Baumanis

Three Projects to Receive the 2020 Baumanis Grant

Three Projects to Receive the 2020 Baumanis Grant

The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies is happy to announce that three projects have been awarded the 2020 Baumanis Grant for Creative Projects in Baltic Studies. The Baumanis Grant is an award made to honor Velta Marija Baumanis of Mount Brydges,...

Baltic Memory of the Gulag: A Report on the 2019 Baumanis Grant

Baltic Memory of the Gulag: A Report on the 2019 Baumanis Grant

On June 14, 2020, I published the results of the project „Baltic Memory of the Gulag.“ It is available on our Gulag Online virtual museum, which is one of the Gulag.cz Association projects. Thanks to our cooperation with partners in all of the Baltic states – Misija...

Documenting the lives of contemporary Baltic poets

Documenting the lives of contemporary Baltic poets

Viktorija Jonkutė, recipient of the 2017 Baumanis grant award, describes her documentary film Closer to the Land beyond the River, which will premier on May 22. Closer to the Land beyond the River (Lith. Arčiau žemės anapus upės, La. Tuvāk zemei viņpus upes) is a full...

Baumanis recipient investigates history of Lutsi-speakers in Latvia

Baumanis recipient investigates history of Lutsi-speakers in Latvia

Uldis Balodis received the first AABS Baumanis grant to document the current state of villages historically inhabited by Lutsi Estonian speakers, as well as to conduct archival research in Tartu, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland on the work of Oskar Kallas, the original...