Date and time: 2020-04-06 15:00 - 2020-04-30 16:30
Location: Internetas

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Date and time: 2020-04-17 19:00 - 20220-04-19 06:00
Location: Kaunas

Hi! The biggest Japanese animation and culture event in Kaunas Anime Nights greets you!

We invite you to spend time together! Two nights with Japanese anime and two days full of spectacular cosplay shows, comic contests, unique lectures and a lot of like-minded people will all be waiting for you there.

Date and time: 2020-02-20 18:00 - 2020-05-14 20:15
Location: Japonų kultūros namai, T. Kosciuškos g. 26, Vilnius

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Date and time: 2020-01-11 11:10 - 2020-05-02
Location: Vilniaus universiteto Konfucijaus institutas, M.K. Čiurlionio g. 21, II korpusas, Vilnius

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Date and time: 2020-03-16 18:00 - 2020-03-16 21:00
Location: Čiop Čiop Kaunas, V. Putvinskio g. 50, Kaunas

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Date and time: 2020-03-14 13:00 - 2020-03-14 16:00
Location: GAJA namai, Savanorių pr. 130 a, Kaunas

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Date and time: 2020-03-11 16:00 - 2020-03-18 18:00
Location: Kauno geležinkelio stotis, M.K. Čiurlionio g. 16, Kaunas

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Date and time: 2020-03-14 15:00 - 2020-03-14 17:00
Location: Japonų kultūros namai, T. Kosciuškos g. 26, Vilnius

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Date and time: 2020-02-28 18:00 - 2020-02-28 19:30
Location: Trakų pilis, Trakai

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Date and time: 2020-02-25 17:30 - 2020-03-06 17:00
Location: Anykščių menų inkubatorius, J. Biliūno g. 53, Anykščiai

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Date and time: 2020-02-27 18:30 - 2020-03-07 18:00
Location: Forum Cinemas „Vingis“, Savanorių pr. 7, Vilnius; Kino centro „Romuva“ laikinoji salė, Kęstučio g. 62, Kaunas

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Date and time: 2020-03-05 08:00 - 2020-03-07 14:00
Location: VDU Azijos studijų centras, V.Putvinskio g. 23, Kaunas

After being organized the first time in 2014 in Vilnius, later in Tartu (2016) and Riga (2018) international academic conference of the Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies (BAAS) is returning to Lithuania in 2020, this time to Kaunas, Vytautas Magnus University (VMU). The event will take place on March 5-7 mainly at VMU multifunctional building at Putvinskio str. 23. More detailed information can be found at balticasianstudies.wordpress.com

BAAS conference is one of the largest academic conferences dedicated to Asian studies in Europe. It is organized More…

Date and time: 2020-02-22 15:00 - 2020-02-22 16:00
Location: LITEXPO, Laisvės pr. 5, Vilnius

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Date and time: 2020-02-20 18:00 - 2020-02-20 20:00
Location: Šv. Kotrynos bažnyčia, Vilniaus g. 30, Vilnius

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In her debut book ’’Tiger is Not a Cat’’, theater director Eglė Šimkevičiūtė – Kulvelis shares her acquaintance with Vietnam and Thailand. The author and her husband, who first traveled to Southeast Asia almost a decade ago, had been hoping for this adventure to last for one year. However, a travel-infected couple who have explored the region in its entirety and are currently living in New Zealand are planning their next adventure. More…

“An Artist of The Floating World” is a novel about an artist named Masuji Ono and the post-World War II Japan. It is the time of changes and when the narrator Masuji Ono meets people with different mindsets and opinions than his. The book is written very delicately and mixes both the artist’s past, before World War II and the present world. Kazuo Ishiguro focuses on topics like differences of generations, memory and forgiveness. More…

“Killing Commendatore” is another master-piece of Haruki Murakami which takes us to yet another surrealistic world and fantastically written characters. This time it is a novel about a thirty-six year old painter who after a sudden divorce with his wife decides to run away from his past and current job as a portrait painter. He moves to the house that belongs to his friend’s father, who happens to be a very famous Japanese Nihonga artist. We learn about the narrator’s daily life and constant struggles as an artist. More…

It seems that Nietzsche was right saying that “All things are enlinked, enlaced and enamoured”. Dr. Aurelijus Zykas, the professor of Vytautas Magnus University and the head of the Centre for Asian Studies during the Vilnius Book Fair 2018 introduced his new monograph Lead by Soft Power: Communication of Country’s Image and Japan. Precisely in this, his already second published book, A. Zykas, while using his own and referring to works and researches of other sociologists, More…

Poet of the Middle Ages, the Sufi mystic of Rumi (1207-1273) is one of the most popular poets in the Western world. There is nothing new that the name of Rumi in Lithuania was heard at least for those who were interested in Oriental culture and poetry, but his work is still a little known. Therefore, it’s urgent to introduce a poetry book: Rumi’s little book of life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit – to collect translations from various works of Rumi and to allow the More…