Presentations

Janet Laidla and Catherine Gibson (Paper presenter): “Town and Gown: Social Spaces of Student Life in Late Imperial Tartu.” 10th Annual Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies, 10–12 June 2026, University of Tartu.

Janet Laidla (Paper presenter): “Tartu keiserlik ülikool naiste kõrghariduse omandamise sihtkohana/ The Imperial University of Tartu as a Destination for Women’s Higher Education.” Eesti Humanitaarteaduste Aastakonverents/ Estonian Annual Conference of Humanities, 8–10 April 2026, Tartu.

Janet Laidla (Paper presenter): “Feminising the Field: Women Dentists and Pharmacists in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire.” 5th Crosscurrents Conference: Women and Health in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic World, 4–6 December 2025, University of Madeira.

Janet Laidla (Keynote speaker): “Young Nation on the World Stage: Estonia and the International Council of Women.” Conference: Local Feminisms in the Baltic Region. Parallels, Differences, Influences. The late XIX – first half of the XX century, 24–25 October 2025, Lithuanian Institute of Literature and Folklore.

Catherine Gibson (Roundtable speaker): “Beyond the New Spatial History? Paradigms and Pathways for Future Research in Eurasian Historical Studies.” XI ICCEES World Congress, 21–25 July 2025, University College London.

Janet Laidla (Paper presenter): “Home Economics and Academia in Estonia before World War II.” Histrorikertreffen, 14–15 June 2025, Göttingen.

Janet Laidla and Julia Malitska (Roundtable speakers) and Catherine Gibson (Chair): “Entangled Borderlands: Intra-Imperial Mobilities in the Late Romanov Empire.” Ninth Annual Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies, 11–13 June 2026, University of Tartu.

Janet Laidla (Paper presenter): “(Polish) Women and the University of Tartu before 1945.” 27 May 2025, Seminar at the Polish Academy of Science.

Catherine Gibson (Paper presenter): “Urban Social Cartography.” Workshop: Layers of Empire: Romanov Imperial Thematic Cartography, 26–27 May 2025, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld.

Janet Laidla (Paper presenter): “International networks of academic women during the interwar period in Estonia.” CBSE 2025, 24-26 April 2025, University of Cambridge.

Catherine Gibson (Roundtable speaker): “(De)colonial Visions: New Perspectives on Ethnographic Imagery and Visual Culture in Baltic Studies.” CBSE 2025, 24-26 April 2025, University of Cambridge.

Janet Laidla (Paper presenter): “Women in Tartu University before 1919.” 2nd Baltic and East European Women’s History Network: Circulation and Transfer of Knowledge and Ideas across the Baltic Sea Region, 8 April 2025, Sigtunastiftelsen.