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.

On October 24, 2018, a traveling exhibition “For Freedom” put together by Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture was opened at the European Union in the United States.

September 20 and 21, 2018, the Rakvere Theatre performed “APART: Estonians Abroad and at Home” in Toronto. The play was commissioned by the Estonian Studies Centre/VEMU and is a gift for the Republic of Estonia’s 100th birthday. The play was written by Liisi Rohumäe who spent a month in Toronto in the spring of 2016 at the invitation of VEMU to interview Canadian Estonians and conduct research in the archives. The opening show took place in Rakvere in March 2018. The project was supported by the Estonian Government (EV 100) and the Integration Foundation and completed according to the sectoral development program “Compatriots Program 2014-2020.” The guest from Rakvere also met with the Toronto Estonian residents at the retirement home Ehatare and the Toronto Estonian Supplementary School students and teachers.

This fall, a Ph.D. candidate Ina Ėmužienė defended her thesis on Lithuanian radio and TV programs in the US from 1944 to 1990.