Indra Ekmanis 2016 AABS Dissertation Grant recipient “Latvian culture” is inescapably tied to “Latvian identity,” both colloquially and in policy language. Acceptance of and respect for Latvian culture is also a cornerstone of Latvian integration legislation, which is...
Uldis Balodis received the first AABS Baumanis grant to document the current state of villages historically inhabited by Lutsi Estonian speakers, as well as to conduct archival research in Tartu, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland on the work of Oskar Kallas, the original...
The Baltic states at 99: Past, Present and Future University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia, 19-21 June, 2017 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...
In July 2016, AABS welcomed new Administrative Executive Director Amanda Jeanne Swain. We greatly appreciate Irena Blekys' six years of service in this position and wish her the best as she moves on to other projects. You can still reach us at [email protected], but please...
The Foreign Policy Research Institute presented a roundtable discussion on the Baltic States in European Security at the 25th Biennial Meeting of the American Association of Baltic Studies in Philadelphia. Read the report online or download a PDF here.
The 2016 Australasian AABS conference - Baltic Studies: Building Bridges - will be held at the University of Melbourne on 15 October 2016. Proposals are due by 1 September. Download the call for proposals. The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies invites...
Global, Glocal, and Local: Distinction and Interconnection in the Baltic States The 2016 AABS conference was held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, on May 26-28, 2016. The conference explored the independence, dependence, and interconnections of Baltic...
The Vilis Vitols Award for Best Article published in the Journal of Baltic Studies went to Diana Mincyte and Ulrike Plath for their editorship of and short introduction to special issue 46.3: Food Culture in the Baltic States. The award is usually presented to a...
Guntis Smidchens’ The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution (University of Washington Press) received the 2016 AABS book prize. Smidchens expertly depicts how music, specifically singing, was used as a form of nonviolent...