Sound of the Nation: Russian-Speaker Integration in Latvia

Event time: 
Friday, November 6, 2020 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
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Speaker/Performer: 
Indra Ekmanis, Baltic Sea Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Event description: 

The European Studies Council and the Baltic Studies Program at Yale present Indra Ekmanis, Baltic Sea Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, who will present the following talk on “Sound of the Nation: Russian-Speaker Integration in Latvia”
Comments by Solvita Denisa-Liepniece, Juris Padegs Fellow, Yale University
Please register for the webinar zoom link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8wrN-QlLSZ6d22Qwct8saA
Dr. Indra Ekmanis is the editor of FPRI’s Baltic Bulletin, and a Baltic Sea Fellow in the Eurasia Program. She was previously an editor for public radio’s The World through the ACLS/Mellon Public Fellows Program, where she focused on worldwide migration and European issues. Dr. Ekmanis recently completed a fellowship as a Kennan Institute Title VIII Research Scholar at The Wilson Center. She has a PhD in International Studies from the University of Washington. Her academic research looks at social integration, minority rights, nationalism, civil society and democratic transition, with an area specialization in the Baltic Sea Region and post-Soviet space. She is currently working on an interdisciplinary edited volume on disinformation in the Baltic region.

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