Conferences and events
2019
XVI World Lithuanian Symposium on Arts and Sciences
Date, place: November 14-16, 2019, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: VMU together with the Lithuanian World Community, Ministry of Education, Science and Sports and Lithuanian Foundation
Programme
International Conference, dedicated to the Year of Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas
“Relationship between Writter and Society in Modernizing Europe (mid-19th century – mid-20th century)”
Date, place: October 24-25, 2019, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Organizing Committee of the Faculty of Humanities, VMU
2018
International Conference, dedicated to Simonas Daukantas (1793-1864)
“Writing History, Writing Literature: the Intersections of Historical and Literary Narratives”
Date, place: October 4-5, 2018, the Historical Presidential Palace of the Republic of Lithuania, Kaunas
Organiser: Department of History and Department of Lithuanian Studies, Faculty of Humanities, VMU
2nd International Conference of Migration and Disapora Studies in Kaunas
“Diaspora and migration: theoretical approaches, complex and interdisciplinary research”
Date, place: September 28, 2018, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: VMU Lithuanian Emigration Institute
29th EAJRS Conference in Kaunas
“(G)localizing Japanese Studies Resources”
Date, place: September 12-15, 2018, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: VMU Centre for Asian studies together with the Global Japan Office
2017
Celebrate Canada, Celebrate Montreal
Date, place: November 07, 2017, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Department of Foreign Language, Literary and Translation Studies of the Faculty of Humanities, VMU
Civil Society in East Asian Countries: Contributions to Democracy, Peace and Sustainable Development
Date, place: 26-27 October, 2017, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University
Multilingualism and Threatened Languages in the Baltic Region
Date, place: October 20-21, 2017, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University and Permanenet International Committee of Linguistics (CIPL)
Der Osten Europas und die deutsche Literatur. Johannes Bobrowski und andere
Date, place: September 21-23, 2017, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Department of Foreign Language, Literary and Translation Studies of the Faculty of Humanities, VMU
VII International Congress of Belarusian Studies
Date, place: September 15-17, 2017, Warsaw
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University, Institute of Political Studies “Political Sphere”, Warsaw University
4th Congress of Lithuanian Historians
Date, place: September 14-16, 2017, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuanian National Committee of Historians
The 6th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture – Traces of Multiculturalism
Date, place: May 19-20, 2017, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Department of Foreign Language, Literary and Translation Studies of the Faculty of Humanities, VMU
The Interdisciplinary Intellectual Practices and Moral Imagination of Leonidas Donskis
Date, place: 11 – 12 of May, 2017, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University
2016
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania between Lublin and Grodno (1569-1697): trajectories of development of the state and society
Date, place: December 2, 2016
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University
The Outline of the 21st Century Novelism
Date, place: December 1, 2016, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius
Organiser: Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vytautas Magnus University
Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 18th century: Everyday life
Date, place: November 25, 2016, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuanian Institute of History
VI International Congress of Belarusian Studies
Date, place: October 7-9, 2016
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University, Institute of Political Studies “Political Sphere”
Europe, Nations and Insecurity: Challenges to Identities
Date, place: June 30 – July 2, 2016, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: ASN (Association for the Study of Nationalities) and Vytautas Magnus University
Normalisation and Analysis of Social Media Texts (NormSoMe)
Date, place: May 28, 2016, Portorož, Slovenia
Organiser: Centre of Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University
Casablanca of the North: refugees and rescuers in Kaunas 1939–1940
Date, place: May 17, 2016, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University
Rhetoric and Forms of European Culture: from Tradition to Contemporary Challenges
Date, place: May 6-7, 2016, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Department of Lithuanian Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University
2015
V International Congress of Belarusian Studies
Date, place: October 2-4, 2015, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University, Institute of Political Studies “Political Sphere”
3rd international conference “Sustainable Multilingualism: Language, Culture and Society”
Date, place: May 29-30, 2015 Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Institute of Foreign Languages, Vytautas Magnus University
QueryVis – Workshop on Innovative Corpus Query and Visualization Tools
Date, place: May 11, 2015, Vytautas Magnus University (venue – Vilnius)
Organiser: Centre of Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University
From the apostles to the martyrs: Imagination models of the Jesus Society from the beginning to the prohibition
Date, place: May 11, 2015, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University
19th Kaunas History Conference “Kaunas in the siege of Foreign Armed Forces”
Date, place: May 7-8, 2015, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University
Translating Romance Language Texts: A Translation Workshop
Date, place: May 7, 2015, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Department of German and Roman Philology, Faculty of Humanities, Vytautas Magnus University
On the Edge of Modernity: The Loss if the Ideas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Date, place: March 14, 2015, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus university, Institute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
New Scholarly Voices 2015
Date, place: March 3, 2015, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Department of English Philology, Faculty of Humanities, VMU
2014
The Horizons of the 18th Century Culture and Kristijonas Donelaitis
Date, place: December 5-6, 2014, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Department of Lithanian Literature, Faculty of Humanities
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 18th Century. Town as a Place of Communication
Date, place: November 14, 2014, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University, Institute of Lithuanian history
Canada – A Multiplicity of Issues
Date, place: October 18, 2014, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Department of English Philology, Faculty of Humanities
Human Language Technologies – the Baltic Perspective
Date, place: October 14, 2014, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Computational Linguistics Centre, Faculty of Humanities
The University in a Single Place: Uniqueness Lies in Diversity
Date, place: October 10-11, 2014, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Centre of Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication, Faculty of Humanities
IV International Congress of Belarusian Studies
Date, place: October 3-5, 2013, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University, Institute of Political Studies “Political Sphere”
Immanent Expressions: Conversations at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Literature, and Politics
Date, place: May 16, 2014, Kaunas
Organiser: Vyatutas Magnus University, Butler University (Indiana, USA)
Female Monasticism in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: History and Present
Date, place: May 8-9, 2014, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University
2013
The Construction of National Narratives and Politics of Memory in the Central and Eastern European Region after 1989
Date, place: November 28-29, 2013, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University
Being Second: The Phenomenon of Kaunas City in Theory, History, and Narratives
Date, place: November 22, 2013, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Department of Lithuanian Literature, Faculty of Humanities, VMU
Rethinking the World: Liberal Arts, Creative Imagination and Success
Date, place: October 17-18, 2013, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Centre for Intercultural Communication and Multilingualism, Faculty of Humanities, VMU
XII International Scientific ConferenceGrand Duchy of Lithuania in the 18th century: state, culture, education; dedicated to the 240th anniversary of the foundation of the Educational Commission
Date, place: October 10-11, 2013, Vilnius
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University, The Institute of Lithuanian History
2nd International Conference “Sustainable Multilingualism: Research, Studies, Culture”
Date, place: September 27-28, 2013, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Institute of Foreign Languages of Vytautas Magnus University
Life and Phenomenology: Celebrating Algis Mickūnas at 80
Date, place: June 13-15, 2013, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University
The transformation of the dukes: from military-tribal aristocracy to a political nation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Date, place: April 24-26, 2013, Kaunas
Organiser: Vytautas Magnus University
New Scholarly Voices 2013
Date, place: March 6, 2013, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Organiser: Department of English Philology, Faculty of Humanities, VMU