Faculty of History

Sukurta: 26 May 2021

if7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel.  268 7280
E-mail
www.if.vu.lt

Dean – Dr Loreta Skurvydaitė

 

 

STAFF

47 teachers (44 holding research degree), 19 research fellows (15 holding research degree), 36 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
Centre for Studies of History of East European Jews
Bioarchaeology Research Centre

RESEARCH AREAS

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

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS MAINTAINED IN 2020

E. Ananyevskaya. Economy of the Kazakh Steppe Populations during the construction of Geoglyphs in Turgai Region, Kazakhstan.
A. Dambrauskas. Film culture in Lithuania, 1926–1944: between entertainment and ideology.
K. Minkevičius. Agricultural development and settlement dynamics in 11th c. BC–12th c. AD Lithuania (based on archaeobotanical evidence).
D. Noreika. Partisan war in Lithuania (1944–1953): the issue of social structures.

MAIN CONFERENCES ORGANIZED IN 2020

International online conference In the Radiance of the Vilna Gaon: History of Lithuanian Jewry, www.polin.pl/en/conference-vilna-gaon.
National seminar Alternative Discussion Space. Heritas’20: Recharge the Heritage, https://heritas.lt/skaitmeninis-heritas/paskaitos.
National seminar Recent Archaeological Research and Discoveries: In the UNESCO World Heritage Site Kernavė Archaeological Site and on the Gas Interconnection Poland–Lithuania (GIPL), www.if.vu.lt/naujienos1/renginiai/1568-naujausi-archeologiniai-tyrimai-ir-atradimai-unesco-pasaulio-paveldo-objekte-kernaves-archeologineje-vietoveje-bei-lietuvos-ir-lenkijos-dujotiekiu-jungties-gilp-trasoje-2020-09-19.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2020

6 scientific monographs published.
Significant investigations: scientific archaeological excavations in the framework of the Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) project (Prof. A. Kuncevičius et al.).

 
DEPARTMENT OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY

7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7297
E-mail
Head – Assoc. Prof. Liudas Jovaiša

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.
Assistants: Dr N. Dambrauskaitė, Dr T. Čelkis, Dr M. Jakulis.
Research professor: Dr A. Ragauskas.
Researchers: Dr N. Dambrauskaitė (part-time), Dr A. Pister-Gainienė (postdoc, part-time).
Research assistants: N. Šlimienė, S. Viskantaitė-Saviščevienė.
Doctoral students: K. Čižauskas, V. Malašinskienė, 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 2020

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Cuisine of the Rulers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th Century and the First Half of the 17th Century (No. MIP-20-226). Dr N. Dambrauskaitė. 2020–2022.
The aim of the project is to explore the cuisine of the rulers of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century and the first half of the 17th century by analysing various historical sources, especially rulers' account books, and also the data of archaeological research.

Research Council of Lithuania. Legal Culture of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: the Rulers’ Court at 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 obeying them, 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.

Main publication:

Pirmojo Lietuvos Statuto Slucko nuorašas [The Slutski Copy of the First Statute of Lithuania]: source publication, ed. I. Valikonytė. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press. 2020.

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

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 was to collect the historical sources scattered in different archives and libraries, and to prepare, with the help of hitherto unpublished material, the corpus of structured biographical entries comprising the members of Catholic (both Latin and Greek rite) male religious orders (except the Society of Jesus), active in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1387 to 1795. Persons, who had been admitted to novitiate but did not profess their religious vows, were also included.

Main publication:

Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės vienuoliai katalikai: biogramų sąvadas [Members of the Catholic Male Religious Orders in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Corpus of Biographical]: database. 2020. http://monasch.nazwa.pl/mw19-lt/index.php?title=Strona_g%C5%82%C3%B3wna.

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

Main publication:

Čelkis, T. Travelling in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th–17th century. Mobility conditions and travellers’ everyday life. The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies. 2019, 11(2): 79–119.

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.

Assoc. Prof. V. Dolinskas –

  • editor-in-chief of the serial publication Chronicon Palatii Magnorum Ducum Lithuaniae;
  • member of the scientific council of the year-book Muzealnictwo (Museology), https://muzealnictworocznik.com/resources/html/cms/SCIENTIFICCOUNCIL;
  • 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. Roczniki (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, 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;
  • editorial board member of the series Lietuvos sakralinė dailė (Sacral Art of Lithuania).

