CULTURAL LANDSCAPES (Latvian Academy of Culture, 2025)

The course provided an introduction to landscape theory from a European perspective with a focus on the UNESCO frameworks and definitions.

 

 

CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURAL HERITAGE, SUSTAINABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (Latvian Academy of Culture, 2024)​

The course provided theoretical knowledge, a critical overview of contemporary debate topics within cultural heritage and sustainable development and analysis of real-life case studies and guidelines following the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals agenda and UNESCO's Culture 2030 Indicators.

 

 

ETHNOGRAPHY: CREATIVE AND PRACTICAL METHODOLOGIES FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY (Latvian Academy of Culture, 2023-2024) ​

The course introduced multiple and up-to-date ethnographic methodologies such as sensory, visual, virtual, political ethnography and autoethnography. The course also includes learning the art of conducting ethnographic fieldwork and writing field notes.

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SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CULTURE (Latvian Academy of Culture, 2019-2020)
The course aimed to introduce Erasmus+ students to the literature on Social Movement Theory and key anthropological theories and concepts that were applied to the study of real-life case studies such as the Singing Revolution (1987-1991) in the Baltic countries.