CONFERENCE
On May 30, the 30th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), “Diasporas: Building Bridges Across Nations,” held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, concluded. We present a visual overview of contributions by researchers from the State Research Programme project “Navigating the Latvian History of the 20th–21st Century: Social Morphogenesis, Legacy and Challenges” (No. VPP-IZM-Vēsture-2023/1-0003).
The following reports were presented:
Uldis Neiburgs “Wartime Choices and Exile Legacies: The Political Trajectories of Bruno Kalniņš and Gustavs Celmiņš”
Ginta Ieva Bikše “Latvian Communists in the USA and the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)”
Mārtiņš Kaprāns “Remembering the Soviet Occupation: Sociodemographic Dynamics in Latvia's Social Memory”
Kārlis Dambītis “Latvian military organizations in exile: The example of the Latvian Officers' Association”
Ēriks Jēkabsons “Latvian Social Democrats in 1919: Relations with the American Relief Administration”
Ieva Garda-Rozenberga “Latvian Émigré Voices in the Environmental History of Post-war Latvia”
