Lietuvių Katalikų Mokslo Akademijos Suvažiavimo Darbai XII
1987
Introduction
This volume collects the scholarly proceedings of the Twelfth Congress of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Sciences, held November 24–28, 1982, at the Dolphin Beach Resort in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, and published in Rome in 1987. It gathers peer contributions across theology, political science, economics, psychology, law, and medicine, presented in Lithuanian with parallel English and French summaries, representing the transnational intellectual vitality of the Lithuanian Catholic diaspora. As the twelfth in a long-running series rooted in pre-war Kaunas and continued in exile, it is a primary document of diaspora scholarly institution-building during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania.
Community and publication context
Community and publication setting
Context and significance
Significance
The Lietuvių Katalikų Mokslo Akademija was founded in Kaunas in 1922 and reconstituted in exile after the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, operating from Rome as a center of Lithuanian Catholic intellectual life throughout the diaspora decades. The Suvažiavimo Darbai series, of which this is the twelfth volume, represents one of the most sustained scholarly publishing programs produced by any Lithuanian diaspora institution, spanning theology, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, always in Lithuanian with international-language summaries.
This volume is a record of the 1982 congress held in St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, marking the Academy's 60th anniversary. The presence of Vatican correspondence—Cardinal Casaroli's telegram and the Academy's formal letter to Pope John Paul II—documents the institutional standing of the Lithuanian Catholic diaspora within the global Church during a period when Lithuania remained under Soviet occupation. The congress papers, contributed by scholars across the United States and Europe, demonstrate the breadth of expertise preserved and cultivated within the exile community, and the volume's multilingual apparatus ensured that Lithuanian scholarship remained legible to international audiences even as the homeland was closed off.
How this record carried memory
Diaspora scholarly academy sustaining Lithuanian Catholic intellectual life in exile; transnational publication infrastructure (congress in USA, published in Rome, printed in Italy); bilingual/trilingual parallel texts maintaining international scholarly visibility while preserving Lithuanian-language scholarship during Soviet occupation.
Record connections
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