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The Pen, the Place, and the Pact: Literature, Heritage, and Diplomacy in the Baltic and Nordic Regions

The 16th Annual International Conference on Baltic and Nordic Studies, Sibiu, Romania, May 8-9, 2025

📱 The 16th Annual International Conference on Baltic and Nordic Studies Begins Tomorrow
📍 Sibiu, Romania | May 8–9, 2025
🎓 Theme: The Pen, the Place, and the Pact: Literature, Heritage, and Diplomacy in the Baltic and Nordic Regions
🔗 Full programme and details: https://balticnordic.hypotheses.org/conference2025

This year’s conference invites scholars to examine how literature, heritage, and diplomacy intersect as instruments of regional self-definition in the Baltic and Nordic spaces. These elements are not approached as isolated domains but as interdependent systems of meaning, each contributing to the formation and transmission of political, cultural, and historical narratives.

Literature in this context is not viewed solely as aesthetic output but as a form of cultural negotiation—shaping national discourses and offering alternative forms of political engagement, especially in times of conflict, displacement, or reconfiguration.

Heritage, too often romanticized, will be considered here as a strategic resource: a medium through which societies remember, contest, or instrumentalize the past, particularly in geopolitically sensitive environments.

Diplomacy, finally, is not reduced to protocol or bilateral treaties. In the Nordic-Baltic region, it increasingly incorporates cultural actors, narratives, and symbolic geographies. It becomes a practice of interpreting and mediating values across linguistic, historical, and ideological borders.

📌 The city of Sibiu, with its long-standing traditions of intercultural exchange, and Lucian Blaga University offer a suitable context for this reflection. Over the course of two days, participants will engage in critical discussions on how texts have mediated transitions, how cultural memory has been mobilized, and how diplomacy is adapting to new cultural and environmental realities.

We look forward to welcoming participants tomorrow for what promises to be a rigorous and multidisciplinary exploration of the narratives that continue to shape the North.


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Silviu Miloiu (May 7, 2025). The Pen, the Place, and the Pact: Literature, Heritage, and Diplomacy in the Baltic and Nordic Regions. Baltic&Nordic Studies. Retrieved November 7, 2025 from https://balticnordic.hypotheses.org/11409


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