Activities
TRAINING SEMINARS
Students on oral history training seminars "The lesson of Life-stories" ( video/ in Latvian)
Training seminars for interviewers in Riga on November 1 -2; 2017; January 7, 2018; March 11, 2018.
Training seminars "The lesson of Life-stories" for interviewers in Riga on October 10; 18; November 2, 2018
WORKSHOPS
Work-shop in Apšuciems, August 26, 2017.
Workshop on preparing and planning the project work in Apšuciems, Latvia, with the participation of all the partners from LV as well as partners from EE, SE and NO, August 25–26, 2017.
Maruta Pranka (LV) and Maija Runcis (SE), presentation in Tartu, March 26, 2018
Workshop in Tartu, Estonia, with the participation of all the partners from LV as well as partners from EE, SE and NO, March 26-27, 2018.
The lectures presented on seminar in Tartu, organized by the Archives of Cultural History, Estonian Literary Museum ( March 26–27, 2018):
In Programm:
Maruta Pranka & Maija Runcis. The results from interviews with the second generation emigrants in Sweden
Gunta Neimane. The results of interviews (2017 Dec– 2018 Jan) with the from Latvia in Sweden
Baiba Bela. Latvian identity in diaspora: traveling people, stories and artefacts.
Maryam Adjam. Memory traces: the Poetics of history
CONFERENCES
The 4th International Oral History Conference
“GENERATION, MIGRATION AND MEMORY: NARRATIVE AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS”
The Conference was organised online by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, on November 11-12, 2020. During the conference participants looked for new connections between the study of generations, migration and memory, and considered processes contributing to generational identity. Twenty presentations and two introductory lectures were delivered in the conference.
At the end of the conference the overview of the Baltic–Nordic researchers’ cooperation was presented. The Nordplus project “From past to present: Migration and integration through the life stories network” researched various generations of immigrants from the Baltic states in Norway and Sweden. The findings of the project were included into adult education.
Conference organizational committee:
Vieda Skultans (University of Latvia, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology), Maija Runcis (Stockholm University, Department of History), Tiiu Jaago (University of Tartu, Department of Folklore Studies), Agita Lūse (Riga Stradiņš University, Faculty of Communication, and University of Latvia), Maruta Pranka (University of Latvia, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology), Edmunds Šūpulis (University of Latvia, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology).
Baiba Bela (LV), presentation in Stockholm, Augusts 15, 2019
Participants and organisers of the symposium "Postmemory: memory in exile and exiled memory", Stockholm, August 14-15, 2019.
The lectures of Nordplus participants presented in the symposium “Postmemory: memory in exile and exiled memory”, August 14-15, 2019, at the department of history, Stockholm University.
Programm:
Maryam Adjam & Maija Runcis: Introduction
Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback. Memory in exile
Irina Sandomirskaja. Thumbelina, the Subject of postmemory: Michel Serres on the Generation of the Fortunate
Vieda Skultans. Language and Violence: the Case of the French Group in Soviet Latvia
Leena Kurvet-Käosaar. Some Pathways of Transgenerational Transmission of Memory of Exile Estonians
Baiba Bela & Anete Kriķīte. Migration experience of transnationals: narratives about work-life balance
Kaspars Zellis. Metanarratives and individual experiences in Latvian exile lifestories
Ginta Elksne & Ilze Koroļeva. Sense of belonging and preservation of national identity: Latvian emigrants in Sweden after 1991
Maruta Pranka. Intergenerational transmission of ethnic identity – contradictions and acceptance
Laura Bužinska. Storytelling as a powerful tool for creating sense of belonging
Maryam Adjam & Maija Runcis. Concluding words
Organizers: Maryam Adjam, Maija Runcis
Baiba Bela (LV) and Maryam Adams (SE), presentation in Tartu, March 26, 2018
The lectures of Nordplus participants presented in conference "On the Move: Migration and Diasporas", Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia, November 29 - December 1, 2018
In Programm:
Vieda Skultans. Writing the Past in the Present
Ieva Garda-Rozenberga. Mapping Oral History: Routs, Centres, and Space-times of the Exiled Latvians
Maija Runcis. Cultural Patterns Among Estonian Diaspora in Sweden — An Analysis of the Collection ‘Life destinies’ at the Swedish Nordic Museum
Ginta Elksne & Maruta Pranka. It seems to me that I have two homes: Latvian emigrants` Narratives about Integration in Swedish society
Susanne Søholt. The Changing Character of Immigration and Integration Regimes and the Impact on Urban Society. The Case of Oslo, Norway
Maryam Adams. The Game of Chance: A Reflection upon Memories on the Move
Baiba Bela. Remigration experiences of young people in Latvia
Leena Kurvet-Käosaar. "A spatially scattered being": imagining space in Baltic exile life-writing
Triinu Ojamaa. Juhan Aavik’s attempt to integrate into Swedish society: Successes and failures
On behalf of the Organizing Committee
Leena Kurvet-Käosaar, leena.kurvet-kaosaaar@ut.ee
Triinu Ojamaa, triinu.ojamaa@kirmus.ee
The conference is supported by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies), the research project IUT 22-2 “Formal and Informal Networks of Literature, Based on Sources of Cultural History” of the Estonian Research Council, Professorship of Estonian Literature, and the Nordplus project “From past to present: Migration and Integration trough Life-stories’ network”.
Conference in honor of Augusts Milts ( 1928– 2008) (video/ in Latvian)
Conference in honor of Augusts Milts ( 1928– 2008), the founder of OH research in University of Latvia. University of Latvia, May 28, 2018
LECTURES
Susanne Søholt lecture "The changing character of immigration and integration regimes, and the impact on the urban society: The case of Oslo", Univerisity of Latvia.
Online lectures:
Susanne Søholt. The Changing Character of Immigration and Integration Regimes and the Impact on Urban Society. The Case of Oslo, Norway; Juhan Saharov. The Other Side of Forced Migration: Resettled Refugees in Estonia in 2016–2018
Lea Kreinin. Living abroad - gains or losses?
Edmunds Šūpulis. Latvian emigration [LV]
Inese Šūpule. Modern emigration and preservation of identity in the Latvian diaspora [LV]
Baiba Bela. How to recognise a Latvian in the world [LV]
Inta Mieriņa. Methods of surveying migrants and new migrants
Susanne Søholt. The changing character of immigration and integration regimes, and the impact on the urban society: The case study of Oslo
Baiba Bela. Latvian identity in diaspora: traveling people, stories and artefacts
Maryam Adjam. Memory Traces: the Poetics of History
Triinu Ojamma. Juhan Aavik’s attepmt to integrate into Swedish society: Successes and failures
Public lectures:
Søholt, Susanne. The changing character of immigration and integration regimes, and the impact on the urban society: The case of Oslo. University of Latvia, Riga, December 3, 2018
Inese Šūpule, Edmunds Šūpulis. Language and identity in exile and in Latvian diaspora abroad [LV]: April 9, 2019, Central library of Rēzekne; April 25 – 26, 2019, Liepaja Central Scientific Library and Cīrava library, Liepaja region
Maija Krūmiņa, Ginta Elksne. Oral History research and Migration [LV], April 25, 2019, Main Library of Talsi
Maija Krūmiņa. The refugee boats to Gotland: 1944 – 45 [LV], May 14, 2019, Ventspils’ Museum
Maija Krūmiņa, Ginta Elksne. Doing Oral History, November 1, 2019, Gulbene Regional Library
Maija Krūmiņa, Ginta Elksne. Oral History: interviews, collection, distribution [LV], June 11, 2020, JaunpilsRegional development center "Rats" (Wheel).