
This year the 16th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE), organised by the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, took place in Cambridge between 24 and 26 April. Today, on the last day of the conference, I delivered my paper on ‘Religious creolisation in the early modern Baltic’ at Peterhouse, as part of the conference’s 117th panel, alongside Vykintas Vareikis and Povilas Mikalauskas. Vykintas Vareikis spoke about the experiences of travellers in eighteenth-century Klaipėda, while Povilas Mikalauskas’s paper was on the Chronicon of Peter of Duisburg. My own paper introduced the central argument of my forthcoming book Silence of the Gods that the pre-Christian religious traditions practised in early modern Lithuania are best understood via the hermeneutic of creole religion. An interesting panel discussion followed the papers, and I am grateful to everyone who came to hear my presentation.
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