Faculty of Philology
5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7205
E-mail:
Dean – Prof. Dr Mindaugas Kvietkauskas (since August 2023), Prof. Dr Inesa Šeškauskienė (until August 2023)
STAFF
282 teachers (incl. 169 holding research degree), 11 research fellows (incl. 9 holding research degree).
INSTITUTE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Department of Lithuanian Language
Department of Lithuanian Studies
Centre for Multilingual Studies
INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH, ROMANCE AND CLASSICAL STUDIES
Department of Classical Philology
Department of English Philology
Department of French Philology
Department of Italian Linguistics and Literature
INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Department of Foreign Language Teaching and Research
Department of Research in Languages for Specific Purposes
Department of Romance Linguistics
Media Linguistics Centre
INSTITUTE FOR THE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF THE BALTIC
Department of Baltic Studies
Department of German Philology
Department of Slavic Studies
Centre for General Linguistics
Centre for Polish Studies
Centre for Scandinavian Studies
INSTITUTE FOR LITERARY, CULTURAL AND TRANSLATION STUDIES
Department of Lithuanian Literature
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies
A.J. Greimas Centre for Semiotics and Literary Theory
Centre for Studies in Comparative Literature
RESEARCH AREAS
• Lithuanian Studies: Philological, Cultural and Interdisciplinary Aspects. Research and Development
• Multilingual Discourses: Linguistics, Literature, Culture
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS MAINTAINED IN 2023
1. Diana Burbienė. (Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty). Expressing relative time in Russian and Lithuanian
2. Eleonora Terleckienė. Cultural Environment of Nicholas Christopher Radziwiłł “the Orphan” (1549–1616) and the Process of Catholic Renewal in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
3. Tomas Riklius Formation of Baroque Aesthetic Categories in the Post-Tridentine Aesthetic Theory Treatises
4. Gintarė Bidlauskienė. The Text & the City: Spaces of Vilnius in Lithuanian Literature and Poetical Documentary Film of the Second Half of the 20th Century
5. Veslava Sidaravičienė. Trends of forming unofficial urban place names of Vilnius in the language of Lithuanian youth
6. Jūratė Jasaitytė (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore). The reception of the works of Rainer Maria Rilke in the Lithuanian literature
7. Julija Šabasevičiūtė. Contrastive Lithuanian-Italian chromonymy
8. Dalia Pinkevičienė. Social meanings of mixed speech: a study of four work environments in Vilnius
MAIN CONFERENCES ORGANIZED IN 2023
1. International conference “The Urban Cultural Space: Baltic Narratives”, Vilnius University, May 29-30, 2023. https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/tarptautine-moksline-konferencija-miesto-kulturos-erdve-baltiskieji-naratyvai
2. The 20th Salos Summer School of Linguistics Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Vigesima , Salos, Rokiškis District, July 23-29, 2023. https://www.academiasalensis.org/en
3. Linguistics Colloquium 58 “Linguistic Diversity in the World and for the World”, Vilnius University, September 20-22, 2023. https://www.lingcoll58.flf.vu.lt/en/
4. International conference “Kitab Studies – Research Methodology and Source Editing”, Vilnius University, October 5-6, 2023.
https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/tarptautine-moksline-konferencija-kitabistika-tyrimu-metodologija-ir-saltiniu-publikavimas
5. International conference “Italia(nistica) e Baltico orientale” (Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme ID number: 2022-1-LT01-KA131-HED-000057140-1, Vilnius University, Faculty of Philology, October 23-27, 2023. https://www.filologiaitaliana.flf.vu.lt/in-rilievo/locandina-slim-2023-piccola/
MAIN SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2023
1. Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilius Bartninkas received the State Independence Scholarship, awarded by the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, 2023
2. Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilius Bartninkas received Rector’s award to the young scientists for significant achievements in science, 2023
3. Prof. Dr Habil. Evalda Jakaitienė received P. Būtėnas and A. Kazickienė’s Memorial Prize.
4. Assist. Prof. Dr Pavel Lavrinec was awarded the medal of the Order "For Merit to Lithuania" by the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda.
https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/doc-dr-pavelas-lavrinecas-apdovanotas-ordino-uz-nuopelnus-lietuvai-medaliu
5. Prof. Dr Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, received the Prize of Vilnius Mayor for creative work for and about Vilnius, International Poetry Spring Festival, 25 May 2023.
6. Assist. Prof. Dr J. Ž. Raškevičiūtė-Andrikonienė received the Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas’ Prize, established by the Lithuanian Writers' Union, the Lithuanian Journalists' Union, and the National Association of Journalists.
7. Assoc. Prof. Dr Diego Ardoino was awarded the Order of the Star of Italy (Ordine della Stella d’Italia).
https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/vu-filologijos-fakulteto-docentui-dr-diego-ardoino-suteiktas-italijos-respublikos-zvaigzdes-ordinas-2
INSTITUTE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Universiteto g. 5, LT–01513 Vilnius
E-mail:
Director – Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilma Zubaitienė (since September 2023), Prof. Dr Meilutė Ramonienė
DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE
5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 7212
http://www.flf.vu.lt/
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilma Zubaitienė, Prof. Dr Vytautas Kardelis (since September 2023)
STAFF
Professors: Dr Habil. E. Jakaitienė (emerita), Dr V. Kardelis, Dr I. Smetonienė.
Associate professors: Dr E. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Dr G. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, Dr A. Smetona, Dr E. Švageris, Dr V. Zubaitienė.
Assistant professors: Dr M. Smetona, Dr A. Valotka (part-time).
Lecturers: K. Bredelis, L. Laužikas.
Doctoral students: S. Kietytė, A. Kuliešienė
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Synchronic and diachronic Lithuanian grammar
• Phonetics and phonology of standard Lithuanian and Lithuanian dialects
• Morphology, lexicology, word formation, lexicography, semantics and syntax, terminology of standard Lithuanian
• Rhetorics, stylistics, text analysis, academic discourse
• Dialectology, general linguistics, cognitive linguistics, ethnolinguistics
• Historical grammar of Lithuanian, history of written Lithuanian
• Standard Lithuanian: attitudes and usage
• Methodology of teaching the Lithuanian language
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Synchronic and Diachronic Research of Phonological, Lexical, and Grammatical System of the Lithuanian Language. Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Zubaitienė. 2023–2026. The aim is to investigate phonetics, lexis, semantics, and grammar of the Lithuanian language, its systematic variability, variation and interaction, the relation of Lithuanian vocabulary and grammar to usage, and the differences between spoken and written Lithuanian.
Main publications:
1. Smetona, A. 2023. Laisvė kalbėti neapykantos kalba [Hate Speech and the Freedom to Use it]. Prace Bałtystyczne. Język – Literatura – Kultura, 8: 45–56. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. http://baltystyka.uw.edu.pl/?page_id=663
2. Smetona, M., Smetonienė, A. 2023. Lietuvos, lietuvių ar lietuviškas skalikas: termino pavadinimų vartojimo problematika [‘Lietuvos’, ‘lietuvių’, or ‘lietuviškas skalikas’: Problems of Using Dog Breed Names]. Terminologija, 30: 72–94.
National Research Projects
Lithuanian Particles and Discourse Structure from a Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective. (S-MIP-21-18). Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Ruskan, Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Šolienė. 2021–2024. The project aims to provide a thorough synchronic and diachronic account of Lithuanian particles belonging to different semantic classes. It focuses on the role of particles in discourse structure, establishes the connection between particles and different units of discourse, and examines the formation and development of particles within the processes of (inter)subjectification and lexicalisation, as well as specifying the status of particles in Lithuanian grammar based on a unifying methodology and new theoretical frameworks. The study combines qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis.
Main publication:
1. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, E. 2023. Response particles in Lithuanian conversation and turn design. Language: Codification, Competence, Communication, 9: 26–44.
Text Cohesion in Scientific Texts: a Corpus-Based Analysis of the Usage and Functions of Linking Devices. Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Zubaitienė. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Volungevičienė, PhD student A. Kuliešienė. 2022–2024. The aim of the project is to investigate the frequency, structure, lexical environment, and multifunctionality of linking words in various Lithuanian scientific texts, identifying their logical semantic groups, as well as through comparison with their English and German counterparts.
Concepts DEMOCRACY, PATRIOTISM, TOLERANCE and the Analysis of Their Antonyms and Synonyms. Prof. Dr I. Smetonienė. Participants: Assist. Prof. Dr M. Smetona, Prof. Dr Kristina Rutkovska. 2022–2024. The project aims to ascertain to what extent the meanings of words from other languages have changed in the Lithuanian context and what Lithuanians include in the concepts of DEMOCRACY, PATRIOTISM, and TOLERANCE. The research allows us to understand what a nation lives by, what it adopts as new and makes its own, what it rejects, and what it ignores.
Projects with students
ChatGPT and the possibilities of creating dictionary articles in Lithuanian and German. Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr V. Zubaitienė. Researcher: BA student K. Pavydytė, July 2023 - August 2023. [Nr. P-SV- 23-435. Development of research competence of scientists, other researchers and students through practical research activities].
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Institute of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Poland)
University of Bern (Switzerland)
University of Pisa (Italy)
Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań)
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė
• executive secretary of the linguistic research journal Lietuvių kalba. https://www.journals.vu.lt/lietuviu-kalba/about/editorialTeam
• member of the international association of European linguists “Societas Linguistica Europaea” (SLE)
• Assoc. Prof. Dr G. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė
• member of the international association of European linguists “Societas Linguistica Europaea” (SLE)
• member of Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC)
• member of the Lithuanian Atlas Linguarum Europae National Committee
Prof. Dr V. Kardelis
• editorial board member of the journal Baltistica, http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/about/editorialTeam;
• editorial board member of the journal Lietuvių kalba, https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/lietuviu-kalba/about/editorialTeam
Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Smetona
• editorial board member of the journal Lietuvių kalba, https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/lietuviu-kalba/about/editorialTeam
• editorial board member of the journal Gimtoji kalba
Prof. Dr I. Smetonienė
• editor-in-chief of the journal Lietuvių kalba
• http://www.lietuviukalba.lt/index.php/lietuviu-kalba/about/editorialTeam
Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Zubaitienė
• editorial board member of the journal Bendrinė kalba, http://www.bendrinekalba.lt/?English
• editorial board member of the journal Gimtoji kalba
• member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics, https://litaka.lt/en/about-us/members/
• chair of the Lithuanian Language Society
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, E. On the formal and functional ambiguity of Lithuanian particle clusters. NORDISCO (The 7th Nordic Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourse and Interaction), Tampere University, Finland, November 15–17, 2023. https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2023/11/c0b4104a-nordisco-abstraktivihko.pdf
2. Švageris, E. Some phonetic aspects concerning prosodic element interaction in Baltic languages. FiNo 2023 (Phonology in the Nordic Countries). Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, January 19–20, 2023.
3. Kuliešienė, A.; Zubaitienė, V. Modal connectors conveying doubt in the discourse of humanities and social sciences. 58. Linguistisches Kolloquium / Linguistics Colloquium 58 / 58e Colloque international de linguistique. Sprachenvielfalt in der Welt und für die Welt / Linguistic Diversity in the World and for the World / La diversité linguistique dans le monde et pour le monde. September 20–22, Vilnius University, 2023. https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/proceedings/article/view/33172/31794
5. Smetonienė, I.; Smetona, M. Antonyms of democracy in the Lithuanian language. 5th International Conference "Values in the Worldview of Lithuanian and Polish Languages. Cultural aspects of textology. Text-Textema-Context". September 7–9, Vilnius University, 2023. http://www.kulturinelingvistika.flf.vu.lt/lt/seminarai5.php
MOST IMPORTANT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS RECEIVED FOR R&D ACTIVITIES
Prof. Dr Habil. Evalda Jakaitienė received P. Būtėnas and A. Kazickienė’s Memorial Prize.
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES
Prof. Dr I. Smetonienė, Prof. Dr V. Kardelis, Assoc. Prof. V. Zubaitienė
• experts of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Prof. Dr V. Kardelis
• expert of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport
Assoc. Prof. Dr G. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė
• member of the scientific committee of the 28th international scientific conference of Jonas Jablonskis Language and the Times: Representations of the Person, Generation and Society in Language. https://lki.lt/28-oji-tarptautine-moksline-jono-jablonskio-konferencija-kalba-ir-laikmetis-asmens-kartos-visuomenes-reprezentacijos-kalboje/
Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Švageris
• member of the scientific committee of the 8th international scientific conference Phonology in the Nordic Countries (FiNo). https://fonologiinorden.wordpress.com/blog/
Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Zubaitienė
• member of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. https://vlkk.lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/komisija. Chairperson of the Lexicography Subcommittee of the State Lithuanian Language Commission; Member of the Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation and Textbook Evaluation Subcommittees of the State Lithuanian Language Commission. https://vlkk.lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/komisija/pakomises
Dr Marius Smetona
• expert in the 55th contest of Lithuanian Young Philologists
• Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Zubaitienė
• members of the panel of the Lithuanian language and literature contest of Lithuanian and foreign Lithuanian schools (Lithuanian centre of non-Formal youth education).
CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES
L. Laužikas and Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Smetona
• experts of the Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics.
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, G. Main organizer of the distance learning cycle for upper secondary school students and their teachers Discoveries in Lithuanian Studies. March-December.
2. Švageris, E. Organizer and moderator of the distance learning cycle for upper secondary school students and their teachers Discoveries in Lithuanian Studies. Classes delivered by, Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Prof. Dr L. Vilkienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Kmita, Dr Justina Bružaitė-Liseckienė, Prof. Dr Edmundas Trumpa. January-June.
3. Smetona, M. Organizer and moderator of the distance learning cycle for upper secondary school students and their teachers Discoveries in Lithuanian Studies. Classes delivered by Dr I. Snukiškienė, Dr Egidijus Zaikauskas, Assoc. Prof. Dr Galina Miškinienė, Prof. Dr Brigita Speičytė. September-December.
4. Smetonienė, I. 4 radio programmes on language. (LRT).
5. Smetona, A. 14 radio and TV programmes on language. (LRT, TV3, LNK).
6. Smetona, M. research dissemination articles in the journal Pasaulio lietuvis: Patriotizmas šiandien nemadingas. Ar tai tiesa? [Patriotism is unfashionable today. Is it true?] https://pasauliolietuvis.lt/patriotizmas-siandien-nemadingas-ar-tai-tiesa/
DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN STUDIES
5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 7214
E-mail:
http://www.lsk.flf.vu.lt/
Head – Prof. Dr Loreta Vilkienė, Assist. Prof. Dr Eglė Gudavičienė (since September 2023)
STAFF
Professors: Dr M. Ramonienė, Dr L. Vilkienė.
Associate professor: Dr I. Hilbig.
Assistant professors: Dr J. Bružaitė-Liseckienė, Dr E. Gudavičienė, Dr K. Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, Dr D. Litvinskaitė, Dr E. Vaisėtaitė-Žiūkė, Dr A. Valančiauskienė, Dr E. Žurauskaitė.
Lecturers: I. Ancevičiūtė, D. Katinaitė, V. Našlėnaitė-Eberhardt, R. Migauskienė, E. Petrašiūnienė, V. Stumbrienė, A. Tamošaitienė, L. Vaškevičienė.
Doctoral students: I. Daraškienė, A. Meškerevičiūtė, A. Teresė.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Methodology of teaching the Lithuanian language
• Language usage, teaching and learning
• Teaching second / foreign languages
• Learning second / foreign languages
• Language acquisition
• Language attrition
• Sociolinguistics
• Linguistic pragmatics
• Discourse analysis
• Language testing
• Sign language
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Language Usage, Language Learning, and Teaching. Prof. Dr M. Ramonienė. 2023–2026.
The project aims at the analysis of language/dialect usage, language attitudes, language acquisition, language learning and teaching, language policy, the language of the diaspora, the sociolinguistic situation in Lithuania, socially significant changes in the use of Lithuanian and local vernaculars, and evolving levels of multilingualism. Papers, as well as conference presentations for both national and international conferences, were prepared.
Main publications:
1. Bružaitė-Liseckienė, J. 2023. Vilniaus universiteto studentų iš užsienio šalių motyvacija mokytis lietuvių kalbos kaip svetimosios [The motivation of the Foreign Students of Vilnius University to Learn Lithuanian as a Second Language]. In: I. Hilbig, K. Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, I. Daraškienė, E. Žurauskaitė (eds) Terp taikamosios kalbotėros barų: mokslinių straipsnių rinkinys profesorės Meilutės Ramonienės jubiliejui. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 131–151. https://doi.org/10.15388/vup-book-0037
2. Žurauskaitė, E. 2023. Lietuvos ir JAV politikų debatuose taikomos nemandagumo strategijos [Impoliteness strategies applied in political debates in Lithuania and USA]. In: I. Hilbig, K. Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, I. Daraškienė, E. Žurauskaitė (eds) Terp taikamosios kalbotėros barų: mokslinių straipsnių rinkinys profesorės Meilutės Ramonienės jubiliejui Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 197–212. https://doi.org/10.15388/vup-book-0037
Project Supported by European Commission
MotherNet (Developing a New Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood) (H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2018-Twinning www.mothernet.eu). Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan, Vilnius University (Lithuania), Uppsala University (Sweden), Maynooth University (Ireland). M. Ramonienė, I. Hilbig (2020–2023)
Other International Projects
Project Supported by Erasmus+ programme
Get Ready for School: App-based Vocabulary Training for Families (2021-1-DE02-KA220-ADU-000029642). K. Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, E.Vaisėtaitė-Žiūkė. (2021–2024)
This project aims to address the language preparation needs of preschool children from migrant families, providing parents with tools to foster their children’s language competence and readiness for school. As part of the project, a comprehensive platform will be developed, serving as a central hub for parents and teachers. This platform will focus on promoting multilingualism and fostering intercultural learning. Additionally, an e-learning app will be created, featuring modules that target vocabulary and language preparation for school. The app will be accessible in four languages - German, Lithuanian, Polish, and Slovenian.
Spoken Easy Language for Social Inclusion (2022-1-SI01-KA220-ADU-000087852 ).
J. Bružaitė-Liseckienė (2022–2024)
This project aims to empower members of society with diverse needs and promote inclusion in society. The main objective of the project is to develop methodological tools for the use of spoken language that is easy to understand. Spoken, easy-to-understand language is important for people with fewer opportunities, in particular people with cognitive and similar disabilities, immigrants (e.g. war refugees). The project will first assess the needs and resources available in the partner countries for spoken accessible language. Based on this assessment of needs and resources, recommendations for spoken intelligible language will be developed. The recommendations will be tested in the three project partner countries. Based on the feedback from the testing of the guidelines, an online methodological tool for learning to communicate in spoken, easy-to-understand language will be developed in all languages of the partner countries.
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Institute for Early Childhood Education and Development (Germany)
Inter-kulturo Ltd (Slovenia)
Kultur- und Bildungsprojekte (Germany)
Österreich Institut GmbH (Austria)
The Swedish Dyslexia Association “Dyslexiförbundet” (Sweden)
The Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Latvia (Latvia)
Trieste University (Italy)
University of the National Education Commission, Krakow (Poland)
Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assist. Prof. Dr E. Gudavičienė, Assist. Prof. Dr K. Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, Assist. Prof. Dr E. Žurauskaitė
• members of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt; http://litaka.lt/en/apie-mus-2/nariai-2/.
Assist. Prof. Dr J. Bružaitė-Liseckienė
• member of EALTA;
• member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt; http://litaka.lt/en/apie-mus-2/nariai-2/.
Assoc. Prof. Dr I. Hilbig
• member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt; http://litaka.lt/en/apie-mus-2/nariai-2/;
• HaBilNet (Harmonious Bilingualism Network)
E. Petrašiūnienė
• member of EALTA;
• member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt; http://litaka.lt/en/apie-mus-2/nariai-2/.
Prof. Dr M. Ramonienė
• member of the joint Doctoral Committee of Ethnology (Vilnius University, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Lithuanian Academy of Music);
• member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt; http://litaka.lt/en/apie-mus-2/nariai-2/;
• editor-in-chief of the journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, http://taikomojikalbotyra.lt/en;
• reviewer for the journals Studies of the Transition States and Societies, Philologia Estonica Tallinnensis, World Englishes, Language Policy.
Assist. Prof. Dr A. Valančiauskienė
• member of Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, USA;
• members of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association, www.litaka.lt; http://litaka.lt/en/apie-mus-2/nariai-2/.
Prof. Dr L. Vilkienė
• member of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Association (LITAKA), www.litaka.lt; http://litaka.lt/en/apie-mus-2/nariai-2/;
• reviewer for the journal Taikomoji kalbotyra;
• editorial board member of the journal Gimtoji kalba.
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Ramonienė, M. Language management in Lithuanian diaspora families. International Congress AILA 2023 „Diversity and social cohesion in a globalized world: towards more committed language sciences“. Lion, France, 17–21 July 2023.
2. Ramonienė, M. Home language maintenance in Lithuanian diaspora: the role of emotions. International conference „Research on Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Developement“ (HOLM 2023). Tallinn, Estonia. 14–16 December 2023.
3. Hilbig, I. How disharmonious bililngualism in migration is related to the Lithuanian motherhood script? (with co-authors E. Kačkutė, V. Kazlauskienė). International conference „Research on Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Developement“ (HOLM 2023). Tallinn, Estonia. 14-16 December 2023.
4. Žurauskaitė, E. Impoliteness in electoral debates in Lithuania and USA: some insights using integrative pragmatics approach. International 14th (im)politeness symposium „(Im)Politeness studies: new frontiers, synergies and perspectives“. Madeira, Portugal. 3-5 July 2023.
