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During the seminar days, the research groups presented and analyzed the draft versions of scientific articles for the collective monograph dedicated to memory studies that will be published by the international academic publisher next year. Participants of the seminar visited recently opened Estonian National Museum and appreciated the modern and interactive way of telling history. At the end of the seminar research group from Latvia presented short documentary films about history of Latvia created during the Riga Summer School 2016 organized in close cooperation with “LIVINGMEMORIES” project. There was also a premiere of the documentary film “Perm-36” created based on the project researcher’s expedition to the memorial of political repressions “Perm-36” in October last year. University of Latvia research group received books from University of Tartu Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory as a gift. The books will be available in the library of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Latvia.
After the workshop project’s researchers expressed satisfaction with the work done during the seminar and will meet again in August this year in Helsinki, Finland to present and discuss fully completed scientific articles.
The leader of Project’s “Living Together with Difficult Memories and Diverse Identities” or “LIVINGMEMORIES” research group from University of Latvia is Professor, Dr. hist. Vita Zelče, Researchers involved in the working group are Dr. sc. comm. Laura Ardava, Dr. sc. comm. Didzis Bērziņš, Dr. soc. sc. Jurijs Ņikišins and Dr. art. Zane Radzobe, Mg. soc. sc. Sanita Burķīte and Mg. soc. sc. Aija Rozenšteine. The task of the research group of University of Latvia is to analyze society’s life after violent conflicts, the occupation, the Holocaust and repressions that led to the traumatic experience and the formation of new ways of living and practices of maintaining and reproducing memory. At the University of Latvia the project is implemented by the Social Memory Research Centre – interdisciplinary research unit of the Advanced Social and Political Research Institute of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Project “LIVINGMEMORIES” is an interdisciplinary social science and humanities project, which focuses on problematic social memory, as well as on the imprints of conflicts and protest movements on memory and identity. Within the project research groups from University of Helsinki, which is the leading partner, Perm National Polytechnic University, University of Tartu, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Koç University in Istanbul and University of Latvia are working together. The co-ordinator of the project is Dr. phil. Kirsti Salmi-Niklander from University of Helsinki. This is the first social science and humanities project that is implemented in the program ERA.NET RUS PLUS (EU-FP7). This is the European Union’s 7th Framework Program, which focuses on the promotion of European Union member state scientific cooperation with Russian scientists.
 partner workshop took place in Tartu, in the University of Tartu. Project is implemented in the program ERA.NET RUS PLUS (EU-FP7). Research groups from the University of Helsinki, which is the leading partner of the project, Perm National Polytechnic University, University of Tartu, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Koç University in Istanbul and University of Latvia participated in the seminar in Tartu. In April 2016 project’s partner meeting on the same scale was organized in the University of Latvia.){kind=link}