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At the end of June 2012, the Literature Museum in Tartu hosted the 3rd International Baltic People Abroad Conference.

During the burdensome events of the 20th century, thousands of Lithuanians were separated from their country and scattered far from home, across the globe. Lithuanians gathered in free lands where they lived by the Lithuanian charter’s moral values. They became active members of the Lithuanian World Community, worked, and served the Lithuanian nation.

Kelley Sundin, conductor and graduate student at University of Minnesota School of Music, is devoted to understanding and promoting Estonian choral music through an active engagement with the Estonian archival materials in the Immigration History Research Center.

Researching and Archiving the Estonians in America. A joint symposium of the Immigration History Research Center and Baltic Heritage Network. Wednesday, May 15 2013 at Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota.

A Long Way from Home: The Baltic People in the United Kingdom University of Glasgow, CEES, February 7-8, 2013

The Baltic Heritage Network’s seminar for young Baltic diaspora researchers took place at the beginning of October. This year, participants met for the second time in Riga, from October 5-6th at the Latvian Academy of Sciences.

On September 29-30, 2012, the hall at the London Estonian House was filled with many new, and older, cultural heritage enthusiasts.

Korp! Amicitia used the occassion of its 88th anniversary and the Toronto Chapter’s 60th anniversary celebrations to hand over the results of a fund-raising drive in support of VEMU – the Museum of Estonians Abroad being built by Tartu College.

The Journal of Baltic Studies editorial staff is proud to unveil a new Facebook page dedicated to the journal!

The topic of this Special Issue is the role of diaspora from Latvia and Latvians in national and international politics since the mid-19th century. We invite submissions that discuss various instances of either self-identified Latvians or groups from Latvia that resided outside of Latvia’s territory engaging in political processes in their host countries and on international scale.