Mar
17

Date: 2010-03-17, 18:00
Venue: Vilnius Academy of Arts - Design Innovations Centre, lecture hall No. 112 (Maironio St. 3, Vilnius)
Ticket prices: free admission
The public book presentation event:
Experiencing Vilnius insider and outsider perspectives
Participants:
The Book Authors - Victor de Munck (assoc. prof. The State University of New York, New Paltz), Rasa Antanavičiūtė (phd. student, The Art Academy, Vilnius), Linas Svolkinas (free lancer anthropologist),
The Critics - Renatas Delis (phd. Student VDU), Alan Freeman (prof. ISM)
Experiencing Vilnius is the book where insiders (represented by two Lithuanian authors of different social background) and outsiders (represented by two American authors) meet and engage in a multicultural dialog on social and economic changes taking place in Lithuania. Authors do not tackle head on the global impact of Lithuania and other Eastern European countries entering the NATO and EU. Instead, in their scrutiny of social changes authors adopt ethnographic methods and address truly casual experiences of everyday life of common people in Vilnius. It must be stated that the book has an academic agenda and authors try to grasp the processes of othering, or how foreigners and Lithuanians negotiate their differences and similarities. But sophisticated academic discussions are well hidden behind an experimental attempt to construct a truly anthropological novel.
A short description of the event The Experiencing Vilnius: Insider and Outsider Perspectives book presentation event is a public seminar discussion. The event will include three mini-sessions. The first session is for the authors to present and discuss the main idea of the book, the practical experiences of writing book, and the academic relevance. During the second session the audience will have an opportunity to listen to what non-authors think about ideas presented in the book. Each panel speaker will have 10-15 minutes to talk. Presentations will be held in both English. During the third session, the audience will have an opportunity to participate in the public discussion. The discussion will be held in both Lithuanian and English. In the end participants will have an opportunity to socialize and to enjoy a glass of wine and some snacks.













































