Monthly Archives: February 2016

On 23 February 2016, the President of the Republic of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves bestowed national decorations.

The Immigration History Research Center Archives (IHRCA) offers Grant-in-Aid Awards to support a visit in order to conduct research in our collections.

The VMU Lithuanian Emigration Institute and the Department of Lithuanian Literature are organizing a conference “Researching Diaspora and Migration: Theoretical Challenges“ and invite historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, journalists, linguists, cultural and literature researchers, studying the history of Lithuanian diaspora and migration processes and looking for interdisciplinary research opportunities, to participate in it.

‘Estonian Cultural Heritage Abroad 7: From Repository to Exhibition’ to be held in Haapsalu between the 4th and 7th of July 2016.

On Saturday, February 13th the Estonian Studies Centre/VEMU hosted a conference at Tartu College dedicated to the Baltic University (BU).

Call for life stories We invite you to participate in a new life stories competition: The Republic of Estonia is 100. My love and life!

Film Archives of the Estonian National Archives presented rare finds from the Swedish Estonian Association film and audio collection on 4 February 2016 at the Tallinn University SuperNova cinema.

For many, the final list of the contestants (in the category “Adult Literature”) to win the best Lithuanian book of 2015 came as no surprise. Three out of five finalists were Lithuanian authors living abroad.

After the successful presentations in Norway, Switzerland, and Italy, the travelling exhibition “Lithuanian Publishing in Post-WWII Europe” is back in Lithuania. On 27 January 2016 it was opened at Pasvalys Marius Katiliškis Public Library as part of a day-long event “The Library and the 21st Century Society”.