaarel Piirimae
(University of Tartu) The
Estonian Assamalla, the
Estonian Waterloo:” A new look into the
origins of the Estonian-Russian crisis of 1992 Emilija Pundziūtė-Gallois
(Sciences Po) A brief sociological study of the Baltic
diplomatic attitudes towards Russia Didzis Kļaviņš (University
of Latvia) The
Nature of Changes in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the Baltic Countries, 2004-2012 |
ECON 1.3. Financialization and the Baltic economies: from transition to financial crisis and recovery | ||||