Symposium “Everyday Culture as a Keeper of National Identity”

11.00-12.45

Elin Toona (Florida), The Baltic Collective. Shared Goals

Piret Noorhani (VEMU/Estonian Studies Centre, Toronto), Tracing Estonian Food Traditions in Canada

Riina Reinvelt (Estonian National Museum, Tartu), Food in the Stories of the Estonian Diaspora – an Insignificant Routine, the Triviality of the Mundane, the Insignificance of the Ordinary.
Interviews and Responses to the Questionnaires of the Estonian National Museum

12.45-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.30

Vasilis Vasilas (Sydney), “Don’t Take It Personal; It’s Only History.” Personal Stories, Oral History and Documenting History

Kristina Pauksens (University of Toronto), Journey to the Villages of Siberia: Western and Siberian Exile Latvians Face to Face

Ramune Jonaitis (Teviskes ziburiai Lithuanian Weekly, Toronto), The DP Legacy – a Memory of Hope

Reet Mae (Mae Productions Inc, Toronto), Keepers of the Loom: Weaving Women’s Stories into Our Cultural Identity

Discussions