The AABS Board is pleased to announce that Arc Humanities Press has been awarded the AABS Book Publication Subvention for publishing "Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic: Sixteenth-Century Ethnographic Accounts of Baltic Paganism." The book, authored by UK-based...
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Gustavs Strenga’s New Monograph on Collective Memory in Medieval Livonia Receives AABS Book Publication Subvention
The AABS Board is pleased to announce that Brepols Publishers has been awarded the AABS Book Publication Subvention for publishing "Remembering the Dead: Collective Memory and Commemoration in Late Medieval Livonia." The book, authored by Latvian historian Gustavs...
Five Creative Projects in Baltic Studies Receive Baumanis Grant
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that M. Lee Alexander, Ugnė Marija Andrijauskaitė, Heidi Erbsen, Ignas Maldus, and Sami Siva have been awarded the 2021–2022 Baumanis Grant for Creative Projects in Baltic Studies.The...
Journal of Baltic Studies 52-2 Available Now
The second 2021 issue of Journal of Baltic Studies (Vol 52, Issue 2) is now available online. The issue contains articles on the contradictions between regulations and reality on consensual relations between German soldiers and Latvian women during World War II;...
Virtual Baltic Studies Teaching and Learning Workshop Held by Wingate University
On Saturday, April 17th, the first Baltic Studies Teaching and Learning Workshop, was held via Zoom. Though initially scheduled as an in-person event at Wingate University, Wingate, NC, continuing challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic forced the workshop...
Jānis Juzefovičs, Maarja Merivoo-Parro, Charles Perrin, and David Trimbach Awarded AABS 2021 Emerging Scholars Grants
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Jānis Juzefovičs, Maarja Merivoo-Parro, Charles Perrin, and David Trimbach have been awarded the 2021–2022 Research Grants for Emerging Scholars. The research grants of up to $6,000...
Oliver Aas, Marija Norkunaite, Liisi Veski, and Laima Vincė to Receive 2021–2022 Dissertation Grants
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Oliver Aas, Marija Norkunaite, Liisi Veski, and Laima Vincė have been awarded the 2021–2022 Dissertation Grants for Graduate Students. The Dissertations Grants of up to $4,000 support...
Zane Vāgnere Receives 2021–2022 Jānis Grundmanis Fellowship for Study in the U.S.
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is pleased to announce that Zane Vāgnere (Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia) has been awarded the 2021–2022 Jānis Grundmanis Graduate Fellowship for Study in the U.S. to enroll in the Harvard Kennedy...
Vanda Visocka Receives 2021–2022 Aina Birnitis Dissertation-Completion Fellowship in the Humanities for Latvia
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is proud to announce that Vanda Visocka (University of Latvia) has been awarded the 2021–2022 Aina Birnitis Dissertation-Completion Fellowship in the Humanities for Latvia for her Ph.D. project, "Pottery...