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES
Prof. Dr M. Ramonienė
• a member of the Onomastics Subcommittee of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language;
• expert of the Research Council of Lithuania;
• expert of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language.
Prof. Dr L. Vilkienė
• expert of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language.
CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES
1. Bružaitė-Liseckienė, J. Lecture on Easy Language and training for employees of state institutions (organized by Department of Disability Affairs under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour): 15 February (Utena), 21 March (Kaunas), 22 March (Vilnius), 19 April (Alytus), 25 April (Vilnius), 10 May and 31 May (Vilnius).
2. Bružaitė-Liseckienė, J. Online lecture on Easy Language and training for librarians (organized by Vilnius County Adomas Mickevičius Public Library), 3-4 April 2023.
Migauskienė, R. Training for Lithuanian Language proficiency examiners (organized by National Agency for Education (NŠA)). 16-17 March 2023.
3. Vaškevičienė, L. Online lecture on practical Lithuanian Language grammar „Kas neparašyta gramatikoje: iš lietuvių kalbos kaip svetimosios mokymo patirties“ for Lithuanian Language teachers (organized by State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (VLKK)). 24 May 2023.
4. Tamošaitienė, A. Online lecture „Sangrąžinių veiksmažodžių slenksčiai“ for Lithuanian Language teachers (organized by State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (VLKK)). 23 October 2023.
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
2 research dissemination articles in the journal “Gimtoji kalba”:
• Mankevičius, E., Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, K. „Mokytojų nuostatos tarmių atžvilgiu“. Gimtoji kalba 2023, Nr. 12 (666), 8–16.
• Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, K., Mankevičius, E. „Mokytojų nuostatos bendrinės kalbos atžvilgiu“. Gimtoji kalba 2023, Nr. 2 (668), 3–13.
1 research dissemination article in a LRT portal “Pasaulio lietuvis”:
• Vilkienė, L. „Lietuvių kalba Rusijos Saratovo srityje“ (4 April 2023). https://pasauliolietuvis.lt/lietuviu-kalba-rusijos-saratovo-srityje/
TV and radio interviews:
• Hilbig, I. ‘When bilingual children do not speak the minority language’. In Ute’s International Lounge, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiFALC9OGyM
• Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, K. 2023. ‛Jolita Blyžytė: Mane motyvuoja tie keisti klausimai apie lietuvių kalbą’. In Pasaulio lietuvis, https://pasauliolietuvis.lt/mane-motyvuoja-tie-keisti-klausimai-apie-lietuviu-kalba/
• Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, K. 2023. ‛Cea Cea Moller, Wlodzimierz Scieszko: Proto mankšta: galūnės, priešdėliai, dalyviai, pusdalyviai...’. In Pasaulio lietuvis, https://pasauliolietuvis.lt/proto-manksta-galunes-priesdeliai-dalyviai-pusdalyviai/
• Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, K. 2023. ‛Kovas Juan Luksas: Mano visi aštuoni proseneliai buvo lietuviai’. In Pasaulio lietuvis, https://pasauliolietuvis.lt/mano-visi-astuoni-proseneliai-buvo-lietuviai
• Gudavičienė, E. ‘Mano anūkės nekalba lietuviškai’. In XFM radio, bernardinai.lt, https://www.bernardinai.lt/kai-anukes-nekalba-lietuviskai/?fbclid=IwAR0RmMzX-ayanLrcSxNejENfe37R807S6j-7Lo33n-AsiaEs_Vc9j0QTtPQ)
• Vilkienė, L. ‘Apie kalbinę Kazachstano lietuvių tapatybę’. In a podcast Kalba kalba. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hh4M7g8o8B6hLtydugw0r?go=1&sp_cid=7951191531efe854dfd05d96d3f22c37&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1
• Stumbrienė, V. ‘Kas, kur ir kaip kitakalbiams įteiks patogesnio gyvenimo ratą?’. In DELFI.lt, https://www.delfi.lt/uzsakomasis-turinys/aktualijos/kas-kur-ir-kaip-kitakalbiui-iteiks-patogesnio-gyvenimo-rakta-95362423
Discussions:
Ramonienė, M. Participation in a discussion on the 35th anniversary of the Lithuanian language ‘(Ne)reikalinga lietuvių kalba’ (Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania). 16 November 2023.
Stumbrienė, V. Participation in online Language forum ‘Kaip padėti kitakalbiui įtvirtinti lietuvių kalbos įgūdžius? Ar egzistuoja receptas?’ (organized by State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (VLKK)). 13 December 2023. https://www.youtube.com/live/SfIz3MH0jCg?si=YWvxBTsrdBprP8OZ&t=22
CENTRE FOR MULTILINGUAL STUDIES
Universiteto g. 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
E-mail:
Head – Prof. Dr Inesa Šeškauskienė
STAFF
Professors: Dr I. Šeškauskienė.
Associate professors: Dr J. Cibulskienė, Dr R. Juknevičienė, Dr K. Geben, Dr V. Kazlauskienė, Dr E. Petronienė (part-time), Dr L. Vilkaitė-Lozdienė.
Assistant professors: Dr M. Stasilo, Dr I. Stasiūnaitė.
Lecturers: D. Bogdanovič, D. Sroda, M. Talačka (part-time), O. Valentjeva (part-time).
Doctoral students: R. Udes.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Applied linguistics
• Cognitive linguistics: metaphor, space, humour
• Semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis
• Contrastive linguistics
• Language for specific purposes (academic, legal)
• Sociolinguistics
• Learner corpus research
• Psycholinguistics
• Second language acquisition
• Vocabulary and phraseology
• Second language teaching
• Vocabulary and phraseology
• Second language teaching
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2022
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Lexicon and Discourse: Semantics, Idiomaticity, Vocabulary. Principal investigator: Prof. I. Šeškauskienė, participants: Dr J. Cibulskienė, Dr R. Juknevičienė, Dr V. Kazlauskienė, Dr I. Stasiūnaitė, Dr L. Vilkaitė-Lozdienė. 2023–2026.
The Project aims at investigating numerous lexical aspects of languages: the meaning of a word and a phrase, phraseology and collocations, lexicographic problems, lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects of different discourses (legal, academic, public and mass media, humour, learner, etc.) in one language or across several languages.
The task for 2023 focused on the following: 1) metaphoricity in different types of discourse, mainly political, media and multimodal discourse; 2) irony in public discourse from a cross-cultural perspective; 3) stance from a cross-cultural perspective in legal discourse; 4) collocations and lexical bundles in learner language; 5) discourse strategies of non-native speakers; 6) native language vocabulary of emigrants; 7) space from a cognitive point of view.
Main publications:
1. Cibulskienė, J. 2023. Scepticism voiced through extended metaphors: Assessment of higher education reform in the media. Metaphor and the Social World 24: 197–220.
2. Kazlauskienė, V. Combinatoire collocationnelle et linguisti0que de corpus dans l’apprentissage lexical du FLE. Academic Journal of Modern Philology, 2023. 20: 95–106.
Research into the Society, Language and Culture in Northern and Middle Europe. Principal investigator: Assoc. Prof. I. Steponavičiūtė–Aleksiejūnienė, participant Dr K. Geben. 2023–2026.
Language Usage, Language Learning and Teaching. Prof. M. Ramonienė, participants: Dr K. Geben, Dr V. Kazlauskienė, Dr M. Stasilo. 2023–2026.
Main publication:
1. Geben, K. 2023. Lietuvos lenkų jaunimo kalbinės nuostatos [Language Attitudes of Polish Youth in Lithuania]. In: I. Hilbig, K. Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, I. Daraškienė, E. Žurauskaitė (eds) Terp taikamosios kalbotėros barų: mokslinių straipsnių rinkinys profesorės Meilutės Ramonienės jubiliejui. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 29–41.
International Research Projects
International EU project COST Action CA19102 Language in the Human Machine Era (LITHME). Coordinator: Dr D. Sayers, University of Jyväskylä. www.lithme.eu. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr K. Geben, Assist. Prof. Dr I. Stasiūnaitė. 2020–2024.
EC Project Relating language curricula, tests and examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference (RELANG). Coordinated by the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) in Graz (Austria). Funded by the European Commission. Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Juknevičienė. https://relang.ecml.at/
EC project MotherNet (952366-WIDESPREAD-05-2020 H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5) Developing a new Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood Activity / European Commission—Research Executive Agency—European Union’s Horizon 2020). Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan, Vilnius University (Lithuania), Uppsala University (Sweden), Maynooth University (Ireland). Researcher: Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Kazlauskienė. 2020–2023.
Erasmus+ project. Spoken Easy language for Social Inclusion (SELSI). Coordinated by NGO Zavod Risa (Slovenia). Partners: Vilnius University (Lithuania), University of Trieste (Italy), University of Pavia (Italy), Latvian Language Agency Vieglās valodas aģentūra (Latvia), Centre for Information Gathering and Dissemination Informacijos kaupimo ir sklaidos centras (Lithuania), Association for People with Reading, Writing and Counting Difficulties Dyslexiförbundet (Sweden), public broadcasting company RTV Slovenia (Slovenia). Researcher: Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Vilkaitė-Lozdienė.
EC project The peculiarities of the phraseology of English from a contrastive perpective. Principal investigator: Ramón Martí Solano, University of Limoge (France). Participants: Assoc. Prof. R. Juknevičienė, Prof. I. Šeškauskienė. More than 60 participants from about 20 countries. Full list is available here: https://www.unilim.fr/ceres/projets-internationaux/the-peculiarities-of-the-phraseology-of-english-from-a-contrastive-perspective/the-peculiarities-of-the-phraseology-of-english-from-a-contrastive-perspective-members/
Other Projects
National Education Agency. Development and Implementation of Digital Teaching/Learning Content: National Curriculum and Supporting Materials (No 09.2.1-ESFA-V-726-03-0001). Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Juknevičienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Petronienė. October 2022–May 2023.
Vilnius University.
Optimising the Network of Higher Education Institutions of Lithuania and Improving the Quality of Studies when Integrating Šiauliai University into Vilnius University. Project coordinator (Field of Philology): Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Kazlauskienė. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr K. Geben, Assist. Prof. Dr M. Stasilo. Expert: Assoc. Prof. Dr J. Cibulskienė. 2021–2023.
MAIN RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION PARTNERS
Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (Lithuania)
National Agency for Education (Lithuania) (previously, National Examination Centre)
Department of British and North American Studies, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald (Germany)
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Hamar (Norway)
European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz (Austria)
University of Nantes (France)
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest (Hungary)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr J. Cibulskienė
• editorial board member of the journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, https://www.journals.vu.lt/taikomojikalbotyra;
• member of the Programme Committee of the 16th International Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) Metaphor in Public Discourse (Alcala, Spain), June 28–30, 2023, https://raam15.uwb.edu.pl/index.php/programme-committee/;
Assoc. Prof. Dr K. Geben
• administrator of the journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, https://www.journals.vu.lt/taikomojikalbotyra;
Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Juknevičienė
• president and chair of the Board of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics https://litaka.lt/en/contacts-2/
• VU representative at the CLARIN-LT consortium.
Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Kazlauskienė
• member of the Programme Committee of the International Conference Le français en contraste:l angue et culture francophone dans l'espace de la linguistique. Baku University, Azerbaijan;
• member of the National Advisory Group for Cluster 2 Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society. Horizon Europe. European Research Council.
Assist. Prof. Dr M. Stasilo
• chair of the Organizing Committee of the Conference of Teachers of French (in co-operation with Vilnius University; co-organiser: French Institute of the Embassy of France), November 23, 2023.
Prof. Dr I. Šeškauskienė
• editorial board member of the journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, https://www.journals.vu.lt/taikomojikalbotyra;
• member of the Programme committee of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Athens, Greece) August 29 – September 1, 2023, https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2023/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/08/SLE2023_book_of_abstracts_part1.pdf
• member of the Programme Committee of the 16th International Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) Metaphor in Public Discourse (Alcala, Spain), June 28–30, 2023, https://raam15.uwb.edu.pl/index.php/programme-committee/;
• expert of the Research Council of Lithuania;
• member of the National Advisory Group for Cluster 2 Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society. Horizon Europe. European Research Council;
• member of the National Advisory Group for Cluster 3 Civic Security for Society. Horizon Europe. European Research Council;
• member of the Doctoral Committee in the Field of Philology, Vilnius University.
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Cibulskienė, J., I. Šeškauskienė, V. Masiulionytė. Evaluation through metaphorical labels: Is Belarus a cancer of Europe or a country led by a kind old man? 16th International Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) Metaphor in Public Discourse (Alcala, Spain), June 28–30, 2023. https://raam16.com/programme-outline/
2. Geben, K. Język pisarza regionalnego Wojciecha Piotrowicza (polskiego pisarza na Litwie XX wieku). World Congress of Polish Studies. Jagielonian University in Cracow, Poland. July 12–14, 2023. https://skpkrakow.com/program/
3. Kazlauskienė, V. Méthode de FLE : l'image de la maternité à travers le prisme des stéréotypes de genre. 5e Congrés de la commission Asie Pasifique (FIDF) & 18e séminaire régional de recherche francophone (CREFAP/OIF) Plurilinguisme et Interculturel : Les défis de la langue française au 21e sièclei. University of Singapore. December 9-13, 2023.
4. Stasilo, M. Comparaison des expressions figées dans la publicité en France et en Lituanie. International Conference in Slaski University, Katovice, Poland. September 25–27, 2023.
5. Šeškauskienė, I., J. Cibulskienė, V. Masiulionytė. Expressing attitudes through irony. The Belarusian crisis in a cross-cultural perspective. FTL7: 7th International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language. Cognitive, bodily, and Cultural Processes in Figurative Thought and Language. 19-22 September 2023. University of Genoa (Italy).
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Geben, K.: 2 interviews for the Lithuanian national radio and television promoting Polish Studies in Vilnius University
February 10, 2023: Lenkų kalba kaip antroji užsienio kalba: iššūkių keltų pedagogų trūkumas, o knygas tektų siųstis iš Lenkijos: https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/lietuvoje/2/1887453/lenku-kalba-kaip-antroji-uzsienio-kalba-issukiu-keltu-pedagogu-trukumas-o-knygas-tektu-siustis-is-lenkijos?fbclid=IwAR1GTHmVdtFB1yxO0bsf7gJzBAWELENyNgeeZc9m9MwcYbiWuKqxZGCuxZs
2. June 30, 2023: Dr Geben: liczymy na to, że język polski w litewskich szkołach pojawi się jako obcy
https://www.lrt.lt/pl/wiadomosci/1261/2025067/dr-geben-liczymy-na-to-ze-jezyk-polski-w-litewskich-szkolach-pojawi-sie-jako-obcy?fbclid=IwAR3Uztc4iP9pwRfLy1GNUt6EuWm-O59LCTR8wVigZv-a4WTkLzEuc_C_7_E
INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH, ROMANCE AND CLASSICAL STUDIES
Universiteto g. 5, LT–01513 Vilnius
E-mail:
Director – Prof. Dr Jolanta Šinkūnienė (since September 2023), Assoc. Prof. Dr Nijolė Juchnevičienė
DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY
7 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 7220, (+370) 5 268 7221
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilius Bartninkas
STAFF
Professors: Dr F. Eloeva, Dr Habil E. Ulčinaitė (emerita).
Associate professors: Dr M. Adomėnas (part time), Dr V. Ališauskas, Dr V. Bartninkas, Dr M. Čiurinskas (part time), Dr O. Dilytė-Čiurinskienė (part time), Dr N. Juchnevičienė, Dr A. Kučinskienė, Dr M. Strockis, Dr T. Veteikis.
Assistant professors: Dr J. Dikmonienė, Dr A. Jaskelevičius, R. Markevičiūtė (part time), Dr G. Medzvieckaitė (part time), Dr T. Riklius.
Teaching assistants: S. Baliukonis (part time), D. Čitavičiūtė (part time), M. Tamošaitis (part time).
Lecturers: D. Andziulytė, J. Baronienė, P. Garbačiauskas, A. Keturakis (part time), R. Papšytė, S. Paškonytė, K. Svarevičiūtė, I. Štikonaitė, V. Tamulaitytė-Plevokienė (part time).
Doctoral students: S. Baliukonis (since September 2023), V. Butkutė (since September 2023), G. Kelmelytė-Ratniece, S. Knieža, E. Reivytytė, G. Škėmaitė, M. Tamošaitis.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Poetics and cultural context of ancient literature
• Ancient rhetoric, its translation and commentary
• Ancient philosophical tradition and its reception
• History and reception of classical ideas
• Medieval and Renaissance culture
• Early Christian religious and cultural heritage
• Latin and Greek literature in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• Latin culture in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as a factor of political identity
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by University Budget
Classical culture and the Latin and Greek literature of Lithuania: tradition, reception, contexts. Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Juchnevičienė. 2023–2022. The tasks for 2023 were to investigate the models of identity as reflected in Greek and Roman literature, as well as in the writings of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; to continue the research on Greek and Latin rhetorical sources, Greek philosophical tradition and its reception; to investigate Greek and Coptic texts of Early Christianity; and to analyse the poetics of the Classical and Neolatin texts.
Main publications:
1. Bartninkas, V. 2023. Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009322638
2. Bartninkas, V. 2023. Persistent Dissent and Plato‘s Later Theory of Civic Participation, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 40: 415–435 https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340416 3.
3. Riklius, T. 2023. Innovation and fusion: Sarbiewski’s theory of Baroque literary style. In: J. Glomski, G. Manuwald, A. Taylor (eds) Baroque Latinity. Studies in the Neo-Latin Literature of the European Baroque. London: Bloombsury. 69–84.
National Research Projects
The Sources of Ancient Rhetoric. (S-MIP-21-52). The Research Council of Lithuania. Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Kučinskienė. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr T. Veteikis, Dr A. Jaskelevičius. 2021–2024.
Main publications:
1. Markas Tulijus Ciceronas, Oratorius. Iš lotynų kalbos vertė, įvadinį straipsnį ir komentarus parašė Audronė Kučinskienė, Vilnius: VU leidykla, 2023. 440 p., ISBN 978-609-07-0891-0. [Komentarai p. 185–387]
2. Jaskelevičius, A. 2023. Retorika Aleksandrui: tekstas ir intertekstai. Literatūra, 65 (3): 62–75.
Politics of Moderation and Justified Beliefs: The Civic Participation Model in Plato’s Philosophy. (Nr. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-23-0107) The Research Council of Lithuania. Postdoctoral fellow: Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Bartninkas. 2021–2023.
Main publication:
1. Bartninkas, V. 2023. Platoniškoji nuosaikumo politika ir šiuolaikinė pilietinė teorija, Problemos, 104: 74–85. https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.2023.104.6
The Influence of Cultural and Religious Concepts to Ancient Ethics: from Plato to the Stoics. (Nr. P-PAD-23-60). The Research Council of Lithuania. Supervisor of Competitive Doctoral Studentship: Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Bartninkas. 2023–2027, PhD Student Simonas Baliukonis.
Politics and the Problem of its Predictability in Aeschylus Oresteia. (Nr. P-ST-23-126) The Research Council of Lithuania. Internship supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Bartninkas. 2023–2024.
The Genesis of Philosophical Language in the Miletus School: The Premises for Analogy, Metaphor and Terminologisation. (Nr. P-SV-23-445). The Research Council of Lithuania. Internship supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Ališauskas. July–August 2023.
International Research Projects
Developing a New Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood Activity. H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5. Maynooth University, Uppsala University, Vilnius University. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Juchnevičienė, PhD student D. Čitavičiūtė. 2020–2023.
Main publication:
1. Cullhed, S. S., Juchnevičienė, N. 2023. The Ethics of Motherhood in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 63: 401–421. ISSN 2159-3159. https://grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/grbs/article/view/16946/7550
Neo-Latin and Humanist Greek Poetry in the Baltic Region. Coordinator Gregor Vogt-Spira (Philipps-Universität Marburg). Participant and Coordinator of the Lithuanian research group: Assoc. Prof. Dr T. Veteikis. 2019–2023.
Main publication:
1. Veteikis, T. 2023. Greek among other academic disciplines: A case of a handwritten Greek oration from 16th century Lithuania. In: R. Van Rooy, P. Van Hecke, T. Van Hal (eds) Trilingual learning: The Study of Greek and Hebrew in a Latin World (1000–1700). Turnhout: Brepols. 271–301. (Series LECTIO: Studies in the Transmission of Texts & Ideas).
Contractual Research
Creating and Installing Content for Digital Education. (Nr. 09.2.1-ESFA-V-726-03-0001) National Education Agency. Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Kučinskienė. July-November 2023
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Philipps University of Marburg (Germany)
Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
University of Lund (Sweden)
University of Uppsala (Sweden)
University of Maynooth (Ireland)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Universily of Latvia (Latvia)
University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Università di Bologna (Italy)
Thesaurus linguae Latinae Committee (Munich, Germany)
Church Heritage Museum (Lithuania)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Ališauskas
• editorial board member of the scientific periodical Bažnyčios istorijos studijos, https://www.lkma.lt/index.php?id=111;
Assoc. Prof. Dr M. Čiurinskas
• editorial board member of the scientific periodical Senoji Lietuvos literatūra [Early Lithuanian Literature], http://www.llti.lt/lt/senoji_lietuvos_literatura;
• editorial board member of the scientific serial Historiae Lituaniae fontes minores (editing and investigating sources of Lihuanian history), https://etalpykla.lituanistikadb.lt/object/LT-LDB-0001:J.04~2015~1605193476492/J.04~2015~1605193476492.pdf
Prof. Habil. Dr F. Eloeva
• editorial board member of the journal Yearbook for the Greek Studies, University of Minnesota, http://mgs.umn.edu/.
Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Juchnevičienė
• deputy-editor-in-chief of the journal Literatūra and editor of Literatūra 3 (Studies of Ancient Culture and its Reception), http://www.leidykla.vu.lt/inetleid/literatura/htm;
• editorial board member of the journal Keria. Studia Latina et Graeca (Slovene Association of Antique and Humanistic Studies), https://revije.ff.unilj.si/keria/about/editorialTeam;
• editorial board member of the journal Antiquitas Viva (University of Latvia), https://www.apgads.lu.lv/izdevumi/brivpieejas-izdevumi/zurnali-un-periodiskie-izdevumi/antiquitas-viva/about-antiquitas-viva/
Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Kučinskienė
• representative of Lithuania in the Commission of Thesaurus Linguae Latinae http://thesaurus.badw.de/en/organisation/international-commission-for-the-tll.html
Prof. Habil. Dr E. Ulčinaitė (emerita)
• editorial board member of the journal Senoji Lietuvos literatūra [Early Lithuanian Literature], http://www.llti.lt/lt/senoji_lietuvos_literatura/;
• editorial board member of the book series Fontes et studia historiae Universitatis Vilnensis, https://www.vu.lt/studijos/127-apiemus/griztanti-atmintis/nominantai/4207-redaktoriu-kolegija.
BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Bartninkas, V. „Plato’s Economic Experts: Situating Household Management Between Mathematics and Politics“, conference Economic Epistemologies in the Graeco-Roman World, Leiden University 2023/08/26
2. Bartninkas, V. „The Ouranian God in Plato‘s Academy“, colloquium Gods In and Outside the Cosmos in Ancient Religion and Philosophy, The University of St Andrews 2023/06/01
3. Riklius, T. „Reevaluation of Aesthetic Categories in Early Modern Period“, seminar series Latinistik-Kolloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, 2023/12/05
4. Kučinskienė, A., „exprimerem quaedam verba imitando: Cicero’s usage of Greek terms and their Latin equivalents”, conference Antiquitas viva 2023: Encounters across Languages, texts, cultures, University of Latvia, 2023/06/27–28
5. Veteikis, T. „SVCs and other periphrases in Aristotle’s Rhetoric“, conference Support-Verb Constructions in the Corpora of Greek: Between Lexicon and Grammar?, University of Oxford, 2023/09/05-06
MOST IMPORTANT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS RECEIVED FOR R&D ACTIVITIES
• V. Bartninkas, the State Independence Scholarship, awarded by the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, 2023
• V. Bartninkas, Rector’s award to the young scientists for significant achievements in science, 2023
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES
Working Group for the General Programme of Latin Language and Classical Culture. The Ministry of Education, Science, and Sport; National Education Agency. Head of the Working Group: Assoc. Prof. Dr Nijolė Juchnevičienė. Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Kučinskienė. https://www.emokykla.lt/bendrosios-programos/vidurinis-ugdymas/56
Working Group for the Methodical Recommendation for Latin Language and Classical Culture. National Education Agency. Head of the Working Group: Assoc. Prof. Dr Nijolė Juchnevičienė. Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Kučinskienė. https://www.emokykla.lt/metodine-medziaga
Working Group for the Teachers’ Qualifications for Teaching Latin Language and Classical Culture. National Education Agency. Head of the Working Group: Assoc. Prof. Dr Nijolė Juchnevičienė. Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Kučinskienė. https://sena.emokykla.lt/titulinis/renginiai/renginys/18943
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vODUG-XKf0flnf3kPJDVJkp0dziPcqFO2-ZBaPUDAjk/edit
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
• Bartninkas, V., Riklius, T., Ališauskas, V., Kučinskienė, A., Juchnevičienė, N. et al.: Organization and implementation of National Summer School for secondary schools Klasikų akademija (Classical Academy), 28–39 August, 2023 https://www.klasikai.lt/klasiku-akademija-2023/
• Kučinskienė, A., Juchnevičienė, N., Jaskelevičius, A. et al.: Organization and implementation of National Seminar for gymnasium teachers on Classical and Modern Rhetoric, 10 March, 2023 https://www.klasikai.lt/lotynu-kalbos-olimpiados-2023-programa/
• Riklius, T., Ancient knowledge Quiz. In Collaboration with LRT.lt. 24 November, 2023 https://antikosviktorina.lrt.lt./
• Bartninkas, V., Riklius, T.: Classical Ideas for School Children. Vilnius Žirmūnai Gymnasium, Vilnius Jesuit Gymnasium, Klaipėda Žemyna Gymnasium. March-December, 2023
• Bartninkas, V., Riklius, T., Kučinskienė, A.: Classical Ideas in Media and Society. National Radio of Lithuania, Lrt.lt, Spectrum, 15min.lt
• Various dissemination activities of the staff:
• https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000298421/labas-rytas-lietuva-sestadienis-i-d?time_start=4538
https://www.vu.lt/naujienos/spectrum/ar-lietuvai-gresia-isnykimas-2023-ruduo
https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000282811/mazoji-studija-kultura-ir-religija-ar-musu-politiniame-gyvenime-truksta-nuosaikumo?time_start=185
https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000282281/kalbos-rytas?time_start=105
https://www.15min.lt/kultura/naujiena/literatura/meile-ir-filosofija-kaip-apie-ja-maste-platonas-ir-ka-siandien-manytu-apie-platoniskaja-286-2008440?copied
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PHILOLOGY
Universiteto g. 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 7228
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Giedrė Balčytytė (since September 2023), Assoc. Prof. Dr Jolanta Šinkūnienė
STAFF
Professors: Dr A. Samalavičius (part time), Dr J. Šinkūnienė (since September 2023).
Associate professors: Dr G. Balčytytė, Dr D. Castiglione, Dr A. Ruskan, Dr R. Šlapkauskaitė, Dr A. Šolienė .
Assistant professors: Dr L. Bartkuvienė, Dr G. Rosson, Dr L. Stone, Dr J. Urbonaitė.
Teaching assistants: R. Burbaitė (since September 2023), E. Liubertaitė, G. Maslauskienė, D. Zibalas
Lecturers: J. Kasteckienė, J. Šukalova.
Doctoral students: J. Liauksminienė (until June 2023), E. Liubertaitė, G. Maslauskienė, D. Zibalas.
Postdoctoral researcher: Dr E. Gobekci (until August 2023).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Cross-linguistic studies of English and Lithuanian
• Corpus linguistics
• Contrastive syntax and semantics (verb complementation, perception verbs, epistemic modality, semantics of locatives)
• Text and discourse analysis, academic discourse
• Cognitive linguistics
• Contrastive rhetoric: genre analysis
• Phonetic and phonological aspects of English and Lithuanian
• Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP): academic English, English for professional purposes
• Second language acquisition: learner language
• Language and literature: British, Irish, American, and Canadian literature; the stylistic analysis of literary texts
• Literary traditions, their development and transformation in Western European and American works of literature
• Investigation of literary trends, genres, thematic and problematic issues in Western European and American literature
• Textual poetics and its relations to philosophical, aesthetical, and sociological systems
• Intertextuality
• Culture studies: American civilisation, British history and society, Canadian culture, Irish identity
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Germanic and Romance Literary and Cultural Texts. Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Šlapkauskaitė. 2023–2026. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr Dainius Būrė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Rūta Šlapkauskaitė, Assist. Prof. Dr Linara Bartkuvienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Davide Castiglione, Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė, Assist. Prof. Dr Grant Rosson; doctoral students: Eimantė Liubertaitė, Deividas Zibalas, Andrius Ledas, Povilas Birbilas, Jonė-Šulcaitė-Brollo, Greta Štikelytė.
The department (in cooperation with the departments of French and German Philology as well as the Centre for Scandinavian Studies) has been carrying out investigations of literary trends, genres and problems of poetics, the development of literary traditions, the relationship of literary texts with Philosophy, Aesthetics, Psychology, Sociology, and other theoretical systems. Some of the academic staff have been continually doing research in the field of the history of Germanic works of literature and literature in Romance languages and publishing articles on related issues.
Main publications:
1. Samalavičius, A. 2023. Lithuanian Postcolonial Narratives: Culture and Power. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, p. 125. ISBN: 1-5275-1902-3.
2. Šlapkauskaitė, R. 2023. Pro Pele Cutem: On the Subject(s) of Extraction in Fred Stenson’s The Trade. Canadian Literature. Poetics and Extraction, 251: 13–34.
3. Šlapkauskaitė, R. 2023. Waking the Witness and Witnessing the Wake in David Dabydeen’s Turner. In: Macedo, L. (ed.) The Hook of Desire – Slavery and David Dabydeen’s Turner, Hertford: Hansib Publications. 213–237.
4. Zibalas, D. 2023. To Woody Allen’s Rome with Love: Four city profiles. Journal of European Studies, 53 (3): 269–283.
Germanic, Romance and Baltic Language Studies. Prof. Dr J. Šinkūnienė. 2023–2026. Participants: Prof. Dr Vytautas Kardelis, Prof. Dr Julija Korostenskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilma Zubaitienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Giedrė Balčytytė-Kurtinienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Diego Ardoino, Assoc. Prof. Dr Anna Ruskan, Dr Jūratė Navakauskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Audronė Šolienė, Assist. Prof. Dr Vita Valiukienė, Assist. Prof. Dr Justina Urbonaitė, Dr Julija Šabasevičiūtė, doctoral student Greta Maslauskienė.
The linguists of the department carry out this research in close collaboration with their colleagues based at the Department of Italian linguistics and literature, the Department of French Philology, and the Department of the Lithuanian Language. The focus of the research in 2023 was on the synchronic and diachronic analysis of language-specific features characteristic of the grammatical, lexical, and semantic structure of the languages under study. The range of research methods used and theoretical approaches followed varies greatly: from purely descriptive to functional, from cognitive to sociolinguistic, and from quantitative to qualitative analyses of authentic language data.
Main publications:
1. Mėlinskas, A., Šinkūnienė, J. 2023. The winner takes it all: Stance and engagement markers in successful project proposal abstracts funded by ERC. Discourse and Interaction, 16 (2): 98–123.
2. Ruskan, A., Šolienė, A. 2023. Realizations of epistemicity and effectivity in Lithuanian political discourse. In: J. I. Marín Arrese, L. Hidalgo-Downing, J. R. Zamorano-Mansilla (eds) Stance, Inter/Subjectivity and Identity in Discourse. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 101–125.
3. Ruskan, A. 2023. Liliana Ionescu-Ruxandoiu, Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu, Gabriela Stoica, Serban Hartular (Eds.). Attitude and Stance in Discourse. (2022). Book review. Journal of Pragmatics, 204: 67–70.
National Research Projects
Research article abstracts: author stance and structural aspects. The Research Council of Lithuania. Postdoctoral research grant. Postdoctoral fellow: Dr Erika Gobekci.
Main publication:
1. Gobekci, E. 2023. Rhetorical structure and linguistic features of research article abstracts in the humanities: the case of Lithuanian, English, and Russian. Taikomoji kalbotyra, 19: 33–56.
Lithuanian Particles and Discourse Structure from a Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective. The Research Council of Lithuania. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Ruskan, Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Šolienė.
International Research Projects
Developing a new Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood Activity: WIDESPREAD-05-2020 – Twinning. Participants: Assist. Prof. Dr L. Bartkuvienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Šlapkauskaitė.
TEchnology-Mediated PLurilingual Activities for (language) Teacher Education - TEMPLATE. Funded by Erasmus+ Grant. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr G. Balčytytė, lect. J. Kasteckienė.
Stance and Subjectivity in Discourse: Towards an Integrated Framework for the Analysis of Epistemicity, Effectivity, Evaluation and Inter/Subjectivity from a Critical Discourse Perspective. Proyectos de I+D de Generación de Conocimiento, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. Participants: Prof. Dr J. Šinkūnienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Šolienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Ruskan.
Academic Writing in the Baltic States: Rhetorical Structures through Culture(s) and Languages. Funded by Baltic Research Programme. Prof. Dr J. Šinkūnienė. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Ruskan, doctoral student G. Maslauskienė.
Main publication:
1. Ruskan, A, Hint, H., Leijen, D., Šinkūnienė, J. 2023. Lithuanian academic discourse revisited: Features and patterns of scientific communication. Open Linguistics, 9 (1): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0231
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Giessen University (Germany)
University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid University (Spain)
Mainz University (Germany)
University of Greifswald (Germany)
University of Versailles, Paris (France)
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain)
University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
University of Zaragoza (Spain)
University of Granada (Spain)
Lancaster University (UK)
Verona University (Italy)
TransCanadian Networks, La Laguna University (Spain)
BioCriticism Webinar, New Sorbon University (France)
Notre Dame University (Indiana)
Penn State University (Pennsylvania)
University of Texas (Austin)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Castiglione
• secretary of the International Association of Literary Semantics, IALS
• member of the scientific board of the journals Polisemie
• member of the editorial board of the journal Configurazioni
Prof. Dr A. Samalavičius
• editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Architecture and Urbanism (CA, WoS, VGTU Press) https://journals.vilniustech.lt/index.php/JAU/about/editorialTeam;
• editor-in-Chief of Lituanus: the Lithuanian Quaterly (Lituanus Foundation, Chicago) http://www.lituanus.org/main.php?id=about-us;
• editorial board member of the journal Architecture Research (USA) http://www.sapub.org/Journal/editorialboard.aspx?journalid=1043;
• editorial board member of the journal Czas Kultury (Poland) https://czaskultury.pl/english-editorial/;
• editorial board member of the Journal of Architectural Design and Urbanism (Indonesia) https://ejournal2.undip.ac.id/index.php/jadu/about/editorialTeam;
• editorial board member of the journal Mathematics Interdisciplinary Research (Iran) https://mir.kashanu.ac.ir/journal/editorial.board;
• advisory board for Penn State University Press book series Ivan Illich: 21st Century Perspectives https://www.psupress.org/books/series/book_SeriesIllich.html.
• editorial board member of international science journal Symmetry: Culture and Science
Prof. Dr J. Šinkūnienė
• executive board member of ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern & Medieval English), https://icame.info/icame-board/
• co-editor-in-Chief of the journal Kalbotyra (Linguistics), https://www.journals.vu.lt/kalbotyra/about/editorialTeam
• editorial board member of the journal DISCOURSE AND INTERACTION,
https://journals.muni.cz/discourse-and-interaction/about/editorialTeam
• editorial board member of the journal IPERSTORIA,
http://www.iperstoria.it/joomla/redazione/comitato-scientifico;
• editorial board member of the journal ESP TODAY,
https://www.esptodayjournal.org/esp_today_editorial.html
• Member of the Programme Committee of the the 3rd International Conference of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers Languages for Specific Purposes: Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching and Research in Rimske Terme, Slovenia from 18 to 20 May, 2023. https://unjsvu.hr/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/SDUTSJ_First_conference_call_18-20_May_2023_Slovenia.pdf
Assoc. Prof. Dr R. Šlapkauskaitė
• editor-in-Chief of the journal Literatūra (Literature) https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/literatura/about/editorialTeam.
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Šlapkauskaitė, R. Imagining Environmental (In)Justice in Robbie Arnott’s The Rain Heron. York University, Toronto, Canada, 05/27/2023 – 04/06/2023
2. Ruskan, A. On discourse particle clusters in Lithuanian: The case of demonstrative particles. Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus (USA), 24-26/03/2023
3. Balčytytė, G. Plenary presentation The power of music in acquiring the aspects of English connected speech. IATEFL PronSIG Conference 2023 Musical pronunciation: Teaching the production and perception of English prosody, London (UK), 14/10/2023
4. Šinkūnienė, J. 44th International ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) conference, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, 17-21/05/2023
5. Urbonaitė, J. Explanatory metaphors in public discourse on health and fitness. 16th Conference of the Association for Researching and Applying metaphor (RaAM16): Metaphor in Public Discourse, Alcalá de Henares (Spain), 28-30/06/2023
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES
Prof. Dr J. Šinkūnienė
• a member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Committee at the Research Council of Lithuania.
Assoc. Prof. Dr G. Balčytytė, lect. J. Kasteckienė (participants)
• Optimization of the network of higher education institutions and improvement of the quality of studies by merging Šiauliai University and Vilnius University’ No. 09.3.1-ESFA-V-738-03-0001.
Assist. Prof. Dr L. Bartkuvienė
• ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) board member on behalf of Lithuania.
Lect. J. Kasteckienė
• The head of the Assessment Commission for the State Examination in English (in Lithuania)
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Davide Castiglione
• Ideas Block LT, Vilnius (non-for-profit cultural organisation)
• Meridian School, Vilnius, as a judge for VILIPO (Vilnius International Project Olympiad, creative writing)
DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH PHILOLOGY
Universiteto g. 5, LT-01513 Vilnius.
Tel. (8 5) 268 7232
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė
STAFF
Professors:
Associate professors: Dr E. Kačkutė (part time).
Assistant professors: Dr I. Balčiūnė (part time), Dr V. Valiukienė.
Teaching assistants: G. Štikelytė (part time), J. Šulcaitė-Brollo (part time).
Senior Lecturers: Dr J. Navakauskienė (part time).
Lecturers: L. Gulbinaitė (part time), L. Perkauskytė, D. Repeikaitė-Jarmalavičienė.
Doctoral students: J. Šulcaitė-Brollo (on maternity leave).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• French literature, Francophone literature, comparative literature
• Motherhood studies
• Gender studies
• Cultural studies
• Corpus linguistics
• Translation studies
• Postmemory literature
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by University Budget
Germanic, Romance and Baltic Language Studies. Prof. Dr J. Šinkūnienė. 2023–2026. Participants: Assist. Prof. Dr V. Valiukienė, Dr J. Navakauskienė
Main publications:
1. Bogacki, K., Dryjańska, A., Valiukienė, V. 2023. La liberté et le jeu des contraintes dans la construction et la sélection du sens. In Études de linguistique,littérature et art/ Studi di lingua, letteratura e arte (65) (dirigée par Katarzyna Wołowska et Maria Załęska). Entre liberté et contrainte dans la recherche linguistique. Ed. Janusz Bień, Paulina Mazurkiewicz, Katarzyna Wołowska. Peter Lang, p.13-24
National Research Projects
Optimising the network of higher education institutions and improving the quality of studies by merging Šiauliai University with Vilnius University. (09.3.1-ESFA-V-738-03-0001). Lithuanian Ministry of Education, European Social Fund. Creating the Future of Lithuania. Participants: Lect. Lina Perkauskytė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė, lect. Daiva Repeikaitė-Jarmalavičienė, Assist. Prof. Dr Vita Valiukienė.
International Research Projects
Project Supported by European Commission
MotherNet (Developing a New Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood) (H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2018-Twinning www.mothernet.eu). Vilnius University (Lithuania), Uppsala University (Sweden), Maynooth University (Ireland). (2020–2023). Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan. Participants: Dr I. Balčiūnė, J. Šulcaitė-Brollo
Main publications:
1. Šulcaitė-Brollo, J. 2023. Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions. (Book review). Contemporary Women’s Writing, vpac016, https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpac016.
Other international projects
LGBTI+ Social and Economic (in)equalities (LGBTI+). COST Network Action CA19103. 2020-2024. University of York (UK), Institute for Advanced Studies HIS (Austria), Galatasaray University (Romania), Babes-Bolayai University (Turkey) Royall Holloway and Bedford New Colege, University of London (UK), Dipartimento di Economia Marco Biagi (Italy), University of Malaga. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan.
“Need to Connect – NTC”. European Commission, ERASMUS+. Einurð (Iceland), Izobrazevalni center, Geoss d.o.o. (Slovenia), CESIE (Italy), HAPPINESS ACADEMY LTD. (Bulgaria), DUTCH FOUNDATION OF INNOVATION WELFARE 2 WORK (Netherlands), Consultoría de Innovación Social, Spain. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan.
Main publication:
1. Kačkutė, E. 2023. Orality/Aurality and Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Fahroud’s Happiness Has a Slippery Tail. In: H. Wahlström Henriksson, A. Williams, M. Fahlgren (eds) Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 77–92. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_5
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assistant professor Dr Vita Valiukienė
· Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference Linguistics Colloquium 58. Vilnius University, 2023.09.20 – 09.22.
BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Kačkutė, E. “Difficult Choices and Emerging Subjectivities of Highly Educated Expatriate/Migrant Mothers”, Gender, Work & Organization Conference 2023, Gender, Work & Organization Journal, Stellenbosch University. South Africa. 29.06.2023. (online, as part of a hybrid panel)
2. Kačkutė, E. Plenary Lecture “Motherhood and Migration as Personal and Collective Crises”, XIV Summer School of Nordic-Baltic Doctoral Network in Social Work, Vilnius University, 21-25.08.2023
3. Hilbig, I. Kačkutė, E., Kazlauskienė, V. “How disharmonious bilingualism in migration is related to the Lithuanian motherhood script?”, International conference Research on Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development (HOLM 2023) , 13-16.12.2023
4. Valiukienė, V. “Le verbe français voir et la traduction des ses emplois en lituanien et en polonais”, International Conference Linguistics Colloquium 58. Vilnius University, 2023.09.20 – 09.22.
