The Bachelor thesis is “Female Dan Role in Chinese Opera”. Female dan role is one of the opera actor categories, which refers directly to female characters. The goal of this thesis is to study in detail the female dan role in Chinese opera. Looking at this topic bachelo...

Pre-trained models to parse Latvian text using the STEPS dependency parser (https://github.com/boschresearch/steps-parser).

Searching the traces of Middle Low German in Latvian proper names The great impact of Middle Low German on the Latvian language during the 13 th –16 th centuries is a well-known and rather widely researched fact. However, the main focus of linguists’ attention has so fa...

On March 10, 2021, for the second time, a section of doctoral students of history and archeology was organized at the 79th International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia (UL). Eleven doctoral students and degree candidates submitted papers in the common...

The aim of this dissertation is to conduct an in-depth study of Jewish religious life in the Latvian SSR (1944-89) by focusing on the challenge which secularization and assimilation posed to the preservation of Jewish religious identity under the Soviet regime. The stat...

Sono passati più di quarant’anni da quando nella collana della Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome è comparso il lavoro di Henriette Pavis d’Escurac, La préfecture de l’annone, service administratif impérial d’Auguste à Constantin, Rome 1976, una rie...

Previosusly it was thought that no picture of the first telescope installed at the Astronomical Tower of the University of Latvia was preserved. During thorough search at the Museum of the University of Latvia a single picture of the telescope was found. This video expl...

Bibliotēka kā atmiņas institūcija ir atbildīga par savas ‘jumta organizācijas’ kultūrvēsturiskā mantojuma saglabāšanu un pieejamību sabiedrībai. Latvijas Universitātes Bibliotēkas rūpju lokā ir ne tikai LU informacionālais nodrošinājums ikdienā, bet arī pašas Universitā...

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The dissertation analyses the political initiatives carried out by the Latvian émigrés to maintain the idea of Latvia's independence in the West during the Soviet occupation. Exploring an extensive range of sources, this work studies how the émigrés disseminated informa...