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Vilnius University students are invited to participate in the ISEP student exchange programme for 2023/2024 Fall.

Application documents are accepted till December 3, 2022.

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On 7-11 November 2022 the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University will host three events of the Erasmus project THINK4JOBS. The THINK4JOBS project aims to strengthen University Business Collaboration for the effective promotion, development, support, and assessment of students’ Critical Thinking (CT).

A five-day Learning Teaching Training Activity (LTTA)  will be held on 7-11 November 2022.

The THINK4JOBS project combines a multidisciplinary team of scholars from Greece, Germany, Portugal, Romania, and Lithuania representing Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and Labour Market Organizations (LMO). The project partners will present the results of the project on the development of critical thinking (CT) across different disciplines and the importance of close collaboration between HEI and LMO. External CT experts will also participate to share their research findings on different aspects of CT. Colleagues from the Institute of Foreign Languages: Liudmila Arcimavičienė, Ovidiu Ivancu, Simona Kontrimienė, Roma Kriaučiūnienė, Adam Mastandrea, and Svetozar Poštič will deliver presentations on possibilities of CT development in foreign language teaching and learning process. The programme of the LTTA could be found here:

On 10-11 November 2022, the THINK4JOBS Learning Teaching Training Activity (LTTA) will be combined with the THINK4JOBS 3rd Transnational Meeting. The project THINK4JOBS partners from Greece, Germany, Portugal, Romania, and Lithuania will attend the TM and each will share the project outcomes for the 25 months of the project and discuss the next steps on Project Dissemination.

The TM will be concluded with the Critical Thinking (CT) Forum that will be held on 11 November 2022. The key presenter of the Forum Prof. Dr. Daiva Penkauskienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) will present the results of national research into CT in institutions of higher education and labour market. The project THINK4JOBS partners will share the results of their interdisciplinary research into the development of CT in HEI and LMO.

We invite all those interested in CT to attend the Critical Thinking (CT) Forum.

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We cordially invite you to the opening of the Croatian Embassy’s exhibition “Croatian Archaeological Heritage“ on October 25th, Tuesday, at 4 pm. The exhibition will be opened by the Chargé d´Affaires of the Embassy of Croatia, Ms Dunja Staničić, followed by a lecture by the exhibition's author Mr Sanjin Mihelić, General Director of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. 

The exhibition “Croatian Archaeological Heritage“ aims to present Croatia as the home of countless archaeological and historical cultural monuments, which make this country a unique cultural and historical landscape. From earliest prehistory through antiquity and the Middle Ages, until the Modern Age and present day, the territory of Croatia has always been a place of the encounter and traditions, as well as often diverse world views, whose interplay through the ages has helped lay the foundations and build the edifice of a modern European country, proud of its rich and diverse origins.

The exhibition will be open to the public until November 11th at the Writers’ Hall (Rašytojų menė) of Vilnius University Faculty of Philology (Universiteto str. 5).

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.

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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.

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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. 

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