CBSE 2007 - Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe 2007

[A Smith]

CBSE 2007 - Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe 2007
(see webpage: http://www.ikgn.de/en.cbse_2007.htm )


Call for Papers

7th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe
June 8-10, 2007
Nordost-Institut Lüneburg (near Hamburg), Germany


The Conference on Baltic Studies started in Scandinavia at the beginning
of the seventies and became regular in the eighties, each time inviting
more than a hundred representatives of scientific communities from
Europe, North America and Australia. Since the middle of the eighties
scientists from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have also been able to
participate. As a result of political change it became possible to
organize the conference for the first time in the independent Baltic
States (Riga/Latvia 1995). Since then the “Conference on Baltic Studies
in Europe (CBSE)” traditionally took place every other year (1997:
Vilnius/Lithuania; 1999: Stockholm/Sweden; 2001: Tartu/Estonia; 2003:
Turku/Finland; 2005: Valmiera/Latvia).

In 2007 for the first time ever, the conference will take place in
Germany, a country with longstanding historical and cultural relations
to the Baltic region. This led to the idea to formulate the main topic
of the conference as

The Baltic Region between Germany and Russia
Dependence and Independence - Past and Present

The Baltic Region, the countries and people of today’s Estonia, Latvia
and Lithuania and its neighbour regions in the north and south, have
been decisively influenced throughout history by the two great powers in
the west and east, by Germany and Russia, in different, positive and
negative, ways. The aim of the conference will be to focus on this
relationship between powerful and often hegemonic cultures on the one
side and a small region at the other side, in all aspects and from the
various perspectives of different scientific disciplines and methods.

The conference will feature panels in the following disciplinary and
interdisciplinary areas:

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  Information and Communication Technology, Media, Education
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  Energy and Environment, Geography
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  Economics, Sociology and Demography, Gender Studies
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  Political Science, Internationals Relations and Law
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  History and Memories
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  Linguistics
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  Literature, Ethnology, Folklore
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  Religion, Theology, Philosophy
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  Art, Music and Culture
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  Advancing Baltic Studies

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