In relation to the ESTO festival and the song festival taking place in Estonia in summer 2019, as well as the 75th anniversary of the Great Escape in the fall, the Festival of Exhibits by/of Estonians Abroad will begin in May and last to the end of the year throughout Estonia.

Panevėžys County Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Public Library and Faculty of Communication of Vilnius University kindly invite you to take part in an international research conference “Cultural Expression of the Diaspora of the Baltic States in 1944-2018: Documentary Heritage” dedicated to World Lithuanian Year.

We are happy to present the Spring 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.

International Research Conference dedicated to World Lithuanian Year Panevėžys County Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Public Library Respublikos Str. 14, Panevėžys 14 May 2019

On November 29 – December 1, 2018 the Annual Conference of the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies “On the Move: Migration and Diasporas” takes place at the Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia.

This year, two capital books about Lithuanian-American contribution to Lithuania’s statehood and independence were published in Lithuania.

The Estonian newspaper in Australia, Meie Kodu, has published two articles about the Baltic Heritage Network conference held in Tartu in June this year.