Assoc. Prof. J. Karpavičienė –

  • deputy chairperson 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).

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Dr N. Dambrauskaitė. The Cuisine of Sigismund II Augustus: Food and Its Supply in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. International conference XXIX konferencja Komisji Lituanistycznej przy Komitecie Nauk Histocznych PAN, Warszawa (Poland).

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

  • Prof. R. Petrauskas. Lithuanian Science Prize in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.
  • Dr M. Jakulis. Prize at the Young Scientists’ and Doctoral Students’ Research Competition, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

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, www.lma.lt/struktura.
  • Assoc. Prof. V. Dolinskas – chairman of Commission for Culture and Art Awards of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania;
    chairman of Lithuanian Sponsorship Council, https://lrkm.lrv.lt/lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/tarybos-kolegijos-komisijos-ir-darbo-grupes/tarybos-prie-ministerijos/mecenavimo-taryba;
    member of Board of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, www.vda.lt/lt/apie-vda/akademijos-struktura/taryba/tarybos-nariai.
  • Dr N. Dambraukaitė – member of the Lithuanian Heraldry Commission (The Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania), www.lrp.lt/lt/prezidento-institucija/prezidento-funkcijos/heraldika/34206;
    member of the Commission for Granting Permits to Use Official Symbols of the Republic of Lithuania in a Trademark or Design.

 

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY

7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7284
E-mail
Head – Prof. Albinas Kuncevičius

STAFF

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

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 2020

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Dogs in Lithuania during the 13th–18th c.: Origin of the Breeds, Function and Breeding Culture (S-MIP-20-5). Dr P. Blaževičius. 2020–2022.
In 2020, dogs’ remains from medieval Lithuanian archaeological sites were selected and a comprehensive zooarchaeological database was created. Zooarchaeological and paleopathological analyses are in progress. Oxford University lab performed a DNA analysis of 30 teeth and bone samples. On 80 samples for d13C and d15N, stable isotope analysis was performed. One individual was 14C AMS dated. Of ~25K ceramic objects examined, dog traces were found on over 220. Literary and historical sources in Lithuania as well as other countries were examined.

Contractual Research

Contract with UAB Alvora Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) (archaeological research).

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

Institute of Archaeology University of Wrocław (Poland)
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
University of Latvia (Latvia)
University of Stockholm (Sweden)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Administration of the State Cultural Reserve of Kernavė (Lithuania)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Prof. A. Kuncevičius –

Prof. emeritus M. Michelbertas –

  • foreign corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (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 –

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.

A. Žilinskaitė –

  • executive board member of European Association of Archaeologists, www.e-a-a.org/EAA/About/EAA_Boards_and_Committees/EAA/Navigation_About/EAA_Boards_and_Committees.aspx?hkey=adb43fb0-bbf0-4150-b96b-bdab0fbca40a;
  • chairwoman of the Society of Lithuanian Archaeology, http://lad.lt/lietuvos-archeologijos-draugija/vadovybe.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Prof. A. Kuncevičius, with co-authors. Monitoring of Urban Heritage Implementing 3D and Convolutional Neural Networks-Based Technologies. International online conference XXVI European Congress of Archaeologists, Budapest (Hungary).
  • K. Minkevičius, with co-authors. Agrarian Intensification during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Lithuania: New Isotopic Evidence on Shifting Dietary Practices. International online conference 78th International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia).

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. Kuncevičius – member of the Board of the Research Council of Lithuania, www.lmt.lt/lt/apie-taryba/kontaktai/86/valdyba/d1;
    chairman of the working group of the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education for preparation of Description of Archaeology Studies.
  • Assoc. Prof. A. Luchtanas – member of 4th Assessment Council for Immovable Cultural Heritage, Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture, https://e-seimas.lrs.lt/portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/3c41c1517bff11e98a8298567570d639?jfwid=zjgvs4rs8.
  • Assoc. Prof. A. Merkevičius – member of 4th Assessment Council for Immovable Cultural Heritage, Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture, https://e-seimas.lrs.lt/portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/3c41c1517bff11e98a8298567570d639?jfwid=zjgvs4rs8
    member of the working group of the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education for preparation of Description of Archaeology Studies.
  • Assoc. Prof. J. Poškienė – vice chairwoman of the Committee of Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Council of Lithuania, www.lmt.lt/en/about-the-research-council/vice-chair/2684;
    member of the working group of the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education for preparation of Description of Heritage Studies.
  • Žilinskaitė – member of Commission of Experts on the Protection of Immovable Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, https://e-seimas.lrs.lt/portal/legalAct/lt/TAD/4ca716d2eeb911e99ab7ff5a9ea34fcc?jfwid=oou0hruq2.

CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES

  • Assoc. Prof. J. Poškienė. Methodological seminar for the members of Assessment Councils for Immovable Cultural Heritage, Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture Buildings’ Remains, Discovered during Archaeological Excavations: Preservation in situ. Objectives, Practice, Legal Regulation.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Participation (presentations) in the seminar Recent Archaeological Research and Discoveries: In the UNESCO World Heritage Site Kernavė Archaeological Site and on the Gas Interconnection Poland–Lithuania (GIPL).
  • Participation (lectures) in the European Archaeology Days in the National Museum of Lithuania.

 

 
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.
Assistants: Dr N. Černiauskas, Dr M. Ėmužis (part-time), Dr R. Gaidis, Dr K. Kilinskas, Dr V. Klumbys (part-time), Dr I. Zakšauskienė (part-time).
Lecturers: Dr A. Abromaitis (part-time), A. Grodis (part-time).
Researchers: A. Grodis (part-time), Dr M. Šipelytė (postdoc, part-time).
Doctoral students: D. Indrišionis, P. Japertas, E. Kripienė, B. Lastauskas, L. Nekrašas, R. Roženė, I. Stanevičius, A. Suchodolskytė, A. Terleckas, T. Vaitelė, A. Žirlys, T. Žukas.

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. War and society
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 the modernization of history studies

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Lithuanian Foreign Policy in 1917–1920. Set of Documents (No. S-REP-20-1). Prof. Dr Z. Butkus. 2020–2021.
Historiography analysis is made, new archival sources found and collected in archives, the first draft version of set of documents prepared.

Research Council of Lithuania. Postdoctoral internship project: Memory of Participants of Violent Events: the Case of the Lithuanian Partisan War (No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-19-0134). M. Jurkutė. 2020–2022.
Analysis of relevant historiography was conducted. 183 cases of family massacre in postwar period were researched in the archives of the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania.

Research Council of Lithuania. Postdoctoral internship project: Juozas Gabrys and His Colleagues at the League of Nations in 1927–1939: Actions and Collective Biography (No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712). M. Šipelytė. 2020–2022.
The historiographical analysis of the theme was performed. Also, the search of primal sources was conducted at the Lithuanian State Historical Archives (Lithuania) as well as at the League of Nations Archives in the United Nations Library and Archives (Geneva, Switzerland).

Contractual Research

Contract with the Chamber of Notaries to conduct a research about the activities of Lithuanian Notariat in the interwar period of Lithuania 1918–1940.

Contract with Vilnius City Municipality Administration Historical Overview of Vilnius – Historical Vilnius Menu (consultation in preparing the concept “Vilnius 700”).

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

Stanford University, Stanford Centre 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/about/editorialTeam;
  • 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;
  • editor-in-chief 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 Bažnyčios istorijos studijos (Studies in Church History), www.lkma.lt/index.php?id=111&lng=1;
  • editorial board member of the journal Lietuvos istorijos studijos (Studies of Lithuania’s History), www.journals.vu.lt/lietuvos-istorijos-studijos/about/editorialTeam.

Assoc. Prof. D. Bukelevičiūtė –

  • advisory board member of the Transcultural Encounters Research Centre of the University of Oulu, Finland, www.oulu.fi/transculturalencounters/node/53304;
  • editorial board member of the journal Studia Politica Slovaca, www.sav.sk/?lang=en&doc=journal-list&journal_no=80;
  • editorial board member of the journal Istorija. Mokslo darbai (History. Research Papers), www.istorijoszurnalas.lt/index.php/IS/about/editorialTeam.

Assoc. Prof. A. Jakubčionis –

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.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Dr K. Kilinskas. The Interwar Lithuania Military Forces as Window of Research for Imperial Legacy and Tradition. Transregional Academy organized by Forum Transregionale studien and the Max Weber Foundation (Germany). Online presentation.
  • Assoc. Prof. S. Kaubrys. Portrait of a Jewish Gymnasium Student in Lithuania in 1918–1940. International online conference In the radiance of the Vilna Gaon: History of Lithuanian Jewry, Vilnius (Lithuania).

