{"id":2712,"date":"2016-09-28T17:11:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T14:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2017-02-14T17:15:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:15:28","slug":"conversations-about-emigration-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2016\/09\/28\/conversations-about-emigration-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations about Emigration Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The participants of the first event.
Photo: Utena A. and M. Mi\u0161kiniai Public Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A pilot educational project \u201cConversations about Emigration,\u201d last year implemented by National Library of Lithuania Lithuanian Research Department in Ukmerg\u0117 town, this year has expanded its geography and came to the Utena County. Utena was not chosen accidentally. It is one of the leading Lithuanian counties in emigration. The first event of the \u201cConversations about Emigration-2\u201d took place in Utena A. and M. Mi\u0161kiniai Public Library on September 27.<\/p>\n

This year, our project includes five high schools of the Utena County. Project\u2019s participants will attend lectures by the VMU Lithuanian Emigration Institute researchers about the history of Lithuanian diaspora. They will also attend a workshop where they will learn how to use oral history method and compile a questionnaire. The students will be taught how to conduct an interview, to prepare the material, transcribe and summarize it. Each participant will have to record an interview with two immigrants. At the end of the project, the gathered oral\u00a0history material will be deposited in public libraries in Mol\u0117tai, Anyk\u0161\u010diai, Zarasai, Ignalina and Utena.<\/p>\n

In the middle of the project, the students will come to Vilnius. Here they will participate in a discussion-meeting with emigres, who returned to Lithuania, hear about the dark side of immigration \u2013 modern slavery. The final event, debates, will be carried out by project\u2019s partne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pilot educational project \u201cConversations about Emigration,\u201d last year implemented by National Library of Lithuania Lithuanian Research Department in Ukmerg\u0117 town, this year has expanded its geography and came to the Utena County. Utena was not chosen accidentally. It is one of the leading Lithuanian counties in emigration. The first event of the \u201cConversations about … Toliau skaityti „Conversations about Emigration Part Two”<\/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":[1583],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-conversations-about-emigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712","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=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}