20 speakers from France and Lithuania will reflect on how shared experiences such as cultural epochs, artistic currents, innovations in thinking, creative breakthroughs of minorities, and controversies of historical memory are creating a neighbourhood that is not geographically based, but rather is a proximity of challenges, explorations and discoveries.

Three thematic groups – Enlightenment, Modernity and Memory – will cover the aspects of democratic political culture and the pursuit of freedom, important for Lithuania and France as creators of European values.

The symposium will be held in French and Lithuanian languages, supported by the simultaneous translation.