Autumn edition of the Baltic Heritage Network quarterly newsletter is now available! 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. 

For the third year in a row, an intensive Lithuanian and Estonian language course returned to the University of Indiana Bloomington (USA). This summer, eight students enrolled in the course: three in Estonian class and five in Lithuanian class, offered by the Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI).

The debate about emigration, the Lithuanian identity crisis and global Lithuania is still ongoing in Lithuania. On August 14, 2018, the National Library of Lithuania hosted a discussion about how to preserve Lithuanian identity in the world organized by the Center of Lithuanian Language and Culture.

Thousands of Lithuanians living abroad came to Lithuania to celebrate country’s 100 anniversary of independence this summer. The National Library of Lithuania participated in and organized and hosted several events.

On July 4, Dr. Giedrė Milerytė-Japertienė, the head of the Lithuanian Studies Unit of the Documentary Heritage Research Department at the National Library of Lithuania, presented her monograph “Imagining Lithuanian-Polish Relations in Emigration from 1945 to 1990.”

On July 6, 2018 Dr. Dalia Cidzikaitė, senior researcher of the Lithuanian Studies Unit of Documentary Heritage Research Department at the National Library of Lithuania, was awarded the Order for Merits to Lithuania.

Since 2011, the Academic Folklore Society in cooperation with the Estonian Cultural Endowment Folk Culture Foundation have given out the Annual Estonian Folklore Award. This year there were three candidates: Anu Korb, Merili Metsvahi, and Piret Voolaid. The accomplishments of all the nominees in their respective research organizations were highlighted along with the popularity of their research results. Congratulations, Anu!

Follow the conference: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZuKDuqwnKYCs5vsnVB5Qgw/live