University College London (UCL)

Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, Gower Street

Tuesday 5th November 2013

2.00 pm           Registration

2.30 pm           Opening remarks

Prof Slavo Radošević, Director, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

HE Mrs Asta Skaisgirytė-Liauškienė, Ambassador of Lithuania

Ms Karmen Laus, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Estonia

Mr Martiņš Kreitus, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Latvia

3.00 pm           Roundtable & discussion

Chairman: Dr Peter Duncan, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Panel: Canon Dr Michael Bourdeaux, Keston Institute, Oxford

Campaigns for religious liberty in the Baltic republics

Dr Arūnas Streikus, University of Vilnius

Anti-Soviet resistance in Lithuania: actors and bystanders

Prof Geoffrey Swain, University of Glasgow

Latvia’s national partisans: the early years

Coffee/tea

Zigmārs Turčinskis, University of Latvia,

War of national partisans in Latvia, 1944 - 1956: the general situation

Dr Nikita Petrov, ‘Memorial’ Society, Moscow

Soviet state security activity against national resistance in the Baltic republics

Discussion

5.45 pm           Book presentation

Maps of Memory: Trauma, Identity and Exile in Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States, Edited by Tomas Balkelis and Violeta Davoliūtė (TBC)

6.30 pm           Exhibition “Under Alien Skies” opening followed by Reception

UCL South Cloisters

8.00 pm           Close

Sponsored by: UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Baltic Council in Great Britain, Embassy of the Republic of Estonia, Embassy of the Republic of Latvia, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania