Housden Martyn. Forgotten Pages in Baltic History: Diversity and Inclusion. (On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics) (ENG)
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Nations―particularly as realised by Fridtjof Nansen, the first High
Commissioner for Refugees.
Marko Lehti worked at the University of Turku in the Departments of
History and of Contemporary History, before joining Tampere Peace
Research Institute at the University of Tampere, Finland, where he is senior
research fellow. He also directs the Baltic Sea Region Studies programme at
the University of Turku. His latest publications include The Struggle for the
West. Divided and Contested Legacy of the West (ed with Christopher
Browning, 2010), Contested and Shared Places of Memory, History and
Politics in the North Eastern Europe (ed. with Jörg Hackmann, 2010), The
Baltic as a Multicultural World: Sea, Region and Peoples (ed., 2005) and
Post-Cold War Identity Politics. Northern and Baltic Experiences (ed. with
David J. Smith, 2003).
Rimantas Miknys is director of the Lithuanian Institute of History, Vilnius.
He is author of several monographs and number of articles. His reasearch
interests are Lithuanian society in the 19th and early 20th century; the history
of Lithuanian political parties; the ethno-political and ethno-cultural
orientation of the Lithuanian Poles, and inter-ethnic relations.
Frank Nesemann studied history, political science and classics at Heidelberg
University. He was a awarded his doctorate in 2002 with a dissertation on the
origins of Finland’s autonomy in the Russian Empire. It was entitled Ein
Staat, kein Gouvernement. Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Autonomie
Finnlands im russischen Zarenreich, 1808-1826 (PhD diss., Frankfurt/Main
et. al. 2003). From 2002 to 2007 he was research fellow at Leipzig
University; since 2007 he has taught at a grammar school in Eppelheim near
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg. His main research interests involve
Russian/Soviet and Finnish history from the 18th to the 20th century, as well
as national and religious minorities in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union
and East Central Europe. He has written a variety of articles on all these
topics.
Erwin Oberländer was born in Königsberg and gained his PhD from the
University of Cologne before becoming a Researcher at the Federal Institute
of East European and International Studies, Cologne and, later Professor of
the History of Eastern Europe at the Universities of Cologne (1973–75),
Münster (1975–85) and Mainz (1985–2002). He is Honorary Doctor of the
University of Riga and a Foreign Member of the Latvian Academy of
Sciences. His current research interest concerns memory and identity in the
Baltics (1940–91). His publications include The Hidden and Forbidden
History of Latvia under Soviet and Nazi Occupations 1940–1991 (edited with
V. Nollendorfs) and Kurland. Vom polnisch-litauischen Lehnsherzogtum zur
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russischen Provinz. Ausgewählte Dokumente zur Verfassungsgeschichte
1561–1795 (edited with V. Keller).
Eva-Clarita Pettai is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Government and
Politics, University of Tartu, Estonia. She obtained her PhD in political
science at the Free University of Berlin and is author of two books on the
uses of history and democratization in Latvia (both in German). She has also
published numerous articles on comparative issues of Baltic politics of
memory as well as on WWII commemoration in Europe after the
enlargement. Her current research interest includes comparative post-
Communist truth and justice policies, concepts of collective memory and the
role of memory in democratic societies.
Andrejs Plakans is Professor of History (emeritus) at Iowa State University,
Ames, Iowa, and author of Kinship in the Past: An Historical Anthropology
of European Family Life 1500-1900 (1984), The Latvians: A Short History
(1995), and Historical Dictionary of Latvia (second edition, 2008). His
Concise History of the Baltic States (Cambridge University Press) will be
published in 2011.
Darius Staliūnas is deputy director of the Lithuanian Institute of History,
Vilnius (since 2000), and a member of the editorial board of Pinkas. Annual
of the Culture and History of the European Jews, Lithuanian Historical
Studies, and Central and East European Review. He is the author of Making
Russians. Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus
after 1863 (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007). His research interests
include Russian nationality policy in the so-called north-western Region
(Lithuania and Belorussia), ethnic conflicts, Jewish-Lithuanian co-operation
in late Imperial Russia as well as problems of historiography and places of
memory in Lithuania.
Valters Ščerbinskis is currently head of the Masters degree program in
political science at the Stradiņš’ University, Riga where he is docent. His
research interests concern the political history of the Baltic States between
the wars, the history of élite and academic circles in Latvia, also Latvian and
Nordic relations. He has published several prosopographical books on
different professional groups. His most recent publication is Uzticīgi
draugam. Latvijas studējošo slēgtās mūža organizācijas (2010) on lifelong
Latvian academic societies.
David J. Smith is Professor of Baltic History and Politics at the University
of Glasgow. He has authored and edited several books on nationality issues
in the Baltic States and Central and Eastern Europe, and has recently
completed research projects on the history of cultural autonomy and on the
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contemporary politics of memory in Estonia. From 1996 to 2002 he worked
with John Hiden and Martyn Housden at the University of Bradford.
Joachim Tauber obtained his PhD from the University of Erlangen-
Nuremberg in 1989. He is director of the Nordost-Institut in Lüneburg and is
lecturer at the University of Hamburg. He is a member of the international
commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet
Occupation Regimes in Lithuania. His research interests include the history
of Lithuania in the 20
th
century, the German occupation of Eastern Europe in
WW I and WW II, and the Holocaust in the Baltics. He has published many
articles and inter alia co-edited (together with Vincas Bartusevičius and
Wolfram Wette) Holocaust in Litauen. Krieg, Judenmord und Kollaboration
im Jahre 1941 (2003). He edited Kollaboration in Nordosteuropa.
Erscheinungsformen und Deutungen im 20. Jahrhundert (2006) His last book
(in cooperation with Ralph Tuchtenhagen) is a history of Vilnius from the
medieval times to nowadays. Vilnius. Kleine Geschichte der Stadt (2008).