Three books received Honorable Mentions for the 2018 AABS Book Prize: Christine Beresniova, Holocaust Education in Lithuania (Lexington Books, 2017) The review committee noted that the book "makes an original, comprehensive and significant contribution to the analysis...
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AABS Book Prize awarded to Julija Šukys
The AABS Board is pleased to announce that Julija Šukys has been awarded the 2018 AABS Book Prize for Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). The review committee noted that "rigorous scholarship with...
Feminine and Masculine in the Poetry of 20th c. Latvian Women Poets
Anna Auziņa, University of Latvia, was awarded the 2017 Birnitis fellowship for “Woman’s Experience and Language in Vizma Belševica’s, Ārija Elksne’s and Monta Kroma’s Poetry” As a poet, I was interested for a long time in why sometimes I am given an award for...
Baltic Studies Conference in Europe | Gdansk 2019
The organizers of the 13th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE) are happy to announce that it will be held in Gdansk, Poland from 26-29 June 2019. The conference will be organized by the University of Gdansk (UG) and the European Solidarity Centre (ECS)....
Imagining Soviet Childhood through Estonian and Latvian Film
Liina-Ly Roos, recipient of a 2017 AABS Dissertation Grant Award, received her PhD this spring from the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington. The AABS Dissertation Grant allowed me to travel to Estonia and Latvia in the Fall 2017 to...
CFP: Australasia Conference | October 2018
The Australasian Chapter of AABS will present its 19th conference, "The 100th Anniversary of Baltic Independence," at Deakin University on Saturday, 13 October, to Sunday, 14 October 2018. Keynote Speaker Prof. Sheila Fitzpatrick FAHA, The University of Sydney, Author...
Improving Quality Standards in Large Scale Surveys
Mareks Niklass, PhD in Sociology, is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Latvia, and a Researcher at Advanced Social and Political Institute. He received the 2017 AABS Mudīte I. Zīlīte Saltups Fellowships Grant, to spend the month of October at...
Documenting the lives of contemporary Baltic poets
Viktorija Jonkutė, recipient of the 2017 Baumanis grant award, describes her documentary film Closer to the Land beyond the River, which will premier on May 22. Closer to the Land beyond the River (Lith. Arčiau žemės anapus upės, La. Tuvāk zemei viņpus upes) is a full...
Nominations for Undergrad Paper Award
Has your student written a paper on a topic related to the Baltic States? Submit it for consideration for the AABS Undergraduate Paper Award by March 15, 2018! Nomination guidelines and instructions are available here.