Charlotte, North Carolina May 28–30, 2020

Baltic Heritage Network seminar for young diaspora researchers in Riga on December 11th, 2019.

The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS) conference will be held May 28th-30th 2020, in Charlotte, NC (USA) at Queens University. The conference theme is “New Directions in Baltic Studies.”

We are happy to present Autumn edition of the Baltic Heritage Network quarterly newsletter. In these pages you will find information about our past and future events, new publications, and what is happening across the globe within the diaspora research and archive communities. 

That January was exceedingly hot – the hottest in 50 years. Lidija Mednis, a Latvian woman, had arrived in Australia in January 1951 after a long and tiring trip from Germany, where she and her husband had lived in a refugee camp after the war.

In an official ceremony at the National Library of Latvia on 21 August 2018, the Foreign Minister of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, together with the Foreign Minister of Estonia, Sven Mikser, presented translator Rūta Karma with the Latvian and Estonian Languages Award for her translation of a novel “Varjuteater” (Shadow Theatre) by Estonian writer Viivi Luik.

As has become tradition, VEMU hosted two Forest University (Metsaülikool) City Lectures in August.

On August 2, 2019, a group of Lithuanian heritage school teachers visited the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania. Teachers, who teach Lithuanian as a heritage language outside Lithuania, came to Lithuania to learn more about the new Lithuanian language teaching methods and share their own experience.