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Title: Transnational Perspectives on Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea Region: Past and Present
Focusing on distinctive features, unique events, and specific developments is common when exploring national politics, histories, and societies. However, it is crucial to recognise that historically, and especially in today’s globalised world, ideas, technological innovations, and political movements transcend national borders. Investigations into the history and current state of Eastern Europe often emphasise the differences between regions rather than how they exchange knowledge, practices, and institutions. However, recent studies of empires, inter-imperial relations, and the roles of East European actors in transnational mobility, movements, and cultural exchange have revealed the region’s historical involvement and continued participation in transnational connectivity, which has played a significant role in global economic, scientific, and cultural cooperation and exchange, both within the region and globally. Nevertheless, transnational connectivity in the region, particularly within the EU, faces numerous challenges; these include populist politics, but the biggest is the Russian war on Ukraine.
This Summer School will critically examine the transnational approach and differentiate it from the perspectives of government-oriented international relations and global studies. It will also further explore this approach’s potential for research into the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe. Drawing from broader transnational anti-colonial genealogies and the region’s role in global civil society, the school will facilitate discussions on political, social, cultural, religious, and artistic exchanges to and from Eastern Europe and their impacts.
By the end of the course, students will be proficient in using the transnational approach to analyse the historical and contemporary circulation of ideas, institutions, people, goods, and cultural products.
Practical details
- The Call for Applications will be available on this page from February 21; the application deadline is March 21, 2025.
- The CBEES Summer School-series is aiming at the PhD students.
- Students are awarded 7.5 ECTs for the completed course and also provided with a Certificate of Completion.
- Participation in the Summer School is free of charge. Costs of accommodation (5 nights, breakfasts, lunches + 2 dinners and excursion) will be covered by CBEES. The students are responsible for covering the travel costs to and from Stockholm and the costs of local transportation in Stockholm.
Organizers of the CBEES Summer School 2025
- Norbert Götz | Professor, Institute of Contemporary History, Södertörn University,
- Yulia Gradskova | Associate Professor and Research Coordinator at CBEES, Södertörn University,
- Julia Malitska | PhD, Senior researcher, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, and Research Coordinator at CBEES, Södertörn University.