Paris Pin-Yu Chen
@parispychen
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Taiwanese Estophile; postdoc @History_Bham; historian of race, eugenics & land reform in the Baltic states
Birmingham, England
Joined May 2024
Call for Applications @ESCStAntonys in #Baltic Studies. The Estonia-Oxford Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowship in Baltic Studies 2025-2026. Deadline February 26, 2025: https://t.co/H382A3uvP3...
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we have another post in our series guest edited by @BalticBASEES for you! This week Rosario Napolitano discusses the advancement of baltic studies in Italy. Click here to read:
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Rosario NapolitanoEstablishing Baltic Studies in Interwar ItalyIn the aftermath of the First World War, the Western powers paid particular attention to the new reality in Europe after the collapse of...
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This week we have another post in our guest edited series #baltic series for you! @BalticBASEES spoke to Rasa Navickaitė about #lgbtstudies in Lithuania
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Rasa Kamarauskaitė (RK)As part of the series that discusses ‘periphery’ in the Baltic states, Lithuanian sexuality scholar Rasa Navickaitė (RN) challenges Western-focused approaches to Baltic...
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What we are seeing in South Korea right now is not just a moving example of democracy but also an important reminder of how strong historical education can empower people to not repeat the worst of its history.
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We have a very exciting new series on the blog for you, guest edited by the @BASEES Baltic Study Group @BalticBASEES! In the first installment read about how the Duchy of Courland disrupted notions of peripherality in the Baltics https://t.co/ZyS9yjruTO
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John FreemanThe early modern eastern Baltic Sea has often been considered, with some criticism, a global periphery in comparison to the oceanic ‘core’. Nevertheless, a handful of eastern Baltic...
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The 2025 Annual Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies (11-13 June 2025) is currently accepting proposals. Submission deadline: 25 January 2025. We will be there, so see you all in Estonia! https://t.co/MC02Rn4ucY
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Call for applications for visiting fellows: “Subjectivities of Owning Land: Land Redistribution and the Nation-State in the Baltics Across the 20th Century” with @LeibnizHI @unibirmingham and @mob_herne. See below for details...
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Tartu ülikooli peahoone ees heisatud Taiwani lipp ajas Hiina pahaseks. Mis uudist? Tartus õppiv hiinlasest tudeng informeeris Hiina saatkonda. Aitäh @raivladimirov , et seisate Taiwani omariikluse ja demokraatia eest.
Hiina tudengid peavad leppima meie väärtustega. Eesti toetab Taiwanit 🇪🇪🇹🇼 https://t.co/D1PyKd78T2
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Why did attitudes towards racial mixing changed around early 1930s in Estonia? Brace yourself for a scandalous love story (on many levels!) and global connections in my article for the Estonian cultural monthly Vikerkaar
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Baltic Sexualities in Global Perspective is next week! We have brilliant papers, a keynote from Riikka Taavetti, and a roundtable on transnational approaches to sexualities with @NikolaosPapado7, Richard Mole, Kath Browne & Yulia Gradskova. Register here https://t.co/2I3RKhm9lE
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À fire alarm delayed Baltic independence by a week. But it was a real pleasure yesterday to have @parispychen (@unibirmingham, f: @UCLSSEES PhD) with us for another week of Baltic Politics & Society seminars! Always great to chat in Estonian with my Taiwanese friend, too. 🙂
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Has anyone used TalTech's Kaldi Offline Transcriber to transcribe interviews in Estonian? If so, please let me know and I would really like to hear your thoughts.
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CfP: Performances of Belonging? Popular Entertainment, Race, and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, 1880-today. https://t.co/Er1d5SJdxg
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How basketball turned Latvia against Lithuania before WWII
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I had the pleasure to speak to the Estonian Public Broadcasting about my research on eugenics in interwar Estonia. Here is an English translation of the original article in Estonian:
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Although eugenics might seem like a distant and grim topic associated with the British in the 19th century and later the Nazis, progressive race science was also present in interwar Estonia.
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PhD and early-career researchers - consider submitting your work for the @ContEuroHistory prize! Deadline is 6th September and full details below.
🚨The CEH Prize 2024 is now open for submissions! The winning article by a PhD or early-career researcher will be published in the journal, and the author will receive £400 worth of @CambridgeUP books. The deadline is 6 Sept 2024. Full details here: https://t.co/DtS0TY8Zrx
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My happy time researching in Estonia as the Estophilus Visiting Fellow has come to an end. Hope to see Tartu soon, my lovely City of Good Thoughts!
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So excited to share my experiences of teaching race and other difficult themes at the 2024 Tartu Conference @unitartu @skytteUT. Many thanks to @C_H_Gibson for organising this wonderful roundtable on new approaches for teaching East European & Eurasian histories!
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Our conversation about learning Estonian at Tartu (Eel)arvamusfestival is finally out as a podcast. If you speak Estonian, and ever wondered what it's like to learn it and use it, I recommend. But here are my main takeaways. 🧵 https://t.co/Dvolo0ddK2
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