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On January 31st  the opening of a new art exhibition organized together with a japanese culture club “Hashi” will take place in the Centre for Asian Studies. Vilnius Art Academy student Kotryna Šešelgytė’s watercolour paintings about Japan will be available for eveyone to see the whole Spring semester.

“Hashi” club invites everyone to the official opening of the exhibition this Friday, February 7, 18.00 at Sugihara house ( Vaižganto st. 30, Kaunas).

Kotryna Šešelgyje is a young Lithuanian artist, who traveled to Japan and experienced it‘s calmness and beauty, after graduating fromVilniaus Art Academy where she was studying stained glass. It was after all disasters have happened – earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima tragedy. Kotryna joined the volunteers to help people after the catastrophes. She was stunned by the Japanese people’s tranquility so Kotryna put her feeling of the moment in to the canvas. Watercolors and ink techniques reveals Japan which young artist has seen. Looking at the landscape you can look into reality between dreams. Experience Kotryna’s trip between consciousness and subconsciousness.
More Kotryna works http://kotrynaseselgyte.weebly.com/
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New Lunar Year celebration

Žaliojo žirgo žingsniai fotoCenter for Asian studies together with Studio of Eastern Culture Wudang Tao invite everyone to New Lunar Year celebration. The final events will take place on the 31st of January. Guests are welcome to participate in:

  • Open lecture  (16:00-17:15, Gediminas str. 44-203) about New Year celebration in different East Asia countries. The lecture will be delivered by the scholars of Center for Asian studies; (more…)
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Center for Asian Studies together with studio of Eastern culture “Wudang Tao” are pleased to invite everyone to see kimono demonstration and tea ceremony on the 17th of January, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. This event is hosted by Wudang studio (P. Kalpoko 1-26, Kaunas) and presented by Ms. Haruka Seto, an expert from Japan embassy in Lithuania.

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Zodiac The Centre for Asian Studies sends their greetings for the upcoming holidays! According to Chinese philosophy’s system of the five elements , the tree grows out of the water and from that time on it’s the beginning of the spring and the new cycle of 10 years. We’re leaving the frozen world of black water and enter the element of the green tree, growth, warmth and life. Following this, we would like to wish you all to experience the universal renewal of mind. (more…)

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Žaliojo žirgo žingsniai fotoCenter for Asian studies (CAS) together with studio of Eastern culture “Wudang Tao” present a series of events for new lunar year – “Steps of green horse”. The series is starting on the 20th of December and will end on the 31st of January, 2014.

There are various events planned, among them – evening for Japanese traditions with kimono presentation and Tea ceremony (January 17, 16:00). On the new year’s eve, there will be lectures given by CAS’s lecturers about different traditions of celebrating New year in East Asia (more…)

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NoTitleWe would like to invite proposals for the upcoming issue of a semi-annual open access blind peer review journal ‘International Journal of Area Studies‘ (IJAS) to be published in October, 2014. This issue is constructed on a trans-regional basis and we welcome the texts dealing with North Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Application Deadline: March 31, 2014

The Journal, published semiannually in March and October, is devoted to area studies from the humanities and social sciences perspectives (including but not limited to research on history, religion, philosophy, politics, and social processes in the regions of the world). We are interested in receiving article proposals related to different facets of the aforementioned scientific fields. (more…)

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