Naujienos

On the 25th–26th of September 2017, Kėdainiai hosted the international scientific conference “Reformation and Lithuanian Studies” dedicated to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The conference discussed state, societal and cultural spheres of life most influenced by the Reformation, the influence of the Reformation over territories were Protestantism did not become a predominant religion as well as its influence over Lithuanian studies, i.e. the development of Lithuania as a state, its society, culture, language history and literature, research and dissemination of Lithuanian studies in Lithuania and abroad, the differences and similarities of the Protestantism and protestants in Lithuania and other European countries. Together with representatives from Lithuanian scholarly and academic institutions in the framework of the project scholars, academic staff and undergraduates arrived from the centres of Baltic (Lithuanian) studies to participate at the conference.