Faculty of History

Sukurta: 07 June 2020

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7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7280
E-mail
www.if.vu.lt

Dean – Prof. Dr. Rimvydas Petrauskas

 

 

STAFF

52 teachers (incl. 50 holding research degree),19 research fellows (incl.12 holding research degree), 34 doctoral students.

DEPARTMENTS OF THE FACULTY

Department of Ancient and Medieval History
Department of Archaeology
Department of Modern History
Department of Theory of History and History of Culture
Centre for Stateless Cultures
Bioarchaeology Research Centre

RESEARCH AREAS

History of Lithuania: sources, historiography, heritage, memory
Prehistory and archaeology of Lithuania

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS MAINTAINED IN 2019

S. Černevičiūtė. Political crimes in Lithuania in 1919–1940: legislation and court practice.
V. Janušauskaitė. Urban heritage protection in Soviet Lithuania: ideas and practice.
A. Jurkevičius. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s regional euling Elites: the cases of the lands of Smolensk, Polotsk and Vitebsk (1392–1579).
M. Kvizikevičūtė. Western Europe in the second half of the 16th–18th century - travel writing of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
G. Mitrulevičius. The ideological and political development of Lithuanian Social Democracy in 1914–1919. Historiography, international and historical contexts, and relation with the creation of Lithuania s Statehood.
A. Naudžiūnienė. Ethnic minorities in Lithuanian historical narrative at school education (1918–2018).
D. Sakalauskas. Private capital management: a case of Vilnius in the 17th–18th ͪ centuries.

MAIN CONFERENCES ORGANIZED IN 2019

10th international conference of Prof. Jonas Puzinas Investigating Bones: Diet, Health, Environment in the Baltic Region / www.if.vu.lt/mokslas/fakulteto-konferencijos#tarptautine-moksline-konferencija-jono-puzino-skaitymai-9-tema-investigating-bones-diet-health-environment-in-the-baltic-region

International conference Patterns of Everyday Life in Soviet Society(s): Biographies, Practices, and Memory / www.if.vu.lt/naujienos/renginiai/1371-konferencija-patterns-of-everyday-life-in-soviet-society-s

International conference Unions and Partitions: New Forms of Power in the Late Medieval Europe / www.if.vu.lt/mokslas/fakulteto-konferencijos#tarptautine-moksline-konferencija-unijos-ir-dalybos-naujos-valdzios-formos-velyvuju-viduramziu-europoje

International conference Residential Architecture in the Soviet Baltics: Between the Standard and the Individual Design / www.if.vu.lt/naujienos/renginiai/1317-tarptautine-konferencija-residential-architecture-in-the-soviet-baltics

International seminar Religious communities and political constructions: Balkans, Eastern Europe, Mediterranean (11th–20th centuries) / www.if.vu.lt/naujienos/renginiai/1380-religious-communities-and-political-constructions

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Jewish Architects in Construction of Modern Lithuania, in: Aufbruch in die Moderne – Beiträge jüdischer Architekten, Technical University of Berlin (Germany), Prof. M. Drėmaitė / http://triennale-der-moderne.de/berlin-2019/aufbruch-in-die-moderne/
  • Central Politics, Local Practices: How the Sexual Behavior Was (Not) Shaped in Soviet Lithuania, in: International symposium Friends, Neighbours and Competitors within the Soviet “Friendship of Nations”, Uppsala University (Sweden), Assoc. Prof. T. Vaiseta / www.kalendarium.uu.se/Evenemang/?eventId=48336
  • Faithful Listeners to Western Voices: Defectors from the Soviet Baltic States Witnessing Soviet Order Destruction, in: 51st Annual ASEEES convention, ASEEES (USA), Dr. I. Zakšauskienė /
  • European Bison Hunting and Butchering at Vilnius Lower Castle during the 13th–17th c., in: international open workshop Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 15,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes VI, University of Kiel (Germany), G. Piličiauskienė, P. Blaževičius / www.workshop-gshdl.uni-kiel.de/programme/
  • Les cartes parcellaires – «nouveaux documents» au Grand-Duché de Lituanie aux XVIe et XVIIIe siècles, in: International conference Land-Plot Mapping in Early Modern Rural Societies (Europe and Americas): From Production to Uses, University of Rennes (France), Dr. T. Čelkis / www.homeofgeography.org/uk/events_2019/RENNES_Conference%20Programm%20Land-Plot%20Mapping.pdf

MAIN SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2019

13 scientific events (conferences, seminars, summer schools) organized (9 international incl.);
6 scientific monographs published;
Significant investigations: complex research of burial crypts of the Kėdainiai Evangelical Reformed Church, Prof. A. Kuncevičius, et al.;
Significant discoveries: analysis and identification of remains of Lithuanian partisans (Antanas Kraujelis-Siaubūnas, Juozapas Streikus-Stumbras), Dr. J. Kozakaitė.

