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 newsletter of the association’s activities.

AABS invites you to participate in our 23rd conference -- The Global Baltics: The Next Twenty Years -- which will be held at the University of Illinois at Chicago on April 26-28, 2012.

Registration, accommodation and conference site information can be found on the 2012 AABS Conference website.

Discounted rates available for registration by February 1, 2012.

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Travel grant applications for graduate students and young scholars are available.
Applications are due January 1, 2012.

AABS invites applications for the 2012 Saltups, Grundmanis, Dissertation and Emerging Scholar grants. The application deadline for all 2012 fellowships is December 15, 2011. For more information, visit the Grants page on the AABS website.

The most recent issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies features the following articles:

Iurii Samarin's Baltic Escapade by Richard Pipes

The Institutional Roots of Anti-Corruption Policies: Comparing the Three Baltic States by Lars Johannsen and Karin Hilmer Pederson

An Intriguing Document: 583 Headwords in Search of a Lexicographer by Kristina Brazaitis

Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses' Growth Expectations and Financial Performance in Latvia: Does Ethnicity Matter? by Ruta Aidis, Tomasz Marek Mickiewicz and Arnis Sauka

The Impact of the European Union on Sub-National Mobilization in a Unitary State: The Case of Estonia by Merit Tartar

Pleasures of Late Socialism in Soviet Lithuania: Strategies of Resistance and Dissent by Rasa Baločkaitė

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