Published books
Life Story and Self-Awareness. Oral History in Latvia. Edited by Ieva Garda-Rozenberga. Riga: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, 2012, p. 280 (in Latvian)
We didnt go to Sweden to become Swedes. Edited by Baiba Bela. Riga: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, 2010, p. 335 (In Latvian)
Oral History: Migration and Local Identities. Edited by: Ieva Garda Rozenberga, Mara Zirnite. Riga: National Oral History; Latvian Oral History researchers association Dzivesstasts (Life Story), 2011, p. 253
In-print:
Oral History: Dialogue with Society. Online proceedings of papers presented at the Conference at the University of Latvia in Riga, March 29-30, 2012. Edited by Ieva Garda-Rozenberga. Riga: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, 2012.
Handbook in Oral History Edited by Ieva Garda-Rozenberga, Mara Zirnite. Riga: Latvian Oral History researchers association Dzivesstasts (Life Story), 2012. (In Latvian)
Scientific publications
2012 - 3 publications (16 in-print)
2011 - 15 publications
2010 - 12 publications
Organised conferences
Oral History: Dialog with Society, Riga, 2012.
Participation in conferences abroad
Private and Public Memories, the fourth international symposium of the Finnish Oral History Network, Helsinki, Finland, 29–30 November 2012:
Ieva Garda-Rozenberga: Sharing with our painful past: personal memories of young adult orphans.
Maija Krumina: Stories of the wartime and escape in the memories of World War II refugees from Latvia.
Edmunds Supulis: Questioning master narrative: conflicting memory in making of national identity.
ESA conference Biographical Research: emotion, ethics & performative praxis, University of Lodz, Poland, 14-15 September 2012:
Edmunds Supulis: To fit into discourse: the voice and the analysis in oral history practice.
Ieva Garda‐Rozenberga, Maija Krumina: Biographical interviews with people orphaned during young adulthood: a researchers personal and emotional involvement.)
26th Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association Trust and Social Change, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 15-18 August 2012.
Maruta Pranka: Illness as Life’s 1. Turning Point. Subjective Evaluation.
Baltic Heritage Network conference Hidden Treasures, Tartu, Estonia, 26-28 June 2012:
Maija Krumina: The Experience of Second World War Refugees in the Sources of the National Oral History Archive.
Humanities and the Contemporary world, Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, Montenegro, 7–9 June 2012
Maruta Pranka: Biographical Approach in Multidisciplinary Research.
First-Person Writing, Four-Way Reading, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 1-3 December 2011:
Baiba Bela: Ethnography of textual reprezentation: suspicious 1-st person writing.
The 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association Social relations in turbulent times, Geneva, Switzerland, 7-10 September 2011:
Dace Bormane: Power of Biography as Ecology of Identity: Latvian Life Stories in Germany.
Maruta Pranka: Identity in the Crossroads of Migration.
Supulis Edmunds: Individual memory and collective forgetting: between Grand narratives in Latvia.
9th Baltic Conference in Europe Transitions, Visions and Beyond, Stockholm, Sweden, 12-15 June 2011:
Baiba Bela: Memories continued and interrupted: generations and social memory in Latvia
Ieva Garda-Rozenberga: Person, Place and Identity: Life Stories from Alsunga.
Maija Krumina, Mara Zirnite: Education through Oral History Fieldwork.
Participation in conferences in Latvia
2012 - 17 presentations
2011 - 16 presentations
2010 - 6 presentations
Involved doctoral students
Maija Krūmiņa, PhD (cand.) – a doctoral student in history, dissertation theme “Latvian Refugees: The Course of the Flight (1944-1945)”, planned defense in 2016;
Edmunds Šūpulis, PhD (cand.) – an aspirant for scientific degree in sociology; dissertation theme “Memory Communities in Latvia and Exile (Diasporas): A Discourse of National History and Biographical Memory”, planned defense in 2014;
Maruta Pranka, PhD (cand.) – an aspirant for scientific degree in sociology; dissertation theme “Biographical Approach in Research of Social Processes”, planned defense in 2014.