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES
Working Group of Consulting Experts for the Lithuanian Season in France 2024. Lithuanian Culture Institute. Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė
CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė
• Irish State Examinations Commission
• European Commission
• Lithuanian Council for Culture
• Literature Ireland
Lect. Lina Perkauskytė
• European Commission
• Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxemburg
Senior Lect. Jūratė Navakauskienė
• Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxemburg
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Valiukienė, V. International Francophonie Day Event. Screening of a documentary „Éclairer la nuit. Regards poétiques entre Pierre Soulages & Léopold Sédar Senghor“ and a guest lecture by the diplomat and art collector, G. Bosio. Partners: Vilnius University and The National Lithuanian Martynas Mažvydas Library. 2023.03.23. https://www.lnb.lt/renginiai/9739-dokumentinio-filmo-apsviesti-nakti-poetiniai-pierre-o-soulages-o-ir-l-opoldo-s-daro-senghoro-susizvalgymai-perziura-ir-aptarimas
2. Kačkutė, E. Member of a panel discussion following the screening of „Is there Anybody Out There”. Romuva Cinema House, Kaunas, 2023,10.27.
https://nepatoguskinas.lt/2023/renginys/negalia-ir-supergalia-pokalbis-apie-ivairove-ir-motinyste/ (replacing Sigita Valevičienė)
3. Kačkutė, E. Host of a panel discussion following the screening of the film „A life like any other.“ Film Festival “Nepatogus kinas” (Uncomfortable Films), Host of the Discussion Panel following. Forum Cinemas Vingis. 2023.10.20 https://nepatoguskinas.lt/2023/renginys/mamos-kadre-ir-anapus-jo-diskusija-apie-motinystes-ivaizdzius-atvaizdus-ir-tikroves/https://nepatoguskinas.lt/2023/filmas/gyvenimas-kaip-ir-bet-kuris-kitas/
DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
Universiteto g. 5, LT-01122 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 7232
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Diego Ardoino
STAFF
Associate professors: Dr D. Ardoino, Dr D. Būrė, Dr N. di Nunzio (on maternity leave).
Assistant professor: Dr E. Smagina, Dr Š. Šavėla.
Lecturers: L. Bakšytė, D. Butkienė, P. Fertoli, M. Notari, M. Savino, D. Trezzi .
PhD. Student: J. Šabasevičiūtė (PhD. defense: 2023/09/11).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Italian synchronic and diachronic linguistics; Italian dialectology
• Cross-linguistic studies of Italian and Lithuanian
• Italian language teaching
• History of the Italian language
• History of the Italian literature
• Translation studies
• Lexicography
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
PRIN (Progetto di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) 2022 “Old Words for a New World: Translating Christianity to Baltic Pagans” (cod. 20223FZJR4) – CUP I53D23003920006. (2023-2025).
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr Pietro U. Dini (University of Pisa).
Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr Diego Ardoino
Pinocchio International Università per Stranieri di Perugia; Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi; Uniser Pistoia. (2022/03/15-2023/08/31)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Capecchi (Università per Stranieri di Perugia)
Participant: Assoc. Prof. Dr Dainius Būrė.
Other Projects
Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) Italia(nistica) e Baltico orientale (ID number: 2022-1-LT01-KA131-HED-000057140-1), Vilnius Universitety, Faculty of Philology. (2023/10/23-27).
Project coordinators: Assoc. Prof. Dr Diego Ardoino, Dr Julija Šabasevičiūtė
The 7th Dialectological Expedition to Western Liguria (San Bartolomeo al Mare, Bordighera, Andora and Diano Marina). Supported by the Erasmus Traineeship Programme. Partners: Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri (Bordighera (IM)), Circolo culturale "Cà de Pujö" (San Bartolomeo al Mare) and A.s.d. San Matteo (San Bartolomeo al Mare (IM)).
Expedition coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Ardoino.
Participants: J. Šabasevičiūtė, D. Būrė and students of the BA Study Programme of Italian Philology and of the MA Study Programme of Linguistics: Comparative Linguistics (Italian). September 16–23, 2023.
Main publication:
1. Ardoino, D. 2023. L’onda lunga della Riforma in Prussia e il pruteno: contesto sociostorico e linguistico, In: Declinazioni europee del pensiero linguistico, politico e religioso di Lutero (Studia Baltica Pisana 6). Eds. Adriano Cerri, Patrizio Malloggi. Novi Ligure, Joker Edizioni, pp. 69-89.
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Università di Bologna (Italy)
Università per Stranieri di Siena (Italy)
Ordine dei giornalisti della regione Liguria (Italy)
Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri (Bordighera) (Italy)
Italian Cultural Institute of Vilnius (Lithuania)
Italian Embassy in Vilnius (Lithuania)
National museum Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (Lithuania)
Università di Pisa (Italy)
Università per Stranieri di Perugia (Italy)
Università di Torino (Italy)
Riga Technical University (Latvia)
Tallinn University (Estonia)
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano (Italy)
Archivio Storico della Diocesi di Albenga-Imperia (Italy)
Università degli Studi di Milano Statale (Italy)
Società internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino (SISMEL) (Italy)
Consolato onorario della Repubblica di Lituania (Puglia e Basilicata) (Italy)
University of Bern, Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Switzerland)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Ardoino
• Member of the editorial board of the international journal “Lietuvių kalba” eISSN: 1822-525X. https://www.journals.vu.lt/lietuviu-kalba/about/editorialTeam
• Member of the editorial board of the international journal “Kalbotyra” ISSN 1392–1517, Online ISSN 2029–8315. https://www.journals.vu.lt/kalbotyra/about/editorialTeam
• Member of the Center for the Study of Language and Society of the University of Bern.
• Member of the board of the PhD programme DiLLeS “Discipline Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere” (class L-LIN/01 Glottologia e linguistica) University of Pisa.
• Member of the scientific council of the Lietuvių kalbos institutas, Vilnius.
• Responsible person of the Center of Baltic Studies at the Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University of Bern.
Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Būrė
• Editorial board member of the Letteratura italiana antica: rivista annuale di testi e studi (Italy); Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa-Roma;
• editorial board member of the Rivista di letteratura italiana e francese (Italy);
• member of the Commission for the preparation of the Series Viduramžių biblioteka (Medieval Library) published by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore http://www.llti.lt/lt/viduramziu_biblioteka.
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Diego Ardoino On the notion of sustainability: Baltic and Italian languages (Invited speaker). Riga Technical University, XXIII edizione della Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo “In/sostenibile. New words for a sustainable planet. Italian language week in Latvia 2023”,2023/10/16-20. 18/10/2023.
2. Diego Ardoino Linguistic data in and out of their sociohistorical context. A case study within the Baltic languages . Fribourg, Colloque de recherche Slavistique (MA, PhD). 2023/02/28.
3. Dainius Būrė Il sorgere del realismo nella narrativa lituana: i casi di Julija Beniuševičiūtė Žymantienė-Žemaitė (1845 – 1921) e di Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė (1861 – 1943). Verga nel realismo europeo ed extraeuropeo”. Catania, 2023/04/2022.
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Ardoino, D., Šabasevičiūtė, J. (in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Vilnius). Organization and coordination of the 23nd Week of the Italian Language in the World. Vilnius, 2023/10/23-27.
2. Ardoino, D., Šabasevičiūtė, J. (in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Vilnius) .Organization of the stand of the Department of Italian Linguistics and Literature at the Kermesse Italia. Vilnius, 2023/06/03.
INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Universiteto g. 5, LT–01513 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 7266
E-mail:
Director – Prof. Dr Roma Kriaučiūnienė
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Universiteto 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 7272
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Liudmila Arcimavičienė
STAFF
Associate professor: Dr L. Arcimavičienė.
Assistant professors: Dr O. Ivancu, Dr A. Mastandrea, Dr I. Snukiškienė.
Doctoral students: L. Zavadskienė.
Lecturers: R. Burbaitė (until 2023-09-01), A. Dapšienė, L. Giniūnienė, D. Gornatkevičienė, D. Janavičienė, V. Jankauskaitė-Jokūbaitienė, L. Marčiulionytė, D. Pinkevičienė, I. Piščikienė, A. Pranculienė, I. Rozgienė, R. Sirvydė, A. Statkevičienė, D. Straižytė.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Applied Linguistics
• English morphology and semantics
• Foreign language teaching methodology
• Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP): academic English, English for professional purposes
• Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
• Development of students’ linguistic and intercultural competences
• Media and political discourse
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2022
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Teaching and Learning Modern Languages as a Prerequisite for the Development of General and Subject-Specific Competences. Prof. Dr Roma Kriaučiūnienė. 2019–2023. The aim is to investigate possibilities of developing general and subject-specific competencies in the teaching and learning processes of modern languages and to analyse various linguo-didactic phenomena.
Main publications:
1. Arcimavičienė, L. 2023. Leadership Style by Metaphor in Crisis Political Discourse. OpenLinguistics, 9 (1): 2022-0251. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0251.
2. Ivancu, O., Kriaučiūnienė, R., Poštič, S. 2023. Implementation of the Critical Thinking Blended Apprenticeship Curricula and Findings per Discipline: Foreign Language Teaching. Education Sciences, 13: 208. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13020208
3. Jankauskaitė-Jokūbaitienė, V. 2023. The Effectiveness of Video Creation in the ESLClassroom in Lithuania. Rasprave Instituta Za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 49 (2): 255–273. https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.49.2.4
International Research Projects
Think4Jobs Critical Thinking for Successful Jobs. ERASMUS + KA 2 Strategic Partnerships Project (No. 2020-1-EL01-KA203-078797). Project coordinator: University of Western Macedonia, Greece; project partners: Hochschule Emden/Leer, Germany; Academia de studii economice din Bucurestia, Romania; Universidade de Evore, Portugal; Vilnius University, Lithuania. Coordinator of Vilnius University research team: Prof. Dr R. Kriaučiūnienė. Participants: Assist. Prof. Dr O. Ivancu. 2020–2023. https://think4jobs.uowm.gr/
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Göttingen University (Germany)
Leipzig University (Germany)
University of Western Macedonia (Greece)
Adam Mickiewicz University/Poznań (Poland)
University of Turin (Italy)
University of Navarra (Spain)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Arcimavičienė
• member of the Association of Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM), http://www.raam.org.uk/Home.html;
Teaching assistant L. Zavadskienė
• member of the Lithuanian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (LAKMA), www.lakmaonline.lt;
• member of the Language Teachers Association of Lithuania (LKPA), http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa/;
• member of the VU Šiauliai Academy scientific group Teacher education and the processes of teaching and learning;
• scientific committee member of the 8th international conference Linguistic, Educational, and Intercultural Research 2021 (LEIC Research 2021);
• board member of the Language Teachers Association of Lithuania (LKPA), http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt;
• member of the Lithuanian Educational Research Association (LERA), www.lera.lt.
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Arcimavičienė, L., Arcimavičiūtė, L. The narrative patterns of collective emotions in the Lithuanian media discourse: examining war in the news. MediaPsych 2023. 13th Conference of the Media Psychology. September 6-8, 2023. University of Luxembourg. https://melusina-pubs.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/xxx_09_melzer_proceedings/xxx_09_melzer_proceedings.pdf.
2. Straižytė, D. 2023. Word-formation Patterns of Place Nouns (Nomina Loci) in English and Lithuanian: A Case Study of a Novel “Fall Comes From the Forest”. International scientific conference SUSTAINABLE MULTILINGUALISM. Kaunas, Lithuania. https://uki.vdu.lt/sustainable-multilingualism-2023/
3. Snukiškienė, I. 2023. Conceptualisation of LIE in contemporary Polish. 5th International Scientific Conference Values in Lithuanian and Polish Worldview. Cultural aspects of Textology. Text-Textem-Context. September 07-09, 2023. Vilnius University. https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/5-oji-tarptautine-moksline-konferencija-vertybes-lietuviu-ir-lenku-kalbu-pasaulevaizdyje-tekstologijos-kulturiniai-aspektai-tekstas-tekstema-kontekstas
4. Rutkovska K., Snukiškienė I., 2023. Proverbs as a minimal text. Linguistic and cultural ways of the conceptualisation of MOTHER in Lithuanian, Polish and English. The 17th Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Proverbs (ICP23). November 5-12, 2023, Tavira, Portugal. https://unescoportugal.mne.gov.pt/pt/noticias/17-coloquio-interdisciplinar-sobre-proverbios-icp23-4th-interdisciplinary-colloquium-on-proverbs-tavira-5-a-12-de-novembro-de-2023.
5. Jankauskaitė-Jokūbaitienė, V. 2023. Online Collaborative Writing Tools for EFL Learning. The international scientific conference Digital Technology: Challenges and Opportunities for Autonomous Language Learning and Teaching for Intercultural Communicatio (DILANG2023) May 25, 2023, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. https://www.mruni.eu/en/events/dilang-2023-conference-may-25th/
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Arcimavičienė, L. Publication in VU journal „Spectrum“: How the world's political leaders spoke to the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic? https://naujienos.vu.lt/spectrum-kaip-pasaulio-politiniai-lyderiai-kalbejo-su-tauta-per-covid-19-pandemija/. April 12, 2023.
2. Arcimavičienė, L. Gave an LRT radio interview How leaders spoke during the pandemic? https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000295617/10-12-kaip-per-pandemija-kalbejo-politikos-lyderiai. October 12, 2023.
3. Pinkevičienė, D. Gave a radio interview for LRT Radijas: radio programme 10-12 (Radio presenter Agnė Skamarakaitė. A conversation with Dalia Pinkevičienė about her dissertation Social Meanings of Mixed Speech: A Study of Four Work Environments in Vilnius). December 27, 2023. https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000311834/10-12-kodel-lietuvoje-buvo-tokios-populiarios-meksikietiskos-telenoveles
4. Snukiškienė, I. delivered an online lesson from the cycle “Lituanistikos atradimai” for high school students and teachers. The topic of the lesson: “The reflection of truth and lie in Lithuanian linguistic worldview”, September 27, 2023.
5. Snukiškienė, I. gave an interview for LRT radio programme “60 minutes” on the topic How propaganda works in medicine. https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000251476 (from 14.50 min.). January 3, 2023.
DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH IN LANGUAGES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
Universiteto 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. (8 5) 268 7271
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Simona Kontrimienė
STAFF
Professors: Dr Roma Kriaučiūnienė.
Associate professors: Dr S. Kontrimienė, Dr S. Postič.
Senior researcher: Dr I. Samoylyukevich.
Lecturers: V. Asijavičiūtė, R. Bačiulienė, L. Černelytė, J. Kašelionytė-Radet, R. Montvilienė, G. Pleikienė, B.O. Palovienė, N. E. Rickard, D. Snapkauskaitė, R. Stalnionytė, R. Valiukienė, V. Vaskelaitė.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP): Academic English, English for professional purposes
• Foreign language didactics
• Development of value attitudes and moral competence
• Multilingualism and language policy
• Content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
• Literary discourse
• Translation
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Teaching and Learning Modern Languages as a Prerequisite for the Development of General and Subject-Specific Competences. Prof. Dr Roma Kriaučiūnienė. 2019–2023.
Main publications:
1. Poštić, S., Kriaučiūnienė, R., & Ivancu, O. 2023. Viewpoints on the Development of Critical Thinking Skills in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching in Higher Education and the Labor Market. Education Sciences 13: 152. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13020152
2. Kriaučiūnienė, R., Arcimavičienė, L. 2023. English for Academic Purposes and Research (C1). Vilnius: Vilnius University Publishing House. ISBN 9786090707906. 164 p.
3. Duoblienė, L, Kontrimienė, S., Vaitekaitis, J., Garbauskaitė-Jakimovska, J., Kairė, S. 2023. Lietuvos mokyklos ateities scenarijai: „kas iš to?“ Acta Paedagogica Vilnensia, 50, 8–22.
https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/acta-paedagogica-vilnensia/issue/view/2317
National Research Projects
Futuristic Scenarios of the Lithuanian General Education School. Research Council of Lithuania. No. S-MIP-20-58. Researcher: Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Kontrimienė. 2020–2023.
Optimisation of the Network of Higher Education Institutions and Improvement of the Quality of Studies by Merging Šiauliai University to Vilnius University, No. 09.3.1-ESFA-V-738-03-0001, priority axis 9: Public Education and Increasing the Potential of Human Resources. Researcher: Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Kontrimienė. 2022–2023.
International Research Projects
Arqus II European University alliance. European universities initiative Erasmus+ KA2. https://arqus-alliance.eu/. Co-lead of the Work Package 11: Arqus Plurilingual and Multicultural Hub: Prof. Dr R. Kriaučiūnienė. 2022 – 2026.
ERASMUS + KA 2 Strategic Partnerships Project Think4Jobs Critical Thinking for Successful Jobs (No 2020-1-EL01-`KA203-078797). Project coordinator University of Western Macedonia, Greece; project partners: Hochschule Emden/Leer, Germany; Academia de studii economice in Bucurestia, Romania; Universidade de Evore, Portugal; Vilnius University, Lithuania. Researchers: Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Poštič, Coordinator and manager on Vilnius University’s behalf: Prof. Dr R. Kriaučiūnienė. 2020–2023. https://think4jobs.uowm.gr/
ERASMUS + KA201 Project Women’s Legacy: Our Cultural Heritage to Equity led by the Conselleria d’Educació from Generalitat Valenciana (Spain). Other participating countries: France, Jordan and Lithuania. Project coordinator and researcher: Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Kontrimienė. 2023–2025. https://womenslegacyproject.eu/
Project Live and Learn, Part VIII. Project partners: Vilnius University, Embassy of Poland in Vilnius, Polish Institute in Vilnius, Akmenės rajono Kruopių school, VDU Atžalyno school, Visagino ‘Verdenės’ school, Baltosios Vokės E. Oržeškovos school, Maišiagalos kun. J. Obremskio school, Vilnius Šv. Jono Pauliaus II secondary school, Vilnius Šv. Jono Pauliaus II high school, Embassy International School in Krakow, Poland, Molėtų Art school, Ukmergės Art school, Utenos Art school. Project leader: Rasa Bačiulienė. 2022-2023
Project Live and Learn, Part VII. Project partners: Vilnius University, Embassy of Lithuania in Ukraine, Vilnius School ‘Varnų sala’, Raseinių Art school, Ukmergės Art school, Utenos Art school, Kamianske school, Ukraine. Project leader: Rasa Bačiulienė. 2022-2023
Other Projects, Project Applications
NordPlus project Constructive Collaboration Among Stakeholders for Effective LSP Classes in the Field of Higher and Professional Higher Education (NPAD-2023/10322) in 2023-2025. The project participants are Estonian Academy of Security Sciences (project coordinator), Finnish Border and Coast Guard Academy, Estonian Aviation Academy, and Vilnius University Institute of Foreign Languages. Expert: Roma Valiukienė.
NordPlus EnVision project Introduction to Virtual Exchanges in the Social Sciences: Tools, Methods, Processes, and Challenges (NPHE-2023/10034) in 2023-2024. The participants are University of Tartu (project coordinator), Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science, University of Helsinki, and Uppsala University Division for Quality Enhancement, Academic Teaching and Learning. Expert in virtual exchange: Roma Valiukienė.
Educational research project application No P-EDU-23-23 under Progress Measure 12-003-03-06-01 ‘First and Foremost, the Teacher’. Project title: To Aid the Teacher: The Use of Mindfulness-Based Interventions to Mitigate Stress and Burnout and Enhance Work Performance in School Teachers. Assist. Prof. Dr Kontrimienė, S. (in collaboration with colleagues from the VU Faculty of Philosophy).
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
University of Cagliary (Italy)
University of Evora (Portugal)
University of Western Macedonia (Greece)
University of Göttingen (Germany)
University of Valencia (Spain)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Prof. Dr R. Kriaučiūnienė
• Member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA) http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa/
• Editorial board member of the journal Verbum, http://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/verbum/issue/archive
• Editorial board member of the journal Studies About Languages / Kalbų studijos, https://kalbos.ktu.lt/index.php/KStud/about/editorialTeam
• Editorial board member of the journal Ogrody Nauk i Sztuk, Wroclaw University, Poland, www.joedcuso.eu/www.ogrodynauk.pl
• Advisory Board member of the journal Ethics in Progress Quarterly (online, www.ethicsinprogress.org);
• Advisory Board member of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, http://www.cambridgescholars.com/t/AppliedLinguisticsAdvisory;
• Member of the Programme Committee of the the 3rd International Conference of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers Languages for Specific Purposes: Opportunities and Challenges of Teaching and Research in Rimske Terme, Slovenia from 18 to 20 May, 2023. https://unjsvu.hr/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/SDUTSJ_First_conference_call_18-20_May_2023_Slovenia.pdf
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Language Council CEL/ELC conference Languages at Higher Education: plurilingual approaches and competences enhancement at AI time. Organisors: European Language Council, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, November 23-24, 2023. https://www.celelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-CELELC-Conference-programme-23rd-Nov.pdf
• https://www.celelc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-CELELC-Conference-programme-24th-Nov.pdf
• Member of the Dissertation Selection Committee the European Language Council CEL/ELC Outstanding Doctorate Award 203Award Committee. https://www.celelc.org/cel-elc-doctoral-award/
Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Kontrimienė
• Member of the VU Faculty of Philology Research Strategy Development Workgroup (2022-2023)
• Chair of the Research Methodology Network Oral Session ‘Current Developments in Research Methodologies’ at the LERA Conference 2023 Education: The Value of Diversity. Kaunas University of Technology, 13 October 2023
https://lera.lt/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/VIIosios-LETA-Konferencijos-programa_2023.pdf
• Member of the Lithuanian Educational Research Association (LERA)
https://lera.lt/en/lera-conferences/
• Member of the LERA Research Methodology Network Committee
https://lera.lt/tm/en/network-committee/
• Member of the World Education Research Association (WERA)
https://weraonline.org/
• Member of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH)
https://eassh.eu/
• Reviewer of the Sage Journal of Education, Sage Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Acta Paedagogica Vilnensia and other journals
Dr I. Samoylyukevych
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th international conference SeLTAME Second Language Teaching/Acquisition in the Context of Multilingual Education. 2023, Tbilisi, Georgia.
https://seltame.tsu.ge/public/uploads/images/program-seltame-eng-2023-final-(1)_64fc3f28812d4.pdf
Birutė Ona Palovienė
• Member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA), http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa/;
• President of the English-Speaking Union Lithuania (ESU-LT), https://www.esu.org/international-esu/esu-lithuania/;
• Member of the International Board of the English-Speaking Union (ESU), https://www.esu.org;
• Member of the Executive Board of the National Public Speaking Competition (NPSC), https://lcc.lt/national-public-speaking-competition;
• Member of the Board of Prof. K. Zoromskis Art Foundation, https://www.facebook.com/p/Kazimieras-Zoromskis-art-foundation-100064268426530/.
