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European Union Funds Operational Programme ‘Growth and Employment’ 1.1.1. Specific support objective ‘To increase the research and innovative capacity of scientific institutions of Latvia and the ability to attract external financing, investing in human resources and infrastructure’ 1.1.1.2. ‘Post-doctoral research aid’ project “Holocaust discourses and memory infrastructure in Latvia” (application No. 1.1.1.2/16/I/001; project No. 1.1.1.2/VIAA/4/20/74) is launched
Project research category: Industrial research
The aim of the projecte: to study the processes of social memory formation of the Holocaust in Latvia after World War II from a comparative (temporal, geographical and cultural) perspective with the aim of clarifying the socio-political and historical discourses that have shaped the memory of the Holocaust in Latvia. The study will analyze representations and discursive structures of the Holocaust and describe Latvian society’s knowledge and attitudes toward the Holocaust, as well as the communicative, social, political, and cultural memory processes that shape them.
Planned project results: five conference papers, five scientific publications (at least two of them indexed in SCOPUS / WEB OF SCIENCE databases, one monograph), two mobility grants, three popular science publications and five popularising networking events.
Project partners:
Daugavpils University (DU)
George Washington University (GWU)
Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Latvia(LU JSC)
Project working group:
scientific advisor – prof. Irēna Saleniece (DU),
project researcher (post-doctoral fellow) – Didzis Bērziņš (DU)
Project implementation period: from 01.01.2021 till 30.06.2023 (30 full months)
Total costs of the project: EUR 111 504,19 EUR (85% funded by ERDF, 10% – eligible public funding, 5% – University of Latvia funding).
More information:
alise.grike@du.lv
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