Our conversation about learning Estonian at Tartu (Eel)arvamusfestival is finally out as a podcast. If you speak Estonian, and ever wondered what it's like to learn it and use it, I recommend. But here are my main takeaways. 🧵 soundcloud.com/arvamusfestiva…

So excited to share my experiences of teaching race and other difficult themes at the 2024 Tartu Conference University of Tartu Skytte Institute UT. Many thanks to Catherine Gibson 🇺🇦 for organising this wonderful roundtable on new approaches for teaching East European & Eurasian histories!

CfP: Performances of Belonging? Popular Entertainment, Race, and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, 1880-today. hsozkult.de/event/id/event…

My happy time researching in Estonia as the Estophilus Visiting Fellow has come to an end. Hope to see Tartu soon, my lovely City of Good Thoughts!

PhD and early-career researchers - consider submitting your work for the contemporary european history prize! Deadline is 6th September and full details below.

How basketball turned Latvia against Lithuania before WWII blogs.bl.uk/european/2024/…

Has anyone used TalTech's Kaldi Offline Transcriber to transcribe interviews in Estonian? If so, please let me know and I would really like to hear your thoughts.

À fire alarm delayed Baltic independence by a week. But it was a real pleasure yesterday to have Paris Pin-Yu Chen (Uni of Birmingham, f: UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies PhD) with us for another week of Baltic Politics & Society seminars! Always great to chat in Estonian with my Taiwanese friend, too. 🙂

Baltic Sexualities in Global Perspective is next week! We have brilliant papers, a keynote from Riikka Taavetti, and a roundtable on transnational approaches to sexualities with Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Richard Mole, Kath Browne & Yulia Gradskova. Register here tinyurl.com/5a8382c8

Why did attitudes towards racial mixing changed around early 1930s in Estonia? Brace yourself for a scandalous love story (on many levels!) and global connections in my article for the Estonian cultural monthly Vikerkaar vikerkaar.ee/archives/30967

Tartu ülikooli peahoone ees heisatud Taiwani lipp ajas Hiina pahaseks. Mis uudist? Tartus õppiv hiinlasest tudeng informeeris Hiina saatkonda. Aitäh Raimond Vladimirov , et seisate Taiwani omariikluse ja demokraatia eest.

Call for applications for visiting fellows: “Subjectivities of Owning Land: Land Redistribution and the Nation-State in the Baltics Across the 20th Century” with Herder-Institut für hist. Ostmitteleuropaforschung Uni of Birmingham and Martin-Opitz-Bibliothek. See below for details...

The 2025 Annual Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies (11-13 June 2025) is currently accepting proposals. Submission deadline: 25 January 2025. We will be there, so see you all in Estonia! sisu.ut.ee/tartuconferenc…

We have a very exciting new series on the blog for you, guest edited by the BASEES Baltic Study Group BASEES Baltic States Study Group! In the first installment read about how the Duchy of Courland disrupted notions of peripherality in the Baltics peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/breaking-…

What we are seeing in South Korea right now is not just a moving example of democracy but also an important reminder of how strong historical education can empower people to not repeat the worst of its history.

This week we have another post in our guest edited series #baltic series for you! BASEES Baltic States Study Group spoke to Rasa Navickaitė about #lgbtstudies in Lithuania peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/periphera…

we have another post in our series guest edited by BASEES Baltic States Study Group for you! This week Rosario Napolitano discusses the advancement of baltic studies in Italy. Click here to read: peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/giacomo-d…

Call for Applications European Studies Centre in #Baltic Studies. The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2025-2026. Deadline February 26, 2025: sant.ox.ac.uk/.../Estonia-Ox…...