UL ILFA researchers at the 16th European Conference on Baltic Studies in Cambridge

From April 24 to 26, 2025, the 16th European Conference on Baltic Studies (CBSE) will take place in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The event is organized by the Baltic Programme of the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge.

As in previous years, the conference will bring together scholars from around the world working in a wide range of disciplines and topics related to the Baltic region.

Several researchers from the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia (UL ILFA) will participate with presentations:

• Jānis Daugavietis – A Systematised History of Latvian Music Samizdat and Fanzines

• Eva Eglāja-Kristsone – Scripting a Nation: Latvian Literature on London's Theatre Stage in the Interwar Period

• Elvis Friks and Madara Stāde – Reclaiming Home: The Representation of Exile and Post-Exile Return in Contemporary Latvian Fiction

• Māra Grudule – Writing for Women: J. Cundisius’ "Geistlicher Perlen-Schmuck" (1667) Crossing the Borders

• Benedikts Kalnačs – The Changing Materialities of the Everyday in Late Nineteenth-Century Latvian Realism

• Zita Kārkla – Entangled Bodies: Rethinking Realism in Inga Ābele’s Short Stories

• Laine Kristberga – The Performative Potential of Self-Portraits: Zenta Dzividzinska and Gunārs Binde

• Toms Ķencis – Baltic Printmaking as a Site of Creative Resistance

• Jānis Oga – Latvian Poet Imants Ziedonis as the Leader of the Latvian Culture Fund (1987–1993)

• Artis Ostups – Traumatic Realism and Material Agency in Eižens Vēveris’ Poems on Mauthausen