Baltic Symposium 2016: Cutting Edges of Europe

New security challenges – overcoming anxieties

Panel: Sir Andrew Wood, Associate Fellow, Chatham House, London, Blind Man’s Buff - the Search for Hidden Answers

HE Mr Renatas Norkus, Ambassador-at-large, Transatlantic Cooperation and Security Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vilnius, Lithuania's security policy: new challenges and opportunities

Marko Mihkelson, Chair, National Defence Committee, Estonian Parliament, Tallinn, Western strategy and Russia

Chair: HE Mr Andris Teikmanis, Ambassador of the Republic of Latvia, London

Media freedom versus the power of propaganda

Panel: Dr Nerijus Maliukevičius, Vilnius University, Institute of International Relations & Political Science, Russian information warfare: history of the concept, lessons for Baltic region

Rita Ruduša, Executive Director, Baltic Centre for Media Excellence, Rīga, Storytelling and knowledge: how to serve distrustful and bamboozled audiences better

Edward Lucas, Senior Editor, The Economist, London, Why the Baltic States were right

Chair: Dr Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Lecturer, Kingston University, London

People on the move

Panel: Dr Olga Cara, Senior Researcher, UCL Institute of Education, Academic achievement of Latvian Diaspora children attending English schools

Ingrida Gečienė, Director, Institute for Social Innovations, Vilnius, Diaspora professionals: how to mobilize them to create home country wellbeing

Prof Russell King, University of Sussex and Malmö University, The lure of London: a comparative study of youth mobilities from the Baltic States

Chair: Dr Dace Dzenovska, Associate Professor, University of Oxford