Week programme

Week 1, 04.07.2022-10.07.2022

04.07.2022

16:30-18:30 

 

Introductory lecture "Riga: History and Architecture"

05.07.2022
17:00-19:00

 

Guided city tour "Art Nouveau in Riga"

06.07.2022
16:30-18:30

Lecture "Witnesses of witnesses. Strategies of memory in post-Soviet culture"

Prof Anastasia de la Fortelle, University of Lausanne

09.07.2022
10:00-19:00

 

Day trip to Jurmala, city tour "Different faces of Jurmala"

Week 2, 11.07.2022-17.07.2022

12.07.2022
16:30-19:30

Lecture: "Development of the Russian media in the period from 1990 to 2022"

Maxim Metveichenkov (Blant), Radio "Svoboda"

13.07.2022 
16:30-19:30

 

Lecture "Soviet cinema in Riga" 

15.07.2022
17:00-19:00

 

City tour: "The old town of Riga and Soviet cinema"

16.07.2022
10:00-19:00

 

Day trip to Jaunpils Castle & Cinevillaene film studios "Faces of Jurmala" 

 

Week 3, 18.07.2022-24.07.2022

18.07.2022
17.30-19.30

Lecture: "Putin's Obsession with Ukraine: Imperialism and Revisionism in Russia"

Prof Nicolas Hayoz, Fribourg

20.07.2022
17:00-19:00

 

Guided city tour "Moscachka: The "Moscow Suburb" in Riga "ino in Riga" 

22.07.2022
16:30-18:00

Lecture "Totalitarian and non-totalitarian films of the Putin era"

Anton Dolin, Meduza

23.07.2022
10:00-19:00

 

Day trip to the Soviet bunker and the Vidzeme country estate 

Week 4, 15.07.2022-31.07.2022

25.07.2022
17:00-19:00

 

Guided tour through Agenskalns 

27.07.2022
17:00-19:00

 

City rally through Riga

28.07.2022
10:00-19:00

 

Day trip to the Pastarina muzejs ethnographic museum and the old mill

29.07.2022
19:00-22:00

 

Boat trip through Daugava and farewell party on the boat