 

 
DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY

7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7297
E-mail

Head – Prof. Rimvydas Petrauskas

STAFF

Professors: Dr. R. Petrauskas (part-time), Dr. I. Valikonytė (part-time).
Associate professors: Dr. V. Dolinskas (part-time), Dr. L. Jovaiša, Dr. J. Karpavičienė (part-time), Dr. E. Saviščevas.
Assistents: Dr. N. Dambrauskaitė, Dr. T. Čelkis, Dr. M. Jakulis.
Chief researchers: Dr. A.  Ragauskas, Dr. R. Ragauskienė (part-time).
Researcher: Dr. N. Dambrauskaitė.
Junior researchers: N. Šlimienė, S. Viskantaitė-Saviščevienė.
Doctoral students: K. Čižauskas, V. Diemantaitė, A. Petrilionis, P. A. Stepavičius, T. Vaitkus.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of Lithuania: sources, historiography, heritage, memory
Society of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (henceforth the GDL) in the 14th–16th centuries
Research and publication of the 1st Lithuanian Statute (1529) and the Lithuanian Metrica (the so-called Court Record Books of the 1st half of the 16th century)
History of the GDL in the 2nd half of the 18th century
Woman’s Status in the GDL in the 16th century
Life of Christian Churches and Religions in the GDL in the 16th–18th centuries

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Members of the Catholic Male Religious Orders in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Corpus of Biographical (No. MIP-17-34). Prof. R. Witkowski. 2017–2020.

The aim of the project is to prepare the corpus of structured biographical entries comprising the members of Catholic male religious orders and congregations, active in the GDL, from 1387 to 1795. In 2017, according to the plan, designing of the digital data base was implemented, and research in the libraries and archives of Lithuania was conducted.

Main publications:

Jakulis, M. Vilniaus bonifratrų personalinė sudėtis XVII amžiaus antroje pusėje‒XVIII amžiuje [Personal Make-up of the Vilnius Fatebenefratelli in the Second Half of the 17th and the 18th Centuries], in: Lietuvos istorijos studijos / Studies of Lithuania’s History. 2019, vol. 43: 8–21.

Tumelis, K. Bažnytinės unijos palikimo beieškant: XVII – XVIII a. Lietuvos bazilijonų teologijos užrašai biografistiniu požiūriu, in: Senoji Lietuvos literatūra / Old Lithuanian Literature. 2019, vol. 47: 222–248.

Research Council of Lithuania. Overland Routes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 13th-18th Century: Structure, Architecture, Maintenance and Functionality (No. MIP-17-43). Dr. T. Čelkis. 2017–2020.

The structure of Lithuania overland routes in the 13th–the first half of the 15th centuries will be discussed in the project. Its dynamic depends on politic, social and economic development of the territory. Location of the water roads was ordered by the nature and adaptability, while overland routs were made purposeful and testified traces of human life.

Main publication:

Čelkis, T. Vieškelių tinklo struktūra Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje XVI–XVII a. [The Structure of the Public Road Network of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th–17th Centuries], in: Lietuvos istorijos metraštis. 2019 metai / The Yearbook of Lithuanian History, 2019. 2019, vol. 1: 33–77.

Research Council of Lithuania. Legal Culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: the Rulers Court in the End of the 15 th–16th Century (No. S-LIP-19-70). Prof. I. Valikonytė. 2019–2022.

The most important task is to analyse the ruler’s court and its branches’ formation history, which has not received researchers’ attention yet. The most important sources are the ruler’s court books included in Lithuanian Metrica. These books contain the documents which enable the research of the concept of the grand duke’s (as the head of the judiciary) administration of justice, legal consciousness, the development of legal thought, the application of laws and the culture of its obeying, i.e. the principle of realisation of the concept non rex est lex, sed lex est rex. It also helps to analyse the ruler’s (as the head of the legislative institution) contribution and role in the perfection of juridical norms and concretely the content of the Lithuanian Statute.

Research Council of Lithuania. Between Vocation and Profession: the Protestant’s Clergy (Calvinists) in the GDL in the XVI–XVIII Century. (No. S-MIP-19-12). Dr. R. Ragauskienė. 2019–2022.

Contractual Research

Contract with VšĮ “Pilietinė medija” Consulting Services for the Creation of a Two-part Documentary about Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1919–1920).

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland)
Chamber of Notaries (Lithuania)
Lithuanian Institute of History (Lithuania)
National Museum – Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (Lithuania)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. R. Petrauskas –

Prof. I. Valikonytė –

  • editorial board member of the journal Istorijos šaltinių tyrimai (Studies in Historical Sources, www.istorija.lt/leidiniai/testiniai-leidiniai/istorijos-saltiniu-tyrimai);
  • editorial board member of the journal Lietuvos Metrikos naujienos (News of Lithuanian Metrica, www.istorija.lt/leidiniai/testiniai-leidiniai/lietuvos-metrikos-naujienos).

Assoc. Prof. V. Dolinskas –

  • editor in chief of the serial publication Chronicon Palatii Magnorum Ducum Lithuaniae;
  • scientific council member of the year-book Muzealnictwo (Museology, https://muzealnictworocznik.com/resources/html/cms/SCIENTIFICCOUNCIL);
  • scientific council member of the journal Artifex Novus. Pismo Instytutu Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie, www.artifex.uksw.edu.pl/index_artifex_novus.html;
  • editorial board member of the journal Acta Museologica Lithuanica, www.journals.vu.lt/acta-museologica-lithuanica/about/editorialTeam;
  • editorial board member of the publication Kronika Zamkowa (Castle Chronicle, www.zamek-krolewski.pl/historia/kronikazamkowaroczniki;
  • editorial board member of the serial publication Fontes et studia historiae universitatis Vilnensis, www.vu.lt/studijos/priemimas/133-apiemus/fontes-et-studia/4207-redaktoriu-kolegija.