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

  • Prof. Z. Butkus, Simonas Daukantas’ Prize for historical research, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.
  • Dr M. Ėmužis, Vilnius University Rector’s Science Award (young scholar category).

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

  • Prof. Z. Butkus – member of the Commission of Scholarship Nomination of the Vilnius City History Researchers.
  • Prof. A. Streikus – chairman of the council of Adolfas Damušis Democratic Studies Centre at Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania;
    chairman of the working group of the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education for preparation of Description of History Studies.
  • Assoc. Prof. D. Bukelevičiūtė – member of Jonava District Municipality Pranas Dovalga Award Commission.
  • 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.
  • Assoc. Prof. Tomas Vaiseta – head of the curators group of MO Museum for a new exhibition in 2022;
    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;
    member of the Historical Memory Commission in Vilnius City Municipality;
    member of the Commission of the Vilnius City Municipality Programme “Create Vilnius”;
    member of the Commission of Scholarship Nomination of the Vilnius City History Researchers.
  • Dr M. Ėmužis – chairman of 5th Assessment Council for Immovable Cultural Heritage, Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture;
    member of the Historical Memory Commission in Vilnius City Municipality.
  • Dr I. Zakšauskienė – member of 1th Assessment Council for Immovable Cultural Heritage, Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture.

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Radio podcast “Ko tyli istorikai?” [Why Historians Stay Silent?] (on Youtube, Podbean, Spotify, Souncloud), organisers Dr M. Ėmužis, A. Terleckas.
  • History popularization broadcast “Partizanų keliais” [Along the Roads of Partisans] on commercial TV Lrytas, 6 series, provider and author of scenario Dr K. Kilinskas.
  • Commentaries on National Radio broadcast “Istorijos permetrai” [Perimeters of History], 3 broadcasts, Dr K. Kilinskas.
  • Lecture Baltic States Wars of Independence and International System 1919–1920 presented in War and Diplomacy Centre, University of Lancaster (UK).
     


DEPARTMENT OF THEORY OF HISTORY AND CULTURAL HISTORY

7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7288
E-mail
Head – Prof. Alfredas Bumblauskas

STAFF

Professors: Dr Habil. T. Bairašauskaite (part-time), Dr A. Bumblauskas, Dr M. Dremaitė, Dr I. Vaišvilaitė, Dr J. Verbickienė.
Associate professors: Dr D. Brandišauskas (part-time), Dr A. Gieda, Dr G. Kirkienė, Dr S. Kulevičius (part-time), Dr G. Potašenko, Dr E. Raila, Dr N. Šepetys, Dr R. Šermukšnytė, Dr A. Švedas (part-time).
Assistants: Dr N. Babinskas (part-time), Dr V. Janušauskaitė (part-time), Dr A. Naudžiūnienė (part-time), Dr L. Skurvydaitė (part-time), Dr D. Troskovaitė
Lecturer: D. Vitkauskaitė.
Researcher: Dr I. Leonavičiūtė.
Doctoral students: R. Anulytė, V. Bytautaitė, D. Čypaitė, K. Daugėlienė, R. Goštautaitė, V. Kurienė, T. Krutulys, D. Misevičius, L. Mumgaudytė, L. Peluritis, Š. Sederevičiūtė, M. Šiupšinskas, E. Šmidtas, M. Valančiauskienė.

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 2020

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 object of the research is the intellectual and social biography of one of the most controversial personalities of inter-war Lithuania Augustinas Voldemaras (1883–1942). The aim of the project is to prepare and publish a monograph. The research will be based on the documents and manuscript material, associated with Voldemaras (documents of university activity, correspondence, memoirs, unpublished manuscripts etc.), from the archives of Lithuania, Russia and France. When executing the project tasks during the report period (2020), particular attention was paid to the historiographic analysis of former research of Voldemaras’s activities. The project executor's register of the most solid research done to date and small-scale contextual references includes 528 positions. A detailed analysis of these positions will be an integral part of Voldemaras’s monograph. The compilation of a bibliography of texts published by A. Voldemaras was started (currently it contains 256 bibliographic records).

