June 4–5 2026

Lācis & Co.

Female Acteurs – Transit – Narratives

The workshop explores the ways in which female authors, journalists, and artists reflect on their migratory movements in the Eastern (Central) European avantgarde, and also seeks out echoes of reception, lines of comparison, and questions in the present. Beata Paškevica resituates Lācis’ trip to Capri, Olga Martynova and Tatjana Hofmann’s joint reading traces the poetic knowledge of transfer in and from Eastern Europe, and Nicolas Auzenneua, Margherita Carbonaro and Lil Reif talk about language transfers between Latvian and French, Italian, and German.

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June 4, Thursday

2–5 pm // Workshop I

with contributions from Annelie Bachmaier, Anna Kipke, Iryna Kovalenko, Nadine Menzel, Beata Paškevica, Matthias Schwartz, Marina Sivak, Katharina Tschelidze, Ievgeniia Voloshuk, Mimmi Woisnitza (de) (Registration until June 3 at asjalacis@posteo.de)

6 pm // The straitjacket of non-memory: Asja Lācis and the Latvian-Italian avant-garde

Lecture by Beata Paškevica (de)

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June 5, Friday

10 am–5 pm // Workshop II 

Continuation of Workshop I (de) – open to all

6 pm // The Knowledge of Poetry

Reading with Olga Martynova and Tatjana Hofmann (de)

7 pm // Transit Space Translation

Discussion with Nicolas Auzanneau, Margherita Carbonaro, and Lil Reif (de/en)