Assoc. Prof. L. Jovaiša –

  • academician of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science (Lietuvos katalikų mokslo akademija, www.lkma.lt/index.php?id=19&lng=1);
  • editor-in-Chief of the journal Bažnyčios istorijos studijos (Studies in Church History, www.lkma.lt/index.php?id=111&lng=1);
  • editorial board member of the journal Fontes Historiae Lituaniae, www.lkma.lt/index.php?id=123&lng=1;
  • editorial board member of the journal Lietuvių katalikų mokslo akademijos metraštis (Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science Annuals, www.lkma.lt/index.php?id=105);
  • editorial board member of the journal Religinės kultūros paveldo studijos (Studies in Cultural Heritage of Religions);
  • editorial board member of the journal Studia Franciscana Lithuanica.

Assoc. Prof. J. Karpavičienė –

  • deputy chairman and member of the commission of the project The Saxon-Magdeburgian Law as a Cultural Link between the Legal Orders of Eastern and Central Europe (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig).

MOST IMPORTANT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS RECEIVED FOR R&D ACTIVITIES

Prof. R. Petrauskas. Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Prof. R. Petrauskas. Vilnius University Rector’s Prize, Best Lecturer of the Year (2019)
Dr. N. Dambraukaitė. The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Young Scientist Scholarship

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

Prof. R. Petrauskas –

  • member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (Lietuvos mokslų akademija, www.lma.lt/struktura);
  • chairman of Board of the Research Council of Lithuania (Lietuvos mokslo taryba, www.lmt.lt/en/about-the-research-council/contacts/2279/board-of-the-research-council-of-lithuania/d20).

Assoc. Prof. V. Dolinskas –

Dr. N. Dambraukaitė –

  • member of the Lithuanian Heraldry Commission (Lietuvos heraldikos komisija).

 

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY

7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7284
E-mail

Head – Prof. Albinas Kuncevičius

STAFF

Professors: Dr. A. Kuncevičius, Habil. Dr. M. Michelbertas (professor emeritus).
Associate professors: Dr. A. Luchtanas, Dr. A. Merkevičius, Dr. G. Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen (part-time), Dr. G. Piličiauskienė (part-time), Dr. J. Poškienė, Dr. E. Šatavičius, Dr. G. Vėlius.
Lecturer: Dr. J. Kozakaitė (part-time).
Doctoral students: E. Ananyevskaya, S. Ardavičiūtė-Ramanauskienė, D. Baltramiejūnaitė, M. Grikpėdis, E. Marcinkevičiūtė, L. Muradian, A. Rusteikytė, R. Valatkevičienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Prehistoric and historical archaeology of Lithuania and neighbouring countries (research of material and spiritual culture, landscape studies)
Archaeology of the Balts
Methodology of archaeological research
Bioarchaeology
Zooarchaeology
Archaeological heritage management

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Landscape of the Statehood: Environment Transformations in the Historical Capitals of Lithuania (No. S-MIP-1736). Prof. A. Kuncevičius. 2017–2019.

Aims of the project: identification of the scale and character of environmental transformations in the historical capitals of Lithuania – Kernavė and Trakai (territories of Senieji Trakai castle and settlement, Trakai Peninsular castle), analyzing the results in comparison with Vilnius data and interpretation in the context of genesis of the State; application and promotion of complex, interdisciplinary and non-destructive methods.

Main publications:

Volungevičius, J. et al. Transformations of different soils under natural and anthropogenized land management. Žemdirbystė / Agriculture. 2019, vol. 106(1): 3–14;

Kuncevičius, A. et al. Landscape transformations in the historical capitals of Lithuania during the 13th–14th centuries. Acta Archaeologica. 2019, vol. 90(2): 181–202.

Contractual Research

Contract with Kėdainių krašto muziejus Complex Investigations of Burial Crypts of the Kėdainiai Evangelical Reformed Church.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
University of Latvia (Latvia)
Institute of Archaeology University of Wrocław (Poland)
Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland)
Stockholm University (Sweden)
Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine)
State Cultural Rezerve of Kernavė (Lithuania)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. A. Kuncevičius –

  • editor-in-Chief of the journal Archaeologia Lituana, www.journals.vu.lt/archaeologia-lituana/about/editorialTeam;
  • editorial board member of the journal Archaeologia Baltica, www.ku.lt/leidykla/leidiniai/moksliniai-zurnalai/archaeologia-baltica;
  • editorial board member of the journal Lituanistica, www.lmaleidykla.lt/ojs/index.php/lituanistica.

Prof. emeritus M. Michelbertas –

  • foreign corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institute;
  • editorial board member of the journal Archaeologia Lituana, www.journals.vu.lt/archaeologia-lituana/about/editorialTeam;
  • editorial board member of the journal Kultūros paminklai (Cultural Monuments), www.paveldas.lt/leidiniai.

Assoc. Prof. A. Merkevičius –

  • editorial board member of the journal Estonian Journal of Archaeology, www.kirj.ee/11373;
  • editorial board member of the journal Acta Archaeologica, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/16000390/homepage/editorialboard.html;
  • editorial board member of the journal Lietuvos archeologija (Lithuanian Archaeology), www.istorija.lt/leidiniai/testiniai-leidiniai/lietuvos-archeologija;
  • editorial board member of the journal Kultūros paminklai (Cultural Monuments), www.paveldas.lt/leidiniai.

