Monthly Archives: December 2012

We are accepting proposals for presentations, papers and panels for the jointly-held, 44th IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) Annual Conference and 10th BAAC (Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council) Annual Conference. Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday 6 – Thursday 10 October 2013. Deadline for submissions: 31st January, 2013. Theme: Open Doors: New Ideas, New Technologies. http://2013.iasa-web.org/ 

The autumn season began early at VEMU, where on August 28, the director of the Estonian Literary Museum, Janika Kronberg presented at Tartu College. His lecture “Arved Viirlaid and Intellectual Resistance” marked Viirlaid’s 90th birthday. The writer’s son, Ants Viirlaid was in attendance and was presented with a book, as a gift for his father.

The exhibit “Siberian Estonians” opened at Tartu College in Toronto in September 2011. The exhibit portrayed Estonian emigrant communities in Siberia.

At the end of June 2012, the Literature Museum in Tartu hosted the 3rd International Baltic People Abroad Conference.

During the burdensome events of the 20th century, thousands of Lithuanians were separated from their country and scattered far from home, across the globe. Lithuanians gathered in free lands where they lived by the Lithuanian charter’s moral values. They became active members of the Lithuanian World Community, worked, and served the Lithuanian nation.

Kelley Sundin, conductor and graduate student at University of Minnesota School of Music, is devoted to understanding and promoting Estonian choral music through an active engagement with the Estonian archival materials in the Immigration History Research Center.

Researching and Archiving the Estonians in America. A joint symposium of the Immigration History Research Center and Baltic Heritage Network. Wednesday, May 15 2013 at Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota.

A Long Way from Home: The Baltic People in the United Kingdom University of Glasgow, CEES, February 7-8, 2013

The Baltic Heritage Network’s seminar for young Baltic diaspora researchers took place at the beginning of October. This year, participants met for the second time in Riga, from October 5-6th at the Latvian Academy of Sciences.

On September 29-30, 2012, the hall at the London Estonian House was filled with many new, and older, cultural heritage enthusiasts.