{"id":16,"date":"2024-04-04T04:19:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T01:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/balticbridge\/vilnius-2021\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T04:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T01:31:11","slug":"vilnius-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/balticbridge\/vilnius-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 12pt\">\n\t<span style=\"background:white\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span><span style=\"color:black\">The <strong>8th Baltic Student Conference \u201cBridges in the Baltics\u201d<\/strong> was held on <strong>October 22-23, 2021<\/strong>, in Vilnius, Lithuania and was organized by <strong>University of Vilnius<\/strong>.<br>The student conference hosted approximately <strong>50 students <\/strong>from 7 countries. In addition to student presentations, three plenary lectures were held.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0cm\">\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"662\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-64\" style=\"width: 1000px;height: 258px\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/bb_2021_2-scaled.jpg\" title=\"Opening of the Conference in Vilnius 2021\" alt=\"People standing during the opening of the conference Bridges in the Baltics 2021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/bb_2021_2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/bb_2021_2-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/bb_2021_2-1024x265.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/bb_2021_2-768x199.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/bb_2021_2-1536x397.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/bb_2021_2-2048x529.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/bb_2021_2-1920x496.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">\n\t\t\t<a data-fid=\"65427\" href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/bb_final_programme.pdf\">PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE<\/a><br>\n\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm\">\n\t\t\t<a data-fid=\"65428\" href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/bridges-in-the-baltics_abstracts_final.pdf\">ABSTRACTS OF PARALLEL SESSIONS<\/a><br>\n\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<strong><a data-url=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.2978769059013027&amp;type=3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.2978769059013027&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">PHOTOS<\/a><\/strong>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:20px\"><span style=\"background:white\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color:#222222\">Plenary speakers<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br>\n<\/h2>\n<p>\n\t<\/p><div class=\"accordion mb-3\">\n        <div class=\"accordion-item accordion-item--white\">\n        <h2 class=\"accordion-header\" id=\"accordion-69ea66c809b77-heading\">\n            <button class=\"accordion-button collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#accordion-69ea66c809b77-collapse\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"accordion-69ea66c809b77-collapse\"><strong>ALDIS GEDUTIS and K\u0118STAS KIRTIKLIS<\/strong><\/button>\n        <\/h2>\n        <div id=\"accordion-69ea66c809b77-collapse\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-69ea66c809b77-heading\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body\">\n\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1939\" height=\"1147\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-62\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/gedutis_and_kirtiklis.jpg\" title=\"gedutis_and_kirtiklis.jpg\" alt=\"Aldis Gedutis and K\u0119stas Kirtiklis\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/gedutis_and_kirtiklis.jpg 1939w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/gedutis_and_kirtiklis-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/gedutis_and_kirtiklis-1024x606.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/gedutis_and_kirtiklis-768x454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/gedutis_and_kirtiklis-1536x909.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/gedutis_and_kirtiklis-1920x1136.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1939px) 100vw, 1939px\">We are happy to present the speakers of the first plenary session of the conference \u2013 philosophers <strong>Aldis Gedutis<\/strong> and <strong>K\u0119stas Kirtiklis<\/strong> from Lithuania.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTheir talk <strong>\u201cThe Humanities as a Martial Art: 14+ Ways of Self-Defence\u201d <\/strong>is scheduled for Friday, 22 October at 10.00am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGedutis &amp; Kirtiklis state that the recent decades have witnessed rapid transformations of the global academia, which are quite often perceived as an assault on the humanities. Various groups put pressure on the humanities, demanding to justify their very existence in the contemporary world where the neoliberal grand narrative of economic value seems to prevail. And this is where self-defense begins.<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n<p>\n\t<\/p><div class=\"accordion mb-3\">\n        <div class=\"accordion-item accordion-item--white\">\n        <h2 class=\"accordion-header\" id=\"accordion-69ea66c809b82-heading\">\n            <button class=\"accordion-button collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#accordion-69ea66c809b82-collapse\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"accordion-69ea66c809b82-collapse\"><strong>K\u0100RLIS V\u0112RDI\u0145\u0160<\/strong><\/button>\n        <\/h2>\n        <div id=\"accordion-69ea66c809b82-collapse\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-69ea66c809b82-heading\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body\">\n\n<p>\n\tLatvian poet <strong>K\u0101rlis V\u0113rdi\u0146\u0161<\/strong> is one of the plenary speakers of the\u00a0conference this year. Everyone is welcome to listen to his talk \u201c<strong>Canonization Post Factum: Baltic Fiction in Central European Classics Series<\/strong>\u201d which\u00a0is scheduled for Friday, 22 October at 4.30pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Conference abstract:<\/strong>\u00a0<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1708\" height=\"2560\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-60\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/verdins-3-scaled.jpg\" title=\"Photo by Toms Harjo\" alt=\"K\u0101rlis V\u0113rdi\u0146\u0161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/verdins-3-scaled.jpg 1708w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/verdins-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/verdins-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/verdins-3-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/verdins-3-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/verdins-3-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/verdins-3-1920x2879.