Seminar "Building a Bridge Over the Wide Sea"

Seminar "Building a Bridge over the Wide Sea" On December 5 at 2:00 p.m., the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia, Visvalža Street 4a, room 402, will host a diaspora language and culture research and education seminar "Building a Bridge over the Wide Sea".

The event is a meeting of two projects dedicated to diaspora issues. The diaspora teacher education distance learning program "Latvian Language as a Foreign Language Teacher" (No. 2-6.1e/20/84) has achieved its goals. In contrast, the grant "Latvian Diaspora Identity Transformations: Text, Language, Digital Environment" and the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism-supported project "Internal and External Consolidation of the University of Latvia" (No. 5.2.1.1.i.0/2/24/I/CFLA/007) continue to operate. The bridge between the two projects was the work of Assoc. Prof., who passed away suddenly this fall. Vita Kalnbērziņa, therefore, this meeting is dedicated to her memory.

SEMINAR PROGRAM

• Inta Urbanoviča | Diaspora teacher education distance learning program "Latvian language as a foreign language teacher" (2020–2025) – idea and result
• Dagnija Roderte | Course "Forms and methodological techniques of testing Latvian language knowledge" under the leadership of Assoc. Prof. V. Kalnbērziņa, Greetings from the graduates of the Diaspora teacher education distance learning program
• Zigrīda Vinčela | LATDIT text corpus 
• Madara Stāde, Ildze Šķestere | Speaking in the Words of Nature and Life: The Work of Diaspora Writer Eva Saulītis
• Ojārs Lāms | The Neverending Story: The Importance of Field Research for the Knowledge and Understanding of Diaspora Language and Cultural Processes

All interested parties are invited!

Let's discuss the future possibilities and needs of diaspora research over a cup of coffee.