The annual VMU East Asia Day on 30 April will conclude with a public lecture by a distinguished guest from Thailand, Dr Namtip Aksornkool. After extensive experience with UNESCO, UNDP and other international agencies, Dr Aksornkool is now an independent consultant in literacy, basic education and gender in development. Her talk, titled “Lithuania – Southeast […]
Centre for Asian Studies and the Department of Culture Studies and Ethnology invites to a public lecture about Korean shamanism bydr. Jinseok Seo (University of Latvia). The lecture will take place on April 17, at the Faculty of Humanities (Donelaičio 52), 322 auditorium. Lecture starts at 11:15. The lecture will be in Lithuanian.
A monk of Zen Buddhism, Bo Haeng SN from South Korea this April comes to Kaunas to hold a public lecture. This event is a unique opportunity to meet a person with such an unusual path of life. Monk has written a biographic book “Letters from the Mountains of the Dragon” and directed a monoplay […]
On February 21, the event “Strengthening Japan-Lithuania relations” was organized during the Vilnius Book Fair 2015 on the occasion of the presentation of the book “Colors and Tastes of Japan” written by the head of the Centre for Asian Studies, Dr Aurelijus Zykas. The event attracted c. 500 spectators and was also broadcasted online, thus […]
Most people who love Japan dream about seeing this country with their own eyes. Every year at least one HASHI club member sets on a long journey for even just a moment to look into this dream land. This Friday Joana Vaitkutė, who lived in Japan for one year, will tell us about her experience.
On September 15th, Sunday, 4 pm we would like to invite you to a lecture of Japanese animator Naoya Kurisu “Reflections of traditional Japanese culture in modern animation” which will take place in the VMU Small Hall (Daukanto g. 28, Kaunas). Naoya Kurisu is a Nara prefecture based Japanese animator. He creates stunning visual illustrations […]
The Centre for Asian Studies would like to invite all those interested to attend a public lecture which will be given by a guest professor Dr Robert Parkin from Oxford University. The title of the lecture – Louis Dumont: hierarchy and equality in India and the West. The lecture will be given in English. The […]
Vytautas Magnus University Department of Sociology cordially invites you to the seminar of Erasmus visiting lecturer dr. Jakub Havliček (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) under the title “Religion and Society in Modern Japan: Yasukuni Shrine Controversy“. September 19, 2012, Wednesday, at 16:30 at K. Donelaičio str. 52–309, Kaunas.
VMU Centre for Asian Studies invites to the seminars of Dr. Lauri Paltemaa (Centre for East Asian Studies, Turku University, Finland) on the political situation of modern China. Lectures will be delivered on 15-18, May. The seminars are part of the course “Political development of China” of the . Everybody is invited to join the […]
Asian Studies Centre invites to a lecture Impact and challenges of bullying (ijime) in Japanese education and society, which will be delivered by Dr. Toshio Ohsako. Lecture will be held on April 25 (Wednesday) at the Centre for Asian Studies (Vaižganto 30), 13:00-14:30. The lecture is part of the MA course “Postwar Japan’s Society and […]
