| 11.01.2010 |
CBS Symposium at Southwestern College
The Center for Belarusian Studies at Southwestern College organized and held a major symposium October 6 and 7, 2009, on the topic “Higher Education and Civil Society in Belarus.” The conference - held on Southwestern’s campus in Winfield, Kansas - brought together leading specialists in the subject area from Belarus, from the North America Belarusian Diaspora, and from the diplomatic arena. |
| 11.01.2010 |
Khalip Gets Journalism Award
The prestigious Courage in Journalism Award of the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) was granted to the famous Belarusian journalist, Iryna Khalip, in New York on October 20, 2009. Khalip won the award together with Cameroonian reporter, Agnes Taile, and a journalist from Iran, Jila Baniyaghoob. |
| 05.07.2009 |
Exhibition of Belarusian Posters Revisits Brussels
On April 24 sunny Brussels hosted the opening of the exhibition ‘Visual code of the time: post-Soviet poster art in Belarus’. It was the second presentation of this exhibition in Brussels. After the Administration Communale d’Evere and Curieus Evere, the Centre culturel Forest expressed its great interest in presenting Belarusian posters to Brussels’ public. |
| 05.07.2009 |
Belarus Days in Prague
A series of events with the participation of the Belarusian opposition's representatives took place in the Czech capital on May 4-7 in the framework of the 'Belarusian Days in Prague'. |
| 05.07.2009 |
Congress of New Belarusian Diaspora
The Second Congress of the New Belarusian Diaspora of Europe and the USA took place in Strasbourg, France, on April 24-28, 2009. The New Belarusian Leaders Forum: Renaissance Generation addressed the matters of cooperation between the EU and Belarus united the representatives of the younger cohort of Belarusian émigrés in the EU and the USA. |
| 25.03.2009 |
Lukashenka at EU Summit in Prague?
On February 15, 2009 representatives of the Belarusian expatriate community and political emigrants from Belarus voiced their protest against inviting Alyaksandr Lukashenka to the European Union summit in Prague. |
| 25.03.2009 |
Art Against Dictatorship
An exhibition of works by Belarusian artists entitled“Art Against Dictatorship” opened in Washington., D.C. on February 16,2009 |
| 25.03.2009 |
Marachkin Exhibition in New York
The Belarusian Museum of New York announced a personal art exhibition "Dreams" by Alyaksey Marachkin. The exhibition opened with a reception for Marachkin on Sunday, February 15, 2009. |
| 15.01.2009 |
BELARUSIAN DAY in Prague
took place on December 8th, 2008. It was initiated by the cultural foundation of the Czech ex-president, Vaclav Havel. |
| 15.01.2009 |
BELARUS: Rays of Lights
was the title of an exhibition of photographs by the American photographer John Kunstadter, held on November 17, 2008 in the United Nations Secretariat Building in New York City. |
| 05.01.2009 |
Notes from the Convention
The 28th Convention of Belarusians of North America was held this year on the grounds of the Belarusan-American Community Center Polacak near Cleveland. It was organized by the Belarusan-American Association (BAZA) and the Belarusan Canadian Alliance (ZBK), and hosted by the local branch of BAZA. |
| 10.07.2008 |
USA: Opening of the Center for Belarusian Studies
The Center for Belarusian Studies at Southwestern College held its grand opening in Wichita, Kansas on April 19, 2008. Dignitaries attending the ceremony included Stanislau Shushkevich, first president of independent Belarus, and Ivonka Survilla, president of the Belarus Democratic Republic in Exile. Guests from New York, New Jersey, California, and Kansas gathered to make the day long event a success. Activities for the grand opening included displays of Belarusian art, literature, and music. |
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