Monthly Archives: October 2019

International Conference “Religious Communities in the Age of Migration” in Kaunas

On October 24-25, 2019 the Vytautas Magnus University Research Cluster “Church Relations with State and Society in Lithuania” invited a broad international group of researchers to the conference on the religious communities in the age of migration. The goal of the conference was to explore and discus the religious history and contemporary processes of the Catholic Church, religious communities (such as Jews, Muslims, Catholics, Lutherans and Orthodox), migration, and diasporas.

Read more October 30, 2019

Lectures and Exhibit Opening at VEMU

In the fall season, the Museum of Estonians Abroad, VEMU organized several lectures at Tartu College expanding on different historical events and traditions both in Estonia and among the Estonian Canadians.

Read more October 28, 2019

AABS 2020: New Directions in Baltic Studies

Charlotte, North Carolina May 28–30, 2020

Read more October 10, 2019

The Lithuanian Minister of Culture Visited the United States

In the early September, the Lithuanian Minister of Culture, Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, visited New York and Chicago. In New York, the Minister met with the director of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Jonathan Brent. They discussed the cooperation between the Institute and Lithuania and other relevant issues in preparation for next year’s commemoration of Vilna Gaon (born Elijah ben Solomon Zalman) and Lithuanian Jewish history.

Read more October 1, 2019