Defining Ourselves:
Establishing Anthropology in the Baltics

The Lithuanian Anthropological Association (Lietuvos Antropologijos Asociacija) organized the first Baltic anthropology conference at Vilnius University on October 3-5, 2003

The aim of the conference was to develop an understanding of anthropology in the region, by sharing experiences in being an anthropologist and doing anthropology in the post-Soviet Baltic region.

The plenary sessions were presented by professors Jonathan Friedman, Christopher Hann, Finn Sivert Nielsen and Steven Sampson.

See pictures from the conference here

 

October 3, Friday.
Venue: Dominikonu  street 15, Vilnius

Greetings from the Organizing Committee

The current situation: view from the outside
Part I

Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology,
Halle, Germany
Three Levels of Cosmopolitanism in Anthropology

Steven Sampson, Lund University, Sweden
The Gift of Democracy: Why it's so Difficult to Handover Projects

The current situation: view from the inside

Aet Annist, University College London, UK
Real Research – Fake Culture? Being an Indigenous
Anthropologist in Estonia

Roberts Kilis, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia
Anthropology as a marketable subject

Vytis Ciubrinskas, Romas Vaštokas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Defining Anthropology in Lithuania

Reception:

Greetings from the Former President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus  

October 4, Saturday
Venue: Universiteto street 5, Vilnius

Anthropology of Post-communism – the Case of the Baltic States
Part I

Klavs Sedlenieks, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Post-Soviet for Inspiration

Aili Aarelaid-Tart, Institute of International and Social Studies
Tallinn, Estonia
Citizens` Initiatives of Estonians from Cross-cultural Perspective
(using biographical method)

Agita Luse, Dept. of Sociology, University of Bristol, UK;
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga,
Latvia
Exercises in Governmentality. Reflections on Fieldwork in a
Support Group Movement in Latvia

Neringa Klumbyte, Dept. of Anthropology,
University of Pittsburgh, USA
At the Margins of Post-socialisms: Self, State, and Nation in Two
Village Communities in Lithuania

Anthropology and Community Studies

Laura Assmuth, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies,
University of  Helsinki, Finland
To Which State to Belong? Citizenship, Ethnicity and Everyday
Life at the Estonia-Russian and Latvian-Russian Borders

Kristina Šliavaite, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Lund University,
Sweden; Institute for Social Rersearch, Vilnius, Lithuania
Community at Risk: Conceptualizing, Experiencing and
Resisting Unemployment in the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant
Community, Lithuania

Anja Timm, Stockholm School of Economics, Riga, Latvia
The Corporate Functionary, his Female Assistant, the Intermittent
Dropout and the Reluctant Entrepreneur

Aušra Simoniukštyte, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Representation of Self: Life Stories of Roma in Lithuania

Toomas Gross, Tartu University, Estonia
The Implications of Religious Change in Contemporary Rural
Oaxaca

The current situation: view from the outside
Part II

Jonathan Friedman, Centre d'anthropologie des mondes
contemporains, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris,
France; Dept of Social Anthropology, Lund University, Sweden
Fractured States and Global Process

Finn Sivert Nielsen, Institute of Anthropology, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark
Building Anthropology: A Historical Sketch of the Growth and
Institutionalization of Anthropology in the Nordic Countries
from the 1950's till Today

Methodology of Field Research and Regional Studies

Asta Vonderau, Dept. of European Ethnology,
Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Mapping the Anthropological  Field in the Baltics

Kari Helene Partapuoli, Dannerhuset Women Center, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Doing Anthropology in the World of Business: Experiences from
a Fieldwork Among Western Businessmen in Tallinn, Estonia

Rimantas Jankauskas, Dept. of Anatomy, Histology and
Anthropology, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Biological  Anthropology in Lithuania – History and Future
Prospects

Victor de Munck, Dept. of Anthropology, SUNY- New-Paltz, New
York, USA
The Structure of Love: An Extensionist Analysis of  Models of
Romantic Love Among U.S. and Lithuanian Students
 

October 5, Sunday
Venue: Universiteto street 5, Vilnius

Anthropology of Post-communism – the Case of the Baltic States
Part II

Ingo W. Schröder, Dept. of Anthropology, Philipps University
Marburg, Germany
Tradition as Experience and Representation: Reflections on
Postsocialist Societies

Gintautas Mazeikis, Centre of Cultural Anthropology, Šiauliai
University, Lithuania
Challenges of Lithuanian Imagined Societies

Victor de Munck, Dept. of Anthropology, SUNY- New Paltz,
New York, USA
An Idea for Establishment the World’s Best Anthropology

Concluding Round Table:

Establishing Anthropology Academic Programs in the Baltic
States.