Main publications:

Gieda, A. Daukantiana Eduardo Volterio palikime: Apuolės tema [Studies into the Legacy of Daukantas in Eduard Wolter’s Works: The Theme of Apuolė], Senoji Lietuvos literatūra, 2019, vol. 48: 93–121.

Research Council of Lithuania. Conflicts between State and Indigenous Communities: Resource Extraction and Contested Land Use in Siberia (Russian Federation) (No. S-MIP-17-41). Assoc. Prof. D. Brandišauskas. 2017–2020.
This research project is aimed at better understanding of Russian Federation indigenous policy and describing the legal reforms guiding indigenous territorial rights at the federal and sub-federal level in the context of development of resource extraction industry. Together with a team of foreign scientists (lawyers, geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists) we aimed at analysing discourses, spatial practices, political and economic practices and strategies of local communities and individuals. Based on qualitative ethnographic field research, the project analysed how local communities interact/conflict/cooperate with the state, industrial companies and how communities master large taiga territories. The proposed research firstly embraces formal and informal strategies of land use of communities as well as persistence and articulations of customary laws, stereotypes and rituals of resistance. This research will allow us to understand the agency of local communities (networking, rituality, customary law, image production, stage culture, political activism, cultural capital) and their adaptations in remote Russian regions. It will also allow us to understand regional variations of policy and its receptions.

Research Council of Lithuania. Tadas Daugirdas: Archaeology of "three-colours" Identity (No. S-LIP-20-13). Assoc. Prof. E. Raila. 2020–2023.
The aim of the project is to prepare the academic study devoted to the biography of Tadas Daugirdas (1852–1919). Daugirdas belonged to the ranks of the activists of the Lithuanian national reawakening that had a significant impact on the making of the national self-awareness and creation of the statehood symbols, but who were left behind in the backyard of historical memory. His personality reflects well the transformations of the Lithuanian identity marking the formation the type of the Lithuanian intelligentsia that was emerging at the turn of the 19th and the 20th centuries. His activities covered at least a few areas of cultural and social life: painting, archaeology, museology, ethnology, journalism. His biography is an integral part of the Lithuanian cultural history. In 2020, material for monograph was collected in the libraries and archives of Vilnius (Vilnius University Manuscripts Division, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore).

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 RESEARCH 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;
  • editorial board member of the journal Naujasis židinys-Aidai, https://nzidinys.lt/redakcija.

Prof. M. Drėmaitė –

  • member of Architectural Historians Network EAHN;
  • member of the Lithuanian Society of Art Historians;
  • member of Scientific Council of Lithuanian Institute of History, www.istorija.lt/apie/struktura/mokslo-taryba/44;
  • editorial board of the journal Architecture and Urban Planning, https://aup-journals.rtu.lv.

Assoc. Prof. D. Brandišauskas –

  • National Geographic Society explorer;
  • honorary research fellow, Department of Anthropology in Aberdeen University (Scotland);
  • associated research fellow, 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. S. Kulevičius –

  • member of Scientific Council of Lithuanian Institute of History, www.istorija.lt/apie/struktura/mokslo-taryba/44;
  • editorial board of the journal Iсторико-культурні студії (Historical and Cultural Studies), http://science.lpnu.ua/hcs/editorial-board.

Assoc. Prof. N. Šepetys –

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.

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;
  • editorial board member of the journal Valahian Journal of Historical Studies, www.vjhs.ro/editorial-board.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Prof. I. Vaišvilaitė. Феномен венчания образов Богоматери «папскими коронами» в Речи Посполитой. International online seminar Historia Ecclesiae et Religionis.
  • Dr A. Naudžiūnienė. History education as a form of value indoctrination in Soviet Lithuania. Online XVIII Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society. Educational Reforms Worldwide, Sofia (Bulgaria).
  • D. Čypaitė. The attitudes of the diplomatic institutions of the interwar Lithuania towards the Lithuanian and Lithuanian Jewish diaspora. International online conference The Migration Conference 2020, Tetovo.
  • T. Krutulys. 1918: Consolidation of unanimous historical memory for new nation state (Lithuanian Case). International online conference Turning Points: Interpreting the Past, Explaining the Present and Imagining the Future. Athens (Greece).

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

  • Prof. A. Bumblauskas - the most influential public figure in Lithuania in 2020, Delfi.lt project.

