UL ILFA researchers are participating in the 30th conference “Current Issues in Literary and Cultural Research”

On March 21–22, 2024, the University of Liepāja will host the 30th annual conference “Current Issues in Literary and Cultural Research,” bringing together scholars of literature and culture. Several UL ILFA researchers will also take part with their presentations:

• Elvīra Žvarte – “Cultural Research on Ageing in Text, Context, and Co-creation: Examples from the Latvian Folklore Archives Expeditions and Biographical Interviews”

• Ilze Ļaksa-Timinska – “Arturs Kadiķis-Groznis’ Ens and His Women”

• Ieva E. Kalniņa – “How to Become a Soviet Poet: Jānis Sudrabkalns in 1940–1941”

• Inguna Daukste-Silasproģe – “Rediscovering Riga: A Glimpse into the Works of Aina Zemdega”

• Māra Grudule – “From Lāčplēsis’ Sorrows to Tāravas Anniņa’s Joys. A Turn in Translation: The First Latvian Prose Anthology in German (1910)”

• Elīza Paula Graudiņa – “Emigration Cross-Section Of A Spectacle: The Example Of "Expulsion""

• Elīna Gailīte – “Representations of History in Folk Dance and Stage Folk Dance”

• Una Smilgaine – “Perceptions of Ageing and Old Age in Traditional Culture: The Example of Latvian Folk Songs”

• Zaiga Pleiko – “Eating as a Representation of Relationships in Marital Folk Songs: The Female Perspective”

• Ginta Pērle-Sīle – “The Principle of Accumulation in the Compilation of Latvian Folk Song Collections in the 19th Century”

• Krišs Grunte – “The Semantics of the Spruce in Latvian Folk Songs in the Context of Funeral Rituals”

• Artis Ostups – “The Experience of Speed in Linards Laicens’ Collection Berlin (1924)”

• Ivars Šteinbergs – “Theses on Conceptual Literature: Creativity and the New Work”

• Eva Eglāja-Kristsone – “The Mechanical Flâneuse: The Image of the Female Clerk in Interwar Literary Culture”

• Kārlis Vērdiņš – “‘Among the Dirty, Naked Lads’: The Eroticization of Workers in Aleksandrs Čaks’s Early Poetry”

• Jānis Oga – “Latvian Writers’ Journalism in the 1970s–1980s: Process and Dialogue”

• Signe Raudive – “The Place and Visibility of Teodors Bērziņš’s Publishing House Grāmatu Zieds in the Late 1930s Publishing Scene”

Within the framework of the Latvian Council of Science project “A Walk Through Time: Flâneurism and Modernity in Latvian Interwar Culture” (LZP-2022/1-0505), UL ILFA will also be represented by:

• Aija Brasliņa – “Berlin Flâneurism: Perspectives of Latvian Modernist Artists in the German Metropolis”

• Ieva Kalnača – “Gustavs Šķilters and Jāzeps Grosvalds, Latvian Artists and Flâneurs in Paris – Shared and Divergent Views”

• Sanita Duka – “The Invisible Flâneuses in Riga and Their Emergence into Visibility: A Comparative Case Study of Anna Lāce and Austra Skujiņa”