PRACTICAL INFO

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

CALL FOR PAPERS

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.


PARTICIPATION FEE:

until 15th April 90 EUR
after 15th April 120 EUR
students 60 EUR

ABOUT PROPOSALS

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:

  • Anthropology
  • Communication, media, film and information studies
  • Cultural studies
  • Demography
  • Economics and Business
  • Education
  • Geography and environmental studies
  • History
  • Law
  • Linguistics and philology
  • Literature
  • Politics, international relations and public administration
  • Sociology
  • Musicology

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

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 foreigncontrolled 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

 

   

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 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

ChairKaspars 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

 

12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 - 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 “sandwichedLithuanian 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 BalticPolyphony

 

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