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

CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES

  • Dr V. Janušauskaitė – public video consultations by heritage specialists for heritage owners. Heritas, Cultural Heritage Fair, www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKJnZIsbQB0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-4FK8iFEjA.
  • Dr L. Skurvydaitė – an expert in CHINLONE project (Connecting Higher Education Institutions for a New Leadership on National Education in Myanmar), project coordinator University of Bologna (Italy).

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Prof. A. Bumblauskas led the 6th National Expedition (TV project) “Europe of the Gediminas Dynasty”, over 30 TV shows were produced.
  • Assoc. Prof. A. Švedas hosted a radio show “Istoriko teritorija” [The Territory of the Historian] on LRT Klasikos radijas.
  • Organization and implementation of the largest heritage festival in Lithuania Heritas (together with partners).
     


BIOARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE

21 Čiurlionio, LT-03101 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7284
E-mail
Head – Assoc. Prof. Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen

STAFF

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

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Palaeodiet
Crop cultivation and processing strategies
Plant remains
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 2020

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 Giedrė Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen. 2018–2022.
The project has generated new scientific knowledge on the timing and the origins of food production in the central ten Shan. By applying cutting edge methodology to the study of past diets, animal transhumance, and plant irrigation technologies, the project has become a key Global player in understanding food dispersal across the Eurasia processes. The results of the research have so far been presented at prestigious international conferences and published in high profile journals. In addition, the application of landscape investigations using magnetic susceptibility and UAV technologies, have led to the discovery of a large spectrum of new archaeological sites of global and regional importance. The development of research methodologies and the accumulation of new research material in the course of the project have generated high resolution datasets that is highly transferable in other cultural and chronologic frameworks, opening up new vistas for the expanding the studies on to the important topics that were previously closed due to the shortage of research material and insufficient methodologies.

Main publications:

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, G. et al. A package of southwest Asian grain crops facilitated high-elevation agriculture in the Central Tien Shan during the mid-third millennium BCE. PlosOne. 2020.
Ananyevskaya, E. et al. Specialized wool production economy of prehistoric farmstead of Chap I in the Highlands of Central Tian Shan (Kyrgyzstan). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 2020.
Itahashi, Y. et al. Dietary diversity of bronze-iron age populations of Kazakhstan quantitatively estimated through the compound-specific nitrogen analysis of amino acids. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 2020, 33.

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.
During the 2020, 87Sr/86Sr analysis on 35 humans, 12 horses and 41 other animals’ teeth was realized. The obtained results demonstrate that this method successfully can be applied on Lithuanian material. Analysis of 18O/16O were performed on 35 humans, 12 horses and 13 other animals’ teeth. The initial results disclose the origin and the mobility of humans and horses during the Migration Period. 34 new AMS 14C dates on humans and horses were obtained. The results reveal that chronology of particular burials, cemeteries and even some Iron Age cultural phenomena are to be revised.

Contractual Research

Permanent contracts (analysis of the archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and Anthropological material).

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

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)
Turkish-Manas University (Kyrgyzstan)
Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland)
Stockholm University (Sweden)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. G. Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen –

  • Reviewer in: Nature: Scientific Reports; Open Archaeology; Archaeological Research of Eurasia; Antiquity; Quaternary International; STAR.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Assoc. Prof. G. Motuzaite Matuzeviciute Keen. The stomach or the soul? Early dispersal of Broomcorn millet out of China. International online conference Max Plank Institute Lecture Series: Linking Plants, People, and the Environment: New Archaeobotanical Research from Central Asia and Southwest China.
  • Report Assoc. Prof. G. Motuzaite Matuzeviciute Keen. Human-landscape interactions and environmental adaptation strategies across Eurasia. International online conference Belt and Road Lecture Series, Fudan (China).
  • Assoc. Prof. G. Motuzaite Matuzeviciute Keen with others. Measuring variability in barley morphotypes as a tool in understanding climatic and social change. International online conference 8th McDonnell Academy International Symposium, Washington (USA).
  • Rusteikytė, Assoc. Prof. G. Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė Keen with co-authors. Organic residue analysis of medieval cooking wares from the Vilnius Lower Castle: A glimpse into the castle’s inhabitants’ diet. International online conference XXVI European Congress of Archaeologists, Budapest (Hungary).
  • Assoc. Prof. G. Piličiauskienė with co-authors. Looking for a warhorse in Vilnius Lower Castle, Lithuania: size, age and equipment of the 13th-15th c. horses. International online conference Historical Practice in Horsemanship and Equestrian Sports, Riga (Latvia).
  • Assoc. Prof. G. Piličiauskienė with co-authors. New elites and their horses in the migration period Lithuania - strangers or locals? International online conference XXVI European Congress of Archaeologists, Budapest (Hungary).

