Zita Kārkla and Laine Kristberga are participating in a conference in Tallinn

rom June 26 to 28 in Tallinn (Estonia), the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn University, and the University of Tartu are hosting the conference “Cultural Heterologies and Democracy II. Transitions and Transformations in Post-Socialist Cultures in the 1980s and 1990s.”

Researchers from the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia are also participating:

• Zita Kārkla with the paper “Recovering Feminist Sensibilities: Latvian Women's Writing of the 1980s”

• Laine Kristberga with the paper “Performance Art as a Form of Dialogue.”

The full program is available here.

Participation in the conference is supported by the project “The Cultural Ecosystem of Latvia as a Resource for National Resilience and Sustainability” / CERS (No. VPP-MM-LKRVA-2023/1-0001).