Events | Baltic Studies Program

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Speaker

Date & Title

Edward Cohn, Grinnell College

December 7, 2023, 3:00pm ET | Luce Hall, Rm 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave

“The Admonitory State: KGB Surveillance, Prophylactic Policing, and Political Control in the USSR’s Baltic Republics and Beyond”

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Various Speakers

June 13-16, 2024 | Conference

Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies 2024 Conference

“The Baltic Way: Unity and Giving Aid“

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Previous Events

Speaker	Date & Title of Event
Leena Käosaar, Juris Padegs Postdoctoral Associate	November 28, 2023, 12:15pm ET \| Rosenkranz Hall, Rm 202, 115 Prospect Ave “Adversity and Rhythms of the Everyday” More Info
Various Speakers	October 12-13, 2023 \| Conference Location: Oct 12 - Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (120 High St.); Oct 13 - Luce Hall, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave) “Vilnius 700 Symposium” Watch Recordings of the Panels and Symposium Keynote HERE
Arvydas Grišinas, Marci Shore, Bradley Woodworth, Viktoras Bachmetjevas	September 29, 2023, 10:30am to 1:30pm ET \| Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203 \| Recording Link Leonidas Donskis Memorial Seminar: Social Dialogue in Times of Troubled Identities Seminar @ 10:30 am & Lunch @ 12:30 pm Watch Recording (forthcoming) Photo Courtesy of the BNS (Baltic News Service)
Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)	Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 12:00 pm ET \| Location: Luce Hall, Rm 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave. “Interconnectivity and the Global Digital Agenda” More Info
Egle Vitkute, a distinguished senior researcher and strategist Jonas Liugaila, a design strategy lead Dominykas Karpovic, an innovation lead and lectures at the ISM University Zemartas Budrys, the sustainability lead Justina Muliolyte, partner at PUPA	Thursday, March 30, 2023, 12:30 pm ET \| Location: Rosenkranz Hall, (RKZ) Rm 202 (115 Prospect St.) “The reborn Mariupol: creating the urban city vision” More Info
Rūta Petkutė, Joseph P. Kazickas Postdoctoral Associate	Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 4:00 pm ET \| Location: Luce Hall, Rm 202 (34 Hillhouse Ave) “Paradoxes of Neoliberal Politics in a Post-Communist Society” More Info
	March 2, 2023, 7:00 pm ET \| Location: 53 Wall St., Auditorium Film Screening: MARIUPOLIS 2 followed by a conversation with Marci Shore More Info
Emilija Škarnulytė, an artist and filmmaker	February 2, 2023, 7:00 pm ET \| Location: HQ (Humanities Quandrangle), Rm L02, 320 York St. Film Screening: BURIAL followed by a conversation with Director and Writer Emilija Škarnulytė More Info
Ingrid Ruudi, Juris Padegs Postdoctoral Associate	January 24, 2023, 4:00 pm ET \| Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave) “Discipline and care: institutional spaces in Late Soviet Estonia” More Info
Dr. Christoph Dieckmann, Professor Timothy Snyder , and Dr Bradley Woodworth	November 9, 2022, 5:00 pm ET \| “The Shoah in Lithuania: A Different Approach; New Insights“ Room location is Luce Hall, Rm 202, 2nd floor
Gabrielius Landsbergis, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Moderate by Professor Edyta Bojanowska	Monday, September 19, 2022 \| A Conversation on the Future of Trans-Atlantic Relations and the Global Implications of Russia’s War in Ukraine Watch live recording: HERE
Read the full program: HERE	September 16-17, 2022 \| Conference Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered Register here for zoom Register here for in-person attendance Room location is Luce Hall, Rm 203, 2nd floor
Andis Kudors, George Washington University	Friday, September 2, 2022 \| Russia’s War in Ukraine: A Baltic Perspective. Register here for zoom and in-person location is Luce Hall, Rm 203, 2nd floor
Kristina Jõekalda, Spring 2022 Juris Padegs Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Baltic Studies Program	Wednesday, May 11, 2022 \| The Most Authentic Germans of All? Baltic German and Estonian Views on Heritage and Colonialism in the Early 20th Century
Jogilė Ulinskaitė, Spring 2022 Joseph P. Kazickas Associate Research Scholar, Yale Baltic Studies Program	Thursday, May 5, 2022 \| Narratives of Endurance and Loss in the Memory of Post-Communist Transformation in Lithuania
	Saturday, April 9, 2022 \| Film Screening: Mr. Landsbergis Location: HQ Rm L01 (320 York St)
Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram, Polish human rights lawyer and 2021 Yale World Fellow Mauro Mondello, freelance reporter, war correspondent, documentary filmmaker; and 2020 Yale World Fellow Maksimas Milta, MA Candidate in European & Russian Studies, Yale; and professional in higher education management, policy analysis, and media of Lithuania and Belarus	November 30, 2021 \| Migration Crisis in the Belarusian Borderland Co-Sponsored by the following MacMillan Center at Yale programs and area studies councils: European Studies Council; Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses; and Council on Middle East Studies
Una Bergmane, University of Helsinki	September 29, 2021 \| “Politics of Uncertainty: the US, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the USSR” (Watch Video Recording)
Kaarel Piirimäe, Spring 2021 Visiting Fulbright Fellow	June 14, 2021 \| Visiting Fellow Talk
Ksenija Iljina, Ph.D. researcher at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London (UCL)	May 18, 2021 \| Soviet Mythologies in Commemorative and Ritual Practices in Modern Latvia
Gintare Venzlauskaite, Joseph P. Kazickas Visiting Fellow, Yale University	December 17, 2020 \| Identity, Agency, and the Constraints of Political Conditionality: Understanding Lithuanian Diasporas of Displacement Through Narratives of Return
Solvita Denisa-Liepniece, Juris Padegs Fellow, Yale University	December 9, 2020 \| Weapons of Mass Instruction in Putin’s Russia: the Baltics in Educational Policies and Teaching History
Indra Ekmanis, Baltic Sea Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute Solvita Denisa-Liepniece, Juris Padegs Fellow, Yale University	November 6, 2020 \| Sound of the Nation: Russian-Speaker Integration in Latvia
Various Speakers, see website	February 29, 2019 \| Symposium on KGB Surveillance in the Soviet Baltic Republics: Documentary Evidence and Coping with the Past
Former Yale Baltic Studies Visiting Fellows	November 20-21, 2019 \| Yale Baltic Studies Visiting Fellows Reunion Conference
Monika Kareniauskaite, Spring 2019 Joseph P. Kazickas Postdoctoral Associate in European Studies	4:00pm, May 2, 2019 \| Crime and Punishment: USSR, Lithuania and Post-Soviet Transformation
Ambassador Andrejs Pildegovičs, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Latvia to the United Nations; Mr. Pawel Radomski Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland	4:30pm, March 27, 2019 \| Global Governance Series: “Building New European Security Architecture”
Mindaugas Šapoka, 2018-2019 Joseph P. Kazickas Postdoctoral Associate in European Studies	6:30pm, March 4, 2019 \| Poland-Lithuania and the Great Northern War: What Did Peter and the Great Gain and Charles XII Lose with Their Polish Policy?