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

  • Dr J. Kozakaitė, together with others, St. Christopher Award, Vilnius City

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


CENTRE FOR STUDIES OF HISTORY OF EAST EUROPEAN JEWS

7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7288
E-mail:
Head – Prof. Jurgita Verbickienė

STAFF

Professor: Dr J. Verbickienė.
Assistant: Dr A. Naudžiūnienė.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Studies of history and heritage of East European Jews
Education and presentation of Jewish heritage in contemporary society
Antisemitism studies
Jewish migration from Eastern Europe
Jewish artist (gender aspect)

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

Hebrew University Jerusalem (Israel)
Texas State University (USA)
Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania (Lithuania)
Association of Jewish Cultural Road / Jewish Heritage Lithuania (Lithuania)
Lituanian Radio and Television (LRT) (Lithuania)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

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 World Union 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.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Prof. J. Verbickienė. Vilnius Jewish community in the times of Vilna Gaon: peoples, families and the patterns of everyday life. International online conference In the Radiance of the Vilna Gaon: History of Lithuanian Jewry.

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

  • 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);
    member of the Advisory Committee on Foundation of Jewish Heritage, London (UK), www.foundationforjewishheritage.com/panel.html.

CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES

  • Consultation about external communication of Vilna Gaon and Lithuanian Jews history Year (Prof. J. Verbickienė, member of Group for External Communication in Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Lithuania).

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

  • Preparation of historical materials and consultations on the topic of history of Vilnius Jews and Jewish ghetto in Vilnius (1941–1944) for the interdisciplinary project “Virtual Tour through Vilnius Ghetto” with choir “ARTyn” (financed by Lithuanian Culture Council) (Dr A. Naudžiūnienė).
  • Historian consultant in documentary “The Black Bird. The Memory of Roma Genocide” and documentary video narratives project “Witnesses of Multicultural Past” (Dr A. Naudžiūnienė).
  • Host of the show, every weak radio broadcast “Santara. Klausk istoriko apie Lietuvos žydų istoriją” [“Ask a Historian about the History of Lithuanian Jews“]. Program on LRT Klasika (Prof. J. Verbickienė).
  • Host of the radio broadcast: “Džiazuojanti istorija” (Prof. J. Verbickienė).

 
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.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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 multicultural studies.

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2020

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.
The aim of the project is to study continuously the history of the Lithuanian Old Believers’ Church from 1918 to 2018 updating it significantly in terms of sources and research methods, exploring the most important problems of this community and new historical plots. The main object of this research in 2020 was the development of the Lithuanian Old Believers’ Church from 1918 to 1945.

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

During the project materials were gathered and studied in the Jagiellonian Library (Jagiellonian University), two presentations prepared; two articles prepared and presented for publication.

Main publication:

Troskovaitė, D. The Karaite communities: harnessing the multi-lingual linguistic strategies for nationalism. Folia Toruniensia. 2020, 20: 73–89.

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

Old Believers Research Commission of the International Committee of Slavists
Torun Mikołaj Kopernik University (Poland)
Institute of Social Research (Lithuania)
National Minorities Department under the of Lithuania Republic Government (Lithuania)

OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Assoc. Prof. G. Potašenko –

Dr D. Troskovaitė –

  • member of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies;
  • member of the European Association of Jewish Studies;
  • member of the World Union for Jewish Studies.

BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD

  • Assoc. Prof. G. Potašenko. Lithuanian Old Believers 1918–1940: Construction of New Churches and Main Architectural Features. International online conference Polish East Slavs: Language, Literature, Cultural Contacts, Olsztyn (Poland).

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).

MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

Project Unknown History of Lithuanian Karaites - Secrets of Regional History and a permanent exposition In the Footsteps of Karaim History, Naujamiestis Cultural Centre Gallery, Panevėžys district (Dr D. Troskovaitė).