Are you already wondering what's next? Graduation can evoke many emotions, from relief and joy to confusion and anxiety.

We want to help you face the challenges ahead with confidence.

On the 22th of March, 15:00–18:30, we invite you to a VU summer graduates event, where we will provide you with all the key information about the post-graduation process. No matter whether you already have a clear career vision or are in the self-discovery phase and just starting to think about what you want to do, the event will deliver useful information for you.

At the event, you will learn about:

• alumni opportunities (what services and benefits you can access by joining the alumni network);
• further study options at Vilnius University (Master's, PhD, free listening, Lifelong Learning Centre activities);
• the importance and possibilities of philanthropy;
• essential practical skills (you will learn how to reconcile professional and personal goals to achieve work-life balance successfully. You will also learn self-presentation tricks that will instantly reveal your professional value in a job interview, CV, social networks or a networking event. You will find out more about personal finance management and investment).

The event will take place at the VU SCIC (VU Library, Saulėtekio al. 5).

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What's Next? The Forum for Fresh Graduates is an informative event and also an opportunity to meet other future graduates and share experiences.

Get new ideas, valuable tools and decide what's next for you!

The Centre for the Study of East European Jewish History at the Vilnius University Department of History together with The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University, Department of Jewish Studies at Wroclaw University, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Lviv Catholic University invites MA students currently working on their theses and PhD students to apply and participate in a new international online seminar in the field of East European Jewish history and culture. The seminar is open to papers on various topics, chronology, methodology, and approach in humanities, arts, and social sciences.

The idea to create a platform for MA and PhD students to present their research projects emerged after realizing that students engaged in Jewish studies at the graduate level often lack communication and collaboration with other young researchers, teachers and academics in the field. These seminars are established as a place for young researchers to present their research, discuss and share ideas, and raise different research questions with their colleagues.

The (Post)Authoritarian Landscapes Research Centre (PAScapes) at Vilnius University announces a competition for a long-term research fellowship to carry out the project ‘Cultural Landscapes of (Post)Authoritarian States in the 20th–21st Centuries: Transformations, Models, Environmental Response’.

Young researchers are invited to apply for a research project aimed to analyse, geographically and/or historically, transformations of cultural landscapes and land structures in authoritarian and post-authoritarian countries of the 20th and the 21st centuries, where significant socio-economic structural changes have occurred.

Applications are open until 31 March for the researchers who obtained their PhD in the natural sciences, humanities or social sciences from outside Vilnius University no earlier than five years ago (2019).

The research fellowship will last 24 months from 2 May 2024 to 30 April 2026.

One application will be selected under this call.

More information here

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The Centre for the Study of East European Jewish History at the Vilnius University Department of History together with The Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Yeshiva University, Department of Jewish Studies at Wroclaw University, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Lviv Catholic University invites to the series of Graduate and PhD students’ online Seminars dedicated to Jewish history, culture, heritage and memory in Eastern Europe.

Each seminar will be followed by discussion and the presentation of archival sources from YIVO and the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Judaica Centre.

PROGRAM

As many scholars are aware, the historiography of Lithuanian Jewish civilization can lack unity and coherence, segmented as it is by periodic border changes, eruptions of violence, and linguistic, cultural, and ideological divides. Yet the experience of doing research in archives and libraries tends to reinforce continuities, suggesting a much more cohesive civilization. Even the study of the Holocaust stands to benefit from removing the wall that has separated its study from the rest of Lithuanian Jewish history, as historian David Engel recently argued.

Together with Fairfield University and the Yeshiva University Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vilnius University will host an international meeting in Vilnius from July 15 - 17, 2024, dedicated to bridging historiographical, disciplinary, and other conceptual divides. We especially encourage emerging scholars to present their research and hope to provide them with an introduction to the rich holdings of the Lithuanian National Library and State Archives. Presenters are asked to think about the continuities of Lithuanian Jewish culture before, during, and after the Holocaust in areas like biography, geography, language, politics, gender, secularization and traditionalism, literary and artistic production, legal practices, documentation, memory studies, and Jewish-Christian relations.

The organizers will provide the participants with accommodation and meals; a limited number of grants are available to cover travel expenses.