Assoc. Prof. E. Šatavičius –

  • editorial board member of the journal Archaeologia Lituana, www.journals.vu.lt/archaeologia-lituana/about/editorialTeam.

Assoc. Prof. G. Vėlius –

  • editorial board member of the journal Archaeologia Lituana, www.journals.vu.lt/archaeologia-lituana/about/editorialTeam.

MOST IMPORTANT RECEIVED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS FOR R&D ACTIVITIES

  • Dr. J. Kozakaitė, The Freedom Prize (Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania)
  • Dr. J. Kozakaitė, Medal of the Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Lithuania

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

 

DEPARTMENT OF MODERN HISTORY

7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7286
E-mail

Head – Prof. Arūnas Streikus

STAFF

Professors: Dr. Z. Butkus, Dr. A. Streikus.
Associate professors: Dr. D. Bukelevičiūtė, Dr. A. Jakubčionis, Dr. S. Kaubrys, Dr. R. Kraujelis (part-time), Dr. T. Vaiseta.
Assistents: Dr. N. Černiauskas, Dr. M. Ėmužis (part-time), Dr. R. Gaidis, Dr. K. Kilinskas, Dr. V. Klumbys (part-time), Dr. I. Zakšauskienė (part-time)..
Lectures: Dr. A. Abromaitis (part-time), A. Grodis (part-time), A. Narbutas (part-time)
Research fellows: Dr. M. Ėmužis, A. Grodis (part-time).
Doctoral students: S. Černevičiūtė, D. Indrišionis, E. Kripienė, E. Jasiūnaitė, B. Lastauskas, L. Nekrašas, D. Noreika, R. Rožėnė, A. Terleckas, T. Vaitelė, A. Žirlys.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Lithuanian international relations in the 1920s–1930s
Political, social and cultural life in Lithuania during the interwar period
Problems of the national and religious minorities in Lithuania and Klaipėda district
Military history
Soviet occupation and re-occupation of Lithuania
Anti-Soviet resistance in Lithuania: armed and unarmed resistance
Soviet Lithuania and western countries during the Cold War
Religion and society in 20th century Lithuania
Cultural, social and everyday life in Soviet Lithuania
Research on history studies modernizing

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. The Change of Sexual Norms and Behaviour in Modern Society of Lithuania (No. S-MOD-17-6). Dr. V. Klumbys. 2017–2019.

Project was finished in 2019. The changes of sexual politics, norms, discourses and practices in Lithuania from 20s’ to 80s’ were analysed based on the vast amount of different sources (archival documents, press, diaries etc.). The concept of sexual civil war instead of sexual revolution in Soviet Lithuania was formulated. Results of the research were presented in the manuscript of monography Seksualinis pilietinis karas. Seksualinių normų ir elgsenos kaita modernėjančioje Lietuvos visuomenėje (XX a. 3–9 deš.) [Sexual civil war. Changes of sexual norms and behaviour in modernising Lithuanian society]. Also several scientific articles in English and Lithuanian were prepared and accepted by the foreign and Lithuanian journals.

Postdoctoral internship project (Research Council of Lithuania). Communist Underground Movement in Lithuania (1935-1940): Activities, Infiltration, Portrait (No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712 ). M. Ėmužis. 2017–2019.

In 2019, three articles, concerning communist underground movement in interwar Lithuania, were published.

Main publications:

Ėmužis, M. Aktyviausių komunistų pogrindininkų ir jų rėmėjų Pirmojoje Lietuvos Respublikoje socialinis portretas [The Social Portrait of the Most Active Communists and Their Supporters in the First Republic of Lithuania]. Lietuvos istorijos studijos / Studies of Lithuania’s History. 2019, vol. 43: 44–70;

Ėmužis, M. Nesutarimai ir kovos dėl lyderystės tarp Lietuvos komunistų 1935–1937 m. [Conflicts and Struggle for Leadership within the Lithuanian Communist Party in 1935-1937]. Lietuvos istorijos metraštis / The Yearbook of Lithuanian History, 2019. 2019, vol. 1: 101–125.

Contractual Research

Contract with Very Important Person Protection Department under the Ministry of the Interior Investigation of the history of protection of very important persons in Lithuania was investigated and preparation of the monograph (publication: Visada šalia. Valstybės vadovų apsauga XIII–XXI a. [Always Aside. Protection of State Governors in XIII–XXI c.]).

Contract with the State Tax Inspectorate by the Ministry of Finances Research about the activities of State Tax Inspectorate in interwar period Lithuania. 2019–2020.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Stanford University, Stanford Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (USA)
Gdansk University, Faculty of History (Poland)
Genocide and Resistance Research Centre (Lithuania)
Lithuanian Institute of History (Lithuania)
National Museum of Lithuania (Lithuania)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. Z. Butkus –

  • editorial board member of the journal Latvijas Universitātes Raksti. Vēsture (Scientific papers of University of Latvia. History);
  • editorial board member of the journal Acta Humanitarica Universitatis Saulensis, www.su.lt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=597&Itemid=538&lang=lt;
  • editorial board member of the journal Kultūros paminklai (Cultural Monuments, www.paveldas.lt/leidiniai);
  • editorial board member of the journal Lietuvos istorijos studijos (Studies of Lithuania’s History, www.journals.vu.lt/lietuvos-istorijos-studijos);
  • editorial board member of the journal Lituanistica, www.lmaleidykla.lt/ojs/index.php/lituanistica.

