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Recently published open access in the Journal of Baltic Studies: "Nobility and bourgeoisie in Baltic German narrative prose (1860–1914)," by Jonathan Schilling. Article available to all readers, free of charge: https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2025.2500465

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Did you know AABS is now on LinkedIn? We're sharing some exclusive content there about the professional word of Baltic Studies. Head over to read our most recent post on the role of grad students in the field! https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7339666961515094016/

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Friends in Vilnius, I will be giving a talk about my book at the Lithuanian National Library on June 16, at 17:30. Please join! www.lnb.lt/renginiai/13...

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We want your input! We're going to continue our webinar series in the 2025-2026 academic year, and we're looking for ideas from our members and audience about what programming to feature. Fill out the form now: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FDylaqEguerL3gyjdJ6-MncpNNaLr8VTcHi5Inaiy0s/edit

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Recently published online in the Journal of Baltic Studies: "What solidarity? Pandemic governance discourse in Lithuania, 2020–2022," by Natalija Arlauskaitė, Rasa Bortkevičiūtė & Neringa Mataitytė. Full article available to subscribers: vist.ly/3n6ikxd

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Congratulations to Elīza Dāldere for being awarded a 2025-2026 Academic Events and Projects Grant! Elīza will use the Grant to support the upcoming conference, “Multiple Baltics: Reimagining Social, Cultural and Spatial Dimensions of History." Learn more: vist.ly/3n6a6eh

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Congratulations to Ramunė Bleizgienė for being awarded a 2025-2026 Academic Events and Projects Grant! She will use the Grant to support the upcoming international conference, “Local Feminisms in the Baltic Region.” Learn more about it: vist.ly/3n67vk3

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Recently published online in the Journal of Baltic Studies: "Transitional justice and cultural interpretation in public architecture: a case study of the museum of the occupation of Latvia," by Chi-Hui Chen and Chih-Ming Shih. Full article available for subscribers: vist.ly/3n64yxj

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Congratulations to Ingmar Kiviloo for being award a 2025-2026 Baumanis Grant for Creative Projects in Baltic Studies! Ingmar will use the Grant to support his project “Laulu võim” (The Power of Song). Learn more: vist.ly/3n52t4m

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Congratulations to Peter Dajevskis for being awarded a 2025-2026 Baumanis Grant for Creative Projects in Baltic Studies! Peter will use the Grant to support his work on Latvian immigration to Philadelphia. Learn more: vist.ly/3n5xyfy

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Congratulations to Parker Watt for being awarded a 2025-2026 Baumanis Grant for Creative Projects in Baltic Studies! Parker will use the Grant to support his documentary film on Ukrainian artists in Estonia: https://aabs-balticstudies.org/2025/06/01/parker-watt-awarded-2025-2026-baumanis-grant/

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ICYMI: we dropped a new Baltic Ways podcast episode, "What E-Estonia Can Teach the US" with technologist Joel Burke. Listen now! vist.ly/3n5sc6j

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Recently published online in the Journal of Baltic Studies: "The responsiveness of fuel sales volume in Estonia with respect to price differentials with Latvia," by Indrek Saar and Kelly Ernits. Full article available for subscribers: vist.ly/3n5iibj

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New podcast episode! 🎙️ Technologist Joel Burke shares insights from his time working in the Estonian government and what the US has to learn from Estonia in a moment of disruption. Listen now: https://aabs-balticstudies.org/podcast/

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I am so grateful to @balticstudies.bsky.social for this opportunity to come back to Tallinn and engage with Estonian music!

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Congratulations to Feliks Gornischeff for being awarded a 2025-2026 AABS Research Grant for Emerging Scholars! Feliks will apply the grant to his project examining the legacy of Baltic German diplomats in the Russian service in the early 19th century. Learn more: vist.ly/3n55cqz

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Congratulations to Oksana Nesterenko @erlenadlu.bsky.social for being awarded a 2025-2026 AABS Research Grant for Emerging Scholars! The Grant will support her onsite research in Tallinn for her book, "A Forbidden Fruit? Sacred Music in the USSR before its Fall." Learn more: vist.ly/3n42ya6

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Congratulations to Arvydas Grišinas for being awarded a 2025-2026 AABS Research Grant for Emerging Scholars! Arvydas will apply the grant to his project, “Fighting with Empathy: Lithuanian Volunteers Supporting Ukraine." Learn more: vist.ly/3n4xyif

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Congratulations to Patrick Monson for being awarded the 2025-2026 AABS Research Grant for Emerging Scholars! Patrick will use the grant to work on his book project, "Judges of Empire," which analyzes Imperial Russia’s reform of Baltic courts. Learn more: vist.ly/3n4vpi9

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Newly published open access in the Journal of Baltic Studies: "From the shadows to the light: paradoxes of queer literature in post-Soviet Estonia," by Piret Viires. Article is available open access for all readers: vist.ly/3n4t39u

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Congratulations to Beatričė Juškaitė for being awarded a 2025-2026 AABS Dissertation Grant! Beatričė's dissertation is an ethnography of support for Ukraine that emerged in the aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Learn more: vist.ly/3n4mp72

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Congratulations to John Ellis for being awarded a 2025-2026 AABS Dissertation Grant! John's dissertation tells the story of the collapse of Soviet power in Central and Eastern Europe and the expansion of Western institutions, especially NATO. Learn more: vist.ly/3n4iw4x

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Congratulations to Lois Kalb @loiskalb.bsky.social for being awarded a 2025-2026 AABS Dissertation Grant! Lois will apply the grant to her dissertation, "Uncommonly Modern: Mass Housing, Moral Economy and Urban Social Change in Late and Post-Soviet Riga (1970-2000)" Learn more: vist.ly/3n4g6ag

