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The Department of Lithuanian Literature (Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University) and the Department of Literary Culture of Borderlands (Jagiellonian University in Kraków) invite to a discussion: Can we write a joint history of Lithuanian and Polish literature?

Participants: dr. hab. Paweł Bukowiec, dr. hab. Jarosław Fazan, prof. dr. hab. Jakub Niedźwiedź and prof. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, prof. Dainora Pociūtė, prof. Brigita Speičytė.

Discussion (in English) will take place on October 24th, Monday, 3 p.m. at J. Balkevičius room.

We cordially invite you to the public lecture “Climate change discourse in UK and US news media: representing uncertainty and time” with Prof. Dr Hermine Penz (University of Graz, Austria) on Monday, October 24th, from 3-5 pm.

The lecture will take place on Zoom platform and can be accessed through this link >> 

The lecture will be delivered in English.

Further information about the topic of the lecture is given below

Climate change discourse in UK and US news media: representing uncertainty and time

Abstract

Climate change is one of the major issues of our times and is regularly represented in media discourse. The latest findings of climate science have been summarized in the successive reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which have also provided future scenarios of the detrimental effect of rising temperatures for the years to come. The publication of the IPCC reports is generally taken up by the media which ‘translate’ the language of climate science for the general public. The issue of uncertainty is particularly interesting in this respect as the concept is interpreted differently by different audiences, i.e., scientists, journalists, the general public, etc. In addition, the question of time, in particular future projections of climate change, is relevant in climate change discourse and may be represented differently by different actors. 

This presentation discusses how uncertainty is represented by climate science media reports connected to the publication of the last two IPCC reports. In addition, it looks at the temporal frames connected to climate change, but also the uncertainties connected with it. The presentation applies ecocritical discourse analysis and takes a qualitative approach. 

We cordially invite you to the traditional Nordic lecturers’ conference on October 17-18th.

The theme this year is NORDIC COLONIALISM IN THE ARCTIC AND THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ RESISTANCE. All events will be conducted in English. The conference will take place live and on zoom.

Please find attached the program with the link and the annotations for the presentations >>

2021/2022 spring semester exam retakes will be held from the 2nd until the 16th of September.

Retake dates for BA students >

Retake dates for MA students >

GUS Baltic Culture through Language retake is on September 8, 5 p.m. via Moodle.

GUS Linguistic diversity and language science retake is on September 8, 3 p.m. via Teams.

GUS Вильнюс на перекрестке культур (19 - I половина 20 вв.) retake is on September 8, 3 p.m. via Moodle.

The dates are constantly updated as soon as the professors announce them.

If you cannot find the date for the needed subject, please contact the professor and follow the information on Faculty's website.

If you have any questions, please contact us at 

Additional admission for doctoral studies at the Faculty of Philology will start from September 19th.

Applicants for studies at the Faculty of Philology shall send their applications to  (in .doc or .docx format along with a signed and scanned version) by 17:00 noon, 19 September 2022. In case of insufficient information or not all required documents being provided, the application shall not be registered. The selection criteria for doctoral studies are a written research proposal and an interview. The research proposal and the interview shall be evaluated on 27 September starting 10 a.m. The interview will take place online. 

More information >

THE COURSE WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY

Vilnius University invites Ukrainian citizens who left Ukraine for Lithuania due to military action by the Russian Federation in Ukraine to submit their applications for the intensive Lithuanian language and culture course.

Admission for doctoral studies at the Faculty of Philology will start from May 17th.

Applicants for studies at the Faculty of Philology shall send their applications to  (in .doc or .docx format along with a signed and scanned version) by 16:00 noon, 16 June 2022. In case of insufficient information or not all required documents being provided, the application shall not be registered. The selection criteria for doctoral studies are a written research proposal and an interview. The research proposal and the interview shall be evaluated on 29-30 June at V. Krėvės Room, starting at 10 a.m. (Universiteto str. 5)

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Meelis Friedenthal (University of Tartu) will hold guest lectures 16th-19th May.

Lectures will be held in 108 (Estų) room, Domus Philology, st. Universiteto 5.

Lectures will be held in English.

• Monday, May 16th 19.00 – The Middle Age in Estonia
• Tuesday, May 17th 15.00  – Early modern period in Estonia
• Wednesday, May 18th 19.00 – University of Tartu in the age of Enlightment
• Thursday, May 19th 13.00  –  Contemporary literature in Estonia: the writer’s perspective

Meelis Friedenthal has written a doctoral thesis at the University of Tartu on a 13th century philosophical-theological treatise about seeing and vision. Friedenthal has worked as lecturer in the faculty of theology and history and is currently working as an associate professor of the intellectual history at the University of Tartu.

Friedenthal has earned a reputation as a speculative fiction writer, his first novel Golden Age is about the role of history in shaping our identity. His second novel, The Bees is a historical on. It depicts the end of the 17th century and is a bleak vision about the voyage and encounters of a student who has come from Leiden to Tartu. The novel was well received by critics and readers alike; it won the European Union Prize for Literature and has been translated into several languages, including Lithuanian.

Friedenthal’s third novel The Language of Angels (2016) takes place in two parallel timelines, one in modern day and the other in 17th century Tartu, and is centered around a magical manuscript and Titivillus, a demon of scribing and typing errors that appears in different times and places.