Event date:
Wednesday 7 February to Thursday 8 February
Time:
13:00
Location:
G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School)
Gintare Venzlauskaite, (University of Glasgow): From Post-War West to Post-soviet east: Manifestations of Displacement, Collective Memory, and Lithuanian Diasporic Experience Revisited
Gintare considers WWII displacements from Lithuania. To what extent did they have an effect on the country’s memory landscape? By providing a retrospective view of discursive patterns regarding population losses and their role in national identity construction, this study travels across the US and Russia where a significant part of these losses has been transformed into diasporic communities and their networks.
[Diaspora Studies Graduate Programme]