{"id":2501,"date":"2015-05-08T13:42:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T10:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2016-08-12T15:16:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:16:57","slug":"diaspora-researchers-gathered-at-the-national-library-of-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2015\/05\/08\/diaspora-researchers-gathered-at-the-national-library-of-lithuania\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaspora Researchers Gathered At The National Library of Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SecondSeminar\"For the second year in a row, the Lituanica Department invited diaspora researchers to the seminar. During the one-day event, the participants heard three presentations about Lithuanian diaspora. Dr Ram\u016bnas \u010ci\u010delis, the lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), talked about the philotopic aspect in Jonas Mekas, an American Lithuanian artist; Akvil\u0117 \u0160im\u0117nien\u0117, who studies in the doctorate program at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, shared her findings about Dr Birut\u0117 Ciplijauskait\u0117\u2019s literary criticism; and the doctorate student at the Lithuanian Academy of Arts, Jolanta Bernotaityt\u0117, discussed the representations of the Lithuanian American art in the 20th century during the sixties and nineties. Vilnius University historian Dr Tomas Balkelis, who spoke about the international aspect of diaspora and migration studies, urged the seminar\u2019s participants to write theirarticles and books not only to a Lithuanian, but a foreign reader as well and their research to look for Lithuanian connections with other nations and communities.<\/p>\n

The Head of the Lithuanian Literature Department at VMU, Assoc. Dr Dalia Kuizinien\u0117, noticed that a lot of important research in the field of the Lithuanian diaspora had been carried out over the past 25 years. However, she noted that there are still quite a few holes and gaps remaining. She agreed with Assoc. Dr \u017dydron\u0117 Kolevinskien\u0117, dean of Lithuanian Philology Faculty at the University of Educational Sciences that not a lot has been done to research the most recent Lithuanian emigrant literature, Lithuanian foreign press, as well as theatre and visual arts.<\/p>\n

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At the end of the seminar, a book presentation, The nostalgia and mimicry: Lithuanian and Latvian post-war diaspora novels<\/em> by Laura Lauru\u0161ait\u0117 (Vilnius: Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore), took place. Guests, Dr Manfredas \u017dvirg\u017edas, Assoc. Dr Kuizinien\u0117 and Dr \u010ci\u010delis, stressed the novelty of the book, especially the methodological tools, comparative and postcolonial perspectives, and their successful adaptation for Lithuanian and Latvian emigrant novels. The author of the monograph noted that one of her main objectives while writing the book was to introduce Lithuanian readers to a rich Latvian diaspora prose, especially bearing in mind that not a single work from more than 400 Latvian diaspora novels published in post-war is available in Lithuanian language.<\/p>\n

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Dalia Cidzikait\u0117<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the second year in a row, the Lituanica Department invited diaspora researchers to the seminar. During the one-day event, the participants heard three presentations about Lithuanian diaspora. Dr Ram\u016bnas \u010ci\u010delis, the lecturer at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), talked about the philotopic aspect in Jonas Mekas, an American Lithuanian artist; Akvil\u0117 \u0160im\u0117nien\u0117, who studies in … Toliau skaityti „Diaspora Researchers Gathered At The National Library of Lithuania”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,1555],"tags":[1721,1569,1719,1723],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-diaspora-researchers","tag-laura-laurusaite-en","tag-seminar","tag-tarp-nostalgijos-ir-mimikrijos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}