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Constructing Regional Biographies/Identities Session 1 „Fragmented Identities rather then monolithic ones are best communicated through historical entanglements“ #narratedlives2026

Welcome to the 2026 Annual Meeting of the IRTG ‚Baltic Peripeties‘ at the @kruppkolleg.bsky.social. We are looking forward to three inspiring days of discussions on biography in the Baltic Sea region. #narratedlives2026

🔗 For more information on the conference follow the link: peripeties.uni-greifswald.de/events/

The Conference-Booklet II for the Annual Meeting 🌊📚 „Narrated Lives: Biography in the Baltic Sea Region“ is out now. Swipe to explore the conference program, the speakers and their lectures. See you at the conference ✨ Follow along and share your experience using the hashtag #narratedlives2026

🔗 For more information about the conference click the link: peripeties.uni-greifswald.de/events/

We are excited to share our official Conference-Booklet Part I for the upcoming Annual Meeting 🌊📚 „Narrated Lives: Biography in the Baltic Sea Region“, 13-15 July. Swipe through the post to discover the conference theme. Follow along and share your experience using the hashtag #narratedlives2026.

For more information on the Joint Lecture Series 🌊📚 „Democratic Challenges in Europe“ click the link: peripeties.uni-greifswald.de/events/

What it’s about: How are instances of ethnic domination established and later reversed? This talk will look at the broadscale shift in ethnic power balances in Estonia from 1940 to 2025 using a longue durée perspective.

📢 Save the Date: 🗓️ Today, July 9, 6.15 p.m. Vello Pettai will give a lecture on „Ethnic Domination and its Reversal: Soviet and Post-Soviet”. 🧑‍💻 For online participation please write to baltic-peripeties@uni-greifswald.de

Key Takeway from yesterday’s lecture: Economic retaliation against opposition parties is a coercive tactic during autocratization, as @hannafolsz.bsky.social has shown on the basis of evidence from Hungary‘s period of democratic erosion. We thank Hanna Folsz for this interesting lecture!

For more information on the speakers and our 🌊📚 Joint Summer Lecture Series „Democratic Challenges in Europe“ click the link: peripeties.uni-greifswald.de/events/

📢 Save the Date: 🗓️ Today, July 7, 6.15 p.m. @hannafolsz.bsky.social will talk about „Economic Retaliation and the Decline of Opposition Quality in Democratic Backsliding". ONLINE ONLY 🧑‍💻 For online participation please write to baltic-peripeties@uni-greifswald.de.

Thank you @valentimvicente.bsky.social for this evening’s lecture! Key Takeaway: Shifting the focus of research from developing a preference to expressing it reveals recent developments of increasing radical right behavior driven by individuals who already held these preferences.

Excited to listen to the lecture by @valentimvicente.bsky.social on Thursday!

For online participation please write to baltic-peripeties@uni-greifswald.de. 🔗 For more information on the Lecture Series visit our website peripeties.uni-greifswald.de/events/

What the book is about: Radical-right support may not be growing as fast as it seems—its public expression is. This book argues that shifting social norms, rather than changing political attitudes, help explain how latent preferences become visible and reshape political competition.

🌊📚 In anticipation of this weeks lecture within the summer series „Democratic Challenges in Europe“ on 🗓️ July 2nd 6.15 pm, online only, we recommend „The Normalization of the Radical Right“ by Vicente Valentim.

For more information on the international conference in July 2026 click the following link: peripeties.uni-greifswald.de/events/

The 2026 annual conference of the IRTG examines the history and culture of the Baltic Sea region through the lens of biographical research. It asks how historical turning points resonate in individual lives and what significance such moments assume within biographical narratives.

PUBLIC LECTURE: Today, 6.15 p.m. - 7.45 p.m. Natalia Skorokhod will talk about „Cultural Transformations in the Baltic States after 2022“, using theatre as a lens and Estonia as a case, exploring ambivalence, memory, and new artistic responses to war.