Call for Papers: Fourth Annual Baltic Study Group Workshop 'Parallel Memories: People, Place and Environments in the Baltic States' Online, 30-31 October 2026. Please see below for full details. Please send abstracts and bio note by 15 August 2026 to baseesbalticstudiesgroup@gmail.com

Join us tomorrow in Cambridge to reflect on queer intimacy and affect. The two two interrelated studies examine Janina Degutytė, a Soviet Lithuanian poet, and queer urban topographies of former socialist spaces. Friday, 14 November 2025 17:30 (GMT) Junior Parlour, Trinity College

Call for Papers: 90 Years of Sanctions in the Mediterranean, Baltic and Scandinavian Regions: From the Second Italian-Abyssinian War to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (University of Vilnius, 4 December 2025). Please submit abstract & short bio to workshop90sanctions@gmail.com by 30 September 2025.

Join us for our panel with three pre-modern historians and Jörg Hackmann to rethink the modern Baltic spatial paradigm on Thursday 14:45 @ Room 642 @basees.bsky.social #iccees2025

Call for Papers: Third Annual Baltic Study Group Workshop, The University of Glasgow, 30-31 October 2025. Please see below for full details. Please send a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio note by 1 August 2025 to baseesbalticstudiesgroup@gmail.com

Professor Mart Kuldkepp (UCL) will deliver his inaugural lecture on Wednesday 21 May. The evening lecture is followed by a drink reception. You can sign up through the link below. Join us to celebrate the first Professorship of Estonian and Nordic History in the UK!

A Baltic-Scandinavian-American Nexus: The Journey of Estonian Refugees of the 1905 Revolution

How Estonian refugees of the 1905 Revolution evaded Russian gendarmes, Swedish police, and American spies – and went on to join another revolution.

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How to historicise entrenched support for economic nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe? Join us for Professor Klaus Richter's inaugural lecture on Wednesday 21 May @Alan Walters Building G11 @University of Birmingham www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

Does Economic Nationalism Empower People? Evidence from East Central Europe

Professor Klaus Richter Inaugural lecture - Does Economic Nationalism Empower People?

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How can you make your research outcomes more impactful through podcasts, blogs, or museum collaborations? What fundings are available? Join our discussions at CBSE 2025 Cambridge (24 April, 15:30-17:00, Guildhall Main) @balticstudies.bsky.social to explore creative and effective public outreach!

We have a new post up on the website from Kristo Nurmis exploring the wartime activities of Estonian Democrats between the Nazis and the Allies www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/our-rea...

“Our Real Chances of Survival”: Estonian Democrats between the Nazis and the Allies

Kristo Nurmis“Ready to Die for Liberty: Tiny Estonia to Declare War on USSR as well as on Reich.” So proclaimed The Boston Globe in July 1944, relaying dramatic claims from Estonian diplomats in neutr...

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We have so many great Baltic-focused posts on our website at the moment thanks to the @balticbasees.bsky.social. If you are interested in Estonian, Latvian, or Lithuanian history and culture, you can find the full series here: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/baltic

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We have more Baltic-focused posts for you courtesy of the @balticbasees.bsky.social. Check out Hanna Maria Aunin's exploration of changing representations of Soviet Deportations in Estonian cinema www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/overloo...

Call for Applications @ESCStAntonys in #Baltic Studies. The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2025-2026, European Studies Centre, St Anthony's College, Oxford University. Deadline February 26, 2025: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/.../Estonia-....

Our series in @peripheralhist.bsky.social continues with Rasa Kamarauskaitė's fascinating interview with Rebeka Põldsam (@rebeltulivits.bsky.social) on LGBT studies in Estonia and the normalisation of queerness in the country.

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In our latest post, you can learn more about the development of LGBT studies and the normalisation of queerness in Estonia. Check out Rasa Kamarauskaitė's (@balticbasees.bsky.social) interview with Estonian sexualities scholar Rebeka Põldsam www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/periphe...

Check out Mann Loper's post on national education in interwar Estonia, focusing on the history school curriculum, now up at Peripheral Histories. Here you will also find the rest of our Baltic States series. Thanks to @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more in the near future.

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Our guest-edited Baltic series draws to a close with Mann Loper's fascinating post on the establishment of national education and the development of the history school curriculum in interwar Estonia: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/nationa...

Our Baltic series continues with a fascinating new post by Rosario Napolitano on the development of the field of Baltic Studies in interwar Italy: www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/giacomo...

Our second post in the Baltic series is an interview with sexualities scholar Rasa Navickaitė on LGBT studies in Lithuania www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/periphe...

Peripheral Sexualities? LGBT (Studies) in Lithuania – a conversation with Rasa Navickaitė

Rasa Kamarauskaitė (RK)As part of the series that discusses ‘periphery’ in the Baltic states, Lithuanian sexuality scholar Rasa Navickaitė (RN) challenges Western-focused approaches to Baltic sexualit...

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First up in our new Baltic series we have John Freeman's post on attempts to de-peripheralize the early modern Eastern Baltic through Atlantic colonisation www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/breakin...

Breaking out of the Baltic Periphery?: The Global Ambitions of the Duchy of Courland in the Seventeenth Century

John FreemanThe early modern eastern Baltic Sea has often been considered, with some criticism, a global periphery in comparison to the oceanic ‘core’. Nevertheless, a handful of eastern Baltic territ...

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