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Kriaučiūnienė, R. Plenary presentation: Students’ Views on Language Policies: Vilnius University case. 5th International Conference Second Language Teaching/acquisition in the Context of Multilingual Education. Tbilisi State University, Vilnius University, Center of Civil Integration and Inter-ethnic Relations. September 11-13, 2023, Tbilisi Georgia. https://seltame.tsu.ge/; https://seltame.tsu.ge/public/uploads/images/program-seltame-eng-2023-final-(1)_64fc3f28812d4.pdf; https://seltame.tsu.ge/public/uploads/images/09.09_abstracts_eng.pdf
2. Kontrimienė, S. A Glimpse at the Lithuanian Catalogue of Literary Works of Female Authorship. International Congress Women’s Legacy: Our Cultural Heritage for Equity. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Valencia, 24 November 2023. https://cirgen.eu/timeline/womens-legacy-i-international-congress-valencia-spain-read-more/
3. Kontrimienė, S. The Impact of the Flipped Classroom Method on EFL Learning Performance. ICERI2023: 16th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. Seville, 13 November 2023. https://iated.org/iceri/
4. Kašelionytė-Radet, J. The Current State and Future Prospects of ESP at the University Level. The 5th international conference SeLTAME Second Language Teaching/Acquisition in the Context of Multilingual Education. Tbilisi, Georgia, 11-13 September 11-13, 2023. https://seltame.tsu.ge/public/uploads/images/program-seltame-eng-2023-final-(1)_64fc3f28812d4.pdf; https://seltame.tsu.ge/public/uploads/images/09.09_abstracts_eng.pdf
5. Samoylyukevych, I. Exploring the impact of international collaborative experiences on foreign language teachers' professional development at Vilnius University. The 5th international conference SeLTAME Second Language Teaching/Acquisition in the Context of Multilingual Education. Tbilisi, Georgia, 11-13 September 2023, p.51-52. https://seltame.tsu.ge/public/uploads/images/09.09_abstracts_eng.pdf
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Kriaučiūnienė, R. organised the dissemination event of the Erasmus+ project Think4Jobs The Lithuanian Day of Critical Thinking for Successful Jobs Think4Jobs Dissemination event. 28 April 2023, Vilnius University.
2. Bačiulienė, R. conducted several workshops for schoolchildren in the following schools of Lithuania: Vilnius Tuskulėnų gymnasium, Tauragė Jovarų school, Akmenė Kruopių school, Utenos Art school, Molėtų Art school, Visaginas Verdenės gymnasium, Maišiagala Juzefo Obrembskio gymnasium, Elektrėnai Ąžuolyno school, Vilnius Varnų Sala school.
3. Bačiulienė, R. An interview for LRT Klasika radio programmme ‘Morning Allegro’. 28 June 2023. https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000283108/kalbos-rytas-lietuviskos-patarles-ir-ju-atitikmenys-lenku-kalba
4. Samoylyukevych, I. Panel Member, "Language Education: Empowering Minds and Bridging Cultures.” European Day of Languages Panel Discussion, 2023. Centre for Multilingual Studies, Vilnius University.
5. Kontrimienė, S. A one-hour interview on spirituality and romantic love for the Start FM radio programme A Pinch of Science. 4 December 2023.
Translations
1. Kontrimienė, S. Translation of abstracts (EN→LT) for the VU journal Acta Paedagogica Vilnensia (ongoing from 2021).
2. Kontrimienė, S. Translation and editing of the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), the Hogan Development Survey (HDS) and the Hogan Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI), three of the world’s most widely used instruments of personality assessment (commissioned by Hogan Assessment Systems, USA, 2023-2024).
DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LINGUISTICS
Universiteto 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7268
E-mail:
Head – Prof. Dr Danguolė Melnikienė
STAFF
Professor: Dr D. Melnikienė.
Associate professors: Dr C. Caro Dugo, Dr D. Mickūnaitytė.
Assistant professor: Dr A. Rascon Caballero.
Doctoral student: E. Sidorovič.
Lecturers: E. Girniuvienė, G. Irnienė, S. Kosova, J. Pekarskas, E. Sakalytė, N. Strikauskaitė, I. Subačienė, R. Tamošaitienė.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Lexicography
• Lexicology
• Translation studies
• Literary studies
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Diachronic and Achronic Lexicography and Metalexicography. Prof. Dr D. Melnikienė. 2019–2023.
The aim is to investigate different types of dictionaries, their history, peculiarities of their lexicographic description, analyse dictionary formation problems, provide methodological insights into the reparation of new and development of the existing dictionaries; develop and digitise bilingual dictionaries.
Main publications:
1. Melnikienė, D. 2023. L’aventure lexicographique du lexème « patrimoine » dans les dictionnaires français. In : Dictionnaire et patrimoine Les discours du dictionnaire et les dictionnaires du discours. Les Cahiers du dictionnaire, 15: 153–165. Paris: Classiques Garnier.
2. Melnikienė, D. 2023. Vilma Zubaitienė, Gintarė Judžentytė-Šinkūnienė, Eglė Gudavičienė, Lina Plaušinaitytė, Skaistė Volungevičienė. Studentų darbų fraziškumas. Kolektyvinė monografija. Vilnius, Vilniaus Universiteto leidykla. (2020). Book Review. Verbum, 14. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15388/Verb.40.
3. Caro Dugo, C. 2023. The Translation of Cultural References from Lithuanian into Spanish: Kristijonas Donelaitis’s Metai (Las estaciones del año) and Antanas Baranauskas’s Anykščių šilelis (La floresta de Anykščiai). In: I. Ragaišienė, A. Rundholz (eds) (Inter)Cultural Dialogue and Identity in Lithuanian Literature, Transitions, Vol. 3. Göttingen: Brill, V&R unipress. ISBN 978-3-8471-1615-8
4. Rascón Caballero, A. 2023. Equivalente y ejemplo en los diccionarios bilingües: las traducciones de los ejemplos que no incluyen el equivalente. In ReDILLeT, Revista Digital Internacional de Lexicología, Lexicografía y Terminología, 6. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ReDILLeT/article/view/44024
5. Rascón Caballero, A. Online Lithuanian-Spanish dictionary. 2,300 fully completed titles were uploaded in 2023. https://www.webonary.org/lietuviukalba-espanol/?lang=en
MAIN RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION PARTNERS
Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
University of Palermo (Italy)
University of Granada (Spain)
University of Bergen (Norway)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr C. Caro Dugo
• editorial board member of the journal Verbum, https://www.flf.vu.lt/mokslas/zurnalas-verbum;
Prof. Dr D. Melnikienė
• editor-in-chief of the journal Verbum,https://www.flf.vu.lt/mokslas/zurnalas-verbum.
• editorial board member of the journal Les Cahiers du dictionnaire, https://classiques-garnier.com/les-cahiers-du-dictionnaire.html.
• editorial board member of the journal Revue de la poésie européenne,.https://classiques-garnier.com/revue-europeenne-de-recherches-sur-la-poesie.html;
• editorial board member of the Studi di letteratura francese,https://www.olschki.it/riviste/22.
• Scientific Ambassador (Ambassadeur scientifique) of the University of Strasbourg UR 1339 Linguistique, Langues et Parole – LiLPa École Rhénane des Sciences du langage Ambassadeurs Scientifiques – ErSciLang (wordpress.com).
• president of the Organising and Programme Committees of the 5th International scientific conference "Le mot dans la langue et dans le discours: la construction du sens" organised by the University of Bialystokm and VilniusUniversity, The conference will take place on March 15-16 in Vilnius, Colloque | Construction du sens (vu.lt).
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Caro Dugo, C. La traducción literaria (lituano-española) como diálogo intercultural e intergramatical. Congreso Científico Interdisplinario de Aniversario: Pensamiento Humanístico Ayer y Hoy: tradición y (r)evolución en lenguas y literaturas Románicas. 25-27 September 2023, University of Silesia in Katowice
MEDIA LINGUISTICS CENTRE
Universiteto 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7271
E-mail:
Head – Prof. Dr Julija Korostenskienė
STAFF
Professors: Dr J. Korostenskienė.
Associate professors: Dr L. Bikelienė, Dr L. Chodzkienė, Dr L. Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė.
Assistant professors: Dr J. Kirejeva.
Lecturers: B. Palovienė (since December 2023), H. Shipman-Gricienė, E. Židonienė.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Media linguistics
• Phonetics and phonology
• Morphology
• Syntax
• Cognitive linguistics
• Corpus linguistics
• Persuasive discourse
• Literary discourse
• Conflict communication
• Intercultural Communication
• Foreign language teaching methodology
RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Linguistic Media Research. Prof. Dr J. Korostenskienė. 2019–2023.
The aim is to investigate peculiarities of different language functioning and linguistic behaviour of communication participants in the area of contemporary media.
Main publications:
1. Bikelienė, L. 2023. The Pronunciation of the Capital of Ukraine in English-Speaking Media. Research in Language, 21 (2): 191–210. https://doi.org/10.18778/1731-7533.21.2.06
2. Chodzkienė, L., Korostenskienė, J., Shipman-Gricienė, H., Medvedeva, O. 2023. Quill quality criteria and quality indicators in OER-integrated language learning. Chapter in the volume presenting intellectual output of the Erasmus+ project QuILL (Quality in Language Learning) project Implementation of Digital Language Learning Opportunities in Higher Education. Guidelines For Good Practice, 25–38. Internet access: https://quill.pixel-online.org/files/results/Publication_English%20Version.pdf
3. Stundžia, B., Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė, L. 2023. Searching for Competing Patterns in Morphological Derivation: The Case of Personal and Agent Nouns with Borrowed Roots in Contemporary Lithuanian. Skase Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 20(2), 56–78.
International Research Projects
QuILL – Quality in Language Learning (2020-1-PT01-KA226-HE-094809). Erasmus+ KA2 project of Strategic Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness. Project coordinator: Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal). Project partners: PIXEL (Italy); Károli Gáspár University (Hungary); University of Bologna (Italy); Vilnius University (Lithuania); University of Cuza (Romania); Universidad de Cordoba (Spain). Coordinator of Vilnius University research team: Assoc. Prof. Dr Loreta Chodzkienė. Participants: Prof. Dr Julija Korostenskienė, Dr Olga Medvedeva, Hannah Shipman, Rita Vickienė. https://quill.pixel-online.org/ - 2020 – 2023.
Developing a New Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood (MotherNet). Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952366. Project coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan, Vilnius University (Lithuania). Assoc. Prof. Dr Lina Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė is providing academic English language teaching services for a doctoral student. Employed in the project since October 16, 2023.
National Research Projects
Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė, L. Postdoctoral fellowship project (08 August 2021 – 08 August 2023) Competition between hybrid suffixed derivatives and borrowings in contemporary Lithuanian. Project manager – Dr Lina Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė. Supervisor – Prof. Habil. Dr Bonifacas Stundžia. The project has received funding from the European Social Fund (project No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-23-0106) under a grant agreement with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT).
Kirejeva, J. Postdoctoral fellowship project “Readers’ emotional engagement with war-related media content: a linguistic and eye-tracking study” № P-PD-23-127 submitted to the Lithuanian Council of Sciences 2023.10.02. Project supervisor – Prof. Dr Ramunė Kasperė, KTU.
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Bikelienė, L. 2023. A Pilot Study of Schwa in Lithuanian English. The 16th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English ACCENTS 2023, Faculty of Philology University of Lod, Poland, 30 November- 2 December, 2023. https://www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/accents.
2. Stundžia, B., Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė, L. Competition between hybrid suffixed denominal personal nouns and common root borrowings in contemporary Lithuanian. The 58th Professor Arturs Ozols International Academic Conference “Grammar and word formation”. Riga, Latvia. March 16-17, 2023. https://www.aok.lu.lv/en/programme/programme/
3. Korostenskienė, J. A generative syntactic perspective on Latvian grammatical prefixes jā-, ne-. Presentation delivered at the 58th International Academic Conference in Honour of Prof. Arturs Ozols “Grammar and Word Formation”. Latvija, Ryga. March 16–17, 2023. https://www.aok.lu.lv/en/programme/programme/
4. Kirejeva, J. Emotions and Warfare: the Case of Ukraine. April Conference Fifteen: The War in Ukraine: Stance, Identity, Leadership. Krakow, Poland. April 20-22, 2023. https://april.confer.uj.edu.pl/program
5. Kirejeva, J. Negative Emotions Targeted at Lithuanian Politicians. 7th International Symposium on Figurative Thought und Language, Genuja, Italija. September 20-22, 2023. https://sites.google.com/view/ftl7symposium/home-page
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Turiba University (Latvia)
University of Southern California (USA)
University of León (Spain)
University of Latvia (Latvia)
Los Lagos University (Chile)
Austral de Chile University (Chile)
Deusto University (Spain)
Cordoba University (Spain)
Institute of Polytechnic Braganca (Portugal)
Yeditepe University (Turkey)
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė, L. Public lecture Exploring Competing Patterns in Morphological Derivation: The Case of Personal and Agent Nouns with Borrowed Roots in Contemporary Lithuanian. December 22, 2023.
2. Chodzkienė, L. Public lecture „QuILL“ project – a new step in the digital language teaching and learning“ delivered at the forum „Digital Literacy - a Guarantee of Quality in Language Teaching“, Visitor Centre of the LR Seimas, February 2, 2023.
3. Chodzkienė, L. 2023-02-02 organized the Forum Digital Literacy - a Guarantee of Quality in Language Teaching. Dissemination of the results of the Erasmus+ project "QuILL - Quality of Language Learning"" organized at the Visitor Centre of the Seimas. The patron of the forum was Prof. Raimundas Lopata, Chairman of the Future Committee of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. Project members: Julija Korostenskienė, Hannah Shipman-Gricienė, Olga Medvedeva.
4. Shipman-Gricienė, H. 2022 12 13 delivered a lesson for 9th and 10th formers on British Cultural Traditions at Tuskulėnų School (Tuskulėnų vidurinės mokyklos)
5. Bikelienė, L. 2023 02 06 delivered phonetics lessons at Vilniaus Šv. Juozapas School.
Compendium
Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė, L. 2023. Compendium of hybrid suffixed denominal personal nouns and common root borrowings produced as part of a project co-financed by the European Social Fund (project No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-23-0106) under a grant agreement with the Lithuanian Research Council (LMTLT) https://www.midas.lt/public-app.html?fbclid=IwAR2-tG5KXjWTM9QNwRGljJTxp-OpxwrJUTTtxil-k8P4Bx9-NaAdLG65VRw#/research/overview?resourceId=209088&uuid=8b41f295-973b-41db-a333-1e40a2773dd2&lang=lt, DOI: 10.18279/MIDAS.Sav.209088.
Internships:
Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė, L
Research Fellowship at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia (15-03-2023 to 17-03-2023).
Research fellowship at the Faculty of Arts, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Slovakia (30-05-2023 – 06-06-2023).
Research fellowship at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia (10-07-2023 – 23-07-2023).
Research fellowship at the Faculty of Polish Studies, University of Warsaw (25-07-2023 to 01-08-2023).
CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES
1. Chodzkienė, L. Information about the Forum Digital Literacy - a Guarantee of Quality in Language Teaching to the FIPLV Baltic-Nordic Association newsletter http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/naujienlaikrasciai/?fbclid=IwAR0l3FQ3ADNcnEbgOvxMCEBGtYKP1OrZRTMPFSIWdWM4OvQ5cmNcrdzpHeA
2. Chodzkienė, L. participated in the panel discussion “Language Education: Empowering Minds and Bridging Cultures” (Live Facebook Event), devoted to the European Day of Languages. UKI, 2023 09 26, https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/europos-kalbu-dienai-pamineti-skirta-diskusija-language-education-empowering-minds-and-bridging-cultures
3. Shipman-Gricienė, H. (ongoing) Provides consultations on English and editing for VU and other institutions; translating into English for ‘Neakivaizdinis Vilnius’ (Municipality of Vilnius)
4. Korostenskienė, J. found an earlier use and meaning of the neologism "žmoga" than usually attributed to it, which she reported to the compilers of the Database of Lithuanian Neologisms (Lietuvių kalbos naujažodžių duomenynas). The discovered meaning was entered into the Database (Žmoga, 2nd meaning), online link: https://ekalba.lt/naujazodziai/%C5%BEmoga?i=566420fd-308c-4036-8452-0e6f494dc614
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Bikelienė
• member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics (LITAKA), https://litaka.lt/;
• member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA), http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa/;
• member of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, (IATEFL), https://www.iatefl.org/;
• member of IATEFL PronSIG, https://www.iatefl.org/sig/pronsig/home;
• member of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment, https://www.ealta.eu.org/;
• member of the International Phonetic Association, https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/;
• member of the Learner Corpus Association, https://www.learnercorpusassociation.org/;
• deputy editor-in-chief of the journal Verbum, http://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/verbum/about/editorialTeam
Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Chodzkienė
• Member of Scientific Committee of the academic journal 'EduSer', Instituto Politécnico of Bragança (Portugal): https://www.eduser.ipb.pt/index.php/eduser/about/editorialTeam;
• member of SIETAR EUROPA (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research), https://sietareu.org/;
• Board member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA), http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa/;
• member of the Lithuanian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (LAKMA), https://lakmaonline.lt/;
• member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), https://essenglish.org/;
• editorial board member of the journal Ogrody Nauk i Sztuk (Poland), https://ogrodynauk.pl/index.php/onis;
• member of the programme committee of annual international conferences Education and New Development (END), https://end-educationconference.org/.
Assist. Prof. Dr L. Inčiuraitė-Noreikienė
• member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA), http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa/
• member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2024/
Assist. Prof. Dr Jelena Kirejeva
• member of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, https://www.uk-cla.org.uk/
Prof. Dr J. Korostenskienė
• editorial board member of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics (De Gruyter, ISSN: 1613-365X), https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ip-2022-frontmatter3/pdf;
• editorial board member of the journal Studies about Languages / Kalbų studijos, https://kalbos.ktu.lt/index.php/KStud/about/editorialTeam;
• member of IEA, International Ecolinguistics Association, https://www.ecolinguistics-association.org/;
• member of LITAKA, Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics, https://litaka.lt/;;
• Member of ESSE/LAUTE, The European Society for the Study of English / Lithuanian Association of University Teachers of English, https://lautenglish.wordpress.com/members/;
• member of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL / GCLA), https://www.dgkl-gcla.de/welcome/;
• member of the International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ISFLA), http://www.isfla.org/;
• member of the Lithuanian Translators and Interpreters Association (Lietuvos vertėjų asociacija, LVA), https://www.lvasociacija.lt/;
• member of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA), https://www.ealta.eu.org/;
• member of the Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA), http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa/;
• cooperation with the Judaica Research Centre, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, https://www.lnb.lt/en/spaces/research-centres/judaica-research-centre;
Lecturer H. Shipman
• International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), https://www.iatefl.org
• Lietuvos anglų kalbos mokytojų asociacija (LAKMA), https://lakmaonline.lt/
• Lietuvos kalbų pedagogų asociacija (LKPA), http://www.lkpa.vdu.lt/apie-lkpa
INSTITUTE FOR THE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF THE BALTIC
Universiteto g. 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. +370 5 2687235
https://www.flf.vu.lt/institutai/bkki
Director – Assoc. Prof. Dr Erika Sausverde
E-mail:
CENTRE FOR GENERAL LINGUISTICS
Universiteto g. 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel.: (+370) 5 268 7235
e-mail:
Head – Prof. Dr Habil. Axel Holvoet
STAFF
Distinguished professor: Prof. Dr A. Holvoet.
Associate professor: Dr V. Panov.
Associate professor: Dr A. Cremers (part-time).
Assistant professor: Dr A. Daugavet.
Doctoral students: D. K. Kapkan (until September 2023), Y. Drach, I. Rudaitis (since October 2023).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Grammatical semantics
• Grammar and the lexicon
• The Baltic languages in their interaction with the neighboring Slavonic and Finnic languages and the languages of Eurasia
• Linguistic interaction and discourse pragmatics
• Formal pragmatics: Uncertainty and implicatures
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Grammar and semantics, coordinator Axel Holvoet. 2023 -2026.
