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On May 4, 2017, National Library of Lithuania held 4th interdisciplinary diaspora seminar, bringing together researchers from different academic fields. This year\u2019s event, organized by Lithuanian Studies Department, offered a few interesting perspectives on Lithuanian diaspora.<\/p>\n
Prof. Dr. R\u016bta Stanevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/strong> and Prof. Dr. Danut\u0117 Petrauskait\u0117<\/strong> introduced their project, \u201cNylon Curtain? Lithuanian Musical Correspondence in the Cold War Era.\u201d Together with a colleague Dr. Vita Gruodyt\u0117 they plan to research the correspondence that took place between musicians living in exile: France, Poland, and USA, and their relatives and colleagues in Lithuania.<\/p>\n Kristina D\u016bdait\u0117<\/strong>, researcher at Judaica Department of the National Library of Lithuania, talked about approach to emigration in Jewish and Lithuanian press and literature in inter-war period. She observed that although the two ethnic groups lived side by side, emigration meant to them different things.<\/p>\n A Ph.D. student from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Egidijus Balandis<\/strong>, who is working on his thesis about sports in Lithuania from the end of the 19 century to the 1990s, noted that in Lithuania, history of sport has been greeted with a lot of scepticism and is still a very underdeveloped field in universities. According to him, currently research in history of sport lacks analytical approach to the sport and its social and cultural dimensions.<\/p>\n Vilnius University doctoral student, K\u0119stutis Kilinskas<\/strong>, looked at diaspora archives through the eyes of a military researcher. He raised questions about Lithuanian nonprofit military organizations that started to spring in the US at the end of the 19 century and at the beginning of the 20 century, also the inter-war Lithuanian officers and soldiers\u2019 situation and their activities in America.<\/p>\n Marija Bra\u017eien\u0117<\/strong>, who is pursuing her MA degree at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas and works at the Presidential Valdas Adamkus Library-Museum, presented her findings about traumatic memory and ways of overcoming it in memoirs written by DPs. A Ph.D. student from Vilnius University, R\u016bta Lazauskait\u0117<\/strong>, talked about the search of archives of the famous Lithuanian philologist, literary critic and public\u00a0figure, Juozas Ambrazevi\u010dius, who at the end of World War II was forced to leave Lithuania, finally settling in the US.<\/p>\n Professor Dr. Giedrius Suba\u010dius,<\/strong> Endowed Chair in Lithuanian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the AABS president, introduced participants with the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies. Another guest, Lituanus<\/em> editor-in-chief, Prof. Dr. Almantas Samalavi\u010dius<\/strong>, invited everyone to publish their articles in quarterly journal dedicated to Lithuanian studies.<\/p>\n The meeting\u00a0culminated in great presentation by Dr. Gra\u017eina Sviderskyt\u0117<\/strong>, who talked about the great narrative of Lituanica flight, when in 1933, two American- All earlier seminars were accompanied by book presentations or film screenings. This year <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On May 4, 2017, National Library of Lithuania held 4th interdisciplinary diaspora seminar, bringing together researchers from different academic fields. This year\u2019s event, organized by Lithuanian Studies Department, offered a few interesting perspectives on Lithuanian diaspora. Prof. Dr. R\u016bta Stanevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 and Prof. Dr. Danut\u0117 Petrauskait\u0117 introduced their project, \u201cNylon Curtain? 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\nLithuanian pilots on their way to Lithuania crashed and died in Poland. The presenter discussed new methods used in her research and shared discoveries.<\/p>\n
\nwas no exception. We ended the seminar with a documentary film Remembering My Mother\u2018s Voice<\/em> (2015) in a newly opened Movie Theater at the Library. The film is about a world-renowned opera singer American-Lithuanian Arnold Voketaitis. The documentary was presented by the director Agn\u0117 Marcinkevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/strong>.<\/p>\n