Prof. A. Streikus –

  • academician of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science, www.lkma.lt/index.php?id=19&lng=1;
  • editorial board member of the journal Lietuvių katalikų mokslo akademijos metraštis (Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science Annuals, www.lkma.lt/index.php?id=105).

Assoc. Prof. D. Bukelevičiūtė –

  • editorial board member of the journal Istorija. Mokslo darbai (History. Research Papers, www.istorijoszurnalas.lt/index.php/IS/about/editorialTeam).

Assoc. Prof. A. Jakubčionis –

  • member of the research group of the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania;
  • member of the Council of War History Centre;
  • editorial board member of the journal Genocidas ir rezistencija (Genocide and Resistance, http://genocid.lt/centras/lt/1199/a);
  • consultant of the journal Politologija (Politology, www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/about/editorialTeam);
  • council member of the book series Lietuvos valsčiai, www.versme.lt/projektas.htm.

Assoc. Prof. S. Kaubrys –

  • editorial board member of the journal Faravid, www.pro.tsv.fi/pshy/english.htm;
  • editorial board member of the journal Revista Romana de Studii Baltice si Nordice (The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies, www.scipio.ro/web/rrsbn);
  • editorial board member of the journal Acta Historica Universitas Klaipedensis, http://briai.ku.lt/leidiniai/acta-historica-universitatis-klaipedensis/redaktoriu-kolegija/;
  • editorial board member of the series Lietuvos valstybingumo paveldas (Heritage of Lithuania’s Statehood).

Assoc. Prof. T. Vaiseta –

  • executive secretary of the journal Lietuvos istorijos studijos (Studies of Lithuania’s History, www.zurnalai.vu.lt/lietuvos-istorijos-studijos/about/editorialTeam).

MOST IMPORTANT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS RECEIVED FOR R&D ACTIVITIES

Prof. Z. Butkus. Vilnius University Rector’s award for research

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Prof. A. Streikus - chairman of the working group of the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education for preparation of Description of History Studies
  • Assoc. Prof. Tomas Vaiseta -member of the working group of the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education for preparation of Description of Cultural Studies
  • Dr. N. Černiauskas - member of the Council of Lithuanian Radio and Television (https://apie.lrt.lt/apie-lrt/lrt-taryba); member of the Historical Memory Commission in Vilnius City Municipality
  • Dr. M. Ėmužis - member of the Historical Memory Commission in Vilnius City Municipality); member of 5th Assessment Council for Immovable Cultural Heritage, Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture (www.kpd.lt/news/3545/378/Nekilnojamojo-kulturos-paveldo-vertinimo-tarybos-V-2018-04-16-posedziu-nutarimai/d,pagrindinis.html)
  • Dr. I. Zakšauskienė - member of Assessment Council for Immovable Cultural Heritage, Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture

CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES

  • Prof. Z. Butkus - members of the Commission of Scholarship Nomination of the Vilnius City History Researchers
  • Dr. N. Černiauskas - member of the Commission of the Vilnius City Municipality Programme “Create Vilnius”; members of the Commission of Scholarship Nomination of the Vilnius City History Researchers

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Radio podcast „Ko tyli istorikai?“ [“Why Historians Stay Silent?”] (on Youtube, Podbean, Spotify, Souncloud), organiser Dr. M. Ėmužis
  • an exhibition 19490216: Apsisprendimo šifras [19490216: Code of Decision] (in the Centre for Civil Education), author and organiser Dr. N. Černiauskas
  • open talk Building Post Imperial Army: Generational Conflict in Lithuanian Army 1918–1926 (in University of Chicago at Illinois, USA), Dr. K. Kilinskas
  • consultations delivered by Assoc. Prof. D. Bukelevičiūtė in the cinema project Amelie 1939– aneb po stopách mého dědečka Jakuba Grossmanna (produced by the Czech company “Vůle 1939”)

 

DEPARTMENT OF THEORY OF HISTORY AND CULTURAL HISTORY

7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7288
E-mail

Head – Prof. Alfredas Bumblauskas

STAFF

Professors: Habil. Dr. T. Bairašauskaite (part-time), Dr. A. Bumblauskas, Dr. M. Dremaitė, Habil. Dr. E. Gudavičius (emeritus).
Associate professsors: Dr. D. Brandišauskas (part-time), Dr. A. Gieda, Dr. G. Kirkienė, Dr. S. Kulevičius (part-time), Dr. E. Raila, Dr. N. Šepetys, Dr. R. Šermukšnytė, Dr. A. Švedas, Dr. J. Verbickienė.
Assistents: Dr. N. Babinskas (part-time), Dr. B. Gailius (part-time), Dr. A. Naudžiūnienė, Dr. L. Skurvydaitė (part-time), Dr. A. Vasiliauskas (part-time).
Lecturer: D. Vitkauskaitė.
Research fellows: Dr. I. Leonavičiūtė, Dr. G. Sviderskytė.
Doctoral students: R. Anulytė, V. Bytautaitė, D. Čypaitė, A. Dambrauskas, R. Goštautaitė, V. Kurienė, T. Krutulys, D. Misevičius, L. Peluritis, Š. Sederevičiūtė, M. Šiupšinskas, E. Šmidtas, K. Žilinskaitė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Theoretical, methodological and historiographical problems of history
History of Lithuanian culture
Theoretical and didactical aspects of history of Lithuanian culture
Historical culture and forms of cultural identity of Lithuanian society
Individual and collective forms of historical memory
Cultural heritage studies
Studies of Lithuanian ethnic and confessional minorities
Everyday life and domestic history
Functions of history in the contemporary society

