12 pages of nonfiction BALTIC book reviews! WScholarly Journal. O News Magazine. R Nov. 2008. L Vol. DI:1 S From the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) Sociology as a stepping stone A conversation with Piotr Sztompka Bernd Henningsen The Baltic Sea as a model region Arne Bengtsson PHOTO: MONICA STRANDELL Vilnius’ dark holocaust history two essays SUSANNE LUNDIN: ORGAN TRAFFICKING MAX ENGMAN: TRIANGULAR DRAMA DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS 2short takes A book, a seminar, a blog, and a research project. Trademarks Humanities in Baltic A unique community from the and a different time worlds time of Catherine the Great outreach in blogs diplomacy Baltic worlds also exist in ”blog worlds”. Johan ”Crossing Perspectives” Selander, respected is the title of a project journalist who contribut- headed by former Danish ed to Svenska Dagbladet Foreign Minister Uffe for many years, has a Ellemann-Jensen, Swedish-language blog, Chairman of the Baltic Södertörn University Library. ”Eye and ear”, where he Development Forum. writes about events and Among other things, An international seminar on the task intellectual experiences the project addresses the and relevance of research in the from the Baltic region, question of how cultural humanities will be taking place at understood broadly. Here tourism can be integrat- Södertörn University on December 1st. one can find, to name ed with economic and ”The humanities are still neglected,” just one example, entries developmental strategies. we read in the invitation. ”At the same from a trip to Wroclaw/ Gammalsvenskby, 100 km from the estuary of the River Dniepr. Central in this context time, the humanities constitute the Breslau. is the notion of ”Baltic- unique space where questions about Selander has been In early October, the archaic Swedish from the 1780s. The ness”, for example, how the entirety of the movement, direction, particularly interested in Swedish Royal Couple rest have switched to Russian, Ukrain- this term can become a values, and priorities of scientific culture the human consequen- visited Gammalsvensk- ian, or German. Swedish traditions brand and a component can be brought to light, interpreted, and ces of the displacements by in Ukraine. For over are nonetheless kept alive. Around of what today is called critically reflected.” of large numbers of 200 years, remnants 1930, an attempt was made to get the public diplomacy, or ”out- people that took place in of a group of Swedes entire population to move to Sweden. reach diplomacy”. FROM THE PROGRAM: several of the Baltic Sea have lived there – people Of those who took the chance, many Environmental and Simon Critchley, professor of philoso- countries during the 20th descended from those returned, having encountered distrust museum projects are phy at the New School, New York, will century. who, during the time of and prejudice in what for them was part of this effort, which introduce the seminar with a talk about ADDRESS: johanselander. Empress Catherine the a foreign country. Once back in the is focused on the areas the humanistic disciplines of the future. blogspot.com ≈ Great, were enticed to USSR, the Soviet security agencies of surrounding the River Irina Sandomirskaja, professor of move from the island of course kept an eye on them. Daugava/Dvina. This Cultural Studies at Södertörn University, Hiiumaa (known in Swed- For a couple of years, research- geographic focus means has chosen to speak under the rubric ish and German as Dagö) ers at Södertörn University, under the that Belarus will also be ”L’engagé: a faculty for unnecessary off the Estonian mainland direction of professor of history, David included. The project has things”. ”The existential turn in the to recently conquered Gaunt, have been surveying the life been administered by the humanities” is the theme addressed Russian territory at the stories and linguistic relationships found Cultural Tourism Institute by Pawel Markowski, a professor of Dnieper River. They were in this unique community. Linguist in Norrköping. literature from Jagiellonska University, promised their own land Aleksander Mankov’s report The scientific anchor Krakow. and exemption from Gammalsvenskby: The Unique from the Swedish side is The seminar is open to the public. taxes. But of the one Multilingual Community can be found Professor Erik Hofrén. To ensure a seat, send an e-mail no thousand people who in the research database at Södertörn In 2009, the project will later than November 15 to emigrated, only a few University. ≈ be presented in book [email protected]. ≈ hundred made it with form. ≈ The City Hall in Wroclaw. their lives intact, and what they found when they arrived was a deso- late steppe region. The population in Gammalsvenskby has never exceeded 800 inhabitants. Today only a few people in the vil- lage — all elderly — speak Swedish, though it is an BALTIC