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Baltic Scholars and Leaders Express Solidarity at Yale
08/01/2024
On June 13-16, Yale hosted the 2024 conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), the world’s largest scholarly association for study of the Baltic region.
he Kazickas Family Foundation is proud to support the 2024 conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) held at Yale University from June 13-16. This event is the world’s largest scholarly gathering dedicated to the study of the Baltic region. With 325 participants from over twenty countries, including over 60 percent from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, the conference highlighted the expansion of the Baltic Studies Program within the Yale MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
"The conference brought to Yale hundreds of distinguished scholars and leaders to discuss the Baltic region’s history, culture, and pressing contemporary issues,” said Edyta Bojanowska, professor of Slavic languages and literature and chair of the European Studies Council. Bradley Woodworth, who leads the Baltic Studies Program at Yale, noted, “This conference helps solidify Yale University’s position as a global center for study of the Baltic region.”
KFF has contributed $1 mln to the Joseph P. Kazickas Fund for Lithuanian and Baltic Studies, an endowed fund at Yale that supports the activities of the Baltic Studies Program. This program, under the European Studies Council at Yale’s MacMillan Center, brings Baltic-related speakers to campus, hosts scholars from the Baltic region for research, and strengthens Baltic studies networks through participation in national and international conferences. Starting in 2014, a Joseph P. Kazickas Post-Doctoral Fellow from Lithuania has worked at Yale each year.
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