19 Feb 2009

Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University
Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Self-description:
"The Centre of Oriental Studies is the major institution of Asian studies in Lithuania as well as an academic core unit of Vilnius University. The Centre focuses its studies on the regions of Asia and Near East and serves a link among the Lithuanian researchers of the East. The objective of the Centre is to prepare specialists in the field of Asian studies needed for scientific research, the development of cultural and business relations as well as to promote better understanding of the Eastern cultures in Lithuania, and to foster the collaboration between the East and the West.
[...] The Centre of Oriental Studies was founded in Vilnius in 1993 setting as its major goal promotion and learning of oriental languages, culture and history. [...] Since then the Program has given rise to specialists in Arabic / Islamic, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian studies. [...] In the near future the Master of Arts Program in the Contemporary Asian Studies should be introduced as well. Besides, the Centre works toward incorporating Iranian, Tibetian, Korean, and Mongol studies into its curriculum. In 2002, the Oriental Centre set up the Eastern Languages School which since then has invited everybody willing to study Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Sanskrit, Turkish, and Korean languages. As part of its activities, the Oriental Centre also offers wider public lectures given by famous visiting scholars from Lithuania and abroad.
The centre enjoys lively research of six research groups and issues an annual scholarly journal 'Acta Orientalia Vilnensia'. The Centre also organizes annual international scientific conferences of the series Asian Studies: Problems and Research and conducts translations of classical Asian texts [incl. The Second Vilnius Conference on Topics in the Study of Asia: Texts and Practices of South Asian Art. Venue: Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, June 4-6, 2009, Contact person: Valdas Jaskunas, Email: valdas.jaskunas--at--oc.vu.lt - ed.]. Supported by foreign libraries and the representation offices of Asian countries, the Centre possesses the richest collection of oriental sources in Lithuania, provides advice services to state institutions, fosters academic relations with European, American, and Asian colleagues, and actively participates in international research projects."
Site contents:
* Main (News); * Staff (Administration; Academic Staff; Visiting Staff); * Courses in English; * Research; (Programs, Conferences); * Acta Orientalia Vilnensia (Journal Contents [details plus abstracts of articles]: 2000 Vol. 1, 2001 Vol. 2, 2002 Vol. 3, 2003 Vol. 4, 2004 Vol. 5, 2005 Vol. 6 No 1, 2005 Vol. 6 No 2, 2006 Vol. 7 No 1-2, 2007 Vol. 8 No 1, Author Instructions, Contacts, Exchange); * Alumni; * Links.
[A bi-lingual (LT, EN) site - ed.]
URL http://www.oc.vu.lt/en
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Valdas Jaskunas (valdas.jaskunas--at--oc.vu.lt), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100