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Director 鈥� Dr. Vytis Silius (from September 2016)
                Assoc. Prof. Dr. Valdas Jask奴nas (until September 2016)

STAFF

Professor: Dr. A. Beinorius.
Associate professors: Dr. D. Brandi拧auskas, Dr. V. 膶iubrinskas, Dr. V. Jask奴nas, Dr. Po拧kait臈, Dr. D. 艩vambaryt臈.
Lecturers: Fabio Balafatti, Dr. G. Deg臈sys, V. Dev臈nait臈, K. Dolinina, I. Driukien臈, M. Ignotas, J. Ignotien臈, E. Jan膷enkas, O. Jankauskait臈, Feisal Alshamkh, Dr. V. Korobov, M. Larbi, A. Litvinas, Dr. V.Silius, N. Statkien臈, Dr. D. Valan膷i奴nas, V. Vid奴nas.

RESEARCH AREAS

Transnational and Global Asia
Systems of Knowledge and Learning in Asia
Asian Languages and Literary Traditions in Asia

MAIN CONFERENCES ORGANIZED IN 2016

Inaugural Biennial Conference of Eueopean Association for Chinese Philosophy Thinking Across the Borders: Philosophy and China, (EACP, ), June 9鈥�11, 2016.

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2016

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Cross-Cultural Normative Psychology: Mapping the Space of Evaluative Concepts in Everyday Lithuanian, English and Chinese. Dr. V. Silius, Dr. R. Berni奴nas, V. Dranseika. 2015鈥�2016.

The aim of this project is to gather empirical data that would enable to map the normative space of evaluative concepts in everyday Lithuanian, Chinese and English. Western philosophical tradition emphasizes the autonomous character of the moral sphere. Moral sensibilities are believed to be distinct and qualitatively different from the aesthetic, etiquette or legal judgments, thus requiring a specific normative vocabulary. Chinese intellectual tradition does not emphasize differences of various normative realms of human experience. However, there is very little empirical evidence suggesting that the Chinese make distinction between moral and non鈥恗oral normative domains in everyday evaluative judgments. There seems to be some evidence suggesting the opposite. Furthermore, current moral psychological literature in the West has little to say about people鈥檚 explicit normative judgments across different domains. Our strong (universality) hypothesis is that folk normative concepts do not imply strict distinctions between the domains of ethics, aesthetics and etiquette across three different cultures (Lithuanian, Chinese, English). Our weak (cultural) hypothesis is that there will be a significant overlap of different kind of normative concepts among Chinese participants, while US participants will tend to differentiate these different normative domains, with Lithuanians being somewhere in between.

Main publications:

Beinorius, A. 2016. 袥褍薪薪褘械 褋芯蟹胁械蟹写懈褟 (薪邪泻褕邪褌褉褘) 懈 褌褉邪写懈褑懈褟 薪邪褉械褔械薪懈褟 懈屑械薪懈 胁 袛褉械胁薪械泄 袠薪写懈懈 (Lunar constellatio (nak峁�atras) and the naming tradition in ancient India). In 袟芯谐褉邪褎褋泻懈泄 褋斜芯褉薪懈泻. 袙褘锌. 5 / 袨褌胁. 褉械写. 袦.肖. 袗谢褜斜械写懈谢褜, 携.袙. 袙邪褋懈谢褜泻芯胁. 小邪薪泻褌-袩械褌械褉斜褍褉谐 : 袦褍蟹械泄 邪薪褌褉芯锌芯谢芯谐懈懈 懈 褝褌薪芯谐褉邪褎懈懈 袪芯褋褋懈泄褋泻邪褟 邪泻邪写械屑懈褟 薪邪褍泻, p. 88鈥�107.

Jask奴nas, V. (vert.) 2016.  Sapne reg臈toji Vasavadata. In Hieronymus. Vilnius: Lietuvos literat奴ros vert臈j懦 s膮junga, Nr. 2: Azijos literat奴rai skirtas numeris. p. 43鈥�77.  

Po拧kait臈 L. 2016. Globalizmas, lokalizmas ir transnacionalizmas 拧iuolaikiniame mene: Kinijos atvejis. In Kult奴rologija 20: Rytai-Vakarai: Komparatyvistin臈s studijos XIV. Vilnius: Lietuvos kult奴ros tyrim懦 institutas, p. 179鈥�209, 580鈥�581.

Teaching materials and textbooks:

艩vambaryt臈, D. 2016. Japonijos istorija. Vilnius: BMK leidykla, 680 p.

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. Dr. A. Beinorius 鈥�

• editor-in-chief of the journal Acta Orientalia Vilnensia;
• editorial board member of the journal Kult奴rologija: komparatyvistin臈s studijos (Comparative Studies of Culture);

Assoc. Prof. Dr. V. Jask奴nas 鈥�

• editorial board secretary of the journal Acta Orientalia Vilnensia;
• editorial board member of the journal Kult奴rologija: komparatyvistin臈s studijos (Comparative Studies of Culture);
• senior research fellow at the Research Institute of Lithuanian Culture, Vilnius.

Dr. V. Korobov 鈥�

• editorial board member of the journal Acta Orientalia Vilnensia.

Assoc. Prof. L. Po拧kait臈 鈥�

• editorial board member of the journal Acta Orientalia Vilnensia;
• editorial board member of the journal Kult奴rologija: komparatyvistin臈s studijos (Comparative Studies of Culture);
• senior research fellow at the Research Institute of Lithuanian Culture, Vilnius.

Dr. V. Silius 鈥�

• president of European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP)
• member of the Board of Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies (BAAS);

Assoc. Prof. D. 艩vambaryt臈 鈥�

• editorial board member of the journal Acta Orientalia Vilnensia.