VU Anglų filologijos katedra

25/09/2026

🌹🌿🚌 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 — 𝐓𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠ė𝐬 Ž𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐢ų 𝐠i𝐦𝐧𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐣𝐚! 🚌🌿🌹

A meaningful and educational day at 𝐓𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠ė𝐬 Ž𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐢ų 𝐠i𝐦𝐧𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐣𝐚. We talked about what studying 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 really means, what students can gain from these studies, and where such skills can lead after graduation. 🚌🌿🌹

Thank you to the students and teachers of 𝐓𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠ė𝐬 Ž𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐢ų 𝐠i𝐦𝐧𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐣𝐚 for the opportunity to meet, talk and exchange ideas! 🌹🌿💚
It’s more than three hours from Vilnius, so it was quite a journey there and back! 🚌🌿😄
🌹🌿 P.S. On both the way there and the way back home, we made a stop at a petrol station — žanro klasika! 😄⛽🚌🌿🌹

Thank you, 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚 and 𝐔𝐫𝐭ė, for the photo! 🌹🌿It was lovely to meet you both! 😊💚

VU Filologijos fakultetas
Tauragės Žalgirių gimnazija oficialus

24/09/2026

🌿 🏆𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗸𝗼𝘀 𝗔𝗸𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗷𝗮🌿🏆 is happy, grateful, and ready! 🌿✨🌟 🌿✨🌟
🌿💜𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲, 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵:💜🌿✨
https://www.anglistikos-akademija.flf.vu.lt/events
https://www.anglistikos-akademija.flf.vu.lt/
https://www.instagram.com/vu_englishphilology/
https://www.vu.lt/stojantiesiems/bakalauro/anglu-filologija

24/09/2026

🌅🚌📚𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐧𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐁𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🌅🚌📚
🌿✨We are delighted that our 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 students 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 and 𝐀𝐫č𝐢𝐬 𝐀𝐮š𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐬 are also heading to Warsaw to take part in the international student conference Bridges in the Baltics! 🇵🇱 We wish them a wonderful time, lots of positive energy, inspiring meetings, and a fantastic conference! 🌿✨

🌿✨Have a great time in Warsaw, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 and 𝐀𝐫č𝐢𝐬! 🌿✨
VU Filologijos fakultetas
Bridges in the Baltics
Latvistika VU
VU Baltistikos katedra

Šis ankstyvas rytas Vilniaus autobusų stotyje buvo neįprastai triukšmingas - gausus būrys mūsų studentų išvyko į Varšuvą. Ten rugsėjo 25 - 26 dienomis vyks tarptautinė studentų konferencija "Bridges in the Baltics". Laukia turiningas ir įdomus savaitgalis! Konferencijos programa: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1545025697667362&set=a.487975853372357

23/09/2026

🌿🏋️‍♀️𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 🌿🏋️‍♀️

🌿🏋️‍♀️On 22 September, fourth-year 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 students attended a lecture organised by the Lithuanian Association of Literary Translators (LLVS) and the Lithuanian Language Society (Lietuvių kalbos draugija), delivered by Prof. Dr Aurelija Leonavičienė.

🌿🏋️‍♀️The lecture, Grožinės literatūros kultūrinių realijų vertimo ypatumai, was closely related to the topics explored in the elective course 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠.

🌿🏋️‍♀️“LLVS events that I attended during my own studies, and later in my career, had a significant impact on who I am as a specialist today. Therefore, being a member of LLVS today, it is a great joy to bring 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 students into the same professional and discussion-rich environment,” says lecturer 𝐑ū𝐭𝐚 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐭ė.🌿🏋️‍♀️

🌿🏋️‍♀️“The event brought our attention to the history of translators researching realia and various ways to deal with them in fictional texts. It was useful to see what approaches translators chose most often and to discuss how their selections might have succeeded or failed and could be improved,” say fourth-year students 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐣𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐭ė and 𝐀𝐠𝐧ė 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐚č𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐚𝐢𝐭ė.🌿🏋️‍♀️

For the students, the event offered an opportunity to connect the theoretical and practical aspects of translation discussed in their studies with the work and experience of professional translators.

