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The 10th International Conference of Baltic Literary Scholars “The Changing Baltics: Cultures Within a Culture” - 29. - 30. septembrī

The primary interest of the conference is focused on the phenomenon of cultural diversity, on the growing awareness that culture has existed and exists in plural. The main focus of the conference will be to develop a broader and more general view on cultural change that challenges the tendency of singularizing culture and social reality.

The conference will be held at the House of the European Union, Aspazijas bulvāris 28, Riga September 28, 2014 Arrivals   September 29, 2014 10:15 – 10:30 Conference Opening at the Conference Room on the 2nd Floor Opening Address by Dace Bula, Director of the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia Plenary session. Conference Room on the 2nd Floor

Chair: Benedikts Kalnačs

10:30 – 10:50 Jüri Talvet: Culture in the European East-Baltic Periphery: an Embarrassed Coexistence of Fashion, Officialism and Resistance

10:50 – 11:10 Vanesa Matajc: Cultural Diversity and National Literature: the Seeming Conflict

11:10 – 11:30 Aušra Jurgutienė: Deconstruction in Literature: the Case of Works of Sigitas Geda
11:30 – 11:45 Discussion 11:45 – 12:00 Coffee break

Session I. Conference Room on the 1st Floor

Chair: Kārlis Vērdiņš

Session II. Conference Room on the 2nd Floor

Chair: Pauls Daija

12:00 – 12:20 Baiba Tetere: ‘Latvian Types’: Hybridized Visions of Rural Life in Latvia in the 1890s

12:00 – 12:20 Miguel Ángel Pérez Sánchez: Jacint Verdaguer, Andrejs Pumpurs and Petar Petrovic Njegos: Three Moments in the Romantic National Epic of the 19th Century Europe

12:20 – 12:40 Tiina Kattel: Lithuanian-Estonian Literary Relations (1918-1940)

12:20 – 12:40 Viktorija Jonkute: Memory and Identity in Lithuanian and Latvian Literatures in the National Revival Period in the Late 20th Century

12:40 – 13:00 Viktorija Slūka: Stylization of Commedia dell’Arte in Latvian Drama and Theatre: Methods and Sources

12:40 – 13:00 Olga Bazileviča: First Times and Last Years: Representation of Adolescence and Politics in Rūta Mežavilka’s work “Born for Latvia” and Kathrin Aehnlichs’s “Wenn ich groß bin, flieg ich zu den Sternen”

13:00 – 13:20 Anneli Kõvamees: Out of the Unknown and in the Limelight

13:00 – 13:20 Laura Laurušaitė: Lithuanian and Latvian Hetero-Images: an Imagological Examination of Baltic Émigré Fiction
13:20 – 13:40 Discussion 13:40 – 15:00 Lunch break

Session III. Conference Room on the 2nd Floor

Chair: Jüri Talvet

15:00 – 15:20 Yordan Lyutskanov: Bulgarian Cultural Identity as Borderline One

15:20 – 15:40 Luule Epner: Border State: Twenty Years After

15:40 – 16:00 Anneli Saro: Language on the Stage – Questions of Identity, Ideology and Morality

16:00 – 16:20 Loreta Jakonytė: Facing a Chinese Granddaughter: the Issue of Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Lithuanian Literary Field

16:20 – 16:40 Discussion September 30, 2014

Session IV. Conference Room on the 1st Floor

Chair: Anneli Mihkelev

Session V. Conference Room on the 2nd Floor

Chair: Eva Eglāja-Kristsone

10:15 – 10:35 Jana Dreimane: Authors, Publishers and Customers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the late 1980s and early 1990s

10:15 – 10:35 Zita Karkla: Women’s Writing and Women’s Culture: Meanings of Domesticity in Prose by Latvian Women Writers

10:35 – 10:55 Laimdota Ločmele: Reflection of Values in Literary Critical Media Texts

10:35 – 10:55 Anna Auziņa: Female Experience and Language in Monta Kromas’s poetry

10:55 – 11:15 Jūlija Dibovska: Cinema in Works of Alberts Bels: Allusions, Themes and Symbols

10:55 – 11:15 Marija Semjonova: Transcultural Spaces in Short Prose by Postmodern Latvian Women Writers. Textual Analysis of Inga Ābele’s Short Novel “Graffiti of Hebe” (1997)

