An International Conference
"War, Revolution and Freedom: The Baltic Countries in the 20th Century"
Presented by Stanford University and the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
October 8–10, 2014, Stauffer Auditorium, Hoover Institution
Conference Day 1, Wednesday, October 8
9:00 AM
- Welcome Remarks – Eric T. Wakin, Robert H. Malott Director of Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Opening Remarks – Amir Weiner, Stanford University
9:15-10:45 AM – Chair: Amir Weiner
- Toomas Hiio, Estonian War Museum. Multi-ethnic (or Multi-national) Student Body of the University of Tartu and the WW I: Choices, Political Movements, Volunteers, Mobilizations, and Postwar Consequences
- Darius Staliunas, Lithuanian Institute of History. Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania at the Turn of the 20th Century
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Chair: Aivars Stranga, The University of Latvia
- Ēriks Jēkabsons, University of Latvia. The War for Independence of Latvia and the United States
- Tomas Balkelis, Vilnius University. Paramilitarism in Lithuania: Violence, Civic Activism and Nation-making, 1918–1920
- Bert Patenaude, Stanford University. “Yankee Doodle: American Attitudes toward Baltic Independence, 1918–1921”
12:30 – 2:15 PM Lunch break
4:30 PM Keynote address – INVITE ONLY.
Vaira Viķe-Freiberga, President of the Club of Madrid, Former President of Latvia. Against All Odds: The Path of the Baltic States to the EU and NATO. Introduced by Eric T. Wakin, Robert H. Malott Director of Library & Archives, Hoover Institution, and Norman Naimark, Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies, Stanford University
Conference Day 2, Thursday, October 9
9:00-10:45 AM Chair: Magnus Ilmjärv, Тallinn University
- Ineta Lipša, Institute of History of Latvia. Interwar History of Latvia: the Gender Aspects
- Aivars Stranga, University of Latvia. Kārlis Ulmanis' Regime: Politics, Economics, Culture
- Andres Kasekamp, Tartu University. The Estonian Radical Right in the 1930s: The Collapse of Democracy and the Rise of Authoritarianism.
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Chair: David Holloway, Stanford University
- Arturas Svarauskas, Lithuanian Institute of History. Regime, Society, and Political Tensions in Lithuania, 1938–1940.
- Magnus Ilmjärv, Тallinn University. Munich Pact and the Baltic States, 1938 – The Fateful Year for the Baltic States.
12:15 – 2:00 PM Lunch break
2:00 – 3:15 PM Chair: Norman Naimark, Stanford University
- Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University, Pennsylvania. The Nazi Occupation and the Holocaust in Reichskommissariat Ostland: Conflicting Narratives and Memories
- Uldis Neiburgs, Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. Latvia, Nazi German Occupation, and the Western Allies, 1941–1945
3:30 – 4:45 PM Chair: Gabriella Safran, Stanford
- Ene Kõresaar, Tartu University. World War II in Estonian Memory and Commemoration
- Kristina Burinskaitė, The Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania. The KGB Search of War Criminals in the West and the Attempts to Discredit Lithuanian Emigration
Conference Day 3, Friday, October 10
9:00 – 10:15 AM Chair: Katherine Jolluck, Stanford University
- Aigi Rahi-Tamm, Tartu University. Doubly Marginalized People: the Hidden Stories of Breaking Trust between People in Estonian Society (1940–1960)
- Daina Bleiere, Rīga Stradiņš University. Women in the Soviet Latvian Nomenclature (1940–1987)
10:30 AM – 12:15 PM Chair: Darius Staliunas, Lithuanian Institute of History
- Saulius Grybkauskas, Lithuanian Institute of History. The Second Secretaries of Communist Parties in the Soviet Baltic Republics during 1944–1990
- David Beecher, University of California, Berkeley. A Tale of Two Scholars: Paul Ariste and Yuri Lotman
- Gail Lapidus, Stanford University. The Baltic National Movements and the End of the USSR
12:15 – 2:00 PM Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:15 PM Chair: Paul Roderick Gregory, Hoover Institution
- Elga Zalīte, Green Library. The Rev. Richards Zariņš Collection in Stanford University Libraries as a Source for the Study of the Post-World War II Latvian Emigration in the United States
- David Jacobs, Hoover Institution Archives. Stateless Representatives: Baltic Diplomats during the Cold War
3:30 – 4:15 PM Chair: Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University, Pennsylvania
- Maciej Siekierski, Hoover Institution Archives. Baltic Collections and Scholarship at the Hoover Institution
- Liisi Esse, Green Library. The Baltic Studies Program of Stanford University Libraries
6:00 – 8:00 PM, Cubberley Auditorium, Education Building, 485 Lasuen Mall
Latvian film director Pēteris Krilovs will present his documentary Obliging Collaborators (2014)
Conference organizers: Professors Lazar Fleishman (Slavic Department) and Amir Weiner (History Department)
Co-sponsored by:
Office of the Provost
School of the Humanities and Sciences
Stanford Global Studies Division
The Europe Center
Stanford University Libraries
Division of Literatures, Cultures, & Languages
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
History Department
Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Stanford Humanities Center
