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CFA: Visiting Fellows for the Project “Subjectivities of Owning Land: Land Redistribution and the Nation-State in the Baltics Across the 20th Century”
Applications due November 3, 2025: vist.ly/4chjn
New podcast episode! 🎙️
This month we share an episode from our colleagues at the EUROPAST podcast: "The Battle for Memory: Populism vs. Pluralism in Public History" with Professor Jan Kubik. It's a fascinating and highly timely listen - check it out now! vist.ly/4cd8e
CFA: The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) at Stanford University invites applications for the Wayne Vucinich Fellowship.
Applications due November 15, 2025: vist.ly/4bq49
CFP: Estonian Institute of Historical Memory international research competition on communism for young scholars
The competition is open to both published academic papers and unpublished Master’s and Doctoral theses.
Deadline November 3. More info here: https://mnemosyne.ee/en/competition/
The deadline for submitting proposals to our 2026 conference has been extended to this Friday to accommodate a range of applicants. Don't miss out on the biggest event in Baltic Studies!
Submit by October 24: https://aabs-balticstudies.org/aabs-2026-at-uiuc/
Call for Papers: 'A Window of opportunities:' Newspaper press during perestroika - analyses and field reports.
Workshop – Helsinki, 26 – 27 February 2026
Deadline October 25: vist.ly/4axur
Now's the time! The deadline to submit proposals for our 2026 conference is 11:59pm US Central Time tomorrow, October 17. Don't be late - submit your application now.
More information is available on our website: vist.ly/4amu7
Excited to see what you submit!
Recently published open access in the Journal of Baltic Studies: "Assessing market transition theory on the basis of Estonian longitudinal studies, 1979–2007," by Indrek Soidla and Karmo Kroos.
Full article available online to all readers here: https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2025.2549685
AABS is proud to co-host the 2025 Baltic Research Forum, which starts tomorrow! Hear from leading scholars on their current research in Baltic societies and history. Registration is still open for general participation: https://forms.gle/78sPw7RCA67JWB3W6
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CFP: Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization invites proposals for a special issue on volunteerism in the countries of the former Soviet Union to be published in 2026.
Proposals due October 15: to demjournal@gwu.edu. More info at https://www.demokratizatsiya.pub/
Just six days left to submit a proposal to join us for our biennial conference, to be held next May! Don't miss out on the biggest event in Baltic Studies - four days of academic insight, building new connections, and catching up with colleagues.
Submit by October 17: vist.ly/4a4c9
Happy to be a Fellow at St Antony's College at Oxford this academic year: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ti...
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ICYMI: The first episode of the new Baltic Ways podcast season was recently released! Listen now to learn from leading scholars about the state of Baltic Studies: where the field's been and what comes next. Available now on all platforms! More info here: vist.ly/49u37
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Recently published online in the Journal of Baltic Studies: "Making room for the future? Half-emptiness and the ordered demolition of Soviet housing in Estonia," by Francisco Martinez and Keiti Kljaven. Available for JBS subscribers and AABS members: https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2025.2557273
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Reminder: proposals for our 2026 conference are due in ten days!
We invite proposals of panels or individual papers from all disciplines touching on Baltic Studies. Spread the word to your colleagues!
More info and application here: vist.ly/49jgp
Hey, we know her! AABS Jānis Grundmanis Fellowship recipient Marta Kalniņa was interviewed by Columbia University about what the fellowship means for her. Check out the interview here: https://arts.columbia.edu/news/film-student-marta-kalnina-receives-janis-grundmanis-postgraduate-fellowship
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CFP: ISHA winter seminar “Multiple Baltics: Reimagining Social, Cultural and Spatial Dimensions of History”
Proudly supported by AABS via the Academic Events and Projects Grant!
Deadline October 10 for participants; PhD workshop leaders also sought: https://multiplebaltics.lv/
New podcast episode! 🎙️
To kick off the academic year and a new season of Baltic Ways, we hear about the state of Baltic Studies from a panel of scholars.
Episode available wherever you get your podcasts or for streaming on our website here: vist.ly/499zy
CFA: University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - WCEE Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-2028. Eligibility restricted to applicants who obtained their PhD no earlier than Jan 1, 2024.
Deadline October 15: https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/68826/university-michigan-ann-arbor-wcee-postdoctoral-fellowship-2026-2028
Reminder: the application deadline for our 2026 conference is fast approaching!
AABS 2026 will be invigorating and interdisciplinary, from panels and plenaries to coffee breaks and catch-ups. Don't miss out - submit your proposal by October 17: vist.ly/48jbi
Participate and Engage - Applications for the ISHA Winter seminar 2025, "Multiple Baltics: Reimagining social, cultural and spatial dimensions of history" are now open!
Deadline: 10 October
Learn more: multiplebaltics.lv
Supported by @balticstudies.bsky.social and UL Student Council.
Newly published online in the Journal of Baltic Studies: "The Russian Orthodox parish clergy in interwar Estonia: a prosopography," by James M. White.
Available now for subscribers and AABS members: vist.ly/47tac
We're happy to announce that once again, graduate students and early career scholars presenting at the AABS 2026 conference will have the opportunity to apply for travel grants. The grant application will open in late 2025.
Submit your conference proposal by October 17: vist.ly/47nwa
Did you know AABS has a quarterly e-newsletter? You can get a digestible download of everything that's been happening in Baltic Studies delivered right to your inbox. Read past editions, including from earlier this month, and sign up on our website here: https://aabs-balticstudies.org/newsletter/
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Among the issue's articles are three open access articles available to all readers regardless of their subscription status. Check them out at the link above!
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The third 2025 issue of Journal of Baltic Studies (Vol 56, Issue 3) is now available online with a range of articles covering multiple countries, disciplines, and time periods. The full issue is available to JBS subscribers and AABS members here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rbal20/56/3
15.09.2025 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0CFP: Journal of Russian American Studies (JRAS) special issue. Editors invite proposals on American views of non-Russian areas of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union by October 15, 2025. Questions and proposals may be directed to jras1807@gmail.com.
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CFP: the 30th Biennial AABS Conference
May 2026, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
We invite submissions from scholars in all disciplines to contribute their cutting-edge research to an invigorating conference.
Submission deadline is October 17: vist.ly/45z2b
Newly published online in the Journal of Baltic Studies: "A method for investigating the quality of life in cross-border cities using cross-border indicators: Polish cities on the EU border with Kaliningrad."
Access available for JBS suscribers: https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2025.2552201
Tere! I'm in Estonia 🇪🇪 at Uni of Tartu Skytte Institute for 2 months researching the intergenerational effects of Soviet repression. I'm interviewing Estonians whose family experienced deportation/other repression. Interested? Please DM me, email isabelledesisto@princeton.edu & share widely. Aitäh!
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