Research News
Political Earthquakes and Tsunamis Ahead
Virtually no day passes without some shocking news. I am not referring to military conflicts, and natural disasters, including climate change, of which there is an abundance. I am referring to a completely new and dangerous phenomenon: the rise of mostly right-wing populist politics based on unfounded or unproven claims, distortions and outright lies.
VMU Signed Cooperation Agreement with Korea University
The most international university in Lithuania, VMU, is expanding its relations with Asian education institutions: at the end of July, VMU signed a cooperation agreement with Korea University, which is not only one of the leaders nationally but also among the top 100 universities of the world. The visiting delegation from South Korea met with VMU representatives and discussed student and teacher exchange, joint study programmes, and cooperation in research projects.
International conference: Diaspora and Migration
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”
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
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
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.