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

International Research Projects

Norwegian Research Council. Challenges in Arctic Governance: Indigenous Territorial rights in the Russian Federation (No. 257644). Assoc. Prof. D. Brandišauskas. 2016–2019.
Anthropological fieldwork.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Conference and Networking Travel Grant. Indigenous Territorial Rights in the Russian Federation: A Quarter Century Onward. Assoc. Prof. D. Brandišauskas. 2017–2019.
Two international conferences, one international seminar.

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Augustinas Voldemaras. Intellectual and Social Biography (No. S-LIP-18-44). Assoc. Prof. A. Gieda. 2018–2021.

The most important works during the report period (2019) focused on the search and analysis of primary and secondary historical sources (including official documents, manuscript material, correspondence, selective historiography search and memoirs) of A. Voldemaras’ activities in archives and libraries of Lithuania and France. Special attention was paid to texts published by A. Voldemaras himself, but they are little known, unpublished manuscripts. On the basis of these texts, a monograph on A. Voldemaras’ biography is being prepared. Much of the material discovered allows for a much more substantiated and specific discussion about intertwining interdisciplinary aspirations in A. Voldemaras’ intellectual biography, and a much broader look at the role of European ideas and intellectual tendencies in the biography under study.

Research Council of Lithuania. Conflicts between State and Indigenous Communities: Resource Extraction and Contested Landuse in Siberia (Russian Federation) (No. S-MIP-17-41). Assoc. Prof. D. Brandišauskas. 2017–2020.

On the basis of empirical research data, drafts of several scientific articles were prepared and submitted for publication in international journals.

Research Council of Lithuania. Housing Architecture in Soviet Lithuania: Between the Mass and the Individual (No. S-MOD-17-21). Assoc. Prof. M. Drėmaitė. 2017–2019.

During a three year period (2017–2019) research team has written a collective monograph You Get an Apartment. Residential Architecture in Soviet Lithuania. Three investigators published 4 academic papers in peer-reviewed international journals, delivered 10 oral presentations at international and national conferences, one invited presentation at the University of Edinburgh and one plenary presentation at the 10th Annual Architectural Research Symposium in Finland, Aalto University. The project hosted an international seminar, an international conference and two national seminars at the Faculty of History, Vilnius University. International long-term cooperation has been established in the European Researchers' Mobility Program COST, Action “European Middle Class Mass Housing” (2019–2023).

Research Council of Lithuania. Museum - the Space of Polylogue Between Dominant and Alternative Narratives: From Theory to Practice (No. P-LU-18-66). Assoc. Prof. R. Šermukšnytė. 2018–2019.

In 2019, the collective monograph In the Labyrinth of Narratives: Lithuanian and Ukrainian Museum Experiences was published (in Lithuanian and Ukrainian languages). Four seminars for Lithuanian and Ukrainian museums workers were organised.

Research Council of Lithuania. Vilnius, Kaunas, Grodno Ecology, Sanitary, and Hygienic System, 1870–1914: In the Context of the modernization of European Cities (No. S-MOD- 17-9). Dr. A. Ambrulevičiūtė. 2017–2019.
The aim of the project is the comparative historical sociological analysis of the transformation of Vilnius, Kaunas and Grodno (North-western land provinces) from traditional urban ecology and sanitary-hygienic (unregulated) system to modern (regulated) system in 1870–1914, in the context of European cities modernization.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Institute of Ukrainian History (Ukraine)
Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukraine)
Department of Cultural Heritage (Lithuania)
Polish Institute in Vilnius (Lithuania)

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Prof. A. Bumblauskas –

  • editorial board member of the journal Studia dziejów Panstwa i Prawa Polskiego (Studies in History of Polish State and Law, http://szd.ka.edu.pl);
  • editor-in-Chief of the journal Lietuvos istorijos studijos (Studies of Lithuania’s History, www.journals.vu.lt/lietuvos-istorijos-studijos);
  • editorial board member of the journal Kultūros barai (Culture Fields, www.kulturosbarai.lt/viesieji-oirkimai).

Prof. emeritus E. Gudavičius –

  • member of the Russian Science Academy of Humanities in St. Petersburg.

Assoc. Prof. D. Brandišauskas –

  • National Geographic Society explorer;
  • honorary research fellow of the Department of Anthropology in Aberdeen University (Scotland);
  • associated research fellow of the European Centre for the Arctic, University of Versailles (France);
  • member of International Association for the Arctic Social Sciences;
  • member of International Association of Hunters and Gatherers Societies;
  • editorial board member of the journal Lithuanian Journal of Anthropology, www.anthropology.lt/editorial.html.

Assoc. Prof. M. Drėmaitė –

  • member of Architectural Historians Network EAHN;
  • editorial board of the journal Architecture and Urban Planning, https://aup-journals.rtu.lv.

