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
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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 13.30-15.00 / Room: 414 ECON
1.3. FINANCIALIZATION AND THE BALTIC ECONOMIES: FROM TRANSITION TO FINANCIAL
CRISIS AND RECOVERY Chair : Jan Körnert (University
of Greifswald) Leonardo Pataccini (University
of Tartu) European integration and financialization
in the Baltic countries: the role of the banking
sector Egert Juuse, Ringa Raudla, Aleksandrs Cepilovs, Olga
Mikheeva, Bent Sofus Tranøy
(Tallin University of Technology) The implications of Europeanization
of financial regulation and
supervision for national bureucracies – the case of Nordic
countries Andrew Johansson (Steinbeis
University Berlin/Riga Graduate
School of Law) Introducing Tax Increment Financing
as a Mechanism to Spur Economic Development
in the EU Egert Juuse, Ringa Raudla, Aleksandrs Cepilovs (Tallin University of Technology) Policy Learning in Financial Regulation and Supervision |
LING 1.3. Current studies on language structures: towards a dialogue between scholars of Baltic and Finnic languages: Voice, modality, and evidentiality Part 1 13.30-15.00
/ Room: 420 LING
1.3. CURRENT STUDIES ON LANGUAGE STRUCTURES: TOWARDS A DIALOGUE BETWEEN
SCHOLARS OF BALTIC AND FINNIC LANGUAGES: VOICE, MODALITY, AND EVIDENTIALITY.
PART 1 Chair – Liina Lindström (University
of Tartu), Nicole Nau (Adam Mickiewicz University), Jurgis Pakerys (University
of Vilnius) Birutė Spraunienė,
Erika Jasionytė (Vilnius University) Tendencies of the use of the
passive in Lithuanian: A comparison to English Giedrė Junčytė (Vilnius University) Middle marked intransitives in Lithuanian Nicole Nau (Adam Mickiewicz
University) Modality in constructions with the present passive
participle in Latvian Anna Ruskan (Vilnius
University) An overview
of evidential adverbials in
Lithuanian |
CULT 1.3. Artistic means and the politics of belonging 13.30-15.00
/ Room: 106 CULT
1.3. ARTISTIC MEANS AND THE POLITICS OF BELONGING Chair: Heli Reimann (University
of the Arts, Sibelius Academy) Egge Kulbok-Lattik (University
of Tartu) To Become Cultured:
community houses in Estonia and Latvia Jana Taperte, Sanda Rapa
(University of Latvia) Silence and
speech in film narrative structure (Laila Pakalniņa's 'The Shoe' and Dāvis Sīmanis' 'Exiled') Andrejs Kulnieks (Trent University) Songwriting literacies as cultural
studies: Using Poetic Inquiry to develop intergenerational curriculum Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus (University of Jyväskylä) Cultural heritage in politics of belonging: analysis of European Heritage Label initiative |
GEND 1.3. Queering Baltic Pasts - Perspectives on Life Stories and Arts 13.30-15.00 / Room: 216 GEND 1.3. QUEERING BALTIC
PASTS - PERSPECTIVES ON LIFE STORIES AND ARTS Chair: Uku Lember (Tallinn
University) Jānis Ozoliņš (Institute
of Literature, Folklore and
Art, University of Latvia) Masculine and
Queer Subjectivity in Andra
Neiburga’s Short Fiction Riika Taavetti (University
of Helsinki) Queer
Pasts and Soviet Legacies
in and around Jaanus Samma’s “NSFW. A Chairman’s Tale” Kārlis Vērdiņš (Institute
of Literature, Folklore and
Art, University of Latvia/ Washington
University) Ecstasy and
Labour: Sam-Hiors, Latvian Pioneer of Modern Dance |
LAW 1.3. Transformation of the legal system: international perspectives 13.30-15.00
/ Room: 325 LAW
1.3. TRANSFORMATION OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Chair – Jānis Rozenfelds (University of Latvia) Laura Dean (Millikin
University) Criminalizing Human Trafficking in Latvia: The Evolution and Implications of Human Trafficking Policies Juris Dreifelds (Brock
University in St.Catharines)
Disorder or
Order in the Latvian Court System Katarzyna Szwed (University
of Rzeszow) Constitutional complaint as a means of human rights protection - the example of Poland and Baltic States Justyna Ciechanowska
(University of Rzeszow)
Constitutional principles on relation
between church and state in Poland and Estonia |
15:00 - 15:30 COFFEE BREAK15:30 - 17:00/17:30 4th PANEL SESSION | ||||||||
| HIST 1.4. Deconstruction and Remembrance 15.30.-17.00 / Room: 217 HIST
1.4. DECONSTRUCTION AND REMEMBRANCE Chair: Kestutis Kilinskas (Vilnius University) Edgars Engīzers (Baltic
International Academy) Deconstruction of mythology of 18th November, 1918
in Latvian historical understanding Vasilijus Safronovas (The Institute of Baltic Region History
and Archaeology, Klaipėda University) Who Fought for Lithuanian
Independence? On the Politics of Remembrance in Interwar Lithuania Dorothee Goeze (Herder-Institut) Statehood and
independence of Estonia in two biographical perspectives |
COMM 1.4. The actual challenges of media policy in Baltic states 15.30-17.00
/ Room: 210 COMM
1.4. The actual challenges of media
