Presentation about Estonian and Polish exile communities in Sweden
05/25/2011 - 15:00 - 15:00
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Lars Fredrik Stöcker, a PhD student from European University Institute
(Florence), will make a presentation entitled "Bridging the Baltic Sea:
Oppositional Networks between Estonian and Polish émigrés in Sweden and
Their Home Countries in the Cold War Period" in the TU Institute of History
in the auditorium 307 (Rüütli 6) on Wednesday, May 25 at 15:00.The topic
of the research project and the presentation is the interplay between the
politically active elites among the numerous refugee and later exile
communities from Poland and Estonia in neutral Sweden and oppositional
circles in their home countries on Sweden’s opposite coasts during the
Cold War. Seen in a longue durée perspective, the specific entanglements
across the Baltic Sea that developed, roughly speaking, between 1939 and
1989 constitute a challenge both to traditional Cold War narratives and the
so far published syntheses of the Baltic Sea Region’s history. In the
framework of the seminar, a short overview over the general outline of the
thesis will be presented, while especially the Estonian case study
certainly provides the possibility of fruitful discussions.For further
information please contactKarsten BrüggemannHead of PhD Curriculum for
HistoryEmail: karsten.bruggemann@tlu.ee
(Florence), will make a presentation entitled "Bridging the Baltic Sea:
Oppositional Networks between Estonian and Polish émigrés in Sweden and
Their Home Countries in the Cold War Period" in the TU Institute of History
in the auditorium 307 (Rüütli 6) on Wednesday, May 25 at 15:00.The topic
of the research project and the presentation is the interplay between the
politically active elites among the numerous refugee and later exile
communities from Poland and Estonia in neutral Sweden and oppositional
circles in their home countries on Sweden’s opposite coasts during the
Cold War. Seen in a longue durée perspective, the specific entanglements
across the Baltic Sea that developed, roughly speaking, between 1939 and
1989 constitute a challenge both to traditional Cold War narratives and the
so far published syntheses of the Baltic Sea Region’s history. In the
framework of the seminar, a short overview over the general outline of the
thesis will be presented, while especially the Estonian case study
certainly provides the possibility of fruitful discussions.For further
information please contactKarsten BrüggemannHead of PhD Curriculum for
HistoryEmail: karsten.bruggemann@tlu.ee