On April 26, Andis Kudors, Executive director of the Centre For East European Policy Studies, will present his lecture Latvia between Two Gravity Centres of Soft Power – the US and Russia, characterizing the US’s and Russia’s cultural impact upon social and political processes in Latvia, at the conference The Global Baltics: The Next Twenty Years to be held at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The conference, planned for April 26 – 28 in Chicago, is the 23rd biannual undertaking with the participation of scientists from various countries. It is organized by Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies. This year, presentations will be made also by Zeneta Ozolina and Juris Rozenvalds, professors at the University of Latvia, as well as Latvian Ambassador to the United Sates Andrejs Pildegovich and Lithuanian and Estonian Ambassadors.