Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy hosted an annual meeting of the Baltic Study Group, sponsored by British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) on May 3 2013. Presentations included: 

• Timofey Agarin and Ada-Charlotte Regelmann (Politics, QUB), Baltic Studies in the light of developments in European and Postcommunist Area Research,:
• Pete Duncan (SSEES UCL) and Alexander Titov (History, QUB): Russia’s identity and perspectives on the Baltic States 1992-2012
• Nikolay Mitrokhin (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, Universität Bremen): Between the sea and a hard place? The long view on Russian Orthodox Church in the Baltic States
• Tina Tamman, (Independent scholar, London): Soviet Ideas of Estonian as perceived through the 1920s reorganisation of the Petrograd Naval Academy 

The UK Baltic Study Group is an informal and interdisciplinary forum, meeting annually, to foster greater discussion, collaborative research, interaction with policy practitioners and other non-academic partners and – potentially – joint activities in teaching. Membership of the group is open to UK academics and postgraduates from any discipline with an interest in the Baltic who are conducting research relevant to the area. Information on the UK Baltic Studies Group is here http://go.qub.ac.uk/baltic