Baltic Conference in London April 20th

I'm presenting at a conference on the Baltic States in London on April 20th. If you'd like to attend here is the registration link: http://balticsymposium2012.eventbrite.co.uk/

Here's the provisional programme:

BALTIC SYMPOSIUM 2012

Economics, Security, Culture

UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Institute of Archaeology Lecture Theatre, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY

Friday 20^th April 2012

The sixth symposium in a series sponsored by:

Embassy of the Republic of Estonia, Embassy of the Republic of Latvia,

Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania, Baltic Council in Great Britain,

UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

08.30-09.15     Registration

09.15-09.30       Introduction – housekeeping information

                                                                    

09.30-10.00          KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Chair:                    HE Ms Aino Lepik von Wirén, Estonian Ambassador        to London

Keynote Speaker:   Prof Andres Kasekamp, Tartu University

                                    Director, Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, Tallinn                                                                                         

10.00-11.30     BALTIC TIGERS?

Chair:   Prof Slavo Radosevic, UCL-SSEES

Panel:   Prof Petras Baršauskas, Dean, Kaunas University of Technology

Universities’ of Technology role in creating innovation driven economies

            Dr Richard Connolly, Lecturer, Birmingham University                     

                        High technology exports from the Baltic economies

            Kalle Killar, Executive Alternate Director,

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London

Baltic Tigers are back but are they ready for the challenges ahead?

Daniels Pavluts, Minister, Ministry for Economics, Riga        

           

           

11.30-11.45                      Tea/coffee

11.45-13.15     SECURITY CHALLENGES

Chair:   Dr Peter Duncan, UCL-SSEES

Panel:   Andis Kudors, Executive Director, Centre for East European Policy Studies, Riga                             Securitization of culture: Russian foreign policy toward Latvia

            Dr Margarita Šešelgytė, Studies Director,

Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University

                        Strategic cultures of the Baltic States              

            Romas Švedas, Security Consultant, Vilnius

                        Energy security           

           

13.15-14.30          Buffet lunch in SSEES Masaryk Senior Common Room

16 Taviton Street, 4^th floor

14.30-16.00     CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL PROCESSES

Chair:   Dr Robin Aizlewood, Director, UCL-SSEES

Panel:   Dr Paul Jordan, Research Assistant, Cardiff University

The Eurovision Song Contest: Nation branding and nation building in Estonia 

            Dr Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Director, Lithuanian Literature and Folklore Institute, Vilnius               Literature and Lithuania’s social transformations since the 1990s

Rolands Lappuķe, Ambassador at Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Riga   

            The Latvian diaspora – past and future

                                   

16.00-16.15          Tea/coffee

                                   

16.15-17.45          NEW DIRECTIONS

Chair:   Dr Allan Sikk, UCL-SSEES                

Panel:   Tadas Jucikas, Cambridge University

Creating healthcare, biotech and pharmaceutical translational research and enterprise opportunities in the Baltics

            Kärg Kama, St Catherine’s College, Oxford

                           Energy governance in Estonia

            Tauri Tuvikene, University College London

Post-socialism and state-phobia: the challenges of regulating car parking in Tallinn