Monthly Archives: April 2025

Estonian Themes Represented at the European Conference on Baltic Studies

From April 24–26, the 16th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe took place in Cambridge, the United Kingdom under the title “Converging Paths: The Baltic Between East and West.” The conference was organised by the Baltic Programme at the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies and other local partners.

Read more April 30, 2025
FORWARD TOGETHER! VEMU’s Fundraising Evening was Popular

Some moments in life are more important than others. For example, the moment when you feel that you have finally found your place. VEMU Estonian Museum Canada is exactly this lovely and homely meeting place for many Estonians abroad. And so, the mission that brought almost a hundred people to the hall on Saturday is all the more important. They didn’t come just for fun, but to develop the same Estonian things that VEMU has officially been doing since 2009, for which the foundation was laid through the work of Tartu College more than 50 years ago.

Read more April 18, 2025
The Chair of the Lithuanian Community in Australia Visited the Central State Archives of Lithuania

On March 31, 2025, the Chair of the Lithuanian Community in Australia, Rasa Mauragis, visited the Central State Archives of Lithuania. On her initiative, in 2022, a trilateral cooperation agreement was signed between the Central State Archives of Lithuania, the Lithuanian Community in Australia and the Lithuanian Archives in Australia. In 2023, staff of the Central State Archives of Lithuania visited the Lithuanian Archives in Australia in Adelaide.

Read more April 10, 2025
EstoCast Continues to Thrive and Grow

Spring brings a refreshing sense of renewal and new strength. It’s a time for the new to sprout and the old to be revived. Much like this green season, EstoCast, the podcast produced by VEMU Estonian Museum Canada, its project Estonian Music Week, and Estonian Life newspaper, continues to grow, evolve, and thrive.

Read more April 2, 2025
The Untold Story of the Baltic Refugees in Post-War Denmark

Brian Traantoft Rasmussen and Thomas Græsbøll Svaneborg. Flugten fra Stalin [The Escape from Stalin]. Gads Forlag, 2025, 352 pages.

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