Academic CentreIn 1 March, as part of the 77th annual conference of Univeristy of Latvia, Department of Anthropology organises a section on violence and tolerance "Tolerance: enacting, feeling, conceptualising". The event will take place in Kalpaka bulvāris 4, Riga. Please see below for more details.
University of Latvia 77th annual conference
Faculty of Humanities Department of Anthropology
Tolerance: enacting, feeling, conceptualising Chair: Dr Gareth Hamilton
Kalpaka bulvāris 4, Riga March 1, 2019
SESSION ONE
10.00 Welcome
Gareth Hamilton
10.05 Opening remarks and context for the conference session
Aivita Putniņa
10.15 ‘Mass roast’: the potlach of online intolerance
Ieva Melgalve
10.35 Tolerance as a disobedient practice
Elīza Lasmane
10:55 Enacting tolerance in a zero-waste lifestyle
Līna Orste
11.15 From freaks to rightful members: making sense of belonging in the Estonian borderland
Alina Jašina-Schäfer
11.35 Negotiating gender roles and parenting styles in black/white interracial couples in Alabama and France: enacting tolerance against legacies of racial stigmatization
Cécile Coquet-Mokoko
12.00 Lunch
SESSION TWO 
Presenters are all from the LU Anthropology dept project funded by the Latvian Council of Science on ‘Strengthening families, communities and relationships: anthropological perspectives on violence’ (project no. lzp-2018/1-0068)
13.00 From toleration to security: depoliticizing a military training ground
Kārlis Lakševics
13:20 Violence in Latvian news reports: Affective reporting and reactions
Māra Neikena & Kristians Zalāns
13:40 Tolerance beyond the anthropocentric: managing hospital superbugs in Latvia
Zane Linde-Ozola
14:00 Framing tolerance to violence: the mass media debate in Latvia
Ilze Mileiko
14:20 Bananas and coffee: flashpoints and tolerance in blog posts in an eastern German city
Gareth Hamilton
14:40 The transcendence of power and perception of violence in the Latvian media
Aivita Putniņa
15:00 Coffee
SESSION THREE
15:20 Discussion: Evidenced-based non-violence policy
