Okategoriserade CBEES Annual Conference: “Shaping Futures: The Baltics and Eastern Europe in the World” November 28-29, 2024

The 10th CBEES Annual Conference offers a time of retrospection and a time of new imaginings – a time to […]

Published on balticworlds.com on December 2, 2024

The 10th CBEES Annual Conference offers a time of retrospection and a time of new imaginings – a time to think about how the future can be (re)constructed. We are living through profound changes and upheaval. Reconfigurations of geographical, social, political, conceptual, and aesthetic bound-aries and relations are taking shape. The present seems dominated by violence and destruction, and the world appears to be seriously, perhaps irreparably, damaged. 

Nevertheless, in this situation, can we think of ways of reconstruction? When we critically interrogate the present, we find a range of political, social, and cultural connectivities and frictions, as well as different modes of relating to the past. Can we then imagine and understand reconstruction not as a return to the past in its imagined determinations, but as an opening towards the new, the un-known? How would this reshape our relation to the past? 

Trying to make sense of the multiple uncertainties in the present that have been brought about by violent historical change, we want to make an effort to think the future. This is a challenge that requires courage. 

See the full programme: article as pdf. 

CBEES Conference Board 

• Per Bolin | Professor of History and the Director of CBEES 
• Joakim Ekman | Professor of Political Science 
• Yulia Gradskova | Associate Professor in History, Research Coordinator 
• Johanna Mannergren | Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Re-search Coordinator 
• Ramona Rat | Researcher in Philosophy, Research Coordinator 
• Irina Sandomirskaja | Professor of Cultural Studies 

Administrative Coordination 

• Cagla Demirel | Lecturer in Political Science, Academic Event Organiser at CBEES 

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