Juhan Hellerma, Fall 2018 Juris Padegs Visiting Assistant in Research, Yale University	4:30pm, January 24, 2019 \| Historicizing Time: The Origins and Transformations of Modern Temporality
	February 1-2, 2019 \| Europe After 1918: Poland, the Baltic Countries, and the United States Symposium
Maija Spurina, Fall 2018 Juris Padegs Postdoctoral Associate in European Studies, Yale University	1:00pm, December 4, 2018 \| Truth, Politics, and Memory of the Holocaust in Post-Soviet Latvia
Dr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety	4pm, September 28, 2018 \| European Memories: from Soviet Gulag to European Commission

Speaker	Date & Title of Event
Leena Käosaar, Juris Padegs Postdoctoral Associate	November 28, 2023, 12:15pm ET \| Rosenkranz Hall, Rm 202, 115 Prospect Ave “Adversity and Rhythms of the Everyday” More Info
Various Speakers	October 12-13, 2023 \| Conference Location: Oct 12 - Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (120 High St.); Oct 13 - Luce Hall, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave) “Vilnius 700 Symposium” Watch Recordings of the Panels and Symposium Keynote HERE
Arvydas Grišinas, Marci Shore, Bradley Woodworth, Viktoras Bachmetjevas	September 29, 2023, 10:30am to 1:30pm ET \| Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203 \| Recording Link Leonidas Donskis Memorial Seminar: Social Dialogue in Times of Troubled Identities Seminar @ 10:30 am & Lunch @ 12:30 pm Watch Recording (forthcoming) Photo Courtesy of the BNS (Baltic News Service)
Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)	Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 12:00 pm ET \| Location: Luce Hall, Rm 202, 34 Hillhouse Ave. “Interconnectivity and the Global Digital Agenda” More Info
Egle Vitkute, a distinguished senior researcher and strategist Jonas Liugaila, a design strategy lead Dominykas Karpovic, an innovation lead and lectures at the ISM University Zemartas Budrys, the sustainability lead Justina Muliolyte, partner at PUPA	Thursday, March 30, 2023, 12:30 pm ET \| Location: Rosenkranz Hall, (RKZ) Rm 202 (115 Prospect St.) “The reborn Mariupol: creating the urban city vision” More Info
Rūta Petkutė, Joseph P. Kazickas Postdoctoral Associate	Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 4:00 pm ET \| Location: Luce Hall, Rm 202 (34 Hillhouse Ave) “Paradoxes of Neoliberal Politics in a Post-Communist Society” More Info
	March 2, 2023, 7:00 pm ET \| Location: 53 Wall St., Auditorium Film Screening: MARIUPOLIS 2 followed by a conversation with Marci Shore More Info
Emilija Škarnulytė, an artist and filmmaker	February 2, 2023, 7:00 pm ET \| Location: HQ (Humanities Quandrangle), Rm L02, 320 York St. Film Screening: BURIAL followed by a conversation with Director and Writer Emilija Škarnulytė More Info
Ingrid Ruudi, Juris Padegs Postdoctoral Associate	January 24, 2023, 4:00 pm ET \| Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave) “Discipline and care: institutional spaces in Late Soviet Estonia” More Info
Dr. Christoph Dieckmann, Professor Timothy Snyder , and Dr Bradley Woodworth	November 9, 2022, 5:00 pm ET \| “The Shoah in Lithuania: A Different Approach; New Insights“ Room location is Luce Hall, Rm 202, 2nd floor
Gabrielius Landsbergis, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Moderate by Professor Edyta Bojanowska	Monday, September 19, 2022 \| A Conversation on the Future of Trans-Atlantic Relations and the Global Implications of Russia’s War in Ukraine Watch live recording: HERE
Read the full program: HERE	September 16-17, 2022 \| Conference Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered Register here for zoom Register here for in-person attendance Room location is Luce Hall, Rm 203, 2nd floor
Andis Kudors, George Washington University	Friday, September 2, 2022 \| Russia’s War in Ukraine: A Baltic Perspective. Register here for zoom and in-person location is Luce Hall, Rm 203, 2nd floor
