Benedikts Kalnačs at the conference in Brno

On 15–16 November 2023, Masaryk University in Brno hosted the international academic conference “Literature and Totalitarianism.” At the invitation of the conference organizers, Benedikts Kalnačs, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia (LU LFMI), took part in the plenary session.

The title of his paper was “The Brave New (Soviet) World and Its Alternatives: Totalitarianism and the Struggle for Cultural Diversity in 20th-Century Latvian Literature.” The research on this topic was supported by the State Research Programme “Letonica for the Development of a Latvian and European Society”, project “Narrative, Form, and Voice: The Embeddedness of Literature in Culture and Society” (No. VPP-LETONIKA-2022/3-0003).

The conference programme is available here:
https://classics.phil.muni.cz/en/research/conferences/literature-and-totalitarianism/programme