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CRIES at the Danish State Visit to Latvia 🇩🇰🇱🇻 This week, during the Danish Royal Couple’s official visit to Latvia, Katrine Laigaard Baunvig delivered together with Rūta Muktupāvela and Aleida Bertran a speech on behalf of The CRIES Project - a transnational research collaboration exploring how collective singing emerges and transforms in times of crisis. Speaking at the Latvijas Kultūras akadēmija / Latvian Academy of Culture, 💭 Baunvig reflected on a powerful cultural constant: “In every case, the impulse is the same: the use of song to stay human when circumstances are inhuman.” 🔹From the Alsang movements of WWII to the Singing Revolution of the Baltic states - and today, in Ukraine - collective singing has served as both a language of solidarity and a quiet form of resistance. 🔹The timing of this visit is of course not accidental: It marks a moment where Nordic–Baltic cultural ties, research cooperation, and shared histories of resilience meet - in a region that has, time and again, turned to song in the face of crisis. CRIES, supported by HERA- Humanities in the European Research Area andCHANSE, Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe (EU), unites researchers from Latvia, Denmark, Estonia, and Lithuania. The project uses computational and ethnographic methods to explore how singing reflects and shapes communal life - from the 19th century to the present. 💭 And as Baunvig concluded: “Singing is, at its heart, a state of being - of fellowship, of trust. A reminder that harmony can still be found when words fail.” 🔗 Learn more about CRIES: https://lnkd.in/dD64Zv_u #CRIES #CollectiveSinging #CulturalResilience #Denmark #Latvia #HERA #CHANSE