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University College London is offering a new International MA in Economy, State and Society for which non-EU/EEA citizens can apply for one of numerous Erasmus Mundus Scholarships of €21,000 per year. The MA has been recognised by the European Union as program of excellence. Successful applicants will spend their first year at University College London and the second at a partner university in Tartu, Helsinki, Prague, Budapest or Krakow. More Information
Intensive first-year Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian language will be offered at the 14th Annual Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI), hosted by the UCLA Center for World Languages, June 25-August 17, 2007. Classes will meet daily for eight weeks, four hours per day. Course content equals three quarters of regular instruction during the academic year. A rich cultural enhancement program will complement language instruction with films, music and guest lectures. Application deadline for early admission is March 1, 2007, rolling admissions after that. More information
The interdisciplinary Baltic Studies Conference in Europe will take place in June 2007 at the Nordost-Institut Lüneburg near Hamburg, Germany. The main topic will be The Baltic Region between Germany and Russia: Dependence and Independence in Past and Present. More information
The program aims to prepare students for postgraduate studies, independent research work, as well as career activity within a European framework by
The 20th Conference on Baltic Studies was held June 15-17, 2006 at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
The theme was Re-Imagining the Baltic Region: Perspectives on the Past, Present, and Future.Participants were encouraged to consider, among others, the following questions: What is the “Baltic region?” Has the meaning of this concept changed over time? What are the cultural, social, economic, environmental, military, legal, and political implications of expanding the borders of the “Baltic region” both westward and eastward? How are the changes reflected in ideas and practices regarding ethnicity, nationhood, and citizenship? Wealth, poverty, and free markets? Gender norms and roles? Memories and the writing of history? Cultural representations of the region in film, music, literature, and art? Conference Website
The Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (a consortium of the Universities of Glasgow, Nottingham, St Andrews, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Paisley and Strathclyde) announces PhD, Masters/PgDip Scholarships and Postdoctoral Fellowships. Suitably qualified applicants from any branch of the Social Sciences and Humanities are invited to apply for 11 fully-funded PhD studentships and two one-year postdoctoral fellowships in any of the following key research themes related to current and past developments in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and the former USSR:
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At the end of 2005 on the 5th of December after sixteen days of suffering (a second heart attack, pneumonia) the 78-year old Vladimir Toporov departed from us. Russian science lost one of its most distinguished personalities. This loss was also terribly painful not only for Lithuanian and Latvian philology, which the deceased had enriched with splendid researches, not only for those who love the culture in general, but also for those who are concerned with the future of these peoples. Research on the Baltic languages and learning about their ancient culture was not simply a profession. It was his moral duty as a scholar. He formulated this credo in the preface to his Dictionary of the Prussian language. “The extinction of the Prussians is a loss for humanity and mankind and the attempt to recreate lost cultures is at least to a small degree connected with moral duties.”