Constructing Regional Biographies/Identities Session 1 „Fragmented Identities rather then monolithic ones are best communicated through historical entanglements“ #narratedlives2026
IRTG Baltic Peripeties
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Official account of GRK 2560 “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes”, connecting Greifswald, Tartu and Trondheim 🌊🌲🌘
Welcome to the 2026 Annual Meeting of the IRTG ‚Baltic Peripeties‘ at the @kruppkolleg.bsky.social. We are looking forward to three inspiring days of discussions on biography in the Baltic Sea region. #narratedlives2026
The Conference-Booklet II for the Annual Meeting 🌊📚 „Narrated Lives: Biography in the Baltic Sea Region“ is out now. Swipe to explore the conference program, the speakers and their lectures. See you at the conference ✨ Follow along and share your experience using the hashtag #narratedlives2026
We are excited to share our official Conference-Booklet Part I for the upcoming Annual Meeting 🌊📚 „Narrated Lives: Biography in the Baltic Sea Region“, 13-15 July. Swipe through the post to discover the conference theme. Follow along and share your experience using the hashtag #narratedlives2026.
📢 Save the Date: 🗓️ Today, July 9, 6.15 p.m. Vello Pettai will give a lecture on „Ethnic Domination and its Reversal: Soviet and Post-Soviet”. 🧑💻 For online participation please write to baltic-peripeties@uni-greifswald.de
📢 Save the Date: 🗓️ Today, July 7, 6.15 p.m. @hannafolsz.bsky.social will talk about „Economic Retaliation and the Decline of Opposition Quality in Democratic Backsliding". ONLINE ONLY 🧑💻 For online participation please write to baltic-peripeties@uni-greifswald.de.
Thank you @valentimvicente.bsky.social for this evening’s lecture! Key Takeaway: Shifting the focus of research from developing a preference to expressing it reveals recent developments of increasing radical right behavior driven by individuals who already held these preferences.
🌊📚 In anticipation of this weeks lecture within the summer series „Democratic Challenges in Europe“ on 🗓️ July 2nd 6.15 pm, online only, we recommend „The Normalization of the Radical Right“ by Vicente Valentim.
The 2026 annual conference of the IRTG examines the history and culture of the Baltic Sea region through the lens of biographical research. It asks how historical turning points resonate in individual lives and what significance such moments assume within biographical narratives.
PUBLIC LECTURE: Today, 6.15 p.m. - 7.45 p.m. Natalia Skorokhod will talk about „Cultural Transformations in the Baltic States after 2022“, using theatre as a lens and Estonia as a case, exploring ambivalence, memory, and new artistic responses to war.
In anticipation of today’s lecture we recommend @kirareneekurz.bsky.social latest publication „Youth Political Representation“. This book explores the challenges, opportunities, and reforms shaping youth political representation today.
Tomorrow: Panel-Gespräch und anschließende Diskussion mit Heike Kleffner und Lobby MV über Wissenschaftsfreiheit, Neutralität und was die angekündigte „blaue Wende“ nach der Landtagswahl 2026 für uns an Universitäten und Hochschulen, Schulen bedeuten könnte und was wir jetzt tun könnten.
Clemens Räthel on Swedish documentary theater dealing with the #AIDS pandemic. @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social
Mary Cosgrove on “Relational Poetics: The Poetics of Care,” at our #NTNU conference “Narrating Critical Events.” @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social
The workshop “Narrating Critical Events” brings together scholars from European universities to explore literary and cultural perspectives on care, crisis, relationality, migration, war, and environmental change. For further information click the link: ifzo.uni-greifswald.de/zentrum/kale...
Bundesverdienstkreuz für Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller 🎖️ An der Universität Greifswald vertritt er die einzige Fennistik-Professur Deutschlands und vernetzt sie eng mit den nordischen Ländern, weit über die Lehre hinaus. Für sein Engagement wurde er nun von Frank-Walter Steinmeier ausgezeichnet.
🌊 Join us for our Summer Term Lecture Series about „Democratic Challenges in Europe“ and learn more about research from political science, and related fields to explore current developments across Europe, with particular attention to the Baltic Sea region.
The contract is signed and I've moved into my new office space: Since today I'm a postdoc at the international research training group @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social at the @unigreifswald.bsky.social 🌊☀️ Thanks a lot for the warm welcome! :)
End of January the Baltic Peripeties team went on a trip to visit the exhibition „Von heute auf morgen“ by artist Manfred Scharnberg. Scharnberg documented the Wende in the region MV, focusing on people and their different perspectives and experiences. www.zingst.de/fotografie/m...
Next publication. ✌️ This one is even Open Access, about Gothic novels in German Romanticism and literary antisemitism as an affective tool of Writing Angst (E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ernst Moritz Arndt etc.). @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social
Today Tim Senkbeil presented his PhD project titled. We discussed excerpts from the novels „Die Möglichkeit von Glück“ by Anne Rabe and Hendrik Bolz‘s „Nullerjahre“, which are some of the central texts in his dissertation.
Reading and book presentation 📚 with Hendrik Bolz, Anna Lux and Jonas Brückner kulturkalender.greifswald.de/events/58357
Endlich dazu gekommen: Hörenswerter #Podcast zu Ruth Maiers queerem Life Writing und ihrer Rolle im kollektiven Holocaust-Gedächtnis (in Norwegen), mit Ingeborg Helleberg, Oslo. @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social exgeist.hypotheses.org/1841
Ruth Maiers Platz – im kollektiven Holocaust-Gedächtnis und als Life Writing. Im Gespräch mit Ingeborg Helleberg, Oslo
Ruth Maier (1920-1942) floh 1938 aus Wien nach Norwegen, wo sie bis zu ihrer Deportation 1942 lebte. Ihre Tagebücher und Briefe gelten heute als zentrales Zeugnis des Holocaust in Norwegen. In nordlit...
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Congratulations to Laura Tack for her successful dissertation defence! 🎉💐📚
The disputation of Laura Tack titled „ein groß und unerhörtes Meer wunder“- narratives and perceptions of historic storm surges in the southwest of the Baltic Sea region between the 14th-17th century is about to start- we wish her the best of luck!
Had a great time yesterday at the Christmas party of the Research Training Group @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social. Such a sharp and genuinely fun crowd to celebrate with ❄️✨ Bonus: my team managed to snag second place in the super-wintery Baltic quiz.
Today we are at the career workshop and are looking at career paths outside academia. Did you have the opportunity to attend a similar event yet? www.schainundkuchenbrandt.com/de
We are excited about this evening’s reading of „Let’s talk about feelings“ by Leif Randt in the Wolfgang Koeppen House: www.koeppenhaus.de/vorschau/
First day of our interdisciplinary workshop „Schiffbruch/Shipwreck“ ⚓️🌊: peripeties.uni-greifswald.de/schiffbruch/
Interdisziplinärer Workshop "Schiffbruch mit Folgen: Verantwortungen, Deutungsmuster, Schreibweisen" (4-5. Dezember 2025) - Baltic Peripeties
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