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The Livonian Summer University will take place in Kuoštrõg (Košrags) from 30.07.2021 to 08.08.2021 and is the only university-level programme in the world devoted to the language, history, and culture of Latvia’s indigenous Livonian nation. The summer university is being organised by the University of Latvia Livonian Institute in cooperation with the University of Tartu. Its participants will include 40 master’s and doctoral students and researchers from Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Latvia. During the Livonian Summer University, students will have the opportunity to begin studying Livonian or expand their existing knowledge as well as learn about Livonian history, culture, and life today. They will also discover the last territory historically inhabited by the Livonians – the Livonian Coast, which is the reason why this was chosen as the location for the summer university. At the same time, the summer university will give researchers

The University of Latvia Livonian Institute (Latvia) along with project partners from University of Groningen (Netherlands), University of Tartu Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics (Estonia) and leader of the project – Falmouth University (United Kingdom) have received funding through the joint transnational call ‘Cultural Heritage, Identities & Perspectives: Responding to Changing Societies', organised by the European Joint Programming Initiative Cultural Heritage. Grant is awarded for joint project “Re-voicing cultural landscapes: narratives, perspectives, and performances of marginalised intangible cultural heritage” which main task is by comparing across minority cultures in the UK (Cornwall), Netherlands (Fryslân), Latvia and Estonia (Livonian) – to better understand the interplay between majority and minority narratives, perspectives, and performances of ICH, to make marginalised cultural landscapes more visible and resilient, and produce impactful insights

Šī gada 29. septembrī plkst. 14.30 327. auditorijā notiks Tartu Universitātes profesora Karla Pajusalu vieslekcija „The relationship between main dialects of the Livonian language”. Visi laipni aicināti! Lekcija notiks angļu valodā.

On March 19th the opening event of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022–2032), declared by The United Nations General Assembly, will take place in the Livonian National House in Irē (Mazirbe). Symbolically the opening event will combine one of the most unique Livonian traditions – bird awakening – and initiatives of establishing Livonian language and culture in the digital environment. IDIL 2022-2032 was declared as a continuation to The Year of Indigenous Languages (2019). The goal of The Decade is to attract attention to the role the indigenous languages play in language diversity as well as preserve these languages, the majority of which are endangered. Livonians are indigenous people in Latvia and Livonian is one of the most endangered languages in the world. This makes The Decade and its planned activities important in Latvia in order to ensure survival and continuation of Livonian. The opening of The Decade has been aligned with the bird awakening

it will take place from 5 to 9 May in Riga, UL premises. During the conference week, Riga will be home to about 170 Uralic and Finno-Ugric students and promising researchers from around the world. The UL students are proud of the fact that during this conference special attention will be paid to the Latvian indigenous people – the Livonians, their language, culture and traditions. The Livonians are a Finno-Ugric people of Baltic origin, who played an important role in the formation of the Latvian language and culture, therefore the Livonian traditional culture is included in The Latvian Culture Canon, furthermore, the role of Livonian tradition in the formation of Latvian identity is strongly emphasised in the Preamble of the Constitution of Latvia. The development of international relations, cooperation, the use of foreign languages, as well as the exchange of scientific and cultural experience with participants from Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Germany, Russia and other countries is also

naudas sistēmu tika pārvērsta vienotajā telpā, kur nauda pildīja komunikatīvo un apvienojošo funkciju. Atslēgvārdi: Livonijas monētniecība, Livonijas naudas politika, monetārā savienība, viduslaiku Livonija, Livonijas landtāgs Jauno vēsturnieku zinātniskie lasījumi VII (2021)♦145.–156. lpp. ♦ doi.org/10.22364/jvzl.07.11 Monetary System in Medieval Livonia(15 th to Mid-16 th Century): ASource of Conflicts or aLand Consolidation Instrument? [PDF] Marina Solovjova Mg. hist., collection work specialist at theNumismatics and Precious Metals Department, Museum of theHistory of Riga and Navigation; PhD student at theFaculty of History and Philosophy, University of Latvia. ABSTRACT Thepaper focuses on Livonian coinage and monetary policy from themiddle of the15 th to the16 th century. Both regional specificities and late medieval Europe-wide trends are identified. Themost important are thefluctuations in theexchange rates of gold and silver, as well as local and foreign coins

Projekta nosaukums latviski: Lībiešu vietvārdu apzināšana, kartēšana un oficiālo vietvārdu reģistra izveide. Projekta nosaukums angliski: Documenting and mapping Livonian place names and creating an official place name registry Projekta numurs: lzp-2019/1-0240 Projekta īstenotājs: Latvijas Universitāte Projekta vadītājs: Valts Ernštreits Projekta īstenošanas vadošā struktūrvienība LU ir Latvijas Universitātes Lībiešu institūts Projekta īstenošanas periods: 01.01.2020.-01.09.2023. Projekta kopējais finansējums: 289 047 EUR. Papilduinformācija par projektu

Beata Paškeviča Livonian pastor Friedrich Bernhard Blaufuß, his private library, reading experience and engagement as abook provider Keywords: Friedrich Bernhard Blaufuß, private libraries of the18 th century, pietism, St.James church in Riga, Moravian church. Friedrich Bernhard Blaufuß (1697–1756) is theauthor of thefirst history of theLatvian people, written in Latvian and intended for theLatvian reader, with theshort title Livonian Histories. Recently, several more of his essays have been found, enabling us to learn more both about thepersonality of Blaufuß and his literary heritage. Therediscovered texts include apoem, whose title, translated into English, would read, asfollows: “Livonian Monument to theglory of God’s work which resonated in theyear of 1738 among Latvian and Estonian peasants in theDuchy of Livonia when they truly converted and changed their soulful hearts and lives and it became known to all across theentire world, due to deceitful untruth and false reports

theprocesses of linguistic inheritance and language use in today’s critically endangered language communities. In thecase of theLivonian language, themain role in thetransmission and use of thelanguage is not played by thefamily, which is still themost important facilitatorof motivation and support, but by other language users and learners in different groups oflanguage users, which also marks changes in approach and tasks, planning events and resources for language revitalization and use. Keywords: endangered languages; ethnolinguistic vitality; language attitudes; Livonian; language and identity; language transmission. Rakstam ir Creative Commons Attiecinājuma 4.0 Starptautiskā licence (CC BY 4.0) / This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) Uz saturu / To the Content

kopējā reformācijas laikmeta 16.gadsimta teoloģiskajā tradīcijā, plašākos konceptus lietojot lokālās Livonijas politiskās situācijas interpretācijai. Atslēgvārdi: Baltazars Rusovs, Livonijas karš, politiskā teoloģija, hronikas, ļaunu vēstošas zīmes Jauno vēsturnieku zinātniskie lasījumi VII (2021)♦19.–28. lpp. ♦ doi.org/10.22364/jvzl.07.01 Interpretation of theLivonian War as God’s Punishment in Balthasar Russow’s “Chronica der Provinz Lyfflandt” (1578–1584) [PDF] Beāte Orlova Mg. hist., master’s student at theFaculty of Theology, University of Latvia, head bibliographer at theSpecial Collections Department, National Library of Latvia ABSTRACT Thearticle analyses theconcept of theLivonian War as God’s punishment in Balthasar Russow’s “Chronica der Provinz Lyfflandt” by comparing it to theological texts written in 16 th -century Livonia and other parts of Europe. Analysis of thechronicle from theperspective of political theology brings into discussion theaspects of thetext