TSPMI.VU.LT - naujienos http://www.tspmi.vu.lt/ African Days 2012 Wed, 02 May 2012 15:16:00 +0300 http://www.tspmi.vu.lt/en/news/event/african-days-2012-340 IIRPS invites you to the events of the Black African culture festival "African Days 2012" which will be held in the Institute. During the time of the festival, you will be able to participate in open lectures and discussions. It will give you an opportunity to acknowledge the role of this region in contemporary politics, to evaluate the turnover of the African identity, to assess the market chalenges and possibilities in the Sub-Saharan region. Guests from Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso and South African Republic will visit IIRPS during the festival.

PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 16 May

15:30 Lecture „Renaissance of Africa and self-identification: controversial images in Africa and elsewhere“ by Wandile Kasibe (Republic of South Africa)

What position does Africa hold in a world context? What role does it play in history and politics? Wandile Kasibe, lecturer from Republic of Africa, will try to answer to these questions.

Thursday, 17 May Nordic Forum for Security Policy 2012 „Empowering The Nordic-Baltic Relations“ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:34:00 +0300 http://www.tspmi.vu.lt/en/news/institute-news/nordic-forum-for-security-policy-2012-empowering-the-nordic-baltic-relations-334 Nordic Forum for Security Policy 2012 „Empowering The Nordic-Baltic Relations -Challenges Of The 21st Century will take place May 10-11, 2012 at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science. 

The purpose of the Vilnius conference is to exchange experiences and best practices between the Baltic and Nordic countries, organizations and other actors in the Baltic Sea Region, on how to support and develop civil society collaboration in broad security issues. The idea of the forum is to bring together different actors of society from politicians and government officials to academics and local civil society organisations. 

The opening plenary will look into the past and future prospects of closer cooperation in the Nordic Baltic relations. During the time of European wide economic crisis, cooperation is increasingly important.

The Forum’s core political and expert-level topics will deal with topical broad security challenges facing the Baltic Sea Region today: co-operation over cyber security issues, as well as environmental and energy matters, not forgetting the ...]]> Get Your Degree at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:10:00 +0200 http://www.tspmi.vu.lt/en/news/institute-news/get-smart-149 Get MA in Eastern and Central European Studies (ECE). Institute of International Relations and Political Science offers exciting and comprehensive master‘s in Eastern and Central Europe programme. If you wish to learn the particularities of this exciting region as well as get MA degree from one of the oldest universities in East Central Europe, click admissions and come to Vilnius.

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...]]> Cooperation memorandum with NUPI signed Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:43:00 +0200 http://www.tspmi.vu.lt/en/news/institute-news/cooperation-memorandum-with-nupi-signed-315 IIRPS signed a cooperation memorandum with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). Both Institutes agreed to coopearte in the fields of research, education and innovation. Joint activities may include exchange of research data and information, visits and exchanges of scientists and analysts, joint projects and seminars. 

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