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Call for Papers: Third Annual Baltic Study Group Workshop, The University of Glasgow, 30-31 October 2025. Please see below for full details. Please send a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio note by 1 August 2025 to [email protected]

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Professor Mart Kuldkepp (UCL) will deliver his inaugural lecture on Wednesday 21 May. The evening lecture is followed by a drink reception. You can sign up through the link below. Join us to celebrate the first Professorship of Estonian and Nordic History in the UK!

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How to historicise entrenched support for economic nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe? Join us for Professor Klaus Richter's inaugural lecture on Wednesday 21 May @Alan Walters Building G11 @University of Birmingham www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

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How can you make your research outcomes more impactful through podcasts, blogs, or museum collaborations? What fundings are available? Join our discussions at CBSE 2025 Cambridge (24 April, 15:30-17:00, Guildhall Main) @balticstudies.bsky.social to explore creative and effective public outreach!

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We have a new post up on the website from Kristo Nurmis exploring the wartime activities of Estonian Democrats between the Nazis and the Allies www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/our-rea...

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We have so many great Baltic-focused posts on our website at the moment thanks to the @balticbasees.bsky.social. If you are interested in Estonian, Latvian, or Lithuanian history and culture, you can find the full series here: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/baltic

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Call for Applications @ESCStAntonys in #Baltic Studies. The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2025-2026, European Studies Centre, St Anthony's College, Oxford University. Deadline February 26, 2025: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/.../Estonia-....

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Our series in @peripheralhist.bsky.social continues with Rasa Kamarauskaitė's fascinating interview with Rebeka Põldsam (@rebeltulivits.bsky.social) on LGBT studies in Estonia and the normalisation of queerness in the country.

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Check out Mann Loper's post on national education in interwar Estonia, focusing on the history school curriculum, now up at Peripheral Histories. Here you will also find the rest of our Baltic States series. Thanks to @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more in the near future.

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Our Baltic series continues with a fascinating new post by Rosario Napolitano on the development of the field of Baltic Studies in interwar Italy: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/giacomo...

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Our second post in the Baltic series is an interview with sexualities scholar Rasa Navickaitė on LGBT studies in Lithuania www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/periphe...

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First up in our new Baltic series we have John Freeman's post on attempts to de-peripheralize the early modern Eastern Baltic through Atlantic colonisation www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/breakin...

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