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For the period September 2017 through February 2018 Yale is fortunate to have on campus Dr. Arvydas Grišinas as the Joseph P. Kazickas Postdoctoral Associate in European Studies.  Dr. Grišinas is a Researcher at Kaunas University of Technology and a Lecturer in Political Anthropology at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Lithuania.  His work centers on post-Soviet political identity formation in Central and Eastern Europe.  He received his Ph.D. in Politics and Government from the University of Kent (Great Britain) in 2015, having finished his undergraduate education in History and Anthropology at Vilnius University.

Dr. Grišinas is completing a book titled "Politics with a Human Face: Identity and Experience in Post-Soviet Europe" that examines how identity formation, symbolism, historical narratives, political images, and other human factors shape politics in Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine and the rest of the post-Soviet European region.

Dr. Grišinas will be presenting his research completed at Yale in February, 2018.

The Yale Baltic Studies Program is currently hosting at Yale two research fellows from the Baltic countries – one from Lithuania and one from Latvia. Estonian scholar will be arriving in early 2018.  Each of these scholars will be making presentations on the Yale campus toward the end of their stay at the university.  The Baltic Studies Program also invites leading scholars to Yale throughout the academic year in presenting their research to the Yale community.

Yale first Baltic Studies talk will be presented on October 24 by Dr. Ruth Noyes, who completed her Ph.D. work in Art History at John Hopkins University in 2010.

Her talk is titled “Relic Translatio in Early Modern Baltic Borderlands (1500-1800), and the Modern Afterlives of the Baltic Relic.”

The talk will be held in Rosenkranz Hall, room 102, (125 Prospect St., New Haven) from 4:00 to 5:30 pm.

Bradley D. Woodworth

Baltic Studies Coordinator

Yale University