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CBSE 2007 - Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe 2007
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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: Information and Communication Technology, Media, Education Energy and Environment, Geography Economics, Sociology and Demography, Gender Studies Political Science, Internationals Relations and Law History and Memories Linguistics Literature, Ethnology, Folklore Religion, Theology, Philosophy Art, Music and Culture Advancing Baltic Studies
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