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Call for papers for the international research conference "Culture Crossroads XI"

The Latvian Academy of Culture is an accredited arts university, providing Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level study programmes. Research at the Latvian Academy of Culture is organised by its structural unit – the Research Centre. Its objective is to promote the development of the humanities and social sciences and to study internationally topical and nationally significant issues in the field of culture and arts. In accordance with this mission, the Research Centre organises annual international research conference Culture Crossroads.

Dutch Language subtitlting workshops taking place in the Latvian Academy of Culture from July 4 till July 6

To celebrate the graduation of the first students in the sub-program „Cross-cultural Communication: Latvia-Germany/The Netherlands” students together with their lecturer of Dutch language Mathieu Bokestael spent 3 intensive days in acquiring both theory and practice of subtitling. The workshops were organzied in collaboration with the Centre for Translation Studies at UCL (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/centras), the Dutch Language Union „Nederlandse Taalunie” and „CinemaBioscoop” (http://cinemabioscoop.eu/).

Deadline for abstract submission for the conference “Alternative Food Supply Networks in Central and Eastern Europe” has been extended until July 5th, 2017

The Baltic Studies Centre, in cooperation with the Latvian Academy of Culture, is organising the scientific and practical conference “Alternative Food Supply Networks in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards new grounds for interpretation and collaboration”. The conference will be held in Riga, Latvia, on 13-14 October 2017. The organisers invite researchers and practitioners to submit papers exploring the diversity of food practices in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).