No 24. līdz 26. aprīlim Latvijas Universitātes Humanitāro zinātņu fakultātes Latvijas vēstures institūta darbinieki piedalās Baltijas studiju veicināšanas asociācijas (Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, AABS) konferencē "Converging Paths: The Baltic Between East and West" (CBSE 2025) Kembridžas Universitātē.

Ar referātiem uzstāsies Valsts pētījumu programmas projekta “Latvijas 20.–21. gadsimta vēsture: sociālā morfoģenēze, mantojums un izaicinājumi” (Nr. VPP-IZM-Vēsture-2023/1-0003) un Fundamentālo un lietišķo pētījumu projekta “Etnogrāfs, sabiedrība, māksla: etnoloģijas un mākslas simbioze un padomju koloniālisma diskurss Latvijā” (Nr. lzp-2023/1-0052) pētnieki.

Valsts pētījumu programmas projekta pētnieku referāti: 

  • 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.

Fundamentālo un lietišķo pētījumu projekta pētnieku referāti: 

  • 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.

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