lecturing at Princeton

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Nassau Inn: A Historic Hotel

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The historic Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey, offers a glimpse into the town’s remarkable intellectual and cultural history. Established in 1756, the inn has been a gathering place for generations of travelers, scholars, and visitors to Princeton. Its present building, reconstructed in 1937 as part of Palmer Square, stands just steps from Princeton University. The inn is particularly evocative of the golden age of Princeton’s intellectual life in the twentieth century, when Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer made Princeton their home. Einstein worked at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 until his death in 1955, while Oppenheimer became its director in 1947. Although there is no established historical evidence connecting the two scientists personally to the Nassau Inn, the hotel stands in the heart of the very Princeton where some of the most consequential conversations about modern physics, science, and the future of humanity took place. Staying at the Nassau Inn was therefore our opportunity to experience the atmosphere of a town shaped by both American history and extraordinary intellectual achievement.

Americans Want More Language Classes (25 August 2026)

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/americans-want-more-language-classes-can-schools-keep-up/2026/08

Russian anti-war politician is sentenced for 11 years

Lithuanian Language Summer Institute 2026

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Lecture on Women Writers in Lithuania (2026)

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watching Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey with Lithuanian subtitles: Man patinka filmas!

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Vertep Show at the International Theater Festival in Theater Lele in Vilnius

Historically, Vertep is a traditional Ukrainian Christmas folk performance. It combines the Biblical Nativity story with folk theater, music, and comedy. It was performed with puppets in a two-level portable theater, but today it is often staged with live actors.

A typical Vertep includes:

• The birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.
• Biblical characters such as Mary, Joseph, angels, shepherds, and the Three Wise Men.
• King Herod, whose attempts to kill the Christ child are central to the story.
• Folk and comic characters—such as a Cossack, villagers, merchants, and other colorful figures—that provide humor, social satire, songs, and dances alongside the sacred story.

This was a show staged by the students of the Puppet Theater Department of the Karpenko-Karyi University of Theater, Cinema, and Television from Kyiv. It invoked Ukraine’s ongoing war for independence. Great and very moving show!

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The play is based on the traditional Ukrainian theatre called “Vertep”. The canonical form of the action is full of modern content: the plot begins against the background of the biblical story of the birth of Jesus Christ, where bloodthirsty creatures appear and destroy everything in their path. Under the bloody sun of war, sprouts of new hope grow. Hope that will change everything forever. Thus, the play retells the tragic events of the modern war, in which Ukraine is fighting for its independence.

12 July, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Vilnius Theatre Lėlė, Grand Hall (Arklių St. 5)
Duration 50 min.
Performance in Ukrainian with English subtitles

Her plane is arriving in Almaty :)

Happy Independence Day 250: Drone Show in Williamsburg!