{"id":4302,"date":"2019-09-06T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:33:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T07:33:10","slug":"the-lithuanian-minister-of-culture-visited-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2019\/09\/06\/the-lithuanian-minister-of-culture-visited-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lithuanian Minister of Culture Visited the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2019\/12\/Minister-of-culture-at-Balzekas-Museum-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2019\/12\/Minister-of-culture-at-Balzekas-Museum-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2019\/12\/Minister-of-culture-at-Balzekas-Museum-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2019\/12\/Minister-of-culture-at-Balzekas-Museum-1-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption> The Minister of Culture visited the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture in Chicago. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early September,\nthe Lithuanian Minister of Culture, <strong>Mindaugas\nKvietkauskas<\/strong>, visited New York and Chicago. In New York, the Minister met\nwith the director of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, <strong>Jonathan Brent<\/strong>. They discussed the cooperation between the\nInstitute and Lithuania and other relevant issues in preparation for next year\u2019s\ncommemoration of Vilna Gaon (born Elijah ben Solomon Zalman) and Lithuanian Jewish history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister participated\nin the Litvak Days organized for the first time in New York and Chicago on the\ninitiative of the Consulate of the Republic of Lithuania in NY. The event\nincluded a public lecture and three debates. In New York, Kvietkauskas, along\nwith writer <strong>Tomas Venclova<\/strong> and Prof.\n<strong>Saulius Su\u017eied\u0117lis<\/strong> participated in\nthe discussion \u201cChallenges of Multiculturalism in Contemporary Lithuania.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While in New\nYork, Kvietkauskas also visited one of the world\u2019s largest American avant-garde\nfilm archives, Anthology Film Archives, founded in the early 1960s by\nLithuanian-American <strong>Jonas Mekas.<\/strong> The\nMinister participated in the opening of the exhibition of the Lithuanian\nAmerican artist Vytautas Ignas and met with representatives of the Lithuanian\nAlliance of America and the Lithuanian National Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Chicago,\nKvietkauskas paid a visit at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Poetry\nFoundation in Chicago, and met with the leaders of the Lithuanian World Center\nin Lemont. At the UIC, where students can learn Lithuanian language as part of\ntheir academic curriculum, the Minister participated in a discussion \u201cThe Narratives\nof Pluralism: Lithuania\u2019s Past and Present\u201d and met with the students of the\nLithuanian Culture course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early September, the Lithuanian Minister of Culture, Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, visited New York and Chicago. In New York, the Minister met with the director of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Jonathan Brent. They discussed the cooperation between the Institute and Lithuania and other relevant issues in preparation for next year\u2019s commemoration of Vilna Gaon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2019\/09\/06\/the-lithuanian-minister-of-culture-visited-the-united-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Toliau skaityti<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8222;The Lithuanian Minister of Culture Visited the United States&#8221;<\/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":[1647,1,1555],"tags":[2363],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-naujienos","category-news","tag-tomas-venclova-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","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=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}