A virtual panel titled 'The Baltics: Living with the Bear', focusing on Baltic states' geopolitical challenges.

Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former Latvia president and scholar, significantly contributed to Latvia's EU and NATO membership and global recognition. She held key roles, including UN special envoy and a candidate for UN secretary general.

Darius Staliunas, deputy director at the Lithuanian Institute of History, focuses on Russification, antisemitism, and nationalism in Lithuania and Belarus. His works include studies on ethnic conflicts and historiography.

Jennifer Keahey's book 'Decolonizing Development' compares Latvia and South Africa's post-authoritarian efforts to decolonize production and trade, integrating political economy with ecocultural and Indigenous insights against global crises like authoritarianism and climate change.

Estonia's robust cyber defenses for elections set a global example. Their system, improved since a 2007 cyber attack, features digital identity and secure data exchange, ensuring election integrity and trust in digital services. Theconversation.com

Iveta Silova analyzes Latvian textbooks pre, during, and post-Soviet era, focusing on education transformations after socialism. The FreshEd Podcast