Social media networks emerged as an increasingly active field for community interactions and institutional interventions entangling cultural heritage and perceptions of the past with the formation of contemporary identities, and attitudes towards important social, cultural, political and ethical issues. They become sites for the formation of affiliative relationships, but also arenas for ‘memory wars’, involving grassroots and institutional mnemonic actors, and enabled by a combination of digital platform affordances and semiotic activity.

The Arqus European University Alliance invites doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to apply for the 2nd edition of its international mentoring programme for academic careers.

We invite you to training-workshops on research methods (for master's students, doctoral students and other researchers). The training will be conducted by Rimvydas Laužikas, professor of the Faculty of Communication of VU, and Konstantinos Dallas, professor of the University of Toronto and VU Faculty of Communication.

Vilnius University (VU) Culture Centre invites international students and community of the universityto participate in a Open Stage Storytelling Night! Come on 18th of April, at 7 PM to VU Faculty of History Cafe, where you will be able not only listen, but also tell various stories! The topic of this evening is In the New Land. The hostess of the evening is VU Culture Centre Storyteller Milda Varnauskaitė.

Public lectures by prof. dr. Nathalie Heinich CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris) at the Vilnius University Faculty of Communication.