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1708px) 100vw, 1708px\">After the regaining of independence in 1991, all three Baltic\u00a0literatures have experienced an increasing amount of translations in\u00a0other languages. In 1993, Central European University Press in Budapest\u00a0founded its Central European Classics book series which both attempted\u00a0to revisit the canon of Central and Eastern European modern literature\u00a0and \u201cto take these works of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century\u00a0classic fiction \u2018out of the ghetto,\u2019 onto the shelves of Western\u00a0booksellers, and into the consciousness of Western readers.\u201d Among\u00a0nineteen translations of fiction, published so far, there are works by\u00a0three Baltic authors: selections of short stories by Friedebert Tuglas\u00a0and J\u0101nis Ezeri\u0146\u0161 as well as a novel by Kazys Boruta. These three Baltic\u00a0writers have each his history of national literary fame, influenced by\u00a0the political shifts of Baltic history of the 20th century, which\u00a0occasionally spills over the national borders. All of them were more or\u00a0less involved in the process of circulation of Baltic literature among\u00a0the three states, and all of them have a bibliography of translations in\u00a0Baltic languages as well as in other literary markets. However, it is\u00a0not easy to imagine them \u201cgoing viral,\u201d i.e., suddenly acquiring the\u00a0status of canonized international writers whose work would irreversibly\u00a0change the consciousness of Western readers. To present them to the\u00a021st-century readers as Baltic classics is a challenging task. Firstly,\u00a0their work usually is defined in terms of their literary influences:\u00a0major European writers of the past or the strong influence of peasant\u00a0culture and folklore in their work. Secondly, Baltic contemporary\u00a0literature seems to be seen by the western reader first of all as a\u00a0depository of tragic and traumatic stories about the cruelty of history,\u00a0mass deportations, two world wars, as well as Nazi and Soviet\u00a0occupations. Read against such contemporary narratives, works by Tuglas,\u00a0Ezeri\u0146\u0161 and Boruta might seem not \u201cauthentic\u201d enough or too \u201clocal\u201d as\u00a0those writers are not conforming to such stereotypes.<\/p><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n<p>\n\t<\/p><div class=\"accordion mb-3\">\n        <div class=\"accordion-item accordion-item--white\">\n        <h2 class=\"accordion-header\" id=\"accordion-69ea66c809b88-heading\">\n            <button class=\"accordion-button collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#accordion-69ea66c809b88-collapse\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"accordion-69ea66c809b88-collapse\"><strong>KERTTU ROZENVALDE<\/strong><\/button>\n        <\/h2>\n        <div id=\"accordion-69ea66c809b88-collapse\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-69ea66c809b88-heading\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body\">\n\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1448\" height=\"1448\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-61\" style=\"width: 240px;height: 240px;float: right\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/kertu.jpg\" title=\"kertu.jpg\" alt=\"Kerttu Rozenvalde\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/kertu.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/kertu-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/kertu-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/kertu-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/284\/kertu-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1448px) 100vw, 1448px\"><strong>Kerttu Rozenvalde<\/strong> is currently working as a research fellow of language policy at the University of Tartu. Her academic interests include language issues in society, which she has mainly approached through analysing language policies in higher education. She is currently conducting research on language use and ideologies in a multilingual university in Estonia to understand the relationship between the sustainability of Estonian as language of higher education, and multilingual language use in university.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHer talk \u201c<strong>The State of Latvia \u2013 Preserver and Developer of Latvian as Language of Higher Education?<\/strong>\u201d is scheduled for Saturday, 23 October at 11.30am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Short abstract of her talk:<\/strong><br>In my presentation I will investigate the positions of state policymakers in Latvia on the use of Latvian, English, and Russian in higher education. By using argumentation analysis, I will explore policymakers\u2019 statements in two recently held public debates: on the use of Russian as a medium of instruction and on the use of English as a language of doctoral theses. I will show that the main difference of opinion among policymakers is about the role of the state in conducting language policies in universities. This explains the question mark in the title of my presentation: is the state of Latvia acting today in the interest of preserving and developing Latvian as language of higher education, and should the state be doing it? <\/p><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 8th Baltic Student Conference \u201cBridges in the Baltics\u201d was held on October 22-23, 2021, in Vilnius, Lithuania and was organized by University of Vilnius.The student conference hosted approximately 50 students from 7 countries. 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