Autumn IIVMU Centre for Asian Studies invites to the International Symposium ”Representation of Japan in Western Medias. Comparison with the Korean Case”, which will be held in Kaunas on November 4-5, 2010, at the VMU “Gallery 101” (Laisvės av. 53, Kaunas). It is the fourth international symposium, organised by the Centre since 2007.

Students and scholars are invited to discuss the current problems and achievements in cross-cultural communication among the Japanese, Korean people and Westerners. How the images of East Asian countries are projected? How are they represented in Western literature, cinema, art, printed media? There will be three sessions at the Symposium, and three key speakers will deliver the lectures: prof. dr. T. Suzuki (Meiji University), prof. dr. S. Li (Pusan National University) and assoc. prof. dr. Y. Ikeda (Ritsumeikan University) (more…)

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The 13th International Symposium “European Discourses on Japan” (Europäische Japan-Diskurse) will be held at VMU Centre for Asian Studies on September 10-11. This annual Symposium is jointly organized by several European universities and is held at different European Cities. This year it will be held at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas.

The topic of this year Symposium is “Speaking and spoken language in Japanese”. (more…)

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Donguk UniversityOn July 19, the student exchange agreement and general agreement for academic cooperation between Vytautas Magnus University and Dongguk University, South Korea was signed. The agreements considered educational and academic exchanges including exchange of academic staff, coordination joint research and training, exchange of documentation and research materials, exchange of students for study and research.

Beginning in 2010 in both universities up to two (2) students per academic year annually can be admitted. The first student from Vytautas Magnus University is already starting his studies at Dongguk University from this September. (more…)

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