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Film Professor Anikó Imre's Lecture on Eastern European "Service Countries" and Streaming Platform Imperialism

The Latvian Academy of Culture (LAC) and the Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF) invite you to join a lecture by Anikó Imre. Imre is a film scholar of Hungarian origin and a Professor of cinema at the University of Southern California. The lecture will take place on 19 October at 13:30 in the Vault Hall of the Splendid Palace cinema (61 Elizabetes iela, Riga). In this lecture, titled “Semi-Peripheral Service Media Industries: a Marriage between Nation-Branding and Media Imperialism?”, the guest lecturer will tackle an increasingly common phenomenon in the film industry where Western countries and global streaming platforms shoot films and tv series of a certain type and genre in Eastern European countries. The lecture will be held in English. No pre-registration required.

The state research programme project "Cultural capital as a resource for sustainable development of Latvia" / CARD to close with a series of conferences in September

On 27 and 28 September 2022, a series of conferences will present the results of the state research programme project "Cultural capital as a resource for sustainable development of Latvia" / CARD. The two-year programme has involved almost a hundred researchers of Latvian culture and arts, doctoral students and other students from three culture and arts universities, the Latvian Academy of Culture (LAC, the leading partner of the programme), Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (JVLAM) and the Art Academy of Latvia (AAL), as well as scholars from the National Library of Latvia (NLL) and the Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art of the University of Latvia (ILFA).