Estonian-Latvian Joint Conference “Compatriots in Siberia”

September 30, 2008

On December 10th-11th, 2008, the Estonian Literary Museum will host the Estonian-Latvian joint conference ”Compatriots In Siberia” in the museum hall in Tartu (Vanemuise 42).

The objective of the conference is to share research results and data collected from Siberian communities and to discuss possibilities for future cooperation.

The conference welcomes all presentations dealing with our compatriots in Siberia. We also look forward to reports on past research, including film footage from Siberia.

The working languages of the conference will be Russian and English, the length of each presentation approximately 20 minutes. We urge those wishing to participate to register by October 31st, indicating the title of their presentation. The theses’ deadline is November 30th.

Phone: +372 7377 739
e-mail: korb@folklore.ee