15:00-15:30 UTC+2
8:00-8:30 EST 5:00-5:30 PST

15:30-16:30 UTC+2
8:30-9:30 EST
5:30-6:30 PST

Keynote 1

• Kevin Karnes, "After What? Afterlives and Aftersounds in Post-Post-Soviet Baltic Europe"

16:30-17:30 UTC+2
9:30-10:30 EST
6:30-7:30 PST

Social Hour

17:30-20:30 UTC+2
10:30-13:30 EST
7:30-10:30 PST

Session 1: Old Traditions in New Spaces
Session Chair: Kate Pukinskis

Presentations will be 30 minutes, with a 15-minute question session following.

• Ilze Cepurniece, "Hymns in Latgalian Catholic Prayer Books: History, Types and Uses"
• Ilya Shneyveys, "Making Transcriptions Resound. Researching and Performing The Jewish Music Collection of Latvian Ethnomusicologist Emilis Melngailis"
• Zane Šmite, "Keeping traditional singing alive: Case study of the "tolku bolss" from the Northern Latgale"

20:30-21:30 UTC+2
13:30-14:30 EST
10:30-11:30 PST

Mägi Ensemble Performance and musician Q & A session

Session 2: Transition and Translation

Session Chair: Rūta Stanevičiūtė

Presentations will be 30 minutes, with a 15-minute question session following.

• Sophia Kirsanova, "Latvian Violin Music in Transition, c. 1980 - 2000"
• Magdalena Nowicka-Ciecierska, "‘Intermediary’ between the West and the East. Andrzej Chłopecki as a promoter of new music from Central-Eastern Europe"
• Rūta Gaidamavičiūtė, "The Situation of Lithuanian Composers in the Post-Soviet Period"

Keynote 2

• Laura Jēkabsone, "Latvian Folksong: the Cornerstone of my Creative Work"

Session 3: Choral Singing, Festivals, and "the Revolution"

Session Chair: Kevin Karnes

Presentations will be 30 minutes, with a 15-minute question session following.

• Heather MacLaughlin Garbes,  “The ‘Kids’ are All Right: An Exploration of Post-Soviet Choral Composers in Estonia and Latvia"
• Živilė Arnašiūtė, "Mythologizing Independence: Lithuania’s Reverberating Singing Revolution"
• Johann Van Niekerk, "Trauma Tourism and the Singing Revolution: A Choral Case Study"

Keynote 3

• Rūta Stanevičiūtė, "Lithuanian Music after 1990: From Post-Soviet Condition to the Regime of Presentism"

Break

Session 4: Gender and Identity

Session Chair: Laura Jēkabsone

Presentations will be 30 minutes, with a 15-minute question session following.

• Brigitta Davidjants, "Womens' experience in Estonian punk scenes during the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet society"
• Sofia Joons Gylling, "Songs in the borderland between memories and forgetfulness: An analysis of the cultural heritage processes around publications with the Estonia-Swedish songwriter Mats Ekman’s songs"