Lietuvių Katalikų Mokslo Akademijos Suvažiavimo Darbai IX
Introduction
This volume is the published proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Sciences (Lietuvių Katalikų Mokslo Akademija), held at Boston College August 31–September 2, 1973, and published in Rome in 1982. It gathers scholarly papers across theology, history, literature, and other disciplines presented by Lithuanian diaspora scholars, marking the Academy's 50th anniversary. As a record of sustained Lithuanian Catholic intellectual life in exile, it stands as a primary document of how diaspora scholars maintained rigorous academic discourse under Soviet occupation of their homeland.
Community and publication context
Community and publication setting
Context and significance
Significance
The Lietuvių Katalikų Mokslo Akademija was founded in 1922 in independent Lithuania and reconstituted in diaspora after 1944, becoming one of the most sustained Lithuanian intellectual institutions outside Soviet-occupied Lithuania. Its Suvažiavimo Darbai series—of which this is the ninth volume—represents a decades-long effort to produce peer-level scholarship in Lithuanian across every major academic discipline, published from Rome and distributed internationally to diaspora communities.
This volume is particularly significant as it commemorates the Academy's 50th anniversary and gathers contributions from leading diaspora scholars including Juozas Brazaitis, Viktoras Gidžiūnas, Paulius Rabikauskas, and others. The congress was held at Boston College, reflecting the deep roots of Lithuanian Catholic scholarly life in the American diaspora. Together, the proceedings document not only the intellectual vitality of exile scholarship but also the determined effort to keep Lithuanian-language academic discourse alive during a period when it was suppressed or controlled within Lithuania itself.
How this record carried memory
Organized diaspora scholarly institution (LKMA) maintaining Lithuanian Catholic academic life in exile through periodic international congresses and published proceedings, operating from Rome and drawing scholars from North America and Europe while Lithuania remained under Soviet occupation.
Record connections
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