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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
Here is the List of Open Electives for the 2022/2023 fall semester.
These subjects can be chosen with the individual study plan instead of the electives suggested in your study programme.
Gabrielė Aputytė, a student in the Faculty of Philology at Vilnius University, has won this year’s Baltic Rectors’ Scholarship Competition. She was awarded a €2,000 scholarship.
The aim of the Competition is to encourage us to get together like we did 30 years ago for the Baltic Way, by learning the languages of our neighbouring countries and learning about the culture of the Baltic States. The Rectors’ Scholarship Competition takes place every year, with winners awarded from three Baltic universities – Vilnius, Latvia and Tartu. The candidates compete in three stages of the competition: written and oral tasks at their home university, followed by the final stage at the host university. This year’s competition, as has become a tradition, took place at Vilnius University.
The competition winner, G. Aputytė, is a third-year student in the Lithuanian Philology and Latvian Language Programme. She explained that she has been studying the Latvian language since the beginning of her first year, and Estonian since the second year, so she did not need to prepare for the competition overnight. Instead, it was a long learning process.
“I am currently studying at the University of Latvia under the Erasmus+ exchange programme, so I have had a lot of practice speaking Latvian. However, I rarely get to study Estonian, so I had to revise a number of things on my own. Instead of spending time analysing grammar, I decided to come up with some essay topics and figure out what else I could say regarding these questions (in all the languages). This method of preparation turned out to be a good form of self-reflection, because I needed to think about my hobbies, future plans, etc., as well as our relations, and the similarities and differences between the three Baltic states,” said the winner, discussing her practice method before the competition.
G. Aputytė explained that “the competition is fascinating, in that you meet like-minded people, have a chance to share ideas and feel united.”
“Especially at the current time, having a sense of unity and friendship between neighbours is extremely important. I must admit that, while I’m not from Suvalkija, I do like to save money. I do not yet have a precise plan for how I will spend the scholarship I have received, but I would like to use it for a meaningful purpose. Perhaps it’s time for a trip?” the scholarship winner said.
Next year, the Baltic Rectors’ Scholarship Competition will again take place at Vilnius University. The competition is open to full-time students (including students from abroad) studying in any programme at the University of Vilnius, Latvia or Tartu and speaking one of the Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Latvian or Estonian) at the C1 level (or having it as their mother tongue), as well as two other languages at least at levels A1 to A2.
