Program Overview
Thursday, June 13, 2024
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Yale Housing Check-In (For Those Staying in Yale Residential Colleges)
2:00 – 6:00 pm
5:30 – 7:00 pm | Opening Plenary Session: Education and the Baltic Countries in the Twenty-First Century
- Rector Juozas Augutis, Vytautas Magnus University
- Rector Rimvydas Petrauskas, Vilnius University
- Rector Mykola Trofymenko, Mariupol State University
- Rector Gundars Bērziņš, University of Latvia
- Moderator: Professor Edyta Bojanowska, Yale University
Friday, June 14, 2024
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8:45 – 10:15 am | Session 1
10:15 – 10:45 am | Coffee Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm | Session 2
12:15 – 2:00 pm | Break
2:00 – 3:30 pm | Session 3
3:30 – 4:00 pm | Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 pm | Session 4
6:00 – 7:30 pm | Plenary: Egils Levits, “Geopolitics and the Baltic States”
- Egils Levits, who served as President of Latvia from 2019 to 2023, was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights from 1995 to 2004. He was also a judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union from 2004 to 2019. In August 2023 he was appointed special representative of the Republic of Latvia on issues of international law and state responsibility.
- Moderator: Professor Daunis Auers, University of Latvia
Saturday, June 15, 2024
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8:45 – 10:15 am | Session 5
10:15 – 10:45 am | Coffee Break
10:45 am – 12:15 pm | Session 6
12:15 – 2:00 pm | Break
12:25 – 1:45 pm | Graduate Student Luncheon
2:00 – 3:30 pm | Session 7
3:30 – 4:00 pm | Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:30 pm | Session 8
6:00 – 7:15 pm | Plenary Session: Baltic Ambassadors to the United States, “The Baltic Way in the 21st Century”
- Kristjan Prikk, Estonian Ambassador to the United States
- Māris Selga, Latvian Ambassador to the United States
- Audra Plepytė, Lithuanian Ambassador to the United States
- Moderator: Professor Olena Lennon, University of New Haven
Sunday, June 16, 2024
9:00 am – 10:30 pm | Session 9
10:45 am – 11:45 am | AABS Member Meeting
Schedule subject to change. The full conference program will be released in May.
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies expects participants to abide by the established AABS Code of Professional Conduct throughout the 2024 Conference.
Conference Registration
Conference registration rates for the conference are listed below for AABS members and non-members. We encourage you to become an AABS member and receive all the benefits of membership including access to the Journal of Baltic Studies, newsletter, and membership news.
The conference registration includes four keynote talks, a reception and a dinner, a sponsored continental breakfast, and graduate student luncheon for students.
Registration – Registration Closes Monday, May 13
$90 – Student Registration AABS Member
$175 – Regular Registration AABS Member
$140 – Student Registration Non-AABS Member
$225 – Regular Registration Non-AABS Member