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Martin Nõmm (University of Tartu, Estonia) Generational pressures of identity and belonging in the autobiographical works of Agate Nesaule and Elin Toona

The 4th international oral history conference «Generation, Migration and Memory: Narrative and its Transformations», November 13, 2020

Prof. Molly Andrews (University of East London, UK). ’I am a child of my time’: the (in)conceivability of a country that is no longer

The 4th international oral history conference «Generation, Migration and Memory: Narrative and its Transformations», November 12, 2020

Prof. Vieda Skultāne (University of Latvia). The passage of experience and memory across generations

The 4th international oral history conference «Generation, Migration and Memory: Narrative and its Transformations», November 12, 2020

The opening session of the conference «Generation, Migration and Memory: Narrative and its Transformations»

Speakers: Prof. Maija Kūle, prof. Vieda Skultāne

Tiiu Jaago (University of Tartu, Estonia), Kirsi Laurén (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) Analysing traumatic memories

The 4th international oral history conference «Generation, Migration and Memory: Narrative and its Transformations», November 13, 2020

Vidmantas Vyšniauskas (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania). Impacts of globalisation and the intergenerational transmission of memory in Lithuania’s Šalčininkai region

The 4th international oral history conference «Generation, Migration and Memory: Narrative and its Transformations», November 13, 2020

Audiovisual composition «The closed cost»

Audiovisual composition « The closed cost», dedicated to the last indigenous people of the Liv fishing village, as they could still be found in 1987, from the point of view of Vaira Strautniece and Māra Zirnīte.

«Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary History»

This documentary presents life-stories of seven people about life that began before World War II, which in their memories has not yet completely ended. The life-stories were documented in 2001 during field-work in Rīga and the port city of Liepāja. Recorded, edited and produced by Māra Zirnīte, Agita Lūse, Maruta Jurjāne, Māra Lazda, Aivars Lubānietis, Artūrs Logins with the support of US Information Centers in Riga.

«Methods of surveying migrants and new migrants»

Lecture by Dr. Sc. Soc. Inta Mieriņa

Photo exhibition «Latvians in Sweden: 1944–1990, Photographer Fricis Forstmanis»

Fricis Forstmanis (1906–2004), better known as the poet and translator of poetry Fricis Dziesma, left Latvia in November 1944 in a refugee boat to go to Sweden. During his life, Forstmanis has been not only a poet, journalist, librarian and bookbinder, but also a talented photographer who has used his camera to document both Latvian exile activities in Sweden and create expressive portraits of his contemporaries. The exhibition shows a small but unique part of Fricis Forstmanis cultural-historical collection.