Date: 21st November 2025.
Location: LaPa museum’s office, Dzirnavu iela 84 (Bergs Bazaar), Riga.
This seminar is designed for students at all levels (BA, MA, PhD) who want to present their ongoing work in a friendly and supportive environment.
AGENDA
12.00–12.20 Opening remarks, Uldis Dimiševskis — overview of LaPa museum and its works
12.20–13.00 Tshinar-Kristi Shahmardan — Memorials as Memory Places: Memory, Belonging, and Identity in the Memorials of the Great Escape
13.00–13.10 Stretching break
13.10–13.50 Oskar Kask — Small narratives in Swedish refugee art: life and creation of Eugen Kask
13.50–14.45 Lunch (at participants’ own expense)
14.45–15.20 Katariina Sofia Päts — Who has the right to speak for Estonia: Estonian Information Centres 1988-1991
15.20–15.30 Stretching break
15.30–16.10 Anna-Kristiina Siniväli — Creating Estonianness Abroad: Generational Narratives of Estonian Women in Canada
16.10–16.20 Stretching break
16.20–17.00 Lachlan Bell — Being of the Field(work) – The Australian Estonian Cultural Summer Camp Tradition
17.00–17.15 Evita Feldentāle — “Museum of the Occupation of Latvia and its video testimony collection”
17.15–17.30 Closing remarks
Youth seminar is supported by Estonia’s Ministry of Education and Research.
For more information, please reach out via email to katariina.sofia.pats[at]ut.ee.
See you in Riga!
Katariina Sofia Päts
BaltHerNet youth coordinator
Junior Research Fellow in History at University of Tartu
www.balther.net