Round Table Discussion: Anti-Soviet Resistance in the Baltic States
Date and time
Location
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building
University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
Description
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Anti-Soviet resistance in the Baltic States
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