11:15 – 11:35 Gintarė Bernotienė: Changing the Modes of National Representation: Anthologies of Lithuanian Poetry for Foreign Readers (1980-2012)

11:15 – 11:35 Laine Kristberga: Documenting Performance Art in Latvia and Estonia: Problems and Contradictions

11:35 – 11:55 Discussion 11:55 – 12:15 Coffee break

Session VI. Conference Room on the 1st  Floor

Chair: Anita Rožkalne

Session VII. Conference Room on the 2nd Floor

Chair: Rita Treija

12:15 – 12:35 Ilze Knoka: The Role of the Material Culture in Aivars Kļavis’ Tetralogy “On the Other Side of the Gate”

12:15 – 12:35 Jūratė Čerškutė: Kārlis Vērdiņš: Queer (Post)Soviet Narratives in Interviews by Rita Ruduša and Fiction by Klāvs Smilgzieds

12:35 – 12:55 Inese Vičaka : Post-Apocalypse: Culture and Nature in Gundega Repše’s and Cormac McCarthy’s Works

12:35 – 12:55 Eugenijus Žmuida: Lithuanian Poetry in the Light of European Existentialism

12:55 – 13:15 Katja Will: The Challenged Familiar. The Homecomer as a Crisis-Character in Contemporary Scandinavian Literature

12:55 – 13:15 Inga Žolude: Confessional Poetry in Latvia as a Form of Freeing the Self

 

13:15 – 13:35 Ramutė Dragenytė: The Conception of National Literary History
13:35 – 13:55 Discussion 13:55 – 15:20 Lunch break

Closing Session. Conference Room on the 2nd Floor

Chair: Aušra Jurgutienė

15:20 – 15:40 Anneli Mihkelev: Modernity, Intertextuality and Decolonization in Estonian and Latvian Literature

15:40 – 16:00 Manfredas Žvirgždas: Henrikas Nagys as the Mediator between Lithuanian and Latvian Poetry

16:00 – 16:20 Zane Šiliņa: Tendencies of Expressionism in Rainis’s Literary Work “I Played, I Danced”

16:20 – 16:40 John K. Cox: The Adriatic-Baltic Transversal: Danilo Kiš Through the Prism of Baltic Writing on Essentialism and Diversity
  16:40 – 17:00 The Closing Discussion   List of participants

Anna Auziņa, Mg. art. University of Latvia

Anneli Kõvamees, PhD. University of Tallinn

Anneli Mihkelev, PhD. Tallinn University; Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences

Anneli Saro, Dr. University of Tartu, University of Helsinki

Aušra Jurgutienė, Dr. Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore

Baiba Tetere, M.A. Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Germany

Eugenijus Žmuida, Dr. Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore

Gintarė Bernotienė, Dr. Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore

Ilze Knoka, Mg. philol. Literature and Music Museum, Riga

Inese Vičaka, Mg. philol. University of Latvia

Inga Žolude, Mg. philol. University of Latvia

Jana Dreimane, Dr.philol. National Library of Latvia

John K. Cox, Dr. North Dakota State University, USA

Jūlija Dibovska, Mg. philol. University of Latvia

Jüri Talvet, Dr. University of Tartu

Kārlis Vērdiņš, Dr. philol. Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, University of Latvia

Katja Will, M.A. Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Germany

Laimdota Ločmele, Dr.philol. University of Latvia

Laine Kristberga, Mg. philol. and M.A. University of Latvia

Laura Laurušaitė, PhD. Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences

Loreta Jakonytė, PhD. Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore

Luule Epner, Dr. University of Tallinn, University of Tartu

Manfredas Žvirgždas, PhD. Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore

Marija Semjonova, Mg. philol. University of Latvia

Miguel Ángel Pérez Sánchez, University of Latvia

Olga Bazileviča, M.A. Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany

Ramutė Dragenytė, M.A. Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore

Tiina Kattel , M.A. University of Tartu

Vanesa Matajc, Dr. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Viktorija Jonkute, M.A. Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore

Viktorija Slūka, Mg. philol. University of Latvia

Yordan Lyutskanov, Dr. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Zane Šiliņa, Dr. art. Latvian Academy of Culture

Zita Karkla, Mg. philol. University of Latvia

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