Event time:
Friday, February 1, 2019 - 10:00am to Saturday, February 2, 2019 - 5:45pm
Location:
Whitney Humanities Center (WALL53), Rm 208
53 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Day 1 of Symposium
3:00-5:00 Session 1
- Andres Kasekamp, University of Toronto, “Lives of the Hunted: The Foreign Relations of the Baltic States in the Interwar Era”
- Halina Parafianowicz, University of Białystok, “Woodrow Wilson and Poland. His Legend and American Myth in the Interwar Period”
Day 2 of Symposium
Session 2. 10:00-11:30
- Jacek Partyka, University of Białystok, “A Transatlantic Community of “Annexed People”: The Jews of Białystok and their New York City Diaspora, 1918-1939”
- Egidijus Balandis, Vytautas Magnus University, “ ‘To Foster the Love of One’s Country…’: Lithuanian-American Athletic Clubs, 1918-1940”
Session 3. 11:45-1:15
- Tomasz Pudłocki, Jagellonian University, “Polish PR in the US, 1918-1939 – a Few Remarks”
- Charles Perrin, Kennesaw State University, “The Traveling Exhibit Over the Ocean: A Century of Friendship between Lithuania and the United States”
Session 4. 2:30-4:00
- Eriks Jekabsons, University of Latvia, “US Views on the Independence of the Baltic States, 1918-1922: The Case of Latvia”
- Olavi Arens, Georgia Southern University, “Self-Determination or the Unity of Russia: An Indeterminate US Policy on Estonia, 1918-1922”
4:15 General Discussion
Admission:
Free
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