The participants of the CBSS Summer University 2024 are invited to engage in the dialogue on questions of strategic narratives relating to cultural resilience in the face of the numerous, often challenging transformations, and the ways in which Balticness/BSR identity can help strengthen it. How do societies in the BSR respond to crises? How resilient are democratic structures and cultural practices in the face of renationalization, extreme ideologies, aggressor states, the climate crisis, and transformation? Can a shared, regional identity like Balticness help to establish and strengthen resilience of cultural practices and intangible knowledge in a region that shares the natural environment, the cultural memory of contact, cooperation, and conflict, as well as transnational democratic institutions?
The place of our Summer University is not coincidental: Estonia will not only hold the presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States since July 2024, but it is also the country which has had to face most of the challenges that appeared in the BSR in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. During the Summer University we will also visit Tartu, the European Capital of Culture 2024, to experience the cultural dimension first hand.
Event organisers:
- Marta Grzechnik (University of Gdańsk, Poland),
- Saara Mildeberg (Tallinn University, Estonia),
- Alexander Drost (University of Greifswald, Germany),
- Magdalena Muszel (Zatoka Foundation, Poland).
YoPeNET partners contributing to the CBSS Summer University:
- University of Gdańsk,
- Tallinn University,
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research, University of Greifswald,
- Zatoka Foundation,
- Aarhus University,
- Södertörn University,
- Danish-Belarusian Culture Society BELADANIA.
The Summer University is supported by the Council of the Baltic Sea States Project Support Facility & Estonian Presidency of the CBSS.