Research News

International conference: Diaspora and Migration

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VMU Lithuanian Emigration Institute is pleased to invite scholars and researchers to the conference “Diaspora and migration: theoretical approaches and complex and interdisciplinary research”, which will take place on September 28, 2018 in Kaunas at Vytautas Magnus University Lithuanian Emigration Institute.

International Workshop “Inclusion and Artificial Intelligence”

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VMU Research Cluster for Applied Ethics is kindly inviting the students and community members to participate in an international workshop Inclusion and Artificial Intelligence on the 22nd of June (2018), 9 AM – 1 PM. The workshop will feature two guest speakers from Germany who will give their presentations – Petr Frantik (University of Cologne) and Dr. Kinga Golus (University of Bielefeld).

Renowned Anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen Visits VMU

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On 7-8, May, two lectures will be held at VMU by a special guest – Thomas Hylland Eriksen, one of world's most prominent anthropologists, who is currently a professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, the President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, EASA (2015-2016), and member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Prof. Robert Van Voren: Visual Traces of Sovietism are Disappearing

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Lithuania is currently still digesting its traumas of the 20th century, while the entire post-soviet region needs more moral leaders – the kind that would follow the example of Nobel Prize Winner Andrei Sakharov, one of the bravest critics of the Soviet regime, according to the head of Vytautas Magnus University’s (VMU) Andrei Sakharov Research Centre for Democratic Development, human rights activist, political scientist and professor Robert Van Voren, who is also Chief Executive of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry.

Conference for Young Researchers: From Ideas to Results

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VMU Interdisciplinary Conference for Young Researchers: From Ideas to Results (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania).

VMU Prof. J. S. Gordon: War for Protection of Our Data Is Already Lost

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As AI and smart technologies keep improving, people are increasingly faced with unexpected problems. Can intelligent robots have rights? How to ensure security of data online? Who is responsible for the accidents of self-driving cars? These and other questions are explored in a new project by the scientists of VMU where experts of technologies, law and ethics have joined forces and plan cooperation with scientists in the USA and Europe.