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2021-03-18
100 Years in One Month: The Athens of the North
In 1990 restored Lithuania took not just political but also cultural traditions and ideas from the interwar years of the …
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2021-03-15
100 Years in One Month: The Never – Ending Creation of an Open Society
The restoration of statehood did not become, to paraphrase Francis Fukuyama’s metaphor, a ticket to the ‘end of history’, in …
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2021-03-10
100 Years in One Month: A Struggle Gandhi Style
No one knew how to achieve it. No one, to tell the truth, for a long time knew what exactly …
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2021-03-08
100 Years in One Month: The Joycean Liberation of Literature
Published in 1989, the first novels by the writer Ričardas Gavelis Jauno žmogaus memuarai (Memoirs of a Young Person; to …
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2021-03-04
100 Years in One Month: The Discovery of the Baltic World out of the Spirit of Music
The territorial expansion of the Baltic tribes in pre-Christian Europe and its acute decline in the modern Western era is …
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2021-03-01
100 Years in One Month: Mekas, Maciunas, Fluxus
Lithuanians who had fled from the war and the Soviet occupation to Germany, and after that to the USA were …
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2021-02-25
100 Years in One Month: Prophesy About the End of the Soviet World
For the majority of its inhabitants and foreign observers the Soviet Union seemed eternal. One of the two world powers, …
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2021-02-22
100 Years in One Month: The Creation of a National Genius
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911), the son of an organist, thought of himself as being amongst the most famous musical figures …
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2021-02-19
100 Years in One Month: A Portuguese-Speaking Lithuania in Africa
Lithuanian never had any aspirations to becoming a colonial power. At the end of the 18th century it in fact …
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2021-02-17
100 Years in One Month: 17 February
On 17 February 1918 women gathered at a protest in Kaunas. The signatories of the Act of Independence had betrayed …
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2021-02-15
100 Years in One Month: Lithuania as a Vision
In 1795 the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, called the Republic of Two Nations, collapsed after two hundred of its existence. It was …
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2021-02-11
Asia-Europe Foundation: an open call for digital cultural collaborations
ASEF (Asia-Europe Foundation) announces an open call for proposals for digital cultural collaborations through Mobility First! – ASEF Cultural Mobility …