On 16 May 2024, The Centre for Asian Studies at Vytautas Magnus University has withdrawn from the “Dialogue of Asian Civilizations in Accelerated Globalization” conference, scheduled for May 23-26, 2024, at the University of Latvia. This way we uphold the unified stance of the Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies institutions which was prompted by the […]

After being organized the first time in 2014 in Vilnius, later in Tartu (2016) and Riga (2018) international academic conference of the Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies (BAAS) is returning to Lithuania in 2020, this time to Kaunas, Vytautas Magnus University (VMU). The event will take place on March 5-7 mainly at VMU multifunctional building […]

Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies (BAAS) is calling for submission of proposals for MA and PhD students‘ poster presentations in the fourth BAAS conference that is going to take place at Vytautas Magnus University in March 5-7th, 2020. Poster presentation is a good opportunity for students to present their research topic, discuss it with other […]

Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies (BAAS) is calling for submission of panel/paper proposals to the fourth BAAS conference that is going to take place at Vytautas Magnus University in March 5-7th, 2020. After being organized in 2014 in Vilnius, later in Tartu (2016) and Riga (2018), BAAS Conference is returning to Lithuania. The last conference […]

From 7 to 9 April 2016, the 2nd Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies (BAAS) Conference took place at the University of Tartu (UT) followed by the BAAS Board meeting on the 9 April. The conference was organised by the UT Centre for Oriental Studies, which was the 2014–2016 chair of the BAAS, together with the […]

On the 21st of September, CAS staff member Daiva Repečkaitė was taking part in an interinstitutional meeting of the Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies. The partners were discussing cooperation within Erasmus+, joint projects, etc. At the Latvian National Library, they learned about the culture of literati in medieval China and saw copies of rare maps […]

On April 5, the representatives of five institutions in the Baltic region dealing with Asian studies, signed the Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies Charter in Vilnius, at the Vilnius University. VMU Centre for Asian Studies became one of five founding institutions to establish the Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies (BAAS). At the meeting the future […]