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What do young students (9-19 years old) from different countries know about memory cultures, how do they cope with own, family- and national experiences?

On August 4, the President of the Lithuanian Research and Studies Center (Chicago, US), Kristina Lapienytė Bareikienė, visited the Lituanica Department of Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania.

The Baltic University was a unique institute: it was created in the midst of chaos and started under most difficult conditions in devastated Germany.

 The twentieth century in Europe was a time marked by displacement, war, and exile. This workshop seeks to investigate the complex of prolonged, possibly indefinite exile, and the collection of print, visual, and symbolic material abroad reminiscent of the collectors’ “home.”

This article is not about history, but about the current experience of different cultures in one of the villages in the Republic of Bashkorstan, which, in order to maintain and save their national language and culture, has always honoured other minorities along with their national language and culture.

At the age of five, Tony Mankus along with his family was forced to leave Lithuania during World War II.

On 16-19 September, 2015 BaltHerNet will host its first North American conference in Toronto. This event, which will be organized in partnership with Estonian Studies Centre/VEMU will take place at Tartu College (310 Bloor St West, Toronto).

On July 15-17, 2015 about 150 delegates from 33 countries gathered at the 25th Lithuanian World Community (LWC) Seimas in Vilnius. During the three-day event, the participants discussed the present and the future of the LWC, paying special attention to Lithuanian education and cooperation with the Lithuanian authorities.

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