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Congratulations to Isabelle DeSisto @isadesisto.bsky.social for being awarded a 2025-2026 AABS Dissertation Grant! Isabelle will apply the grant to her dissertation examining the long-term effects of political violence on voting and protest in Eastern Europe. Learn more: vist.ly/3n4dv9z

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Newly published in the Journal of Baltic Studies online: "The left bites back: 2024 parliamentary election in Lithuania," by Mindaugas Jurkynas This Forum article explores the evolution of Lithuania’s electoral system. Full access available to JBS subscribers: vist.ly/3n4b8zs

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Congratulations to Sniedze Kāle for being awarded the 2025-2026 AABS Aina Birnitis Dissertation-Completion Fellowship in the Humanities! Sniedze will use the fellowship to support her dissertation, "Latvian Artist Groupings in Soviet Russia (1917–1937)" Learn more: vist.ly/3n48swh

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Congratulations to Marta Kalniņa for being awarded the 2025-2026 AABS Jānis Grundmanis Fellowship! Marta will apply the Grundmanis Fellowship to the first year of her MFA in Film Directing and Screenwriting at Columbia University. Learn more: vist.ly/3n45y64

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Big news! We're delighted to welcome two new Co-Editors of the Journal of Baltic Studies (JBS), Drs. Ammon Cheskin and Mike Loader, who started their terms on May 1. Read the full announcement: https://aabs-balticstudies.org/2025/05/09/journal-of-baltic-studies-welcomes-new-leadership/

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CFP: 24th annual Aleksanteri Conference, "Extremisms: ambiguities, ideologies, agency," to be held in Helsinki in October 2025. Deadline May 16: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/extremisms-ambiguities-ideologies-agency/call-papers

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It's official: CBSE 2025 was the LARGEST EVER Baltic Studies conference! With just over 500 participants in over 125 panels, the breadth and depth of this year's conference encapsulated the incredible scholarship occurring in the field. 1/2

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The Baltic states face an uncertain geopolitical future, but there is hope. That was the takeaway from our webinar earlier this week with leading Baltic and Ukrainian scholars. If you couldn't attend, don't worry! The event recording is available now: vist.ly/3n3qsa4

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Recently published online in the Journal of Baltic Studies: "A comparison of the psychosocial wellbeing of children of Latvian emigrants in schools in host countries with the wellbeing of returnee children," by Daina Grosa. Full article available for JBS subscribers: vist.ly/3n3nbrk

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TOMORROW - The End of the Liberal World Order: What Comes Next for the Baltic States? A panel of leading Ukrainian and Baltic scholars will discuss the problems facing the world today and take your questions. Registration required: vist.ly/3n3gwrh

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Recently published online in the Journal of Baltic Studies: "Enhancing teacher education program coherence: a six-year study on student perspectives in Estonia." Full article available for subscribers and AABS members: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01629778.2025.2468664

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The liberal world order of the last 30 years is gone. What comes next? Join our webinar on May 5 to engage leading Ukrainian and Baltic scholars on the toughest questions facing the Baltic states, and our world, today. Register now: vist.ly/3n33pa4

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A bittersweet closing dinner at CBSE 2025 - so much excellent scholarship, such good times with friends and colleagues, and all over too soon. The beautiful surroundings of King’s College provided the perfect backdrop. 1/2

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Truly enjoyed being part of the roundtable "Women and Politics in War" at CBSE in Cambridge today--with Aušra Park, Daina Eglitis, Laura Dean and Dovilė Jakniūnaitė.

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A century of UK air operations in the Baltic, women and politics in times of war, and new insights into interwar international relations - just some of the cutting-edge scholarship on display at #CBSE2025 @lauradean.bsky.social @dbudryte.bsky.social

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That's a wrap on day 2 of #CBSE2025! Pictured are sessions on international organizations and right-wing populism, a close-up of a Spitfire aircraft viewed at Imperial War Museum Duxford, and of course a classic Cambridge alley view. See you tomorrow for day three!

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Scenes from day 2 of #CBSE2025! An update from the Journal of Baltic Studies team An interdisciplinary panel on media discourses Coffee and tea break in Peterhouse College, the oldest constituent college of Cambridge A roundtable on the ‘Weapons’ of Small States - very timely!

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Lovely venue for the 2025 Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe at Cambridge University. This is the first time CBSE has been held outside of the Baltic States sponsored by the Baltic Geopolitics Programme at Cambridge. #AcademicTravels #CBSE2025

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A stirring and timely reminder of the value and purpose of Baltic Studies from our CBSE 2025 hosts, including the Rt Hon Charles Clarke, conference chair Donatas Kupčiūnas, and Prof. Brendan Simms, as well as AABS President Jörg Hackmann.

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Welcome to day one of CBSE 2025! Make sure you’re subscribed to our feed to get all the latest updates from the conference. Also, did you know we’re now on LinkedIn? Follow us there for platform-exclusive content from Baltic Studies leaders: vist.ly/3m2mmdt

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Welcome to beautiful Cambridge for CBSE 2025! We’re excited for three days packed with the latest developments in Baltic Studies. Registration is open from 6-9pm at Fitzwilliam House tonight, or starting at 7:30am at the Guildhall tomorrow. See you soon!

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Ukrainian feminists have played a critical role in defending their country against Russia. Their Baltic counterparts continue to stand in solidarity. But challenges persist both at home and abroad. Learn more in the newest Baltic Ways podcast episode: https://aabs-balticstudies.org/podcast/

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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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