- Reflections on Belonging
At some point, especially after war broke out in Ukraine, I realized that not only was there no such thing as a "true European," the very idea of European identity was not a self-explanatory concept, passed down from generation to generation, established once and for all in some document or declaration. The idea of European identity is constantly recreated and reconsidered.
by Narius Kairys
- Reflections on Belonging
What did we know about democracy? We fought for it. When Soviet tanks roared on Vilnius streets in 1990 and 1991, we were the ones who tried to understand why our predecessors didn’t resist in 1940. We had to correct it, no matter what.
by Rima Praspaliauskienė
- Reflections on Belonging
Learning Lithuanian as a child expanded my personal universe and contained elemental forces that draw me back to a historical homeland.
by Juozas Grikis
- Reflections on Belonging
The dangers accumulated in the process of translation are very real, and yes, hitting a patch of ice or a dumpster or smacking your head on the concrete are very accurate metaphors to describe them. While I was reading between languages and thinking how they should theoretically be translated into each other, it somehow never occurred to me that I would end up practically translating them.
by Kotryna Garanašvili
- Reflections on Belonging
by Toma Gudelytė
- Reflections on Belonging
No political activist funded by a Western democracy project has managed to inspire the nation in this way. It took one woman’s courage to awaken the Belarusian people from complacency.
By Laima Vince
- Reflections on Belonging
The nostalgia that you experience when you’re at home was granted a new definition in the twenty-first century—that of solastalgia. Solastalgia is a longing for home when you are home but when that home of yours has irreversibly changed. This recent term is used to describe our new condition: a spiritual, emotional, and existential discomfort brought on by the circumstances we live in.
By Akvilina Cicėnaitė Charles
- Reflections on Belonging
People ground their roots in memory, childhood, and in a specific piece of land, but their canopies graze the sky.
By Jaroslavas Melnikas
