Newly started projects (2026) funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies

Panel presentation of the newly awarded projects starting in 2026 that received funding from the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies.

Location: MB505

Programme:

10:00 Welcome coffee

10:15 Opening address by Sara Packalén and Joakim Ekman

10:30 – 11:10 Panel presentation:

Karin Borevi: National Membership in a New Security Landscape: Ambivalently Securitized Migrants in the Baltic Sea Region

Matilda Baraibar: Seeds of Dissent: the political economy of Farmers’ Resistance in the Baltic Region. The cases of Poland and Sweden

Maris Männiste: Algorithmic Forensics: Algorithmic Welfare Fraud Detection in the Baltic Sea Region

Ramona Dima: Gender and Sexuality in Eastern, Central and Southern Europe: Nordic cooperation (GenCSEEx)

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

Break

11:40 – 12:10 Panel presentation:

Helen Eriksson: Leave-Based Workplace Discrimination: Differential Work Evaluations of Women and Men for Parental Leave of Equal Duration

Linus Andersson: Fertility Decline and Attitudes towards Pro-Natal Policy in Poland, Hungary, Germany, and Sweden – Constituency Conflict and The ‘Illiberal Welfare State’ Under Demographic Change

Sergiu Novac: Residual Violence: Wasted Bodies and Environments of Romanian Uranium Mining amidst today’s ‘Nuclear Renaissance’

12:10-12:25 Questions to all panel presenters

Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:10 Panel presentation:

Oleksandr Polianichev: The Tsar’s Men in the Tropics: The Russian Empire and International Colonialism in Equatorial Africa, 1895–1910

Anna Siverskog: Tracing Queer Political Histories in Croatia, Romania and Sweden through Intergenerational Narratives: Explorations of LGBTQ+ Life Stories

Giulio Dalla Grana: Renewing Europe to Resurrect the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth:Towianism amidst European Romanticism

Christopher Pihl: Money(-)making empire. Monetary policies and practices in the Swedish Baltic Empire, ca. 1600–1800

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

Break

14:40 – 15:20 Panel presentation:

Alona Hurkivska: Countering Russian Disinformation: Information Resilience in Wartime and Beyond

Jenny Eva Åberg: Democracy when form meets content: Formal and informal political structures in Armenia, Georgia, and Ukraine

Maria Engström: Weaponizing Visual Cultures: Anti-Environmentalism and Neo-Extractivism in Contemporary Petrostates. The Cases of Russia and Azerbaijan

Aleksandr Prigozhin: Strange Futures: Radical Agrarian Futurities in Early Soviet Literature and Culture

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 abstracts of their projects, please visit the link. Länk till annan webbplats.