We are glad to welcome You to the joint Miami University Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science conference "Statehood and its Discontents: Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia" which will take place on June 15-18 (Vokieciu str. 10, conference hall 402).

OPEN KEYNOTE SPEECHES :

WEDNESDAY, June 15, 17.30-18.40 Artemyi Troitsky, The Trajectories of UDO: Unidentified Drowning Object

THURSDAY, June 16, 12.00-13.00 Karen Dawisha, Miami University: Putin’s Winter of Discontent

FRIDAY, June 17, 12.00-13.00 Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Vilnius University: Revolt Against Internationalism and the State of the Nation State

Full program of the conference can be found here. All panels and key note speeches are open. Welcome!

Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists, Lithuania-China Business Council and Deloitte Lithuania together with IIRPS invite to open roundtable discussion “Chinese global and regional presence: business trends and projects” (event in english)

The discussion will take place 28 August 2015, 10:00 - 12:00, Vilnius University, Institute of International Relations and Political Sciences, Room 402, Vokiečių st. 10 Program available here

Main speakers: Mr. Sitao Xu, Chief Economist of Deloitte China and Mr. Csaba Wolf, Business Development Director of Deloitte Hungary

Discussants: Ms. Indrė Genytė-Pikčienė, Chief Analyst of Economic Research Department of DNB Bank, Ms. Jekaterina Rojaka, Chief Economist, Head of Economic Research, Department of DNB Bank, Mr. Nerijus Mačiulis, Chief Economist of Swedbank, Mr. Rokas Grajauskas, Chief analyst of Danske Bank

Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University (IIRPS VU) together with Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Lithuania and Norwegian Embassy to Lithuania invites you the academic discussion “25 Years of Trust Building in the Face of Global Challenges”.

Event will take place on Friday, 16 December at 9 a.m. at the IIRPS VU conference room 402. You can find the programme here.

Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University (IIRPS VU) was recently awarded a grant from NATO. The project is a preparedness initiative examining the defence and foreign policy choices and challenges of small states in NATO and its partner small states in Eastern Europe, MENA, and Oceania in the new security environment. In relations to this project IIRPS VU issues a call for applications for two research grants for young researchers. The researchers can be MA, PhD or Post-doc level. Each grant is 12.000 Euros to be divided in three payments over the grant period from 1 September 2017 through 31 December 2019.

Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science (the Centre for Russian, Central and Eastern European Studies) together with the U.S. Embassy Vilnius and publishing house Tyto alba invites you to a public lecture by Gregory Feifer: “Russians: the People behind the Power” on February 20 (Friday), 10 a.m. at the IIRPS VU (Room 402), Vokieciu st. 10.

His lecture will be delivered in English and moderated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dovilė Jakniūnaitė.