Researchers Liene Ozoliņa, Maija Spuriņa, and Iveta Ķešāne participated in the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) conference, held this year in Riga at the Art Academy of Latvia, from 21 to 23 May.

Sabīne Ozola, Research Assistant at the LAC Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies, shares her experience in the opinion column “Runā pētnieks” (“The Researcher Speaks”)...

From 21 to 23 January, Liene Ozoliņa, Leading Researcher at the LAC Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies, and researcher Iveta Ķešāne participated in the conference of the European Sociological Association’s Sociology of Culture Research Network, “Cultural Vulnerabilities and Planetary Problems: Creating New Sociological Studies of Culture Between Fragility and Fortitude,” held at Sapienza Università di Roma.

From 30 November to 5 December, Sabīne Ozola, Research Assistant at the LAC Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies, participated in the international training programme “How to Talk About War?”, held in Pärnu, Estonia.

On 20 November, Eva Marhileviča, Research Assistant at the LAC Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies, participated remotely in the international conference “Culture Studies and Social Communications: Innovative Development Strategies” organised by the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture.

On 7 November, Liene Ozoliņa and Maija Spuriņa, Leading Researchers at the LAC Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies, together with researcher Iveta Ķešāne, participated in the international conference of the Latvian Academy of Culture, “Cultural Crossroads XIX,” with a paper entitled “Symbolic Codes and Memory in the Legitimation of Militarization in Latvia.

Within the framework of “Researchers’ Night 2025,” Liene Ozoliņa and Maija Spuriņa, Leading Researchers at the LAC Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies, together with researcher Iveta Ķešāne and research assistants Eva Marhileviča and Sabīne Ozola, invited young people to participate in the workshop “Key Words of War”.

From 26 to 29 August, Iveta Ķešāne, researcher at the LAC Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies, participated in the conference of the European Sociological Association’s Sociology of Emotions Research Network, “Emotions in Post-/Conflict & Post-/Crisis Societies,” held at Queen’s University Belfast.

From 14 to 18 July, Maija Spuriņa and Liene Ozoliņa, Leading Researchers at the LAC Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies, participated in the annual conference of the Memory Studies Association in Prague.