Monthly Archives: September 2014

The VEMU and ENM Exhibition is Ready! Food – A Treasury of Estonian Heritage. Businesses and Factories in Toronto

The exhibition “Food – A Treasury of Estonian Heritage: Businesses and Factories in Toronto” opened in Toronto at Tartu College on the 21st and 22nd of September.

Read more September 30, 2014

No Home To Go To – Exhibit Opened in Lithuania

On September 12, an exhibit No Home to Go to: The Story of Baltic Displaced Persons, 1944– 1952 opened at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Sunny Archival Days in Washington, DC

American Latvians held the second conference dedicated to the Latvian diaspora’s archives, libraries and cultural materials from September 11 – 13. The first such conference was held in the spring of 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Immigration History Research Centre (IHRC). This year’s conference took place in Washington, DC, and was organized by the American Latvian Association, the Latvian Embassy and the Library of Congress.

Read more September 21, 2014

Folklore 58 – Special Issue on Baltic Diaspora

This issue is dedicated to the research of Baltic diaspora in Siberia. The articles published in the volume are authored by folklorists and ethnologists from Estonia and Latvia, based on the research of the respective diasporas in Siberia by means of interviews. The authors of this special issue all share a common fieldwork experience among their compatriots in this region.

Read more September 18, 2014

Diaspora Conference and Oral History Day in Tallinn

This fall the Baltic community is commemorating the 70th anniversary of the great escape that took thousands of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians to the West. In affiliation with that, the Estonian Diaspora Academy in collaboration with Tallinn University Institute of History and Expatriate Estonian Literature Centre is organising a conference for migration and diaspora researchers as well as archivists and museologists who are active in the field.

Read more September 10, 2014