On 21 September an international scientific conference “Remembrance of the First World War in Interwar Europe: In search for new analytical categories” opened attended by scholars from Lithuania, Italy, Czech republic, Latvia, Hungary, Israel, the United States, the UK, France, Poland, Germany, and Slovenia.
At the conference opening event, which took place at the Thomas Mann Museum, speeches were given, followed by discussions, by Dr. Vasilijus Safronovas (Institute of Baltic Region History and Archaeology of Klaipėda University) and Stefan Goebel (University of Kent, United Kingdom).
The purpose of the event is to bring together researchers engaged in the studies of the significance of the First World War on European societies in the interwar period and to debate on a sometimes superfluous understanding of that war in the contemporary research.
Photos by Edita Anglickaitė-Beržinskienė
