{"id":25,"date":"2024-04-04T01:47:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/tartuconference\/invited-speakers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:22:05","slug":"invited-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/tartuconference\/invited-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keynote speech:<\/strong> Empires We Choose: Migration and Sovereignty in a Double Periphery<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

June 11, 16:45-18:15<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cBased on a forthcoming book of the same title, I tell the story of how Latvians switched empires in pursuit of sovereignty by redirecting migration imaginaries and pathways from East to West. In this complex process that lasted more than a century, present-day Latvia turned from a western periphery of the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union into an eastern periphery of the European Union and the Euro-Atlantic world. It turned from a place of emigration into a place of immigration and back again. Former subordinates became dominant majorities, and former agents of empire became subalterns. In this story of imperial reorientation, some forms of dependency are seen as freedom, while others, as domination. I pose the question of whether, from the perspective of <\/span>a double\u00a0<\/span>periphery,\u00a0<\/span>freedom\u2019s<\/span> just another word for the empire one chooses.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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\nDace Dzenovska<\/strong> is Associate Professor in Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford. She researches the changing relations between people, place, state, and capital in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She is the author of School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia<\/em><\/a> (Cornell, 2018), and the lead author of Living Emptiness: Place, Power, and Meaning-Making from the Baltic to the Russian Far East<\/em> (forthcoming with Stanford University Press, 2026). She is completing a book entitled Empires We Choose: Migration and Sovereignty in a Double Periphery<\/em> for Cornell University Press. Her articles have appeared in American Ethnologist<\/em>, Comparative Studies in Society and History<\/em>, Social Anthropology<\/em>, Cultural Anthropology<\/em>, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory<\/em>, Slavic Review<\/em>, Focaal<\/em>, History and Anthropology<\/em>, among others.\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Moderator: Edgars Eihmanis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nEdgars Eihmanis<\/strong> is a Research Fellow at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. His work on various aspects of EU economic governance and Central and Eastern political economy has appeared in Journal of European Public Policy<\/em>, Journal of Common Market Studies<\/em>, Regulation & Governance<\/em>, Competition & Change<\/em>, Comparative European Politics<\/em>, and East European Politics<\/em> among other academic and policy outlets. Currently, Edgars is the Principal Investigator of the 5-year research project \u201cEuropeanization of green industrial policy\u201d<\/em> (EUGRIP), funded by the Estonian Research Council. Edgars holds a PhD in political science from the European University Institute (2020) where he also was a post-doctoral fellow.\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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