Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century Experiences, Identities and Legacies

Dr. Tomas Balkelis is a visiting scholar at the Centre for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University and a senior researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History in Vilnius. He is the author of The Making of Modern Lithuania (Routledge, 2009). His research fields include nationalism, population displacement and paramilitary violence in the Baltic States.

Dr. Violeta Davoliūte is a visiting researcher at MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies, Yale University and a senior researcher at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute in Vilnius. She is the author of The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War (Routledge, 2013). Her research is focused on the history of the Lithuanian elites under Nazi and Soviet rule, questions of trauma and memory, and the social and cultural effects of forced modernization, sovietization and mass displacement in the Baltic States.