UL ILFA researchers will participate in the conference in Liepāja

On 20–21 March 2025, the annual conference "Current Issues in Literary and Cultural Research" will take place at RTU Liepāja.

UL ILFA researchers participating with presentations include:
– Arta Krūze & Zaiga Pleiko – Violence and alcoholism in Latvian post-wedding folk songs: the concept of trauma and its application
– Benedikts Kalnačs – Rudolfs Blaumanis’s Shakespeare
– Elīza Paula Graudiņa – Multimediality and multimodality of narrative forms in the graphic novel “Siberian Haiku”
– Elvis Friks – Surveillance and excursions: the image of Intourist in post-exile literature
– Ieva E. Kalniņa – “Normal” life under authoritarian totalitarian rule: Jānis Sudrabkalns’ diaries (1956–1966)
– Ilga Vālodze Ābele – Tracing some Latvian folklore revitalization inspirers
– Inguna Daukste-Silasproģe – Ego-documents in the study of creative personality: insights from Olaf Stumbrs’ archive