From November 29 until December 1, 2019, the Latvian Academy of Culture is organizing the international research conference "Poetics and Politics of History in Film and Theatre", which will focus on in-depth analysis of how the history and people of both Latvia and the Baltic Sea Region have been portrayed and interpreted in audiovisual and performing arts. Visitors of the conference will be able to hear presentation from researchers and practitioners in the fields of audiovisual and performing arts, history and semiotics from countries, such as, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Finland, France, the United States, Russia, etc. In the spotlight of the conference will be the works of audiovisual and performing arts created in the framework of the centenary programme in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland.
