On June 16th, the first official Confucius Institute Teaching Point was opened in VMU. The Director of Confucius Institute prof. Dongui Zhang, VMU Vice-rector Prof. Auksė Balčytienė, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities Prof. Ineta Dabašinskienė, the Head of the Department of Culture Studies and Ethnology Dr. Laimutė Anglickienė and the Head of the Centre for Asian Studies Dr. Aurelijus Zykas were presenting at this important event.

During the ceremony the name plate of the Teaching Point was uncovered next to the 601st auditorium of the Faculty of Humanities (Donelaičio st. 52), where usually Chinese language lectures are held. Furthermore, the Director of Confucius Institute presented a gift to VMU Vice-rector – a symbolic book as a token of a good relationship.

After the ceremony, the guests of the opening went to public lecture about Chinese economy, which was read by Prof. Riming Cui from Liaoning university of China.

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Dr Aurelijus Zykas, head of VMU Centre for Asian studies, recently was interviewed by “Verslo žinios” – news website, mainly focussing on business matters. This analytical interview allows readers to understand contemporary Japan. Click here to read full text (in Lithuanian only).

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VMU Center for Asian studies and Confucius Institute at Vilnius University invites everyone to listen to professor’s Cui Riming lecture “Asian Economic Integration with China, Japan and Korea as its Core and the New World Pattern” at 11:00 AM on the 16th of June, at Gediminas st. 44-301 (VMU faculty for Political Sciences and Diplomacy).
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Japanese embassy invites everyone to Japanese drums performance byJoji Hirota, a composer, taiko and shiakuhachi performer. Do not miss the chance to see the powerful Japanese instrument by yourself!
The concert will be held on June 9 (Monday), 18:00 at Vytautas Magnus University’s Great Hall (S Daukanto st. 28, Kaunas). Event page on facebook can be found here: Taiko concert.

More information can be found in the Japanese Embassy website.

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May 15, 2014, project E-Asia has released its first online broadcast episode. The première issue tells about annual event “Anime nights” which took part in Kaunas, informs about latest animes and presents most recent events from East Asia region. The presenters professionally and skilfully did their job leaving a good impression about the fulfilment of the idea. Click here .  to watch the whole episode. E-Asia is a project managed by active students from East Asia Cultures and Languages study program.

May 16-18 of 2014 a group of 40 students gathered togehter to spend their weekend in a more unique and special way. 1st and 2nd year students of RASK and exchange students from South Korea, Japan and China organised and participated in
the first RASK Spring Forum. During the 3 days of activities there was a section of team building, then meeting with respectable guests and ambassadors, such as His Excellency the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China Zengwen Liu with his wife, Confucius Institute at Vilnius university director Donghui Zhang, Centre’s for Asian Studies at VMU staff, chinese and korean language teachers from VMU, etc.
All the participants had an opportunity to take part in discussions and learn more about China-Lithuania relations, visions of the future, Asian Studies program’s development and so on.
Daiva Repečkaitė, responsible for Korean and Indonesian projects, taught the students how to write CV and motivational letters as well as what mistakes should be avoided while writing such documents.
Saturday evening Ignas Sakalauskas shared his stories about his experiences travelling around the world. Also, all the representatives of each country made presentations about their respectful country.
First RASK Forum was a very succesful event and we are hoping that it will become a beautiful tradition every year.

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This May, Korean language lecturer Dr. Hyun Jeong Im donated a very colourful and useful batch of books to the Centre for Asian Studies. It contains a big variety of Korean language learning material as well as a big selection of Korean fiction and travel literature. This wonderful present will significally expand the Korean literature section of Chiune Sugihara’s reading room. The books will be available in the near future for all the readers.

On the 9th of May, Centre for Asian Studies organized their annual event – East Asia Day. The purpose of this event was to gather students, lecturers and professors, social partners and alumni of VMU.

Political and public sector’s delegates as well as cultural organisations representatives gave presentations on their activities. Development of the relations between Lithuania and Asian countries was introduced by japanese ambassador Kazuko Shiraishi, Indonesian ambassador prof. Bomer Pasaribu, ITB rector Prof. Dr. Akhmaloka, representative of Confucius Institute Bo Shuyan and the leader of Buddhist community in Lithuania “Kwam Um Dzen” Alvydas Turskis. Also, Andrius Pukis and Adomas Lapinskas who won Darma Siswa scholarship in the past shared their experiences in Indonesia, Agnė Zabulionytė introduced her impressions about China and South Korea, countries that she visited as an exchange student.

We are happy to announce a call for papers for the 5th annual international students’ conference on Asia. The conference will take place on April 9 at Vytautas Magnus University (V. Putvinskio 23, Kaunas).

If you are interested in East Asian cultures, languages, arts, economics or other areas, this event is just for you. The conference, organized by VMU East Asian Languages ​​and Cultures students, together with the Centre for Asian Studies and the Department of Cultural Studies, is a great opportunity to share your accumulated knowledge, work or research with colleagues in this field and not only, to gain experience and improve your public speaking skills, or even get some inspirations. (more…)

We are sharing the invitation to submit abstracts for the 4th annual Student academic Conference, focusing on Asia. The conference will be held on April 24, 11:00-14:00, V. Putvinskio 23-310 in Kaunas, Lithuania.

This event, which has become an integral part of VMU Asian Week, is organized by VMU Regional Studies Asian specialization students and VMU Center for Asian Studies together with the Department of Cultural Studies. As every year, students from various fields whose work and research touch on the topic of Asia are welcome, both from the humanities, social sciences, arts and other disciplines. (more…)

The National Taiwan Library announced “Guidelines to the National Taiwan Library Fellowship for International Visiting Scholars and Students”.
The library provides Fellowship for experts and scholars to pursue their academic goals in Taiwan studies or Southeast Asia studies. Please click here to read more.

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It is time for all who are interested in East Asian cultures, languages, economics, politics and more to come together for what has become an annual student research conference, organised by the VMU East Asia Cultures and Languages students.
This conference is a great opportunity to share your knowledge, work and research with colleagues in the field, to try and improve your public speaking skills, to gain experience and to listen to presentations by like-minded people. (more…)

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Are you interested in politics of Japan? Maybe you are interested in economy of China? Maybe you are fascinated in Korean art and traditions? It does not matter in which field you are interested in, as long as it is related to East Asia we have a very interesting proposition to you. (more…)

VMU Department of International Relations informs about ongoing studies exchange and internship contests as well as “Erasmus Days’21” which are going to take place on February 17th, 18th, and 19th, during which students will be able to learn more about exchange opportunities. (more…)

Beijing Normal University entrusts the European Federation of Overseas Chinese and Chinese Associations to recruit 100 candidates for MBA and MPA studies (conducted fully in English) from all over the world. Appropriate students are welcome to sign up. (more…)

Applications for scholarships for studies in China in 2021-2022 are open. Persons who are nationals of Lithuania, EU or persons from the third countries having the right to live in Lithuania are welcome to apply.

Applications may be submitted by representatives of various fields of Lithuanian science and studies institutions/ representatives of science fields – Bachelor, Masters and PhD students. (more…)