policy in Baltic states Chair: Andres Jõesaar (Tallinn University) Rolands Tjarve (University
of Latvia) The Commercialization of the Public Media – Media System Disarray
Consequences. Latvian Case Study Ieva Beitika (National
Electronic Mass Media Council) Public Service Media in the Digital Age:
Case Study of Latvia Helle Tiikmaa
(Tartu University) Public Service Media Changing
Role in Public Sphere on the
Example of Estonia Klinta Ločmele (University of
Latvia) The Challenges
of Media Policy in Latvia |
POL 1.4. International politics in the Baltic region 15.30-17.00
/ Room: 326 POL
1.4. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE BALTIC REGION Chair: Juris Rozenvalds (University
of Latvia) Gerda Jakštaite
(Vytautas Magnus University)
US-Baltic Strategic Partnership During the Second Term of B. Obama Ieva Karpavičiūtė (Vytautas
Magnus University) National Security Dynamics and Threat Perception in Lithuania Toms Rostoks, Nora
Vanaga (National Defence Academy
of Latvia) Extended deterrence in Northeastern Europe post-Ukraine: the case of Latvia |
ECON 1.4. Social aspects of Baltic economies 15.30-17.30 / Room: 414 ECON
1.4. SOCIAL ASPECTS OF BALTIC ECONOMIES Chair – Leonardo
Pataccini (University of Tartu) Nolan Sharkey (University
of Western Australia) Baltic States at 99 - Attracting and Retaining People and Talent: The role of international
tax Ēriks Selga (Riga Graduate
School of Law), Dirk Linowski (Riga Graduate School of
Law) Tracing the Sensitivity of Baltic Venture Capital Markets to National Legislative Developments Viktor Trasberg (University
of Tartu) Baltic countries: who drinks what? Irēna Zeiza (University
of Latvia) Understanding of public relations (PR) and their role in business
among the Latvian businessmen |
LING 1.4. Current studies on language structures: towards a dialogue between scholars of Baltic and Finnic languages: Voice, modality, and evidentiality Part 2 15.30-17.00 / Room: 420 LING
1.4. CURRENT STUDIES ON LANGUAGE STRUCTURES: TOWARDS A DIALOGUE BETWEEN
SCHOLARS OF BALTIC AND FINNIC LANGUAGES: VOICE, MODALITY, AND EVIDENTIALITY.
PART 2 Chair – Liina Lindström (University
of Tartu), Nicole Nau (Adam Mickiewicz University), Jurgis Pakerys (University
of Vilnius) Jolanta Šinkūnienė
(University of Vilnius)
The constructions
with GALIMA 'it is possible': from complement taking predicate to discourse marker Helen Plado (University of Tartu) Variation in conditional marker in Võro Aurelija Usonienė (University of Vilnius), Vincent Nigel (University of Manchester) Evidential CXNs: Accusativus cum Participio (AcP) and Nominativus cum Infinitivo (NcI) in a cross-linguistic perspective |
CULT 1.4. Memory, Trauma and Literature 15.30-17.00 / Room: 106 CULT
1.4. MEMORY, TRAUMA AND LITERATURE Chair:
Aija Poikāne-Daumke (University
of Economics and Culture) Paul M. Gedo (The
George Washington University)
Trauma
and Dissociation in Gint Aras’ “The
Fugue” Ginta V. Remeikis (Independent
researcher) Eating Disorder in Oksanen’s Stalin’s Cows: Intergenerational Transmission of
Trauma and the Withholding
of the Mother Tongue Skaidrīte Lasmane (University
of Latvia) After glorification: the reinterpretation of Soviet reality in contemporary Latvian literature |
GEND 1.4. Gender and Politics 15.30-17.30 / Room: 216 GEND
1.4. GENDER AND POLITICS Chair: Ineta Lipša
(University of Latvia) Oskars Gruziņš
(University of Latvia) Ideology and
Intergender Contact in Nazi
Occupied Latvia: Policy and
Reality Dovilė Budrytė (Georgia Gwinnett College) From Masculine Heroism to Everyday Violance? A Gendered Perspective on the Partisan War
in Lithuania Māra Lazda (Bronx
Community College) The
Post-War Legacy of Gendered Power in Latvia Christian Pipal (Klaipeda
University in Lithuania) Children
Born of War in Lithuania: Conceptualizing Identity and Citizenship in Post-Conflict Research |
LAW 1.4. Transformation of the legal system: past and challenges. Public law. 15.30-17.30 / Room: 325 LAW
1.4. TRANSFORMATION OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM: PAST AND
CHALLENGES. PUBLIC LAW Chair: Anita Rodiņa
(University of Latvia) Arturs 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 Madis Ernits (University of Tartu) Crisis and
Reform in Constitutional Mirror. Three important
judgements of Estonian Supreme
Court since 2010 Christoph Schewe, Jūlija Jerņeva
(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 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 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 |
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| 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 |
Hotels mentioned below have made special offers for participants of CBSE 2017.
Please see the prices and conditions for the booking for each hotel.
* 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.
