Yesterday, the new Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain, His Excellency Fernando Fernández-Aguayo, visited the Faculty of Philology. In addition to the Dean, Prof. Dr Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, the meeting was attended by the faculty's lecturers in Spanish language and literature, Prof. Dr Miguel Villanueva and lect. Claudia Medrano González and Assoc. Prof. Dr Aistė Kučinskienė, a postdoctoral fellow from the University of Madrid, Silvia Peterssen Fernández, the Deputy Ambassador of Spain to Lithuania, Alejandra Rubio del Barrio, and the Ambassador's Assistant for Cultural Affairs, Greta Jurkūnaitė, who is also a Master's student at our faculty.
The Ambassador and his Deputy emphasised their desire to continue successful cooperation with the Faculty. They expressed a wish to organise Spanish film screenings, contribute to the preparation of Spanish Culture Week and maintain the Spanish literature shelf in the Česlovas Miloš reading room.
We were delighted to welcome H.E. Fernando Fernández-Aguayo and to mark the beginning of a new period.