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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📢 🌊 We are hiring! The University of Greifswald's IRTG “Baltic Peripeties” is offering 10 part-time (65%) Research Assistant positions. 📌 Deadline: 20.11.2026 🗓️ Start: 1 April 2027 ⏳ Duration: Until 31 March 2030 For more info on application: peripeties.uni-greifswald.de/job-advertis...

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

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

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

📢 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

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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!

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

📢 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.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

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.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🌊📚 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.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In anticipation of today’s lecture we recommend @kirareneekurz.bsky.social latest publication „Youth Political Representation“. This book explores the challenges, opportunities, and reforms shaping youth political representation today.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Tomorrow: Panel-Gespräch und anschließende Diskussion mit Heike Kleffner und Lobby MV über Wissenschaftsfreiheit, Neutralität und was die angekündigte „blaue Wende“ nach der Landtagswahl 2026 für uns an Universitäten und Hochschulen, Schulen bedeuten könnte und was wir jetzt tun könnten.

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Jan Süselbeck @jansueselbeck.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Clemens Räthel on Swedish documentary theater dealing with the #AIDS pandemic. @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social

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Jan Süselbeck @jansueselbeck.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Mary Cosgrove on “Relational Poetics: The Poetics of Care,” at our #NTNU conference “Narrating Critical Events.” @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The workshop “Narrating Critical Events” brings together scholars from European universities to explore literary and cultural perspectives on care, crisis, relationality, migration, war, and environmental change. For further information click the link: ifzo.uni-greifswald.de/zentrum/kale...

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Universität Greifswald @unigreifswald.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Bundesverdienstkreuz für Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller 🎖️ An der Universität Greifswald vertritt er die einzige Fennistik-Professur Deutschlands und vernetzt sie eng mit den nordischen Ländern, weit über die Lehre hinaus. Für sein Engagement wurde er nun von Frank-Walter Steinmeier ausgezeichnet.

Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier überreicht Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller das Bundesverdienstkreuz.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🌊 Join us for our Summer Term Lecture Series about „Democratic Challenges in Europe“ and learn more about research from political science, and related fields to explore current developments across Europe, with particular attention to the Baltic Sea region.

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Kira Renée Kurz @kirareneekurz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The contract is signed and I've moved into my new office space: Since today I'm a postdoc at the international research training group @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social at the @unigreifswald.bsky.social 🌊☀️ Thanks a lot for the warm welcome! :)

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

End of January the Baltic Peripeties team went on a trip to visit the exhibition „Von heute auf morgen“ by artist Manfred Scharnberg. Scharnberg documented the Wende in the region MV, focusing on people and their different perspectives and experiences. www.zingst.de/fotografie/m...

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Jan Süselbeck @jansueselbeck.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Next publication. ✌️ This one is even Open Access, about Gothic novels in German Romanticism and literary antisemitism as an affective tool of Writing Angst (E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ernst Moritz Arndt etc.). @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Today Tim Senkbeil presented his PhD project titled. We discussed excerpts from the novels „Die Möglichkeit von Glück“ by Anne Rabe and Hendrik Bolz‘s „Nullerjahre“, which are some of the central texts in his dissertation.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Reading and book presentation 📚 with Hendrik Bolz, Anna Lux and Jonas Brückner kulturkalender.greifswald.de/events/58357

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Congratulations to Laura Tack for her successful dissertation defence! 🎉💐📚

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The disputation of Laura Tack titled „ein groß und unerhörtes Meer wunder“- narratives and perceptions of historic storm surges in the southwest of the Baltic Sea region between the 14th-17th century is about to start- we wish her the best of luck!

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Had a great time yesterday at the Christmas party of the Research Training Group @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social. Such a sharp and genuinely fun crowd to celebrate with ❄️✨ Bonus: my team managed to snag second place in the super-wintery Baltic quiz.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Today we are at the career workshop and are looking at career paths outside academia. Did you have the opportunity to attend a similar event yet? www.schainundkuchenbrandt.com/de

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

We are excited about this evening’s reading of „Let’s talk about feelings“ by Leif Randt in the Wolfgang Koeppen House: www.koeppenhaus.de/vorschau/

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The discipline of “Narratology” studies the logic, structures, practices, and function of narration in media and culture. For more information, check out the digital Living Handbook of Narratology from the @uni-hamburg.de: www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/index.html

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the living handbook of narratology

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Narrative is relevant across disciplines, though its centrality has been emphasized most strongly in cultural studies and humanities. The communication of knowledge and information always constitutes a narrative, whether actively or passively constructed.

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IRTG Baltic Peripeties @baltic-peripeties.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

A narrative is an account (written or spoken, or otherwise mediated) of events, telling what took place and how. It constructs a particular way of understanding and linking events.

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

In the final part of his three-part series, former GHIL #scholarship holder Bodo Mrozek (@berlincoldwar.bsky.social‬) explores how cities shared knowledge about air pollution control. 🌫 1/7

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Tim Senkbeil @timsenkbeil.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

In zwei Wochen schon findet im Koeppenhaus die Lesung mit der Literaturwissenschaftlerin und Schriftstellerin Shushan Avagyan statt. Abendprogramm des Workshops "Exploring Narrative Gaps in Literature" - und auch ansonsten für alle offen, Eintritt frei. See you! www.kultur-mv.de/veranstaltun...

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Re-membering the literary landscape. Public reading with Shushan Avagyan

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