Main publications:
1. Holvoet, A. 2023. Towards an enhanced semantic map for imperatives. STUF Language Typology and Universals, 76 (4): 635–657. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2023-2017
2. Cremers, A., Wilcox, E., and Spector, B. 2023. Exhaustivity and anti-exhaustivity in the RSA framework: Testing the effect of prior beliefs. Cognitive Science 47 (5), e13286. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13286
3. Cremers, A., Fricke, L., Onea, E. 2023. The importance of being earnest: How truth and evidence affect participants’ judgments. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2 (1): 1–17. doi: 10.5070/ G6011172
4. Panov, V. 2023. Toward a non-aprioristic approach to discourse-associated devices. In: A. Barotto, S. Mattiola (eds) Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective (Studies in Language Companion Series, vol. 227). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 13–34. https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.227.02pan.
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Potsdam University (Germany)
Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (Greece)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Dr A. Daugavet
• Peer reviewer for Slavistica Vilnensis
Prof. Dr Habil. A. Holvoet
• member of Academia Europaea, https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Holvoet_Axel;
• member of Societas Linguistics Europaea
• editorial board member of Linguistica Copernicana (Toruń, Poland), https://www.human.umk.pl/linguistica/english-version/
• Co-organiser of the 20th Salos Summer School of Linguistics Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Vigesima, Salos Manor (district of Rokiškis), July 23–29, 2023, http://www.academiasalensis.org/en/;
• peer reviewing for Polonica and Kalbotyra
Dr V. Panov
• member of Societas Linguistics Europaea
• peer reviewing for Language: Codification, Competence, Communication, and Acta Linguistica Hafniensia
BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Axel Holvoet. “Internal reconstruction and the diachrony of the anticausative: A view from Balto-Slavic”. Diachronic and Typological Perspectives on Anticausativization, Università di Torino, 9–10 November 2023. https://sites.google.com/view/diatypantc2023/home-page
2. Axel Holvoet. “From the history of the Latvian imperative”, Endzelin Memorial Conference, Riga, University of Latvia, February 22–23, 2023.
3. Panov, Vladimir. “Moving away from structuralism: Linguistics, sociological theory, and cognitive science”. Vielfaltslinguistik 5. Universität Hamburg, Germany, May 19–20, 2023
4. Panov, Vladimir. “Allocutive at the crossroads: What does it mean after all?”. Societas Linguistica Europea Annual Meeting 56. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, August 29–September 1.
Universiteto g. 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel.: (+370) 5 268 7237, (+370) 5 268 7236
E-mail:
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Miroslav Davlevič
e-mail: ;
STAFF
Professor: Dr K. Rutkovska.
Associate professors: Dr M. Davlevič, Dr I. Fedorovič, Dr V. Ušinskienė.
Assistant professors: Dr T. Dalecka, Dr R. Jakubėnas.
Post-doctoral fellow: L. W. Cybulski.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Polish linguistics and literature
• History of interaction of Polish and Lithuanian literatures and cultures
• Textual poetics and its relations to philosophical, aesthetical, and sociological systems
• Polish language in Lithuania
• Polish manuscript tradition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• Acquisition of Polish L1 and L2
• Bilingualism and multilingualism in Lithuania
• Sociolinguistics
• Ethno-linguistics
• Etymology
• Lexicography
• Translation
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Studies in the Societies, Languages and Cultures of Northern and Central Europe, project leader for Polish Studies: Assoc. Prof. Dr Miroslav Davlevič. 2023 -2026.
Main publications:
1. Rutkovska, K. 2023. Nominacje Chrystusa w postylli katolickiej Konstantego Szyrwida "Punkty kazań" (1629, 1644) [Nominations of Christ in the Catholic Postil by Konstantinas Sirvydas (Konstanty Szyrwid) Points of Sermons (1629, 1644)]. Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 58: 1–25. DOI:10.11649/sfps.2954.
2. Rutkovska, K. 2023. Jesuit Konstantinas Sirvydas (Konstanty Szyrwid) and the origins of Lithuanian linguistics and homiletics. Journal of Jesuit studies, 10 (2): 341–358. DOI:
10.1163/22141332-10020007.
3. Ušinskienė, V. 2023. Semantyka SZAROŚCI w języku młodzieży polskiego pochodzenia w Wilnie [The semantics of GRAY in the language of Polish youth in Vilnius]. Slavistica Vilnensis, 68 (2): 90-100. (forthcoming)
4. Davlevič, M. 2023. Polonistyka na Uniwersytecie Wileńskim - osiągnięcia, zagrożenia i perspektywy [Polish Studies at the Vilnius University: achievements, threats, perspectives]. Polonistyka. Innowacje, 17: 83–91. https://doi.org/10.14746/pi.2023.17.8
International Research Projects
Testuj swój polski na Litwie! Upowszechnienie systemu certyfikacji polszczyzny za granicą [Test your Polish in Lithuania! Popularization of the Polish language certification system abroad]. Project partners: University of Wroclaw, Poland and Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. The project is funded by NAWA funds (Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej=National Academic Exchange Agency, Warsaw, Poland) under the Polish language promotion program. Contract No. BJP / PJP / 2021/1/00020 / U. Project coordinator: Assist. Prof. Anna Burzyńska-Kamieniecka (University of Wrocław, Poland). VU coordinator: Assoc. Prof. M. Davlevič. January–December 2023.
Šv. Rašto dėstymo tradicija Vilniaus akademijoje XVII a. pradžioje [The tradition of teaching the Holy Scripture at the Vilnius Academy at the beginning of the 17th century]. Research Council of Lithuania, Researcher groups program, Contract No. P-MIP-23-51; Project coordinator: Prof. Kristina Rutkovska (Vilnius University). January-December 2023-2026.
The project aims to explore, prepare, and publish lecture notes of the Biblical teaching delivered by Konstantinas Sirvydas. These lecture notes, taken by Sirvydas’ student, Adam Pęski, in Vilnius in 1620, are a seventeenth-century monument of religious writing, which makes up an important part of the heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as well as an original piece of writing within the context of all Europe. The project aims to analyse this religious writing within the broader context of teaching theology at the Vilnius Academy and Jesuit colleges and thus to provide valuable data about the methods of teaching the Bible in Jesuit schools at the beginning of the 17th century. https://www.vu.lt/mokslas/moksline-veikla/lietuvos-mokslo-projektai/2024#lmt-mokslininku-iniciatyva-vykdomu-moksliniu-tyrimu-projektai
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Warsaw University (Poland)
Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa (Poland)
University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland)
Jagiellonian University, Kraków (Poland)
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin (Poland)
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń (Poland)
University of Wrocław, Wrocław (Poland)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assist. Prof. T. Dalecka
• member of the Scientific Council of the journal Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica (University of Lodz, Poland), https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/about/editorialTeam.
Assoc. Prof. M. Davlevič
• editorial board member of the journal The Linguistic Guide (Poradnik Językowy) (University of Warsaw, Poland), https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/details?id=29598;
• editorial board member of the journal Prace Językoznawcze (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland), https://slavistik-portal.de/zeitschriften/ezb-slavistik.html?detail=192909&name=Prace-Jezykoznawcze-Papers-in-Linguistics;
Assoc. Prof. I. Fedorovič
• editorial board member of the journal Wiek XIX. Rocznik Towarzystwa Literackiego im. Adama Mickiewicza w Warszawie, https://ibl.waw.pl/czasopisma/wiek-xix.-rocznik-towarzystwa-literackiego-im.-ada/wiek-xix.-rocznik-towarzystwa-literackiego-im.-adama-mickiewicza.-prus-i-inne?vid=2.
Assist. Prof. R. Jakubėnas
• chair of the Lithuanian branch of Academia Europaea Sarbieviana.
Prof. K. Rutkovska
• editorial board member of the journal Acta Baltico-Slavica, https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/abs;
• editorial board member of the journal Acta Universitatis Lodziensis Folia Linguistica, https://wydawnictwo.uni.lodz.pl/redakcje-czasopism/acta-universitatis-lodziensis-folia-linguistica/
Assist. Prof. V. Ušinskienė
• co-editor of the journal Slavistica Vilnensis, https://www.journals.vu.lt/slavistica-vilnensis;
• editorial board member of the journal Kształcenie Językowe (Wrocław, Poland), https://wuwr.pl/kj/editorial-board;
M. Davlevič, I. Fedorovič, R. Jakubėnas, K. Rutkovska (chair), V. Ušinskienė
• members of the organising committee of the International Conference Values in the Linguistic Image of the Wold of Poles and Lithuanians. Cultural Aspects of Textology. Text-Context and the 5th Cultural Linguistics’ Workshop. Vilnius university, September 7–9, 2023. https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/5-oji-tarptautine-moksline-konferencija-vertybes-lietuviu-ir-lenku-kalbu-pasaulevaizdyje-tekstologijos-kulturiniai-aspektai-tekstas-tekstema-kontekstas
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Davlevič, M. O języku współczesnej młodzieży polskiej na Wileńszczyźnie raz jeszcze [About the language of contemporary Polish youth in the Vilnius region once again] LXXX Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego / LXXX Congress of the Polish Linguistic Society, University of Bialystok, POLAND. September 18–19, 2023. https://uwb.edu.pl/aktualnosci/lxxx-zjazd-polskiego-towarzystwa-jezykoznawczego-na-uniwersytecie-w-bialymstoku-6981.html
2. Fedorovič, I. Syrokomlana w zbiorach archiwów wileńskich [Syrokomlana in the collections of the Vilnius archives]. VIII Światowy Kongres Polonistów / 8th World Congress of Polish Studies. Jagiellonian university in Cracow, POLAND, July 12–14, 2023. https://skpkrakow.com/program.
3. Jakubėnas, R. Polskojęzyczna poezja pijarów wileńskich w II połowie XVIII wieku. Wybrani autorzy i adresaci [Polish-language poetry of the Vilnius Piarists in the second half of the 18th century. Selected authors and recipients]. International scientific conference dedicated to Fr. Stanisław Konarski on the 250th anniversary of his death. Fr. Stanisław Konarski. Pedagogue. Writer. Politician. Warsaw, POLAND, October 4-5, 2023. https://stanislawkonarski.pl/
4. Rutkovska, K. The role of paratext in 17th century multilingual literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Sixth Annual Conference of European Academy of Religion, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, 19-23 June. Panel: Wor(l)ds on the margin. Early modern paratexts as devices of creativity. https://euare2023.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES
Prof. Dr K. Rutkovska
• member of the Commission for the Education of National Minorities at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania, https://www.smm.lt/main/web/en/
• member of the Commissions (Dialectology, Sociolinguistics and Ethnolinguistics) of the International Slavistic Committee, http://kbl-mks.org/eng/commissions_ics.html;
MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. 20th Days of Polish Studies in Vilnius University in TVP Wilno https://wilno.tvp.pl/60275629/dni-polonistyki-na-uniwersytecie-wilenskim May 2023.
2. Davlevič, M. Interview for the TVP Wilno about Polish studies at Vilnius University Nowe spojrzenie: Mirosław Dawlewicz: o języku polskim na Litwie https://wilno.tvp.pl/66563021/miroslaw-dawlewicz-o-jezyku-polskim-na-litwie-78 [2023-02-25] https://wilno.tvp.pl/54871360/nowe-spojrzenie [2023-02-25]
3. Rutkovska, K. Vilnijos krašto mįslės. Nacionalinė ekspedicija. Pasakojimas apie lenkų tarmių paplitimą Lietuvoje [Riddles of the Vilnius region. National Expedition. About the spread of Polish dialects in Lithuania] https://www.facebook.com/Nacionaline.Ekspedicija.LRT/videos/671227824693339 [2023-09-11]
4. Fedorovič, I. Interview for the editors of the Biuletyn Polonistyczny, Warsaw, Poland [Polish Studies Bulletin] about Polish studies in VU.
https://biuletynpolonistyczny.pl/pl/events/summary/viii-swiatowy-kongres-polonistow-filologia-odnowa-jezykliteraturakultura-w-epoce-cyfrowej,2756/details?fbclid=IwAR24wFEtUofdBD9Q [2023-07-12]
CENTRE FOR SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES
Universiteto 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 7235, (+370) 5 268 7234
e-mails: ,
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Ieva Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė
STAFF
Professor: Dr L. Vaicekauskienė.
Associate professors: Dr S. Grünthal, Dr A. Mendelytė, Dr E. Sausverde, Dr B. Spraunienė, Dr I. Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė, Dr G. Tamaševičius.
Assistant professors: Dr R. Baranauskienė, Dr R. Čičirkaitė (part-time), Dr A. Laugalienė, Dr R. Trakymaitė (part-time), Dr V. Vukotič (on sabbatical leave since September 2023).
Junior research fellow: Dr I. Bisigirskaitė.
Junior assistant professors: E. Jankauskaitė (part-time), M. Schultz Rasmussen (part-time), D. Urbonaitė (on maternity leave), R. Zukienė .
Lecturers: A. Braškytė (part-time), R. Dambrauskaitė-Muralienė (part-time), E. Išganaitytė (part-time), K. Karčiauskienė (part-time), E. Kmitaitė (on maternity leave), J. Kumetaitienė (part-time), A. Petrauskaitė (part-time), R. Rudienė (part-time).
Visiting lecturers: N. Bulla (Hungary, until September 2023), V. Groven (Norway, until September 2023), T. Mylläri (Finland), E. Svenning (Sweden), S. Sagli (Norway, since September 2023), E. Slott (Denmark, until September 2023), K. N. Rasmussen (Denmark, since September 2023), S. Kass (Estonia), M. Zsolnai (Hungary, since September 2023).
Doctoral students: R. Palubinskienė (on academic leave until March 2024), M. Schultz Rasmussen, R. Musteikytė (since October 2023).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Contrastive, general, Scandinavian and Finno-Ugric linguistics
• Language contacts
• Lexicography
• Sociolinguistics and language ideologies
• Grammar of modern Scandinavian and Lithuanian languages
• Studies in modern Scandinavian and Finnish literature
• Old Norse studies
• Film studies
• Applications of intermedial literature in school education
• Lithuanian-Scandinavian historical and cultural contacts
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Studies in the Societies, Languages and Cultures of Northern and Central Europe, project leader for Nordic Studies: Assoc. Prof. Dr I. Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė. 2023-2026.
Researchers: Prof. Dr L. Vaicekauskienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Grünthal, Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Mendelytė, Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Sausverde, Assoc. Prof. Dr G. Tamaševičius, Assist. Prof. Dr R. Baranauskienė, assist. prof. Dr Vuk Vukotic, assist. prof. Dr Ramunė Čičirkaitė, j. assist. prof. R. Zukienė, T. Mylläri, doctoral students M. Schultz Rasmussen, R. Musteikytė.
Research has been conducted in the areas of philosophy of cinema, sociolinguistcs, language pedagogy, Scandinavian and Lithuanian cultural relations, modern Scandinavian and Finnish literature and others.
Main publications:
1. Grünthal, S. 2023. Jatkosodan Viipuri fiktion kuvaamana – Iris Kähärin Seppele Viipurille. [Representation of the city of Vyborg during the Continuation War – "Garland to Vyborg" by Iris Kähäri] In: V. Kivimäki, T. Vahtikari (eds) Vahtikari Eurooppalainen kaupunkikohtalo. Viipuri toisessa maailmansodassa [Vyborg in Second World War]. Helsinki: Viipurin Suomalainen Kirjallisuusseura. 250–276.
2. Mendelytė, A., Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė, I. (eds.). 2023. Scandinavistica Vilnensis: Memory and Remembrance in Scandinavian Cultures, Vol. 17 (No. 1-3) [Ahead of print].
3. Mylläri, Taina (2023). Moniverbiset konstruktiot ja oppijansuomen kompleksisuus kielitaidon eri tasoilla [Verb constructions and complexity across proficiency levels in learner Finnish]. Lähivõrdlusi. Lähivertailuja 33: 152–180. https://doi.org/10.5128/LV33.05
Grammar and Semantics. Prof. Dr Habil. Axel Holvoet. 2023-2026.
Researchers: Assoc. prof. Dr B. Spraunienė, assist. prof. A. Laugalienė, assist. prof. R. Trakymaitė.
Comparative Gender, Feminist Literary and Cultural Studies, project leader: Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan. Researcher: Assoc. pProf. Dr A. Mendelytė
Main publication:
1. Mendelytė, A. 2023. Documentary Film as Memory/Memento Mori in Aslaug Holm’s Brothers (Brødre). Studies in Documentary Film, 17 (3): 269–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2023.2185921. S1, Q1.
International research projects
MotherNet (Developing a New Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood) (H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2018-Twinning www.mothernet.eu). Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kačkutė-Hagan, Vilnius University (Lithuania), Uppsala University (Sweden), Maynooth University (Ireland). Researcher: Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Mendelytė.
MotherNet is a small consortium consisting of three universities, Vilnius University (Lithuania), Uppsala University (Sweden) and the National University of Ireland Maynooth. The project is coordinated by Vilnius University. The aim to generate a truly interdisciplinary network, with collaborative projects initiated between researchers in medicine and healthcare, the humanities, law, social studies, business studies and media and cultural studies. https://www.mothernet.eu/about/.
Main publication:
1. Mendelytė, Atėnė. (2023). Thought Experiments in Video Games: Exploring the (Un)Ethics of Motherhood in Frictional Games. Amnesia: Rebirth. Games and Culture, 19 (1): 38–54. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120231153715. S1, Q1.
International Research Network "New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies". 2019–2023. Funded by Independent Research Fund (Denmark). Project leaders: Prof. Dr L.-A. Körber (Aarhus University) and Dr T. Jelsbak (Copenhagen University).
Researcher: Assoc prof. Dr I. Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė.
The aim is to promote and encourage international cooperation between scholars of Scandinavian Studies in the Baltic Sea Region and East-Central Europe. https://arts.au.dk/en/new-geographies-of-scandinavian-studies/about.
Main publication:
1. Körber, L.A., Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė, I. 2023 (forthcoming). “If Sweden is a province, what are we?” Map-making and man-making in Marius Ivaškevičius’s essay series My Scandinavia. Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia, 34.
National Research Projects
Research Council of Lithuania. Students' research project Acquisition of the category of definiteness in the Lithuanian interlanguage of Danish language learning adults P-ST-22-218. Project leader: Assoc. Prof. Dr B. Spraunienė.
Main publication:
1. Conference thesis: A. Vagoraitė, B. Spraunienė. 2023. Apibrėžtumo kategorijos įsisavinimas danų kalbos besimokančių suaugusiųjų lietuvių tarpukalbėje [Acquisition of the category of definiteness in the Lithuanian interlanguage of Danish language learning adults]. Studentų moksliniai tyrimai [Students' scholarly research]. Research Council of Lithuania, 303–304.
Academic Scheme for International Cooperation in Baltic Studies, https://baltnexus.lt/en/baltic-studies-project. Nr. 09.3.1-ESFA-V-709-01-0002 Project leader: Dr Gina Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet.
Researcher: Assoc. Prof. Dr B. Spraunienė.
Main publication:
1. Spraunienė, B. The Lithuanian Passive Perfect. Guest lecture at Stockholm University, Sweden. 14-21 May, 2023.
MAIN RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION PARTNERS
The Office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Lithuania
Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (DIKU)
The Swedish Institute (SI) (Sweden)
Ministry of Higher Education and Science (UFM) (Denmark)
Finnish National Agency for Education (Finland)
Departments of Scandinavian (Nordic) Studies and related studies at (but not limited to):
Copenhagen University (Denmark)
Stockholm University (Sweden)
Oslo University (Norway)
Bergen University (Norway)
Aarhus University (Denmark)
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)
Charles University (Prague, Chech Republic)
Humboldt University (Germany)
Poznan University (Poland)
Gdansk University (Poland)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Dr S. Grünthal
• member of advisory board for the journal Sananjalka, University of Turku, Finland, https://journal.fi/sananjalka/about/editorialTeam
• member of advisory board for the Journal of Literary Linguistics, Johannes-Gutenberg, University of Mainz, Germany, https://journals.linguistik.de/ijll/about/editorialTeam
• member of advisory board for the journal Methis, Studia Humaniora Estonica, http://www.methis.ee/editors
• member of advisory board for Utukirjat, a publication series of refereed scientific books, University of Turku, https://utukirjat.com/toimituskunta/
Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Sausverde
• editorial board member for Scandinavistica Vilnensis series, https://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica;
• member of scientific committee of the International Conference „Kitab Studies – Research Methodology and source Publication", Vilnius university, October 5–6, 2023. https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/tarptautine-moksline-konferencija-kitabistika-tyrimu-metodologija-ir-saltiniu-publikavimas
Assoc. Prof. Dr I. Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė
• editor-in-chief of Scandinavistica Vilnensis academic series, https://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica;
Prof. Dr L. Vaicekauskienė
• editorial board member of the journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, www.taikomojikalbotyra.lt;
• editorial board member of Scandinavistica Vilnensis series, https://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica;
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Mendelytė, Atėnė. The Affective Economy of Single Motherhood in Lina Lužytė’s The Castle (2020). International symposium “Representing Single Parents”, September 28–29, 2023, Uppsala University, Sweden.
2. Spraunienė, Birutė. Bestemthedsmarkering i litauiske studerendes indlærerdansk ("Definiteness marking in Lithuanian students' L2 Danish"). Grammatiknetværkets mødet 2023 (Annual meeting of The Association of Grammar Researchers in Denmark), Odense, Denmark, October 26-28 2023.
3. Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė, Ieva. Glimpses of happiness in the sea of post-war despair: Correspondence of Lithuanian refugees in Scandinavia in 1945-1947. "Health and Happiness in Nordic Literature and Culture". The International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS) 34th conference. The Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø). 2-5 August, 2023.
4. Grünthal, Satu. Litteratur i förstaspråksundervisningen [Literature in first-language teaching]. NNFF9 Conference. Keynote lecture. NNFF9 Conference (Nordisk Nätverk för Förstaspråksdidaktik/ Nordic Network for Research in L1 Education), University of Helsinki, Finland, 24-26 October, 2023.
5. Vaicekauskienė, L. “Eastern European perspective on the study of English language ideologies“. Panel presentation In Revisiting ideologies of English in the Nordic countries, 18th International Pragmatics Conference, 9-14 Jul 2023, Université Libre de Bruxelles. https://pragmatics.international/page/Brussels2023
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES
Prof. Dr L. Vaicekauskienė
• member of the executive group for National Lithuanian Studies Development Programme for 2016–2024 https://www.lmt.lt/en/research-funding/national-programmes/lithuanian-studies-programme-2016-2024/803;
• Member of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation's working group “Naujos kartos Lietuva [New Generation Lithuania]” for the evaluation of projects related to Lithuanian language resources for AI. Contact: , Department of Digital Initiatives Management
CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED BY THE UNIT TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES
1. Vaicekauskienė, Loreta, discussion in the Parliament at the invitation of Parliament member Ieva Pakarklytė “Asmens pavardė – asmens pasirinkimas [Surname - a person's own choice]”, 31-05-2023.
2. Vaicekauskienė, Loreta, interview for the Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson, „Ekspertės: Kas galvoje – tas kalboje. Kaip per kalbą siekti daugiau lyčių lygybės? [How to achieve more gender equality through language?]”, 12-04-2023.
3. Vaicekauskienė, Loreta, interview for the national radio and TV programme „Pirmas sakinys. Mokyklinė literatūros programa pagal Loretą Vaicekauskienę [School curriculum for teaching of literature by Loreta Vaicekauskienė]”, 28-09-2023.
4. Vaicekauskienė, Loreta, “The situation here goes too far. The peculiarities of Lithuanian language standardization”, training seminar for Ogilvy creative advertising agency, Betono fabrikas, Vilnius, 27-10-2023.
5. Vaicekauskienė, Loreta, “Social meanings of swear words”, training seminar for Biomedika, Anykščiai, 25-08-2023.
MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Kumetaitienė, J. Išskirtine kūrinių kokybe sužibęs fenomenas: Nobelio literatūros premiją pelnė norvegas Jonas Fosse. [A phenomenon of exceptional quality: the Nobel Prize for Literature goes to the Norwegian Jonas Fosse]. Interview, Lithuanian National Radio and Television, 2023-10-05.
2. Steponavičiūtė Aleksiejūnienė, I. VU ekspertai padeda suprasti: literatūros Nobeliu apdovanotas norvegų rašytojas Jonas Fosse [VU Experts Help Understand”: the Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Jon Fosse for Innovativeness]. Interview, Vilniaus universiteto naujienos, 2023-10-05. Reprinted as Doc. I. Steponavičiūtė-Aleksiejūnienė apie Nobelio literatūros premijos laureatą: tai įvairiapusis, įdomus ir produktyvus kūrėjas. Bernardinai.lt, 2023-10-05.
3. Tamaševičius, G. LRT „Klasika“. Laida „Ryto Allegro“, rubrika „Kalbos rytas“. 2023-11-15. Lietuvių tauta – gimusi iš filologijos. „Kalbos ryto“ vedėjos Gintarės Mockės pokalbis su Vilniaus universiteto sociolingvistu Giedriumi Tamaševičiumi. [The Lithuanian nation was born from philology. Interview of "Kalbos rytas" presenter Gintarė Mockė with Vilnius University sociolinguist Giedris Tamaševičius]
4. Vaicekauskienė, Loreta,
- radio interview in Mažoji studija. „Apie daniškas salas tarpukario Lietuvoje [About Danish islands in interwar Lithuania]”, 22-01-2023.
„Keiksmažodžiai yra svarbu [Swear words are important]“, conference HR Week Lithuania, Litexpo Vilnius, 2023 09 14-15 https://www.litexpo.lt/renginiai/hr-savaite-lietuva/
DEPARTMENT OF BALTIC STUDIES
5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. 268 7211
E-mail: ,
Head – Prof. Dr Daiva Sinkevičiūtė
STAFF
Professors: Dr B. Jasiūnaitė (part-time since September 2023), Dr J. Pakerys, Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė, Dr Habil. B. Stundžia.
Associate professors: Dr Habil. G. Ferdynand Juzala-Deprati, Dr B. Kabašinskaitė, Dr G. Miškinienė (part-time), Dr V. Rinkevičius, Dr M. K. Villanueva Svensson, Dr E. Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė (on maternity leave).
Assistant professors: Dr E. Kazakėnaitė, Dr A. Navickaitė-Klišauskienė.
Lecturer: G. Junčytė.
Senior researcher: Dr G. Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet (part-time).
Doctoral students: S. Lukšaitė-Ramonienė, D. Plachovičiūtė, V. Sidaravičienė, D. Straižytė.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Baltic and related languages and cultures
• Ethnology and ethnolinguistics
• Derivational and etymological analysis of compounds
• Verb in the Baltic languages
• Word formation
• Topological relations of space in the Baltic languages
• Linguistic/philological onomastic analysis
• Accentology of the Baltic languages
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Studies of Baltic Languages, Texts and Cultures. Project coordinator: Prof. Dr Habil. B. Stundžia. 2023–2026.
Main publications:
1. Villanueva Svensson, M. 2023. The origin of the Lithuanian denominative suffix -yti, -ija. Baltistica, 58 (1): 41–57. doi: 10.15388/Baltistica.58.1.2507
2. Kazakėnaitė, E. 2023. Leksiskās izmaiņas Georga Manceļa Zīraka gudrības grāmatas 1643.g. un 1671.g. tulkojumos. Baltistica, 58 (1): 105–133. doi: 10.15388/Baltistica.58.1.2504
3. Sinkevičiūtė, D. 2023. Names in Contemporary Lithuanian: Valued Qualities and Their Changes. In: U. Bijak, P. Swoboda, J. B. Walkowiak (eds) Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. Onomastics in Interaction With Other Branches of Science. Volume 2, Anthroponomastics. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press. 425–441. (https://doi.org/10.4467/K7446.46/22.23.17289 )
National Research Projects
Origin and Evolution of the Acute in Baltic and Slavic. Research Council of Lithuania. Assoc. Prof. Dr M. Villanueva Svensson. 2020–2022. The aim of the project was to determine the development of the prosodic system from Indo-European to Balto-Slavic and then to the historical languages, with emphasis on acuteness.
Main publication:
1. Villanueva Svensson, Miguel 2023. The rise of acuteness in Balto-Slavic [Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics 27]. Leiden-Boston: Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-68267-2, ISBN (E-Book): 978-90-04-68271-9. https://brill.com/display/title/69018
Publishing Volumes 57–59 of Baltistica, a Journal on Baltic Linguistics. Research Council of Lithuania. Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Rinkevičius. 2022–2024. The aim of the project is to prepare, publish and present to the scientific community three new volumes of Baltistica, a journal on Baltic Linguistics. http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/issue/current.
Main publication:
1. Stundžia, B., V. Rinkevičius, A. Leonaitė (eds). Baltistica. 2023, 58 (1); 58 (2). Vilnius: Vilnius University Press. http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/issue/current/showToc
Derivational productivity of Lithuanian suffixed nouns in the Joint Corpus of Lithuanian. Research Council of Lithuania. Project leader: Prof. Dr J. Pakerys. Researchers: Assist. Prof. Dr A. Navickaitė-Klišauskienė, Dr V. Dadurkevičius (Vytautas Magnus University). 2022–2024. The project focuses on measuring derivational productivity of suffixal nouns in modern Lithuanian based on the data of the Joint Corpus of Lithuanian (1.3 billion tokens).
Names of children of Lithuanian emigrants 1991-2020. State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. Project leader: Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė, Participant V. Sidaravičienė. 2022–2024. The aim of the project is to research the names of children of Lithuanian emigrants and their features.
Main publication:
1. Sinkevičiūtė, D. 2023. Labai retų lietuviškų vardų įvairovė emigrantų iš Lietuvos vardyne, in Pasaulio lietuvis, 2023-05-31
https://pasauliolietuvis.lt/labai-retu-lietuvisku-vardu-ivairove-emigrantu-is-lietuvos-vardyne/
Educational Activities of Latvian Studies. Latvian Language Agency. Assist. Prof. Dr A. Navickaitė-Klišauskienė. 2023. The aim of the project is to promote studies of the Latvian language and culture in Vilnius University.
Baltic Academy. Latvian Language Agency. Coordinator: Assist. Prof. Dr E. Kazakėnaitė. 2023. The project has been implemented since 2015 and is renewed every year. The aim is to promote the Latvian language and culture in Lithuania among secondary school students. It includes lectures, Latvian language courses and other activities. For more see: https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/baltu-akademija-moksleiviams)
International Research Projects
Lithuanian Academic Scheme for International Cooperation in Baltic Studies. EU Structural Funds. Project leader: Dr G. Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet. 2017–2023. Certain project activities requiring staff mobility were affected by the pandemic and were organised remotely. The main activities, namely, long-term teaching of Lithuanian subjects at the centres of Baltic studies abroad, one-term studies of foreign undergraduates at Vilnius University, student practices at our partner institution Vytautas Magnus University, were continued; the two-week Lithuanian summer school at the Humboldt University in Berlin took place.
Baltic Bridges. Ministry of Education, Research and Sports of Lithuania. Assist. Prof. Dr A. Navickaitė-Klišauskienė. 2023. Bridges in the Baltics is an annual student conference organized by University of Tartu together with other universities in the Baltic Sea region. The aim of the conference is to bring together students whose studies and research focus are on the languages or culture of the three Baltic States, to give them the possibility to meet their peers from other countries and universities, to present their academic work and interests, learn from each other and make new contacts.
Optimisation of the Activity of the Lithuanian Department of the First Baltic Centre in India and Lecturership of Lithuanian Language and Culture II. Ministry of Education, Research and Sports of Lithuania. Dr G. Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet. 2023. The principal aim of the project is to support the activities of the Center of Cultural Studies for the Baltic Region at Dev Sanskriti Vishwawilaya University in Haridvar, India, by strengthening its Lithuanian section. The long-term Lithuanian language lecturership was financed this year from the Baltic studies project.
Strengthening the Educational Activities of the Lithuanian Studies Center of the University of Latvia. Ministry of Education, Research and Sports of Lithuania. Assist. Prof. Dr E. Kazakėnaitė. 2023. The aim of this project is to uphold the Lithuanian Studies Center of the University of Latvia by supplementing its library with new books and to promote students’ interest in Lithuanian language by organizing social event Lithuanian Language Day.
Towards Lithuania. Ministry of Education, Research and Sports of Lithuania. Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė. 2023. The aim of the project is to establish a cooperative scholarly network between the University of Cracow and Vilnius University. In 2023, three lectures were organised where scholars from Vilnius University taught a given topic to Cracow students of Lithuanian and Cracow colleagues interested in the Lithuanian language and culture.
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Latvian language Agency (Latvia)
University of Latvia (Latvia)
State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuania)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Jagiellonian University of Krakow (Poland)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr B. Kabašinskaitė, Prof. Dr J. Pakerys, Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Rinkevičius, Assoc. Prof. Dr M. Villanueva Svensson
• editorial board members of the journal Baltistica, http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/about/editorialTeam.
Dr G. Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet
• Co-organiser of the 20th Salos Summer School of Linguistics Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Vigesima. Salos Manor (Rokiškis district), July 23–29, 2023. http://www.academiasalensis.org/en/.
Assoc. Prof. Dr G. Miškinienė
• editorial board member of the journal Motif Academy Journal of Folklore, https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/mahder/board;
• member of organising committee of the International Conference „Kitab Studies – Research Methodology and source Publication", Vilnius university, October 5–6, 2023. https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/tarptautine-moksline-konferencija-kitabistika-tyrimu-metodologija-ir-saltiniu-publikavimas
Prof. Dr J. Pakerys, Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė, Prof. Dr Habil. B. Stundžia
• editorial board members of the journal Baltu filoloģija (Riga), http://www.lu.lv/apgads/izdevumi/elektroniskie-izdevumi/zurnali-un-periodiskie-izdevumi/baltu-filologija/;
Prof. Dr J. Pakerys
• editorial board member of the journal Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics (ESUKA – JEFUL) (http://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/index);
Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė
• editorial board member of the journal Linguistica Lettica (Riga), http://www.lulavi.lv/zurnals-linguistica-lettica; editorial board member of the journal Acta Linguistica Lithuanica, http://journals.lki.lt/actalinguisticalithuanica/editorialBoard;
Prof. Dr Habil. B. Stundžia
• editor-in-chief of the journal Baltistica, http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/about/editorialTeam;
• editorial board member of the journal Balto-Slavjanskie Issledovanija; editorial board member of the journal Acta-Baltico Slavica, https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/abs/about/editorialTeam;
• member of the Academy of Europe Academia Europaea, http://www.aeinfo.org/ae/User/Stund%C5%BEia_Bonifacas; member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, http://lma.lt/asmsv/intranetas/index.php?m=profile&user=2549; http://www.lma.lt/akademijos-nariu-sarasas; member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, (http://www.lza.lv/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3715&Itemid=126); corresponding member of the Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese (Italy); member of Academia Europaea https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Stund%C5%BEia_Bonifacas.
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Villanueva Svensson, Miguel. ‘Balto-Slavic denominatives from a historical perspective, with special attention to the PIE nu-factitives’. International Workshop “Deadjectival Verb Formation in Indo-European: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives”. Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna, 10-11 March, 2023 https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/veranstaltungen/event-details/deadjectival-verb-formation-in-indo-european-historical-and-theoretical-perspectives
2. Stundžia, Bonifacas. The Dialectal and Interdialectal Character of Lithuanian Folksongs: Diminutives in Rhesa’s Collection of Lithuanian Folk Songs (1825). International Conference “The Lithuanian Folksong (Dainos), their Linguistic and Historical Significance”. Paris, École practique des hautes études, 18-02-2023. The Lithuanian folksongs – Translitteræ (psl.eu)
3. Miškinienė, Galina. Overview of Tefsirs Stored in the State Repositories of the Republic of Lithuania. – Cataloguing Multilingual Manuscripts by the Examples of European Qurans and Tafsirs. Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Neapoli, Italy) 2023-04-26-27
4. Jurgis Pakerys, Virginijus Dadurkevičius, Agnė Navickaitė-Klišauskienė, Measuring derivational productivity in the Joint Corpus of Lithuanian: the case of agent nouns, 8th International Academic Conference in honour of Professor Arturs Ozols “Grammar and Word Formation”, University of Latvia, Riga, 17 March, 2023.
5. Kazakėnaitė, Ernesta. “Leksikas izmaiņas Georga Manceļa “Zīraka gudrības grāmatas” 1671. g. tulkojumā", Starptautiskais seminārs “Latviešu raksti un raksti Baltijā 16.–19. gadsimtā: pētniecības aktualitātes un problēmas” (Rīga, Latvija) (https://www.hzf.lu.lv/par-mums/lu-mediji/zinas/zina/t/75840/)
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES
Dr G. Kavaliūnaitė-Holvoet and Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė
• members of the working group established by Order No V-1769 of the Minister of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Lithuania (14.11.2022) to prepare guidelines for the support of foreign Lithuanian (Baltistika) centers;
Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė and Prof. Dr Habil. B. Stundžia
• members of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (http://www.vlkk.lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/komisija/pakomises); (http://www.vlkk.lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/komisija);
Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė
• member of the Consultative College of the Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia (Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija, www.vle.lt) (since 16 March 2023, No B-97)
Prof. Dr Habil. B. Stundžia
• member of Joint Experts’ Commission of THE BALTS’ AWARD bestowed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia (https://urm.lt/default/lt/naujienos/skelbiamas-2022-m-baltu-apdovanojimo-konkursas);
• member of the Commission for the Traditions and Heritage of Lithuanian Studies of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania https://www.lrs.lt/sip/portal.show?p_r=38611&p_k=1
MAIN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Prof. Dr B. Jasiūnaitė, Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė, Prof. Dr Habil. B. Stundžia, wrote a number of research dissemination articles in the journal Gimtoji kalba 2023.
2. Prof. Dr Habil. B. Stundžia participated (February 2023) in the election of the Lithuanian Word and Saying of the Year 2023
3. Prof. Dr D. Sinkevičiūtė gave several interviews about Lithuanian names (https://www.ziniuradijas.lt/laidos/persona-grata/vardu-tyrinetoja-manes-vardai-nebeglumina-kai-randu-ivairesni-man-grazu?video=1 (Žinių radijas); https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000264415/ryto-allegro-isrinktasis-vilniaus-meras-valdas-benkunskas-lukiskiu-aikste-be-laisves-kalvos-vilnius-be-venclovu-muziejaus-renginiams-sostineje-daugiau-organizatoriu?time_start=798 (LRT), https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000269707/kaip-uogiene-saldi-vysniausku-pavarde-talentais-ir-gabumais-apdovanotu-lietuvos-zmoniu-skiriamasis-bruozas (LRT), https://lnk.lt/zinios/212605 (LNK), https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/gyvenimas/13/2084126/profesore-apie-marku-ir-ameliju-karta-vaiko-vardas-atspindi-ir-tevu-issilavinima-ir-lietuviu-kompleksus (LRT), https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000298430/vardu-madas-isskyrusi-profesore-lietuviai-stengiasi-kad-vaiko-vardas-deretu-ir-prie-peciaus-ir-prie-sveciaus (LRT), https://lnk.lt/labas-vakaras-lietuva/227305?fbclid=IwAR2mSQMQIdkkK746wAS02y-Bhbixcmng8FnnerSUtLGAVZNzZxhA1Yd6Mbg (LNK) );
4. Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Rinkevičius and assist. Prof. E. Kazakėnaitė gave several interviews on Baltic Languages and Cultures in the internet portal Bernardinai (https://www.bernardinai.lt/baltistas-v-rinkevicius-prusu-kalbos-nykimas-buvo-letas-ir-laipsniskas-procesas/; https://www.bernardinai.lt/seniausias-lietuviskas-tekstas-ne-ne-mazvydo-katekizmas/ );
5. Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Rinkevičius organized multimedia lectures on Baltic languages and cultures and their origins etc. on the YouTube channel "Baltistikos miniatiuros [Baltic Miniatures]" (https://www.youtube.com/@baltistikosminiatiuros)
6. Assist. Prof. Dr E. Kazakėnaitė organized the Baltic Academy for school pupils (Baltų akademija https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/baltu-akademija-moksleiviams) and the International School of Linguistics for students studying Baltic Linguistics abroad („Tarptautinė kalbotyros mokykla“) https://baltnexus.lt/news/1146/19/TARPTAUTIN%C4%96-BALTISTIKOS-MOKYKLA).
DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN PHILOLOGY
5 Universiteto, LT-01131, Vilnius
Tel. 00370 268 7230
E-mail: ;
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Vaiva Žeimantienė
STAFF
Associate professors: Dr D. Babušytė (part-time), Dr A. Burov, Dr J. Daunorienė, Dr D. Jarmalavičius, Dr D. Katinas, Dr E. Kontutytė, Dr V. Masiulionytė, Dr L. Plaušinaitytė (part-time), Dr V. Pukevičiūtė (part-time), Dr D. Šileikaitė-Kaishauri, Dr S. Volungevičienė, Dr V. Žeimantienė .
Assistant professors: Dr I. Bäcker, Dr V. Katinienė.
Doctoral students: D. Ickovič-Zenovič, T. Kotovičius.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Contrastive linguistics of German and Lithuanian
• Genre analysis, academic discourse
• Corpus linguistics
• Grammatical, semantic and stylistics particularities of German and Lithuanian and their integration into the teaching process and lexicographic practice
• History of the German language
• German literature
• Medieval German literature and language
• Travel literature
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Studies in the Societies, Languages and Cultures of Northern and Central Europe, project leader for German Studies: Assoc. Prof. Dr Vaiva Žeimantienė. 2023-2026.
The Department of German Philology conducts research on various aspects of language, literature and culture in German-speaking countries, as well as comparative and interdisciplinary research on the use of the German language and corpus-based research.
Main publications:
1. Aleksej Burov. 2023. Zwischen Dies- und Jenseits: Zur Schilderung des 13. Tages des Weltuntergangs im Gedicht Jüngstes Gericht von Frau Ava. Andere Wirklichkeiten. Pararealitätten in der österreichischen Literatur. Attila Bombitz, Hg. Wien: Prasesens Verlag. 96–106.
2. Justina Daunorienė, Diana Babušytė. 2023. Zur Geschichte der Mehrsprachigkeit im Schulwesen Litauens am Beispiel der Grundschulen von Vilnius vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. Mehrsprachigkeit im Schulwesen der Frühen Neuzeit. Anna Maria Harbig, Mark Häberlein, Hrsg. Fremdsprachen in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Bd. 20. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 67–80. ISBN 978-3-447-12126-2, ISSN 1860-5842.
3. Diana Šileikaitė-Kaishauri, Virginija Masiulionytė. 2023. Entwicklung interaktiver Kompetenzen im Online-Bereich. DaF-Unterricht im Online-Bereich. Ein methodischer Wegweiser. Ján Demčišák, Hrsg. Trnava: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave. 117–140. eISBN 9788057202981.
