Workshop on Pandemic Life Writing

On 27 April 2021, a workshop dealing with collecting and collections of pandemic life writing will take place online. Registration: https://tinyurl.com/pandemic-life-writing

This workshop offers life writing archivists and researchers an opportunity to reflect and share experiences on intense work carried out during the pandemic year in collecting and creating collections of pandemic diaries, memories and other types of life-writing material. Workshop participants will provide insight into collecting projects carried out in Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Latvia.

Schedule

April 27, 2021

15:00	Introductory words & Collecting pandemic life writing in Estonia Leena Kurvet-Käosaar, Maarja Hollo, Tartu University and Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia
15:20	Documenting the pandemic: the Koronakevät collection campaign Marja-Leena Jalava, Finnish Literature Society, Finland
15:45	Covid19 – experiences from an unplanned fieldwork Audun Kjus Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, Norwegian Ethnological Research
16:00	Diaries during a Christmas like no other Susanne Nylund Skog Institute for Language and Folklore (ISOF), Sweden
16:15	Pandemic diary project in Latvia Sanita Reinsone, Ilze Ļaksa-Timinska, Justīne Jaudzema Archives of Latvian Folklore, Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia
16:30	Discussion / QA

This workshop is the first episode in the Nordic & Baltic life writing workshop series that will take place by the middle of June 2021 and will provide a floor for discussions on collecting, archiving and researching life-writing material.

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Episodes of the Nordic and Baltic life writing are organized in a joint effort by the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art (University of Latvia), Tartu University and Finnish Literature Society, supported by Nordic Culture Point and the Latvian Council of Science.

Project No. lzp-2018/1-0073

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