Kristina Jõekalda, Spring 2022 Juris Padegs Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Baltic Studies Program	Wednesday, May 11, 2022 \| The Most Authentic Germans of All? Baltic German and Estonian Views on Heritage and Colonialism in the Early 20th Century
Jogilė Ulinskaitė, Spring 2022 Joseph P. Kazickas Associate Research Scholar, Yale Baltic Studies Program	Thursday, May 5, 2022 \| Narratives of Endurance and Loss in the Memory of Post-Communist Transformation in Lithuania
	Saturday, April 9, 2022 \| Film Screening: Mr. Landsbergis Location: HQ Rm L01 (320 York St)
Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram, Polish human rights lawyer and 2021 Yale World Fellow Mauro Mondello, freelance reporter, war correspondent, documentary filmmaker; and 2020 Yale World Fellow Maksimas Milta, MA Candidate in European & Russian Studies, Yale; and professional in higher education management, policy analysis, and media of Lithuania and Belarus	November 30, 2021 \| Migration Crisis in the Belarusian Borderland Co-Sponsored by the following MacMillan Center at Yale programs and area studies councils: European Studies Council; Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses; and Council on Middle East Studies
Una Bergmane, University of Helsinki	September 29, 2021 \| “Politics of Uncertainty: the US, the Baltic Question, and the Collapse of the USSR” (Watch Video Recording)
Kaarel Piirimäe, Spring 2021 Visiting Fulbright Fellow	June 14, 2021 \| Visiting Fellow Talk
Ksenija Iljina, Ph.D. researcher at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London (UCL)	May 18, 2021 \| Soviet Mythologies in Commemorative and Ritual Practices in Modern Latvia
Gintare Venzlauskaite, Joseph P. Kazickas Visiting Fellow, Yale University	December 17, 2020 \| Identity, Agency, and the Constraints of Political Conditionality: Understanding Lithuanian Diasporas of Displacement Through Narratives of Return
Solvita Denisa-Liepniece, Juris Padegs Fellow, Yale University	December 9, 2020 \| Weapons of Mass Instruction in Putin’s Russia: the Baltics in Educational Policies and Teaching History
Indra Ekmanis, Baltic Sea Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute Solvita Denisa-Liepniece, Juris Padegs Fellow, Yale University	November 6, 2020 \| Sound of the Nation: Russian-Speaker Integration in Latvia
Various Speakers, see website	February 29, 2019 \| Symposium on KGB Surveillance in the Soviet Baltic Republics: Documentary Evidence and Coping with the Past
Former Yale Baltic Studies Visiting Fellows	November 20-21, 2019 \| Yale Baltic Studies Visiting Fellows Reunion Conference
Monika Kareniauskaite, Spring 2019 Joseph P. Kazickas Postdoctoral Associate in European Studies	4:00pm, May 2, 2019 \| Crime and Punishment: USSR, Lithuania and Post-Soviet Transformation
Ambassador Andrejs Pildegovičs, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Latvia to the United Nations; Mr. Pawel Radomski Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland	4:30pm, March 27, 2019 \| Global Governance Series: “Building New European Security Architecture”
Mindaugas Šapoka, 2018-2019 Joseph P. Kazickas Postdoctoral Associate in European Studies	6:30pm, March 4, 2019 \| Poland-Lithuania and the Great Northern War: What Did Peter and the Great Gain and Charles XII Lose with Their Polish Policy?

Juhan Hellerma, Fall 2018 Juris Padegs Visiting Assistant in Research, Yale University	4:30pm, January 24, 2019 \| Historicizing Time: The Origins and Transformations of Modern Temporality
	February 1-2, 2019 \| Europe After 1918: Poland, the Baltic Countries, and the United States Symposium
Maija Spurina, Fall 2018 Juris Padegs Postdoctoral Associate in European Studies, Yale University	1:00pm, December 4, 2018 \| Truth, Politics, and Memory of the Holocaust in Post-Soviet Latvia
Dr. Vytenis Andriukaitis, EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety	4pm, September 28, 2018 \| European Memories: from Soviet Gulag to European Commission