Monthly Archives: June 2015

On March 10th, Dorothee M. Goeze from the Herder Institute in Marburg gave the lecture “In Front of Camera: Daily Life of Estonian DPs in the Hintzer Collection”.

Dates: October 1-2, 2015. Main topic: LEARNED SOCIETIES, SCIENCE ACADEMIES, ACADEMIC COMMUNITY IN THE BALTIC

In autumn of 1944, as the war was coming towards the end and the Soviet army was approaching, many inhabitants of the Baltic States decided to flee their homes. To commemorate this, VEMU announced an initiative last year to collect memoires from this period. 

Bob (Robert) Kingsep, grandson of the first known Estonian pioneer immigrant to settle in Alberta in Western Canada, was awarded by the Estonian government as “long-time Chairman of the Alberta Estonian Heritage Society, for preserving and promoting Estonian identity and heritage”.

The AEHS Heritage Project consists of a number of deliverables listed below. All items, printed or electronic, are available onsite or online.

In its 10 years, the Alberta Estonian Heritage Society has blended and achieved.

For the second year in a row, the Lituanica Department invited diaspora researchers to the seminar. During the one-day event, the participants heard three presentations about Lithuanian diaspora.

The virtual exhibition “No, My Friends, We Won’t Go Slow” The Restoration of Lithuania’s Independence in the Pages of the World Press in 1990.