500 years of Latvian Books events
The comprehensive five-year programme (2021–2025) is designed to highlight the most significant processes that once set in motion the dissemination of the Latvian written and printed word. That is why we have highlighted five trends. Through understanding antiquity, we will try to think about and imagine tomorrow!
Exhibitions
Create an understanding and gain new knowledge about the development of Latvian publishing and language over the past 500 years.
Conferences
Hear from linguists, historians, book-industry researchers and other experts about the development of the Latvian language and publishing.
Lectures
Find out what people who have previously studied the history of the Latvian language and publishing think about it, while continuing their research.
Events
Educate yourself by attending various events dedicated to the 500th anniversary of Latvian books, to the dissemination of the written and read word through the centuries.