Assoc. Prof. S. Kulevičius –

Assoc. Prof. R. Šermukšnytė –

  • editorial board member of the journal Istorija. Mokslo darbai (History. Research Papers; www.istorijoszurnalas.lt/index.php/IS/about/editorialTeam)

Assoc. Prof. A. Švedas –

  • member of Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies;
  • member of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography;
  • member of International Network for Theory of History, www.inth.ugent.be;
  • participant of Annual ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies);
  • co-founder and organiser Vilnius Symposium on Late and Post-Soviet Issues.

Assoc. Prof. J. Verbickienė –

  • member of the Association of Baltic Regional Studies;
  • member of European Association of Jewish Studies;
  • member of the Task Force Group of the European Jewish Cultural Heritage Association (Barselona–Liuksemburg);
  • member of the Advisory Committee on Foundation of Jewish Heritage (London, UK; www.foundationforjewishheritage.com/panel.html);
  • member of the World Congress of Jewish studies;
  • member of the National Congress of Lithuanian Historians;
  • editorial board member of the journal Przeszłość demograficzna Polski. Materiał i Studia (Poland’s Demographic Past, https://wnus.edu.pl/pdp/pl/page/1457673467).

Dr. N. Babinskas –

  • chairman of the Association of Transnational History;
  • member of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH);
  • member of the Romanian Association for Nordic and Baltic countries;
  • member of the Medieval Central Europe Research Network;
  • editorial board member of the journal Valahian Journal of Historical Studies (www.vjhs.ro/editorial-board).

MOST IMPORTANT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS RECEIVED FOR R&D ACTIVITIES

Prof. A. Bumblauskas The most influential public figure in Lithuania in 2019 (Delfi.lt project)

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

  • Prof. T. Bairašauskaitė - member of the Committee of Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Council of Lithuania (www.lmt.lt/en/about-the-research-council/contacts/2279/committee-of-humanities-and-social-sciences/d22);
  • Assoc. Prof. D. Brandišauskas - member of the Lithuanian National Commission for Cultural Heritage; member of ICOMOS Lithuanian National Committee;
  • Assoc. Prof. S. Kulevičius - chairman of the Commission of Experts on the Protection of Immovable Cultural Heritage; member of the Lithuanian National Commission for Cultural Heritage (https://vkpk.lt/en/about-us/commission-members/);
  • Assoc. Prof. J. Verbickienė - chairman of the Commission for Providing a “Diploma of Memory”, Vilnius University; chairman of the Board of the Jewish Cultural Heritage Road Association, Lithuania; member of the Academic Committee on National Minorities (Department of National Minorities, Ministry of Culture of Lithuania).

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Prof. A. Bumblauskas led the 5th National Expedition (TV project), which took place on the Dauguva River
  • Assoc. Prof. A. Švedas hosted the program „Historical Territory“ in LRT Classics Program (Lithuanian national television)
  • Prof. M. Drėmaitė, an exhibition on Kaunas Modernism Architecture in Tel Aviv (Israel) and public lecture Architecture of Optimism: Kaunas Phenomenon, 1919–1939,

 

CENTRE FOR STATELESS CULTURES

7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7293
E-mail:

Head – Assoc. Prof. Grigorijus Potašenko

STAFF

Associate professor: Dr. G. Potašenko.
Assistant: Dr. D. Troskovaitė (part-time).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Centre carries out research on the region’s stateless minority cultures (cultures that do not benefit from the moral and material support of a “home country” anywhere): Yiddish, Old Believers, Tatars, Karaimes, Roma and also multicultural studies.

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. The Old Believers’ Church in Lithuania (1918-2018) (No S-LIP-19-69). Assoc. Prof. G. Potašenko. 2018–2021.

Materials were gathered and studied in the Lithuanian Central State Archives (Vilnius) and Old Believers community in Vilnius, one presentation prepared; one article prepared and presented for publication. The preliminary date of publishingis the first half of 2020.

Research Council of Lithuania. Development of Non-Christian Identity in Lithuania in 19–20th Centuries (No S-LIP-18-33). Dr. D. Troskovaite. 2018–2021.

Materials were gathered and studied in the Jagiellonian Library (Jagiellonian University), two presentations prepared; two articles prepared and presented for publication. The preliminary date of publishing is the first half of 2020.

Department of the Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture; Old Believers Religion community in Vilnius. Old Believers’ Heritage in Vilnius: Our Lady of the Assumption Church and its Complex (Nr. PL-6). Assoc. Prof. G. Potašenko. 2019.

During 2019, materials were gathered and studied in the Lithuanian Central State Archives (Vilnius) and Old Believers community in Vilnius, one book prepared.

Main publication:

Potašenko, G., Paaver, M. L. Sentikių paveldas Vilniuje: Švč. Dievo Motinos Užtarėjos cerkvė ir jos kompleksas [Наследие староверов в Вильнюсе: Свято-Покровский храм и его комплекс]. Vilnius: Petro ofsetas, 2019.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Old Believers Research Commission of the International Committee of Slavists
Torun Mikołaj Kopernik University (Poland)
University of Warsaw (Poland)
The Centre for Studies of the Culture and History of East European Jews (Lithuania)
Institute of Social Research (Lithuania)
National Minorities Department under the Government of the Lithuania of Republic (Lithuania)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. G. Potašenko –

  • member of Old Believers Research Commission of the International Committee of Slavists (www.staroobr-kom.ru);
  • member of Lithuanian Slavists Society;
  • editorial board member of the journal Fontes Slaviae Orthodoxae.

