EVENT

January21Tuesday 【SSRI公開講演 1/21】Lithuania in the Changing World Order: The Past and the Present

日時2025年1月21日(火) 11:30~12:40
場所SH-S202(理学館)
募集対象ICU教職員・学生、一般の方
申込方法・期限Please apply from this Link.
※Except for the IRL103 students,
参加費無料
主催社会科学研究所(ICU SSRI)
お問い合わせ国際基督教大学社会科学研究所(ICU SSRI)
ssri@icu.ac.jp
https://subsite.icu.ac.jp/ssri/
備考Speaker
H.E. Ambassador Aurelijus Zykas (Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to Japan)

Abstract
Dr. Aurelijus Zykas is the Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania and a former Associate Professor at Vytautas Magnus University, a partner university of the ICU. Among his fields of expertise are cultural and public diplomacy (soft power) and Japan-Lithuania relations. We are delighted to invite Dr. Zykas, who has rich experience both as an academician and a diplomat, to hear about his insights on the importance of combating the threats for both Japan and Lithuania, as both find themselves in similar geopolitical standing, the good examples of collaboration between Japan and Lithuania in aiding Ukraine, and the importance of Japan for Lithuania and the entire EU.

Speaker’s Profile
Dr. Zykas is the Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania and a former Associate Professor at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), a partner university of the ICU, former Director of the VMU Centre for Asian Studies, and an expert and writer on Cultural and public diplomacy and Japan-Lithuania relations.

Language:English