Baltic Studies Summer Institute

The Center for World Languages at the University of California, Los Angeles, will host the Baltic Studies Summer Institute in the summer of 2008.

The Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI) was founded in 1994 and is at present partially funded by a consortium of several American universities: UCLA, Harvard University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Illinois-Urbana Indiana University, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Washington, Columbia University, University of Pittsburgh, Stanford University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.

BALSSI is hosted each summer by a different member of the supporting universities: the University of Washington in 1994 and 1995, the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996 and 1997, Indiana University in 1998 and 1999, the University of Iowa in 2000 and 2001, the University of Illinois in 2002, University of Washington in 2003 and 2004, and Indiana University in 2005 and 2006. The Center for World Languages at the University of California, Los Angeles, will host the Baltic Studies Summer Institute in the summer of 2007 and 2008.