Guest: Agnieška Avin;
Hosts: Rūta Vyšniauskaitė, Ignė Rasickaitė.

In the 6th episode of the EUROPAST Podcast, project researcher Rūta Vyšniauskaitė sat down with Agnieška Avin, a PhD candidate at the Institute Of Sociology At The Lithuanian Centre For Social Sciences. She is also an activist for Roma integration, working as an educator at the integrative children’s day-care centre “Padėk Pritapti”.

The episode focuses on Agnieška's engagement in social sciences and interest in the Roma community in Lithuania, their linguistic diversity and cultural history. It also touches upon the positive developments in the integration of the Roma community in Lithuania as well as the enduring challenges that this community faces, such as society's prejudice and distrust, lack of awareness about the Roma community and misinformation.
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In the EUROPAST Podcast, we explore Europe's most pressing challenges of public history. We investigate the complex and contested spaces of public memory, memory activism and best practices for engaging the public in a dialogue about the past.

The podcast series is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union under the WIDERA programme (EUROPAST project, Grant Agreement No. 101079466).

Learn more about the project: www.europast.vu.lt 

Music: Istok Zapad, Whiteheads. ℗ Croatia Records, 2021.