Founded on December 1, 1968, at the first conference on Baltic Studies at the University of Maryland, the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) is an international educational and scholarly non-profit organization. It promotes research and education in Baltic Studies by sponsoring meetings and conferences, supporting publications, sustaining a program of scholarships, grants, and prizes, and disseminating news of current interest in Baltic Studies. Since 1991, it has been a constituent member of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Membership in the AABS is open to anyone wishing to support the scholarly purposes of the Association. AABS members receive a subscription to the quarterly Journal of Baltic Studies, reduced registration fees at AABS conferences, and an annual report of the association’s activities.

The 2010 AABS conference will take place from April 22-24, 2010 in Seattle, Washington, as a joint conference with the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.

The conference website is here.

AABS is pleased to announce the sponsorship of a panel at the 2010 AAASS National Convention to be held from November 18-21, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. We are looking for three presenters for our panel, broadly titled "Windows, Bridges, Gateways and more: Describing Baltic Space in Eurasia." The panel is open to papers from all disciplines. Papers that incorporate the convention's general theme, "War and Peace," are encouraged. To be considered, submit a brief c.v. (2 pages) and a proposal of no more than 250 words embedded in the body of an e-mail to aldisp@u.washington.edu by December 01, 2009. Only submissions from AABS members in good standing will be considered. Chosen panelists will be notified by December 31, 2009. AABS will then submit the panel to AAASS and pay the participants' registration fee.

A reciprocal panel, one sponsored by AAASS, will be in the program of the 22nd AABS Conference.

The Association announces the 2010 Call for Applicants for Mudīite I. Zīlīte Saltups Postgraduate and Post-Doctoral Fellowships , the Jānis Grundmanis Postgraduate Fellowship, Dissertation Grants for Graduate Students and Research Grants for Emerging Scholars. Find more information about AABS Grants and Awards.

AABS Vice-President for Professional Development, Dr. Daunis Auers, and 2009 Jānis Grundmanis Fellow, Ilze Garoza.

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