On February the 15th, Oskars Gruziņš, member of the European Union’s Marie Curie Initial Training Network, “Children born of war – past, present and future project,” from the University of Latvia, participated at a discussion titled “Between Glorification and Silence: what is remembered and forgotten in Latvian culture” at Latvia’s National Library. During the discussion, Prof. Dr.hist. Vita Zelče, Dr.phil. Skaidrīte Lasmane, Dr.sc.comm. Laura Ardava, Dr.sc.comm. Didzis Bērzi

During her research stay in Uganda, Sophie Roupetz, was invited to give guest lectures at the Uganda Christian University in Kampala, hosted by Allen Kiconco, lecturer and former PhD student at the University of Birmingham. There, she met with Bachelor and Master’s students in Social Work and Psychology to discuss the psychosocial impact of growing up as a child born of the rebel group, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Northern Uganda. Many children have been deeply affected b

Oskars Gruziņš member of the European Union’s Marie Curie Initial Training Network, “Children born of war – past, present and future project,” from University of Latvia, has begun the process of collecting oral history interviews of children born of world war two in Latvia. With technical assistance from the Audio Visual Department of the Occupation Museum of Latvia, Oskars Gruzins has begun the process of collecting empirical evidence for his study, through the use of semi-s

The project A workshop on « Life courses of Vietnamese GI children » supported by Wellcome Trust funding was organized by Professor Sabine Lee, Dr. Susan Bartels, ESRs Nastassia Sersté and Sophie Roupetz at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. This workshop was part of a project bearing the same name. The project was initialized by Sabine Lee (University of Birmingham) in collaboration with Dr. Susan Bartels (Queen's University of Kingston) and Professor Robert McKelvey, an