note of intent 3 W O R L D S It was a long way to Liepaja colophon contents ulveson 12 pages of nonfiction BALTIC book reviews! reviews ADAM ”Occupation” and ”genocide” : WORLDS D L R O W Scholarly Journal. News Magazine. Nov. 2008. Vol. I: 1 From the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) 12 in the Baltic area — contested ILL S o c i o l o g y as a stepping concepts. s t o n e A conversation Different opinions on Ignalina with Piotr Sztompka 23 — now and then. How did Finnish researchers B e r n d He n n i n g s e n The Baltic Se a as a model region 16 interact with the Nazi scientific Arne Bengtsson Vilnius’ dark holocaust history community? t w o e s s a y s SUSANNE LUNDIN: ORGAN TRAFFICKING MAX ENGMAN: TRIANGULAR DRAMA DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS features Editor-in-chief Students from Belarus on the Anders Björnsson 04 move — an exile university? Editorial advisory board Holocaust experiences in Rebecka Lettevall, 12 nowaday’s Lithuania. Report When Tomas Tranströmer wrote his poetry suite Bal- Baltic Worlds is now setting out on a Board Chair. CBEES. from a once Jewish Vilnius. tics (Östersjöar, 1974), there was no indication that the voyage that has actually been long an- Sari Autio–Sarasmo, Do we own our bodies? people inhabiting the islands and coastlines of this in- ticipated. The academic collaboration Aleksanteri-Institute. 23 A research project. land sea would be coming into closer contact with each between the Baltic Sea nations has in- Ole Elgström, Lund other. ”Nowhere the lee-side. Everywhere risk”: tensified for every year that has passed University. Michael interview since the end of the Cold War. Research- Gilek, CBEES. Ann- The notion of class is still It deals with places where the citizens are controlled, ers from old and new neighboring states Cathrine Jungar, 11 relevant, says Piotr Sztompka, where thoughts are built with emergency exits, are self-evident participants and sources CBEES. Anu-Mai Köll, Polish sociologist. where a conversation between friends is really a test of of inspiration in the Swedish university Director, CBEES. Thomas what friendship means. environment. Our societies are drawing Lundén, CBEES. Jens essays And when you’re together with somebody you don’t closer, culturally and scientifically. E. Olesen, University Organ trafficking from know well. This creates the obligation to draw of Greifswald. 12 Moldavia. Swedish ethnologist up a statement of accounts. Specialists Editorial staff Susanne Lundin tells. Not only in foreign countries but in the poet’s own Swe- from different disciplines, institutions In this issue: Sven Hort, Can the Baltic attract economic den, as well, a government was spying on its own citi- and fields of activity need a forum where Ann-Louise Martin, 12 and political investment? zens. Baltics was published one year after the so-called they can discover one another, commu- Lucette Nobell, A little war, long past, between IB-affair — the Swedish government’s illegal monitoring nicate with one another. An interested Pontus Reimers, 44 Russia and Sweden. Is there of political affiliations — had shaken public opinion. It public wants to be able to follow the Anna Lena Ringarp, anything to commemorate? was the end of innocence. But repression in the Baltic progress made in fields it can’t easily MarieLouise Samuels- area was unevenly distributed. keep an eye on. son, Nils Johan Tjärn- misc. ”It’s a long way to Liepaja”, Tranströmer wrote. This is why this periodical has been lund. Homosexuality and Swedish historians Kristian Gerner and Klas-Göran launched. The Baltic Sea Foundation is Design 8 masculinity. Karlsson argue that the Baltic Sea could be seen, his- its financier, the Centre for Baltic and Lars Rodvaldr, The many faces of torically, as the Nordens Medelhav (Mediterranean of the East European Studies its publisher. art director, Oktavilla. 23 Aksenov. North) — the title of a book they co-published in 2002. BW has two faces. Half of the content of Lena Fredriksson, What to do with the This perspective forces those dealing with the area to the periodical is meant to be academic Oktavilla. 16 NGOs? abandon ”a territorial determination with clear geo- in nature, supervised by a scientifically Illustrators graphical borders in favor of a definition in terms of and scholarly qualified editorial board. Riber Hansson. Artist The next issue of BW is scheduled to communication structures and networks”. The rest will have the character of high- and political cartoonist. appear April 1, 2009. It is the inten- It was precisely these types of structures and net- quality news reporting, produced by re- Ragni Svensson. Editor- tion of CBEES that within a year it will works that were restored, or opened for the first time, nowned professional writers. ≈ in-chief of the student become a quarterly publication. when the old system in the East collapsed.