Paper Session: Baltic Nations and National Identity,
1:15-3:15pm, CMU Room 226

Chair: Guntis Smidchens, University of Washington

Presenters:

• Vizma Schulmeisters (UW): "Latvia's State-Run Retirement Homes"
• Kristin Kuutma (UW): "Song Festivals: Tools of Expression of Ethnic Identities in Estonia"
• Jura Avizienis (UW): "The Narration of Gender and Nation in Birute Baltrusaityte's 'Under the Southwestern Sky'"
• Steven Grosse (UW): "The Baltic States and North European Security"

Three paper sessions at the SASS conference will include papers on Baltic topics:

Friday, 3:30-5:00 pm: Sites of Identity: Literary Ties Across the Baltic

Chair: Anne Tuominen (University of Washington)

• Jura Avizienis (University of Washington), "Genres of the Self: Autobiography/Fiction/Essay in Zita Cepaite and Suzanne Brgger."
• Anna Broemel (University of Washington), "Folkloric Dramatizations: A Study of Two Plays by Latvian Women Authors."
• Anna-Minna Pavulans (University of Oregon), "Fictional Representations of Territorial Ties: Place and Belonging in Recent Latvian Fiction."
• Violeta Kelertas (University of Illinois, Chicago), "Who is the Addressee? Uses of the Epistolary Form in the Novels of Ricardas Gavelis."

Saturday, 1:30-3:00 pm: Folklore and Identity in a Changing World

Chair: Eric J. Schaad (University of Washington)

• Guntis Smidchens (University of Washington), "Latvian Folk Beliefs in the 1990s."
• Kristin Kuutma (University of Washington), "A Finno-Ugric Wall: Invention of Identities in Estonia."

Saturday, 3:30 - 5:00 pm: Modern Baltic History and Culture

Chair: Kristin Kuutma (University of Washington)

• Robert Smurr (University of Washington), "On Boulders and Nations: The History and Conservation of Estonian Glacial Erratics."
• Steve Grosse (University of Washington), "Remembered History in Baltic National Consciousness."
• Anne Tuominen (University of Washington), "The Estonian Tourism Industry's Finnish-speaking, Networking, and Risk-taking Early Entrepreneurs."

The University of Washington Chamber Singers invite you
to a concert of Baltic and Scandinavian Music

Friday, May 7, 1999, 8:00 pm
Kane Hall Room 130

The Chamber Singers plan to travel to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the year 2000.

The concert on May 7 will help raise money to defray the costs of the Baltic Tour.

Please come and enjoy a concert featuring the works of contemporary and classic Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Scandinavian composers.

Help these 35 talented students realize their dream of traveling to the Baltic in 2000!

A special pre-concert reception and performance will be held for the Friends of the Chamber Singers, persons who add a donation of $100 or more to the cost of their tickets.

Donations to the University of Washington are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Donations may also qualify for matching grants from employers. (Please note that the cost of the tickets does not qualify as a donation)

Send order forms and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to:

Chamber Singers Baltic concert c/o Prof. Geoffrey Boers
University of Washington Music Department
Box 353450
Seattle WA 98195

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