Newly started projects (2025) funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies

Panel presentation of the newly awarded projects starting in 2025 that received funding from the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies.

-Symposium hosted by CBEES-

Programme

10:00 Welcome coffee

10:15 Opening address by Sara Packalén and Per Bolin

10:30 – 11:10 Panel presentation:

Kristina Wejstål: Fencing off Europe: The Enforcement of Fundamental Rights at EU’s Eastern Borders

Livia Olah: Vulnerability and partnership dynamics in the Baltic Sea region: Similarities and differences within and between Eastern European and Nordic countries

Eva Schwarz: The cultivation of force – An investigation into emotional practices of teaching the use of force in Swedish and German Police Education

Petra Österlund: The GDR folk music scene and its contacts with Sweden 1960 –1995

11:10 – 11:25 Questions to all panel presenters

Break

11:40 – 12:20 Panel presentation:

Ekaterina Rybkina: Wired Empire: Telegraph and Techno-Diplomacy in the Caucasus, 1850s–1917

Kārlis Sils: Political Street Violence in Interwar Rīga: Echoes of Imperial Collapse?

Dmitrii Dorogov: The Return of Repressive Psychiatry: Biopolitics of Mental Health in Putinite Russia

Alexandra Urakova: Queering the Canon: Silenced Undercurrents in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

12:20-12:35 Questions to all panel presenters

Lunch Break

13:40 – 14:10 Panel presentation:

Lovisa Olsson: Women's Mobility and Migration Patterns in the Baltic Sea Region, 1360-1560

Marie Jonsson: Women and Modernity in the Baltic Sea Region: A Gender- and Press Historical Study of Elna Tenow's and Johanne Ottosen's Work in Life Reform Movements 1880–1920

Stefano Fogelberg Rota: Baltic Queen: Christina’s Legacy in the Baltic area during the Swedish Great Power Era

14:10 – 14:25 Questions to all panel presenters

Break

14:40 – 15:20 Panel presentation:

Susanna Witt & Valentyna Savchyn: De/colonizing Ukraine: Practices of Russification and Modes of Resistance 1922–1991

Piotr Wawrzeniuk & Markus Göransson: From Soviet legacy to existential war: evolution of Ukrainian military culture 1991-2023

Andrei Stsiapanau: Unfolding the Ignalina NPP Archives: Soviet Nuclear Infrastructure in the Baltic States

Elinor Andrén: Submarine Landslides and Potential Tsunami Events in the Baltic Sea: Enhancing Geohazard Understanding for Submerged and Coastal Infrastructures

15:20-15:35 Questions to all panel presenters

15:35 Welcome to refreshments and snacks at CBEES kitchenette (MA floor 7)

*For more information about the speakers and the title of their projects, please visit the link: https://ostersjostiftelsen.se/en/stiftelsen-stodjer-16-forskningsprojekt-om-ostersjoregionen-och-osteuropa/ External link.