🌹✨🌹Many thanks to Rūta Burbaitė for bringing this opportunity to our students! 🌹✨🌹
https://www.llvs.lt/narys/233
Lietuvos literatūros vertėjų sąjunga

🌿💜𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵:💜🌿✨
https://www.anglistikos-akademija.flf.vu.lt/news
https://www.instagram.com/vu_englishphilology/
https://www.discoursemagazine.flf.vu.lt/en/news Matyti mažiau

22/09/2026

🌹🌿🌹𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝! 🌹

As Mary Beard, Chair of judges, said, ‘These novels range from the hilarious to the discomfiting, from the frighteningly strange to the alarmingly domestic, from the powerfully shocking to the intriguingly understated. In them, we meet characters from different countries and different centuries, created by authors 40 years apart, new talent and well-known favourites.’🌹🌿🌹

🌹🌿🌹Which one will take home the prize? 🏆🌹🌿🌹

21/09/2026

🌷🌿🍃𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐧𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤!🌷🌿🍃

We are starting a new semester of meetings on 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟐𝟓 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 (𝟏𝟓:𝟑𝟎–𝟏𝟔:𝟑𝟎), with the first session of the autumn semester. The meeting will take place both in person and online:

🌷🌿 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐯𝐢č𝐢𝐚𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐝., Vilnius University Faculty of Philology
🌷🌿Online via Teams for those who do not live in Vilnius (to get the link, write to [email protected])
🌷🌿𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟐𝟓 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 (𝟏𝟓:𝟑𝟎–𝟏𝟔:𝟑𝟎) (Lithuania time zone)

🌷🌿Now entering its fourth academic year, the 𝐒𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 brings together VU academic staff and students to discuss research in stylistics and related fields, including discourse analysis, rhetoric, narratology and media linguistics. We also put theoretical frameworks and analytical methods to the test by applying them to poems, short stories and other creative texts.

🌷🌿The group is a space for discussion, critical engagement with published research, and exploring how stylistic analysis can help us understand literary and other texts. Newcomers are very welcome – you don't need to be a specialist in stylistics; some knowledge of linguistics or grammar and an interest in literary texts are enough.

👉 Everyone interested is welcome. See you on 𝟐𝟓 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 (𝟏𝟓:𝟑𝟎–𝟏𝟔:𝟑𝟎).
https://www.flf.vu.lt/en/faculty/news/welcome-to-the-vilnius-university-stylistics-reading-group

Davide Castiglione

20/09/2026

🌿 We wish our students, 𝗔𝗿č𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝘂š𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘀 and 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿, both 4th-year English Philology students, a successful and research-filled conference! 🌿

🦊The Programme of the Conference🦊:
http://baltystyka.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2026/09/Bridges-2026_conference-programme.pdf

🦊The Book of Abstracts🦊
http://baltystyka.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2026/09/Bridges-2026_book-of-abstracts.pdf

VU Baltistikos katedra
Bridges in the Baltics

20/09/2026

🌹🍀 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲𝘀: 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁

🌿🌸🍀 As we take a Sunday pause, we step beyond England to 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, where one of the 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗱𝗼𝗺’𝘀 most remarkable natural landmarks awaits — the beautiful 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵.

🌿🌸🍀 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵, a stone’s throw from Belfast city, is home to migratory birds and a variety of wildlife. It is also home to at least seventy islands, many islets, bays, coves, headlands, and mudflats🌿🌸🍀 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 is a UNESCO Global Geopark🍀

🍀 Among its historic sites is 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗱, an 18th-century National Trust estate known for its unusual combination of Gothic and classical architectural styles.

🍀Castle Ward was used as a filming location for Winterfell in the HBO television series Game of Thrones.🍀

🌿 Let’s pull on our walking boots and set off to explore 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵! 🍀🌹

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/northern-ireland/strangford-lough/things-to-do-at-strangford-lough

19/09/2026

🌹 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴! 😊🎈🥰

16/09/2026

🌹 𝗩𝗨 𝗔𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝗶 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 | 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 🌹

🌹 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲, 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿d🌿

The Invitation

It doesn't interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me
how old you are.
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know
if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

It doesn't interest me
if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear
the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.[..]

(by Oriah Mountain Dreamer )

🌹 𝗠𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 — 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝘂𝘀. 🌹
𝟭𝟭:𝟯𝟬 – The Faculty welcomes alumni at the Donelaitis Room with some refreshments – coffee, tea, and snacks.
𝗔𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝟭𝟮:𝟬𝟬–𝟭𝟮:𝟯𝟬 – We’ll move to the A7 (Canada) Room, where we’ll welcome our alumni 😊
𝟭𝟮:𝟯𝟬–𝟭𝟯:𝟯𝟬 – Time to catch up, chat, and reminisce.
🌹And please come on your own, come with your friends, partners, families, and children – everyone is very welcome! 🥰🎈
🌹See you on Saturday 🥰🌹🎓