On Tuesday, October 29, at 18:00 social anthropologist Julia Vorhölter will give a public talk titled "Crazy Times: New [Dis]Orders and the Emergence of Psychotherapy in Uganda". The event will take place in the Baltic Research Centre for East Asian Studies (ASIARES) Reading Room (Level M), National Library of Latvia. Language: English. Free admission.
From 16 October until 20 November 2019, the National Library of Latvia Level 1 atrium will feature the exhibition "In Defence of Freedom. British Military and Diplomatic Support to Latvia 1918–1920". Compiled by historians and institutions in both Latvia and the United Kingdom, the exhibition offers new insights, including previously publicly unpublished photographic materials, regarding the diplomatic and military history of Latvia's War of Independence, as well as the daily routines of the British and Latvian soldiers involved. Free admission.
The annual conference, Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, invites submissions of proposals for its 5th conference to be held in Riga, Latvia (venue – the National Library of Latvia), 17–20 March 2020. The DHN conferences aim is to provide an overview of research, education and communication about the interdisciplinary field of digital humanities from the Nordic to the Baltic region, and beyond.
On 14 September at 10.00 at the National Library of Latvia (Ziedonis Hall, Level 1) a public lecture "Flirting With the Different. Modern Man as Eternal Seeker" by Mārcis Auziņš will be held. Language: Latvian with simultaneous translation into English. Free entrance.
Until 8 September 2019, the National Library of Latvia (NLL) Level 1 orangery will feature the exhibition-installation Water Reflections by Swedish artist Tina Eskilsson. Water Reflections is a site specific installation tailor-made for the Baltic Sea Festival and the National Library building in Riga. Free admission.
From 30 August 2019 until 1 March 2020, the National Library of Latvia (NLL) Level 1 atrium will feature the NLL's centenary exhibition Invisible Libraries. It will be dedicated to 14 of the NLL's historical collections, which comprise the foundation of the Library's collection.
On 25 August you are kindly invited to the Baltic Sea Festival at the National Library of Latvia, in Rīga, Mūkusalas iela 3!
A guest lecture by Norwegian researcher Knut Djupedal is expected at the Archives of Latvian Folklore (Level 5) on August 14, 2019, at 15.00. Mr. Djupedal's lecture is entitled "World View, Culture, and Folklore". The lecture will discuss the relationship between these three concepts. At the end of the lecture, Mr. Djupedal will discuss some of the practical uses that an education in folklore – in his experience – can provide when studies are finished, a degree is achieved, and a living must be made. Free admission.
On 26 June at 12.00 professor Mark Watson-Gandy will present to the People's Bookshelf a copy of An Account of A Mission to the Baltic States by Herbert Grant Watson (1881−1971). The ceremony will take place at the National Library of Latvia.
The The Early Years of Lithography exhibition will be opened in the Level 4 gallery of the National Library of Latvia (NLL) at 16.00 on 18 June. Visitors will have the opportunity to see valuable graphic-art works made with the lithography technique in the first half of the 19th century, from the collection of the K. Ubāns Art Reading Room. These will be complemented by video stories portraying the technical process of lithography and assessing the place classic lithography holds and its ability to coexist with contemporary technologies. Free admission.
