Workshop: The Baltic Sea Region and the Cold War
On 27–28 November 2010, an international workshop on the Cold War and the Baltic Sea region is held at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
Baltic Regionalism
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New book from Baltic Regionalism project
Researchers from the Baltic Regionalism project has published a new book with German publisher Lit-Verlag. The book deals with border changes in contemporary European history, and in the thirteen case studies, scholars show how boundary changes played an important role in the formation of European regions.
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Imaginative Geographies in late Soviet Russian Culture
The objective of this project is to examine the ways geographical and imperial space is imagined and represented in Russian cultural practices in the decades preceding the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Distant news and local opinion: How the Telegraph Affected Spatial and Temporal Horizons in Northern Scandinavia, 1850-1880
The electric telegraph lines constructed across Europe starting in the late 1840's profoundly changed conditions for long-distance communication in the region. This project analyses the effects of the electric telegraph on northern Scandinavia.
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Arctic Norden: Science, Diplomacy and the Formation of a Post-War European North
This project concerns the formation of “Arctic Norden” as a composite of science, diplomacy, and policy in the Cold War context.
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Nordic Profile: The Image of the Nordic Community in Latvian Printed Mass Media from the End of XIX Century to XXI Century
This project studies images of the Nordic states in Latvian printed mass media from the end of the 19th century to the 21st century.
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Baltic regionalism: Constructing Political Space(s) in Northern Europe, 1800-2000
The project studies the long-term formation of regional identities in Northern Europe. It focuses on a case study of the area of the current Baltic States.
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Nordic Spaces in the North and North America: Heritage Preservation in Real and Imagined Nordic Places
How are Nordic spaces created expressively in the Nordic countries and North America? How do such spaces give shape to cultural heritage, delimit identities and draw boundaries via recognition of difference?
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The Nordic Model of Democracy: Diffusion, Competition, Europeanisation
The project concerns the Nordic "model" of democracy – defined in terms of both institutional patterns and the values with which political discourse is laden – and its relation to the Baltic states.
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National History – Nordic Culture: Negotiating identity in the museums
This project investigates how images of Norden as a supranational identity have provided, and continue to provide, arenas for negotiating political, military, social, economical, ethical and cultural understandings of community in specific public and nationalised contexts, using museums as the focal point.
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Dance in Nordic Spaces: The Formation of Corporeal Identities
The project Dance in Nordic Spaces aims to investigate dance and dancing as participants in the development of “Norden”, with a focus on comparative perspectives from the late 19th through the 20th century. The project group consists of eight scholars, from four Nordic countries, who represent a large field of current dance research in Norden.
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