Dr. D. Troskovaitė –

  • member of European Associacion of Jewish Studies;
  • member of World Union of Jewish Studies;
  • member of East European and Eurasion Studies.

MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES

Assoc. Prof. G. Potašenko - member of the Academic Committee on National Minorities (Department of National Minorities, Ministry of Culture of Lithuania)

 


BIOARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE

21 Čiurlionio, LT-03101 Vilnius
Tel.268 7284, +370 619 27925
E-mail

Head – Assoc. Prof. Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen

STAFF

Associate professors: Dr. Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen, Dr. G. Pikličiauskienė (part-time).
Lecturer: Dr. J. Kozakaitė (part-time).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Palaeodiet
Human-climate interaction
Human influence on environmental with the primary expansion of agriculture across Eurasia
Crop cultivation and processing strategies
Plant remains
Human-animal relationship
Zooarchaeological remains
Earliest appearance and geographical origins of agriculture in the east Baltic Region
Economy of prehistoric populations in Central Asia
Human osteology and paleopathology
Epidemiology
Forensic bioarchaeology

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2019

National Research Projects

European social fund. Margins or Nodes? Dietary Adaptation Strategies and the Role of Inner Asian Mountain Communities in Prehistoric Food Globalization (No MTEP 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-000). Assoc. Prof. Dr. G.  Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen. 2018–2022.

By applying cutting edge methodologies to the study of past diets, animal migration patterns and irrigation technologies, the project has become a key global player in understanding the processes of food dispersal across Eurasia. The research results have been presented so far at prestigious international conferences and published in high profile journals.

Main publications:

Jones, P. J., Liu, X. et al. From ecological opportunism to multi-cropping: mapping food globalisation in prehistory. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2019, vol. 206: 21–28;

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G., et al. High-altitude agro-pastoralism in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan: new excavations of the Chap farmstead (1065–825 cal b.c.). Journal of Field Archaeology. First published online 2019; 2020, vol. 45: 29–45;

Stephens, L., et al. Archaeological assessment reveals earth’s early transformation through land use. Science. 2019, vol. 365: 897–205.

Research Council of Lithuania. Humans and Horses in Lithuania during the Migration Period (4th-6th c. AD) on the Basis of Sr and O Stable Isotope Data: Origin and Social Context (No. S-MIP-19-67). Assoc. Prof. G. Piličiauskienė. 2019–2021.

The goal of the project is to study exeptional burials in two regions of their concentration (East and Central Lithuania) by applying advanced methodology, i.e. analysis of Sr and O isotopoes. Some of the distinguished burials of supposedly non-local and high status individuals (both males and females), as well as horses will be studied. For comparative analysis, several typic burials, i.e. those containing grave goods that match the local cultural context, will be included. The results, in the framework of European Sr and O isotopic context and new analysis of archaeological, zooarchaeological, and anthropological material, will allow to confirm or reject the hypothesis that humans and horses of non-local origin reached Lithuania in the Migration period and supposedly played their role in the social organization and culture of the Balts and the development of horses of local type. If this hypothesis is confirmed, the places of their origin will be determined, and in some cases probably their mobility in the course of life. The political and social context of migrations will be discussed. Project started in July, 2019. During the first year, material was studied and sampled for O, Sr and AMS analysis. The first results of AMS dating received, oral presentation presented at international conference.

Contractual Research

Contract with Viktorija Ziabreva (archaeologist) Analysis of the archaeobotanical material from Žardė (Klaipėda).

Contract with VšĮ Archeologijos Centras Archaeobotanical analysis of Gediminas castle hill materials.

Contract with Trakų istorijos muziejus Analysis of zooarchaeological material from Trakai Peninsula Castle.

Contract with UAB Statybų archeologija Analysis of zooarchaeological material from Vilnius (Pilių parkas; Contract with Trakų st. 1), Kaunas (Gertrūdos st. 51A) and Martyniškės burial ground

Contract with IĮ Juodasis ežys Analysis of zooarchaeological material from Varniai, Trakai (Karaimų st. 35).

Contract with VšI Kultūros paveldo išsaugojimo pajėgos Analysis of zooarchaeological material from Vilnius (Vilniau st. 18; Vilniaus st.)

Anthropological analysis and reports: Bokšto g. 6 (Vilnius, 13th–15th c.); Cathedral (Vilnius, 16–18th c.); Ylakiai (Skuodas district, 16–18th c.); Smilties Pylimo g. 13 (Klaipėda, 16–17th c.); Lavoriškės (Vilnius district, 17th c.); Martyniškiai (Joniškis district, 17th c.); Lypkiai (Klaipėda, 19th c.); Savičiaus g. 13 (Vilnius, unknown).

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Sherubtse College (Bhutan)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Max Planck Institute for the Science and Human History (Germany)
University of Kiel (Germany)
Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Japan)
Tokyo University (Japan)
Turkish-Manas University (Kyrgyzstan)
Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland)
Stockholm University (Sweden)
University of Cambridge (UK)
University of York (UK)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. G. Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen –