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24-26 April 2025, several members of the team attended the 16th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE), titled Converging Paths: The Baltic Between East and West, held at the University of Cambridge.
The conference was organised by the Baltic Programme at the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge and saw over 500 participants and more than 100 panels.
Karsten Brüggemann participated in a roundtable titled Baltic Studies at the Crossroads (Again)? and chaired both a roundtable on (De)colonial Visions: New Perspectives on Ethnographic Imagery and Visual Culture in Baltic Studies as well as a panel titled Constructing the Premodern Baltic: Terms, Concepts, Narratives.
Kristo Nurmis presented a paper titled Historicizing Soviet Monuments: The Cases of Tehumardi, Smuul and Maarjamäe. Uku Lember discussed his research with the paper On the unpublished survey ‘Homosexuality and Society’ (Estonia,1991).
Several from the team were part of the same panel on Exploring Everyday Life in Soviet Estonia, chaired by Kristo Nurmis. Timur Guzairov presented Inside and Outside of School. Lectures for Adults and Unacceptable Behaviour of Pupils (Estonian SSR, 1956-1985). Karsten Brüggemann delivered his paper Introducing the Soviet Way of Thinking to Estonia: The Ühing “Teadus” (Society “Science”) and the Ideal of Soft Sovietisation. Airi Uuna put forward a paper titled The Work Routines Inside of an Advertising Bureau in Soviet Estonia and Maja Soomägi presented her MA thesis from Uppsala University, Exploring One Sixth of the World: Estonian Women’s Experiences of Travelling in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s.
The days in Cambridge also included attending a number of thought-provoking panels and meeting colleagues from near and far. The event finished with a gala dinner at King's College.
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