Participation in the conference “Peripheral Decadences and Forms of Nationalism”
From 13 to 15 November, the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn, will host an international conference “Peripheral Decadences and Forms of Nationalism.”
Leading researchers from the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia will take part with presentations — Eva Eglāja-Kristsone (“Trapped Between the Idea of New Woman and Erotic Utopia: Diary of Marija Stalbova-Eglīte”) and Benedikts Kalnačs (“Decadent Characters in Realist Fiction: On the Aesthetic Polyphony of fin de siècle Latvian Literature”).
Participation in the conference and the thematic presentations are part of the research projects “Recovering Latvian Realism: Literary Innovation as a Search for Identity” (lzp-2024/1-0341) and “A Walk Through Time: Flânerie and Modernity in Interwar Latvian Culture” (lzp-2022/1-0505).