11th CBEES ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Knowing Eastern Europe and the Baltics

At a time when uncertainty defines both the world and what we know of it—when knowledge appears fragmented, contested, and inadequate—we turn our attention to the very processes of knowing. How is knowledge produced, by whom, where, and under what conditions? How do shifting geopolitical landscapes, emergent crises, and new epistemic frameworks challenge modes of understanding?

The CBEES Annual Conference 2025 will explore the shifting grounds of knowledge production and critically examine processes of knowing, geopolitics of knowledge, and different positionalities with respect to Eastern Europe and the Baltics. This undertaking also means to embrace the unexpected and the conference is an opportunity to investigate how knowledge emerges in moments of rupture, how new forms of knowing take shape, and how new relations and vantage points might reconfigure theoretical and empirical landscapes of knowing. At the same time, the question arises of how to approach the allure of denial and ignorance.

Keynote Lecture

4 December | 14-15 | Venue: MA624 and online

From Ignorance to Apathy and Rage

Speaker: Renata Salecl
Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, and Professor at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London