Registration for the Freedom to Create 2025 Conference
VMU invites you to participate in a student conference “Freedom to Create” which will be held on May 9th, 2025. The conference is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the most famous Lithuanian artist and composer, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1910).
The all-time most phenomenal Lithuanian artist, a composer, painter and photographer, whose work comes across as an embodiment of interdisciplinarity and profundity, as a synthesis of avant-garde and heritage and as an inspiration for everyone from the fields of art and humanities to the realms of society, technology and sciences. Čiurlionis’s legacy consists of some 300 paintings and graphic works, among which his Sonatas are the most celebrated. By applying the musical form of a sonata—built on the contrast of different keys and themes—he developed a distinctive synthesis of music and painting.
At the conference Sonata of Science and Culture, we will unite seemingly disparate disciplines—science, art, sport, and culture—seeking a common thread: a synthesis of our collective ideas.
Presentation Topics:
- University as a Space for Creation and Art
- Possibilities and Limits of Freedom
- Creativity and Technology
- Solutions for Business and Social Challenges
- A person, Community, and Society in the Context of Changes
- Nature in the Hands of a Scientist
- Languages, Cultural Diversity, and Human Values
- Sustainable Development and Leadership in Education
- Sport and Wellness
- Opportunities and Limits to Freedom in Politics and Communication
University students of all study fields and cycles, as well as pupils from senior years of VMU network schools, are invited to give presentations, showcase their creative work, and/or moderate conference sessions. Presentations or performances can be prepared individually or in groups.
Registration is open until April 7.
More information https://www.vdu.lt/en/freedom-to-create/
The conference is part of a series of events, projects, and initiatives that will take place throughout 2025, dedicated to Vytautas Magnus University’s presidency of the “Transform4Europe” (T4EU) alliance. The alliance, uniting eleven European universities, aims to create joint structures, programs, and platforms for research and innovation, with the main goal of strengthening the T4EU’s future vision, identity, and cooperation.
The conference is presented by the first work of synergy of future science and art in the world, created in 2022 by VMU alumni, geneticists Lukas Žemaitis and Ignas Galminas, and painter Tadas Sokolovas – “DNA Painting No. 1”.
