Participation in CBSE 2025 conference at the University of Cambridge

Papers will be presented by the participants of State research program project “Navigating the Latvian History of the 20th–21st Century: Social Morphogenesis, Legacy and Challenges” (No. VPP-IZM-Vēsture-2023/1-0003) and Fundamental and Applied Research project “Ethnographer, Society, and Art: Symbiosis of Ethnology and Art and Discourse of the Soviet Colonialism in Latvia” (Nr. lzp-2023/1-0052).

Papers offered by the participants of State research program project:

• Klāvs Zariņš — Instrumentalizing the Occupied: Latvians in the Intelligence Structures of the German Army (1915–1916);
• Valdis Kuzmins — Comrades or Enemies? German nationals in the Latvian Army during the War of Independence;
• Ēriks Jēkabsons — Activities of Herbert Grant-Watson, British Foreign Office representative in Latvia, March–August 1919;
• Kārlis Dambītis — In the Mills of Power: The Impact of Baltic German Repatriation 1939–1940 on Latvian Army Personnel;
• Jānis Tomaševskis — Residents of Valmiera between Soviet and Nazi regimes in 1940 and 1941: Agency and its Transformation;
• Ilze Boldāne-Zeļenka — Kolkhoz villages versus homesteads: a shift in perspective in late socialism;
• Irēna Saleniece — Labor Education in the Latvian SSR of the 1970s–80s: Element of communist upbringing or reincarnation of pre-war Latvian experience?
• Jānis Ķeruss — Manifestations of economic problems of late socialism in the activities of the Latvian Civil Aviation Administration 1977–1991;
• Daina Bleiere — Desovietization of local history during the restoration of Latvia's national independence (1987–1990);
• Kristīne Beķere — Latvian Popular Front support groups abroad: expression of change in diaspora attitudes towards homeland;
• Andis Kudors — Next to the "Russian world": economic relations between Latvia and Russia from 1991 to 2000;
• Elīna Reitere — Patriotic Melodramas in Contemporary Latvian Cinema and the Narrative of the Victim.

Papers offered by the participants of Fundamental and Applied Research project:

• Ieva Pīgozne — Threads of Influence: Looking for Social Networks Behind the Movement of Dress Between Riga and Rural Latgale in the 19th Century;
• Ilze Boldāne-Zeļenka — Between Soviet building regulations and national tradition: the subject of construction in the Latvian SSR ethnography;
• Anete Karlsone — Power, Ethnographer, and Society in Soviet Latvia: Scientific Report Sessions 1958–1989;
• Inese Sirica — Visualization of the Concept of Latvian Folk Art Under Soviet Occupation: The Case of State Art Academy Graduation Projects;
• Jānis Kalnačs — Teaching History of Latvian Folk Art in the State Academy of Art: Secondary Subject of National Culture in Soviet-period Curriculum.

Conference program.