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INSTITUTE OF LITHUANIAN LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE
VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of birth of Jonas Mačiulis-Maironis (1862-1932)
Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and Department of Lithuanian Literature of
Vytautas Magnus University organize international scientific conference
MAIRONIS AND HIS EPOCH
On the occasion of Maironis’ anniversary, we try to discuss the heritage of the greatest
Lithuanian poet, summarize researches of Maironis’ life and works and investigate new
problems, explore his personal influence upon the development of Lithuanian literary and
cultural canon. The period of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a turning-point for
Lithuanian culture when unique sphere of national literature began to develop, stimulated by the
multicultural heritage, and it differentiated according to its means of expression and style; at this
time important ideological and aesthetical trends and movements strengthened and intensified.
There were times when modernism flourished in the literature of Western and Central Europe,
and the nations consolidated their literary canons. At the same time the governors of the tsarist
Russia suppressed all democratic initiatives in Lithuania, forbade Lithuanians to use their
national language in the public cultural life and to publish books in the traditional Latin alphabet.
Under the conditions of illegal cultural action Maironis’ collection of verses Pavasario balsai
(The Voices of Spring, 1895) was illegally published and it became a foundation of the
modernizing Lithuanian literature. Taking into account the impact of Maironis’ verse, the
Lithuanian literary canon was established and reformed. Maironis’ works were also recognized
as an important power of national revival movement, they shaped national identity.
We kindly invite researchers of Lithuanian and world literature, history, linguistics, theology and
philosophy, and all those who are interested in the problems of humanitarian culture in Lithuania
and Central/East Europe. We suggest the themes for presentations:
 Maironis’ role in the culture of the Lithuanian national revival. Poet’s activity under the
conditions of the ban on Lithuanian printing;
 The relation of Maironis’ poetry to the traditional heritage of the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania;
 Maironis’ role in the history of the Lithuanian consciousness;
 Texts and contexts of Maironis’ biography;
 “The Spring of Nations” in Central and Eastern Europe and the figure of the national
poet;
 Reform of the Lithuanian poetics, made by Maironis;
 Maironis’ references to the cultural movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
i.e. romanticism, neoromanticism, modernism;
 Comparative researches of Maironis’ works;
 Maironis as a sociologist and historian; his activity in the field of humanities;
 Historical and poetical conceptions of Lithuanian nationality and statehood in Maironis’
works;
 Maironis’ role in the formation process of the Lithuanian literary canon and Standard
Lithuanian language;
INSTITUTE OF LITHUANIAN LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE
VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY
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Texts which were left in the margin of the main corpus of Maironis’ oeuvre (theological
works, letters and other documents);
 Clergyman Jonas Mačiulis as an active member of the Roman Catholic Church;
 Reception of Maironis in Lithuania and abroad;
 Translations of Maironis’ poetry and his interpretations abroad;
 Maironis as a translator;
 Maironis’ poetic paraphrases in the texts of modernism and postmodernism;
 The problems of the protection, popularization and dissemination of Maironis’ heritage.
Languages of the conference: Lithuanian, English, Polish, Russian. Speakers who intend to make
a presentation in languages, which are not mentioned above, should deliver translation into
Lithuanian in advance.
Duration of presentations: 15 to 20 minutes.
We invite all the speakers to fill in this form and send it until 30 September, 2012 to the emails:
[email protected] (Manfredas Žvirgždas) and [email protected] (Eugenijus
Žmuida).
INSTITUTE OF LITHUANIAN LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE
VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY
International scientific conference
MAIRONIS AND HIS EPOCH
15-16 October, 2012
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