Passive security system at work. Visit to the Lubmin Nuclear Power Plant
Radio 80s80s is the only station you can actually listen to here,...
Resonant Conflicts, Topicalities, Peripeties: IRTG Workshop in Trondheim (22-24 May 2024)
At the end of May, our international network gathered at the NTNU Trondheim for our annual workshop on the topic of "Resonant...
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Negotiating a new take on history. Narrations of the Soviet past in Lithuanian museums – a dissertation in the making
"Ukraine war prompts Baltic States to remove Soviet memorials" – this is one of many similar headlines one stumbles upon when following...
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A three-layered memorial (part II)
Besides the main building, another historical part of the former Falstad prison camp is preserved: the Commandant’s House, which was built by...
Visiting the Falstad Centre in Trøndelag, Norway (part I)
Together with a small group of colleagues we took our chance during our annual workshop, Resonant Conflicts. Turning Points in the Baltic...
Exklusion, Assimilation, Resignation. Zum Scheitern der „folkhem“-Utopie in Ann-Helén Laestadius‘ Roman „Stöld“
Die skandinavischen Wohlfahrtsstaaten gelten mit ihrer sozialdemokratischen Ausrichtung weltweit als Musterbeispiele für soziale Sicherheit und Egalität. In Schweden hat diese Gesellschaftsvision 1928...
Vacancy: 10 PhD Positions from 1 April 2024 (CLOSED!)
Thank you for your interest in the IRTG "Baltic Peripeties". Our application deadline for 10 doctoral researcher positions has now passed....
Conference Report “Negotiating Peripeties: Change and Its Narratives” (Greifswald, 25-27 May 2023)
Politico-historical and climatic processes of change continue to challenge the Baltic Sea Region. Given, for example, the lasting effect of the COVID-19...