{"id":3498,"date":"2018-07-10T16:44:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T13:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2018-08-27T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T13:47:12","slug":"national-library-of-lithuania-at-the-world-lithuanian-events-in-vilnius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2018\/07\/10\/national-library-of-lithuania-at-the-world-lithuanian-events-in-vilnius\/","title":{"rendered":"National Library of Lithuania at the World Lithuanian Events in Vilnius"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dalia Grybauskait\u0117, the President of the Republic of Lithuania, visited the exhibition created by the Lithuanian Studies Unit.\u00a0Photo credit: Presidential Palace of the Republic of Lithuania \/ R. Da\u010dkus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thousands of Lithuanians living abroad came to Lithuania to celebrate country\u2019s 100 anniversary of independence this summer. The National Library of Lithuania participated in and organized and hosted several events.<\/p>\n

On July 1, the Lithuanian Studies Unit of the Documentary Heritage Research Department presented its travelling exhibition \u201cLithuanian Publishing in Post-WWII Europe\u201d<\/strong> as part of the event \u201c100 Faces of Lithuania \u2013 Let\u2019s Connect Lithuania\u201d<\/strong> in Vilnius City Hall Square. The exhibition reflects the situation of Lithuanians in the displaced persons\u2019 camps in Western countries after WWII.<\/p>\n

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The participants of the discussion about the world Lithuanian youth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On July 9, the representatives of the World Lithuanian University at Vytautas Magnus University and the World Lithuanian Youth Association invited the members of Lithuanian diaspora and Lithuanians living in the country to discuss the changes in Lithuanian diaspora\u2019s consciousness. Manvydas D\u017eiaugys<\/strong> (Vytautas Magnus University), Marija Antanavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/strong> (Lithuanian Youth Association in the UK), Dovas Lietuvninkas (Lithuanian American Community, Inc.), Irena Kowalewska<\/strong> (Lithuanian Students\u2019 Club Abroad), Rimas Leonavi\u010dius<\/strong> (Uruguayan Lithuanian Community), Sandra Bernotait\u0117<\/strong> (editor-in-chief of the magazine \u201cThe World Lithuanian\u201d), Dr. Darius Udrys<\/strong> (Vilnius University), and Prof. Egidijus Aleksandravi\u010dius<\/strong> (Vytautas Magnus University) discussed questions: What defines world Lithuanian youth? Are world Lithuanian youth, emigrants and diaspora identical? Do students who study abroad constitute diaspora? and etc. Vladas Oleinikovas<\/strong>, the chairman of the World Lithuanian Youth Association, led the discussion.<\/p>\n

On the same day, the National Library of Lithuania hosted another event \u2013 the presentation of the book \u201cHistory of Lithuania. From Medieval Kingdom to Modern Democracy.\u201d<\/strong> The book was written and published by American-Lithuanians. The publication, written in English, provides yet another opportunity to introduce the past of Lithuanian people to a broader audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thousands of Lithuanians living abroad came to Lithuania to celebrate country\u2019s 100 anniversary of independence this summer. The National Library of Lithuania participated in and organized and hosted several events. On July 1, the Lithuanian Studies Unit of the Documentary Heritage Research Department presented its travelling exhibition \u201cLithuanian Publishing in Post-WWII Europe\u201d as part of … Toliau skaityti „National Library of Lithuania at the World Lithuanian Events in Vilnius”<\/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":[1647,1581,1555],"tags":[2943,2947,2937,2933,2935,2939,2941,2945],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-new-books","category-news","tag-darius-udrys","tag-egidijus-aleksandravicius-en","tag-irena-kowalewska","tag-manvydas-dziaugys","tag-marija-antanaviciute","tag-rimas-leonavicius","tag-sandra-bernotaite","tag-vladas-oleinikovas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","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=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}