On October 15 and 16, 2026, researchers from the State Research Program project “Navigating the Latvian History of the 20th–21st Century: Social Morphogenesis, Legacy and Challenges” (VPP-IZM-Vēsture-2023/1-0003) DU group, professor Irēna Saleniece and researcher, assistant professor Maija Grizāne participated in the international scientific conference “Challenges of History and Memory in the Baltic Region in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Transformations, Structures, and Agency” organized by the Institute of Latvian History of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia. They presented the study “The Ambivalent Position of Agents of Secularization in the Context of the Soviet Education System: Southeastern Latvia in the 1960s–1970s”.

More than 25 scholars from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Germany presented the results of their research conducted within the methodological framework of social morphogenesis, microhistory and mnemohistory. Representatives of the humanities and social sciences, memory institutions, creative industries, non-governmental organizations, mass media and other spheres involved in the research and communication of history and collective memory were invited to participate in the conference.

The programm of the conference available here.

Additional information:
Maija Grizāne
maija.grizane@du.lv