International Research Projects
Digital Ressources of Lithuanian Language: An Electronic Lithuanian-German Dictionary.
International project, financed by Vilnius University Science Foundation.
Project coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr Lina Plaušinaitytė (Department of German Philology, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Baltic, Vilnius University). Participants: Prof. Dr habil. Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė (Institute of Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), Assoc. Prof. Dr Vilma Zubaitienė (Department of Lithuanian Language, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Vilnius University), Assoc. Prof. Dr Skaistė Volungevičienė (Department of German Philology, Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Baltic, Vilnius University), assistant lecturer MA Anita Obenaus (Institute of Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany), doctoral student Agnė Lisauskaitė (Department of Lithuanian Language, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Vilnius University).
Webpage: http://www.livoli.flf.vu.lt/
German Studies Digital. Project Reference: 2020-1-SK01-KA226-HE-094271. Project coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kontutytė. Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr Daumantas Katinas, Assoc. Prof. Dr Skaistė Volungevičienė. 2021–2023. Erasmus+ project card | Erasmus+ (europa.eu)
Main publications:
1. Katinas, D. 2023. Zur Vermittlung von Fachkenntnissen und -kompetenzen im digitalisierten Lehrfach Lexikologie. Digitaler Unterricht im Bereich der Hochschulgermanistik. Hornáček Banášová, Monika, Hrsg. Trnava: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave. 59–70. [online]
2. Kontutytė, E. 2023. Mediendidaktik und Erwerb der Fachsprachenkompetenz in der Auslandsgermanistik. Digitaler Unterricht im Bereich der Hochschulgermanistik. Hornáček Banášová, Monika, Hrsg. Trnava: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave. 123–143. [online]
Corpus competence for formulaic language (Korpusdidaktik für formelhafte (Fach Sprache). Project funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Leader of the project: Prof. Dr Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg), coordinators of the Vilnius University part of the project: Assoc. Prof. Dr Skaistė Volungevičienė, Assoc. Prof. Dr Vaiva Žeimantienė. Project duration: 2022–2024. About
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
University of Hamburg (Germany)
University of Innsbruck (Austria)
University of Maribor (Slovenia)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Burov, Assoc. Prof. Dr E. Kontutytė, Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Plaušinaitytė, Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Žeimantienė
• members of the organising committee of the international conference “Linguistics Colloquium 58. Linguistic Diversity in the World and for the World”, 2023 09 20-22, Vilnius University. About
Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Burov
• editorial board member of the journal Literatūra https://www.journals.vu.lt/literatura/about/editorialTeam
Assoc. Prof. Dr J. Daunorienė
• organiser of the international conference “Die Sprachen des Handelns”, 2023 09 28-29, Vilnius University. About
Assoc. Prof. Dr S. Volungevičienė
• chair of the organising committee of the international conference “Linguistics Colloquium 58. Linguistic Diversity in the World and for the World”, 2023 09 20-22, Vilnius University. About
• head of the research group „Research in Formulaicity of Contemporary Languages”. Homepage: http://www.phrases.flf.vu.lt/
Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Žeimantienė
• co-editor of the journal Kalbotyra (Linguistics), https://www.journals.vu.lt/kalbotyra/about/editorialTeam;
• editorial board member of the journal Moderne Sprachen (Austria), https://www.modernesprachen.com/ueber-das-magazin/;
• chair of the board of the Association Academia Salensis, http://www.academiasalensis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=25&Itemid=47&lang=en;
• Co-organiser of the 20th Salos Summer School of Linguistics Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Vigesima, Salos Manor (district of Rokiškis), July 23–29, 2023, http://www.academiasalensis.org/en/;
BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Aleksej Burov „Die 15 Tage vor dem Jüngsten Gericht. Versuch einer zeitlichen Verortung im eschatologischen Ereignis“. International conference Schreckliche Sehnsucht. Apokalyptisches Erzählen in der Vormoderne, Vienna (Austria), 2023 09 21-23. Programme
2. Aleksej Burov, Tomas Kotovičius „Das Gewünschte oder das Reale? Zum Litauen-Bild in der modernen deutschsprachigen Reiseliteratur“. International conference Was die Gesellschaft bewegt – German Studies in Nordeuropa zu aktuellen Fragen aus Sprache/Kultur, Politik und Geschichte, Helsinki (Finland), 2023 05 04-05. Programme
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES
1. Assoc. Prof. Dr Aleksej Burov – coordinator of the KAAD-East-Europe-Programme in Lithuania; board member of the Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), http://www.daad-klubas.lt/.
2. Assoc. Prof. Dr Daumantas Katinas – chairperson of the Lithuanian DAAD Club (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), http://www.daad-klubas.lt/ ; chairperson of the Lithuanian division of German Language Society (Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache), https://gfds.de/zweige/zweige-im-in-und-ausland/.
3. Assoc. Prof. Dr Eglė Kontutytė – member of the Council of the Lithuanian National German Language Olympiad.
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Iris Bäcker. 2023. Gedenken am 9. November. Performance für sprechende Cellistin: „Ihr sollt die Wahrheit erleben“. Mit Christiane Conradt. Miteinander 67, 23–25. PDF
2. Aleksej Burov, Daumantas Katinas, Lina Plaušinaitytė. 2023. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Germanistikstudierenden 2023: Sprache und Literatur. Miteinander 66, 21–26. PDF
3. Virginija Masiulionytė, Diana Šileikaitė-Kaishauri. Competence Development Workshop for Teachers „Digital Tools in the Foreign Language Classroom: Towards Future Competences“, 2023 01 27, Vilnius University. About
Universiteto g. 5, 01513 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 7224, (+370) 5 268 7225
E-mails: ,
Head – Assoc. Prof. Dr Pavel Lavrinec
STAFF
Professors: Dr Habil. E. Lassan (affiliated), Dr A. Lichačiova (until September 2023), Dr G. Michailova.
Senior Researcher: Dr Habil. A. Desnitskiy (until September 2023).
Researcher Dr V. Panasiuk (since September 2023).
Associate professors: Dr A. Belovodskaja, Dr D. Beržaitė, Dr L. Garbul, Dr J. Konickaja, Dr P. Lavrinec, Dr V. Makarova.
Assistant professors: Dr T. Čenys, Dr I. Kiseliūtė, Dr J. Snežko.
Junior assistant professor: Y. Drach.
Lecturers: R. Čičinskaitė, Dr N. Kapočė (until September 2023), A. Prijemskaja (since September 2023), V. Stankevičiūtė.
Doctoral student: A. Makarova.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Interface of Lithuanian, Russian and other Slavonic literatures and cultures
• Styles, genres, and methods of interpretation of Russian literature
• Lithuanian-Slavonic contrastive linguistics
• 17th century Polish-Russian linguistic contacts
• Cognitive aspects of the discourse of the Internet
• Media linguistics
• The Russian language in Lithuania
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Modern Studies of the Russian Language and Literature in the Context of Different Cultures. Leader of the project: Assoc. Prof. Dr P. Lavrinec. 2023–2026.
Main publications:
1. Belovodskaja, A. 2023. Селфи-дискурс и сетевая коммуникация в эпоху искусственного интеллекта [Selfie discourse and social network communication in the age of artificial intelligence]. Przegląd Rusycystyczny, 3 (183): 110–124. https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PR/article/view/15357/12117.
2. Lavrinec, P. 2023. Tomo Venclovos reputacijos dinamika Lietuvos rusų spaudoje (1989–1998) [The Dynamics of Tomas Venclova’s Reputation in the Russian-Language Press in Lithuania (1989–1998)]. Colloquia, 51: 48–64. https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/Colloquia/article/view/32756/31509.
3. Konickaja, J, 2023. Socially oriented metaphors of natural phenomena in Russian and Lithuanian poetry of the 20th century (Социально ориентированные метафоры явлений природы в русской и литовской поэзии XX в.] Społecznie zorientowane metafory zjawisk naturalnych w poezji litewskiej i rosyjskiej XX wieku). Językoznawstwo, 1 (18): 47–62. https://doi.org/10.25312/2391-5137.18/2023_07ek
MAIN RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION PARTNERS
Catholic University in Ružomberok (Slovakia)
East Slavonic Institute, Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland)
European University Viadrina, Frankfurt am Oder (Germany)
Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Institute of Russian and Eastern Studies, University of Gdańsk (Poland)
Ljubljana University (Slovenia)
Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon (France)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Belovodskaja, Assist. Prof. Dr I. Kiseliūtė, Assoc. Prof. Dr J. Konickaja, Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Makarova, Prof. G. Dr Michailova
• members of the organising committee of the International Student and PhD Student Conference of Slavic and Russian Studies. Vilnius University, October 13–14, 2023 https://www.flf.vu.lt/dokumentai/struktura/institutai/Programa_LT_FINAL.pdf.
Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Belovodskaja, Assoc. Prof. Dr V. Makarova
• editorial board members of the journal Studia Rossica Gedanensia (University of Gdansk, Poland) https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/SRG/rada;
Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Beržaitė, Assoc. Prof. Dr P. Lavrinec, Assist. Prof. J. Snežko
• members of the organising committee of the International Conference Intersections of cultural heritage and urban identity. Vilnius University, Markučiai Manor Museum. September 15–16, 2023. https://www.flf.vu.lt/dokumentai/Kultu%CC%84ros_paveldo_ir_urbanistine%CC%87s_tapatybe%CC%87s_sankirtos_Programa_copy.pdf.
Assoc. Prof. Dr J. Konickaja
• editor-in-chief of the journal Slavistica Vilnensis, https://www.journals.vu.lt/slavistica-vilnensis/about/editorialTeam;
• editorial board member of the journal Studia Wschodniosłowiańskie (Poland) (https://czasopisma.filologia.uwb.edu.pl/index.php/sw/about/editorialTeam)
• member of scientific committee of the International conference XXVI Slavic Readings, Daugavpils university, 18–19, May, 2023. (https://du.lv/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Slavu_Lasijumi_programma_2023_END_ar_saiteem.pdf)
• member of scientific committee of the International Conference „Kitab Studies – Research Methodology and source Publication", Vilnius university, October 5–6, 2023. https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/tarptautine-moksline-konferencija-kitabistika-tyrimu-metodologija-ir-saltiniu-publikavimas
Prof. (affiliated to VU) Dr Habil. E. Lassan, Prof. Dr A. Lichačiova
• editorial board members of the journal Slavistica Vilnensis, https://www.journals.vu.lt/slavistica-vilnensis/about/editorialTeam.
Prof. (affiliated to VU) Dr Habil. E. Lassan
• editorial board member of the journal Taikomoji kalbotyra, https://www.journals.vu.lt/taikomojikalbotyra/about/editorialTeam;
Prof. G. Dr Michailova
• editorial board member of the journal Literatūra, https://www.journals.vu.lt/literatura/about/editorialTeam.
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Beržaitė, D. Ехchange of Roles: Fathers and Mothers. International conference From Stabat Mater to Mater Movens: Analysing Discourses on Motherhood. Birkbeck College, University of London. July 8–9, 2023. https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk/discourses-on-motherhood-conference/
2. Lavrinec, P. Семидуализм русской религиозной мысли [Semi-dualism of Russian religious thought]. International conference Marian Zdziechowski: Historical and systematic studies between affirmation and critique of Russian culture. Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków, Poland. June 12–13, 2023. https://upjp2.edu.pl/konferencje-i-wydarzenia/conference-marian-zdziechowski--historical-and-systematic-studies-between-affirmation-and-critique-of-russian-culture-1213-v-2023-168.html.
3. Konickaja, J. Journal of the Slavic Studies in Lithuania: From a Separate Series of the Journal Kalbotyra (1958) to the Current State of the Journal Slavistica Vilnensis. International scientific conference “Global and Local Processes in Slavic Languages, Literatures, Cultures 6”. University of Latvia, Riga. May 11–12, 2023. https://conferences.lu.lv/event/286/attachments/358/891/Conference%20programme%20-%20konferences%20programma.pdf
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr J. Konickaja
• Seminar for foreign language teachers and lecturers: Presentation of the website of the international educational project “TestU Online – free portal of tests for education” (https://www.testu.eu/lt). Vilnius University, 15 June 2023 (https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/tarptautinio-edukacinio-projekto-testu-online-free-portal-of-tests-for-education-svetaines-pristatymas).
• Public lecture “Features of the Russian language in Lithuania” (Markučiai Manor Museum, 15 Dec. 2023 (https://www.markuciudvaras.lt/muziejuje-vyks-jelenos-konickajos-paskaita-ypatinga-rusu-kalba-lietuvoje-lietuviska-rusu-kalba).
Assoc. Prof. Dr P. Lavrinec
• Interview about the status of the Russian language in Lithuania. Novaja gazeta. Baltija. https://novayagazeta.ee/articles/2023/10/05/esli-smotret-trezvo-russkii-v-litve-eto-iazyk-domashnego-obshcheniia-pavel-lavrinets-v-podkaste-krasnyi-flag. 2023.10.05.
• Interview about the status of the Russian language in Lithuania: Andrius Tinteris. Rusistas P. Lavrinecas: rusų kalba nėra priešo kalba, nors ją vartoja mūsų priešai. Bernardinai. https://www.bernardinai.lt/rusistas-p-lavrinecas-rusu-kalba-nera-prieso-kalba-nors-ja-vartoja-musu-priesai/. 2023.08.31.
Аssist. Prof. J. Snežko
• Organizer of the educational project academia.ru https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/paskaitu-ciklas-vu-academia-ru (2023.02.18 – 2023.04.29). The project is aimed for pupils of high schools, teachers and wide audience.
INSTITUTE FOR LITERARY, CULTURAL AND TRANSLATION STUDIES
5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
E-mail:
Director – Assoc. Prof. Dr Inga Vidugirytė-Pakerienė
DEPARTMENT OF LITHUANIAN LITERATURE
5 Universiteto, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 7216
E-mail:
Head – Prof. Dr Brigita Speičytė
STAFF
Professors: Dr V. Daujotytė-Pakerienė (emerita), Dr M. Kvietkauskas, Dr D. Pociūtė-Abukevičienė, Dr B. Speičytė.
Associate professors: Dr D. Čiočytė, Dr D. Kuolys, Dr A. Peluritytė-Tikuišienė.
Assistant professors: Dr N. Klišienė, Dr S. Matulevičienė (part-time), Dr J. Raškevičiūtė-Andriukonienė (part-time), Dr R. Tamošaitis (part-time).
Partnership professor: Dr R. Kmita.
Doctoral students: A. Ambrazaitė (academic leave), E. Buožytė, G. Petuchovaitė-Majauskė (academic leave), A. Strelcova-Kelpšė (academic leave), I. Kristinaitytė.
Post-doctoral research fellows: Dr M. Baltrimienė, Dr D. Pauliukevičiūtė.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Contemporary Lithuanian drama
• Christian literary contexts
• Religious and intellectual thought in the Early Modern Period
• Developments in the 21st century Lithuanian literature
• Multicultural processes and literature in 16th - 20th century Lithuania
• Reflection on the development of Lithuanian literature research
• Aesthetic and socio-cultural phenomena of 20th century Lithuanian literary modernism
• Impact of the academic and literary environment on the cultural life of Cracow and Vilnius
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Lithuanian Literature and Intercultural Research. Principal Investigator – prof. Dr B. Speičytė. 2023–2026.
All staff members were involved in this project. They did research in contemporary, modern and early modern Lithuanian literature, issued volume 65(1) of the academic journal Literatūra [Literature]; delivered 10 presentations at national and international conferences in Lithuania and abroad, and gave 10 talks in academic seminars and dicussions and moderated, were invited as speakers in 31 literature events all over Lithuania, gave 5 lectures and seminars on Lithuanian literature for pupils and teachers.
Main publications:
Articles:
1. Kvietkauskas, M. 2023. Moshe Vorobeichic à Vilnius: contextes culturels et inspirations. In: J. Jones, K. Ziebinska-Lewandowska (eds) Moï Ver. Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou: 162–165. ISBN 9782844269423.
2. Peluritytė-Tikuišienė, A. 2023. The Semantics of the Void in Two Novels: Gone with the Dreams by Jurga Ivanauskaitė and Buddha’s Little Finger (aka Chapaev and Void) by Victor Pelevin. Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 48 (1): 37–54.
3. Peluritytė-Tikuišienė, A. 2023. Granica, wojna i miłość w prozie Birutė Jonuškaitė, Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze, 12: 115–129.
4. Speičytė, B. 2023. Władysław Syrokomla i debiut Karoliny Proniewskiej: przykład autorstwa dialogowego. In: K. Kościewicz, B. Kuryłowicz, H. Sokołowska (eds) Władysław Syrokomla: Szkice i studia. Białystok: Wydawnictwo Prymat. 137–155.
Compiled and edited scientific publications:
1. Vytautas Kavolis, Laisvės kultūra [The Culture of Freedom], edited by Darius Kuolys, Vilnius: Odilė, 2023.
2. Scientific journal of Vilnius University Literatūra 65 (1), 2023, edited by Jurgita Žana Raškevičiūtė.
National Research Projects
The Early Reformation in Lithuania: origins and European intellectual context. Research Council of Lithuania. Research funding measure – Researcher groups projects, 2023-2025. Coordinator and researcher: Prof. Dr D. Pociūtė-Abukevičienė.
International Research Projects
The Nuncio's Secret Archives: Papal Diplomacy and European Multi-denominational Societies Before the Thirty Years War. PRIN Programme, Italy. Coordinator prof. Antonella Barzazi; No. 2017JMPYTA https://nsa.unipr.it. Researcher: Prof. Dr D. Pociūtė-Abukevičienė.
Women’s Legacy: Our Cultural Heritage for Equity Project. Erasmus+ research project, No. 2020-1-ES01-KA201-083060. Researcher Dr N. Klišienė (2022–2023).
Culture Transfer in Modern Poland and Lithuania: Migration, Pilgrimage, and Missions (16th-19th centuries). Lithuanian Science Academy and Polish Science Academy project, 2023-2025. Researcher prof. Dr Dainora Pociūtė-Abukevičienė.
Uniwersytet - Miasto - Literatura. Wpływ środowisk akademickich i literackich na życie kulturalne Krakowa i Wilna [University - City - Literature: The Influence of Academic and Literary Environments on the Cultural Life of Kraków and Wilno], Research programme IDUJ (Poland), collaboration between Jagiellonian University of Kraków and Vilnius University, 2022-2025. Coordinator: prof. Dr Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, researchers: Darius Kuolys, Dainora Pociūtė-Abukevičienė, Jurgita Žana Raškevičiūtė, Brigita Speičytė.
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (Lithuania)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland)
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland)
University of Bologna (Italy)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Prof. V. Daujotytė (emerita)
• full member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences: https://www.lma.lt/en/
• editorial board member of the journal Literatūra (Literature): https://www.journals.vu.lt/literatura
Prof. Dr M. Kvietkauskas
• editorial board member of the journal Acta Baltico-Slavica, Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw: https://journals.ispan.edu.pl/index.php/abs/
• member of the academic council of the Czeslaw Milosz Research Center, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland: https://milosz.polonistyka.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/
• editorial board member of the academic study series „Kontynenty”, Krakow Jagiellonian University Publishing House: https://wuj.pl/serie-wydawnicze/kontynenty
• member of the organizing commitee of the international conference „The Urban Cultural Space: Baltic Narratives“, Vilnius University, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, 29–30 May 2023: https://www.flf.vu.lt/naujienos/bendros-naujienos/tarptautine-moksline-konferencija-miesto-kulturos-erdve-baltiskieji-naratyvai
• member of the organizing commitee of the international conference „The Intellectual Heritage of the Jews of Vilnius“, Lithuanian Academy of Sciense, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Vilnius, October 10–11 2023, www.lma.lt/news/2081/38/Konferencija-Vilniaus-zydu-intelektualinis-paveldas
Prof. Dr D. Pociūtė-Abukevičienė
• full member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences: https://www.lma.lt/en/
• editor-in-chief of the publication series Monumenta Reformationis Lithuanicae
• editorial board member of the journal Literatūra (Literature): https://www.journals.vu.lt/literatura
Prof. Dr B. Speičytė
• editorial board member of the journal Colloquia (Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore): https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/Colloquia
• editorial board member of the journal Literatūra (Vilnius University): https://www.journals.vu.lt/literatura
• editorial board member of the journal Wielogłos (Jagiellonian University in Kraków): https://www.ejournals.eu/Wielogloshttps://www.ejournals.eu/Wieloglos/menu/260/
Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Kuolys
• editorial board member of the journal Senoji Lietuvos literatūra (Early Modern Lithuanian Literature): https://www.llti.lt/lt/senoji_LT_literatura
• member of the academic council of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences: https://www.mab.lt/en/home/
• programme committee member of the annual conference of the Santara-Šviesa Association
• member of the organizing commitee of the national conference „Senosios literatūros aprėptys: nuo Vilniaus iki Karaliaučiaus. XXIII Jurgio Lebedžio skaitymai [Coverage of old literature: from Vilnius to Königsberg. XXIII Jurgis Lebedis Readings]“, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius, 23–24 November 2023.
Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Peluritytė-Tikuišienė
• advisory board member of the journal Studia Rossica Posnaniensia: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/strp
Assist. Prof. Dr R. Tamošaitis
• editorial board member of the literary journal of the Lithuanian literature and criticism Metai (The Year): https://www.zurnalasmetai.lt/
• member of the Children's Literature Prize Commission of the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports
Assist. Prof. J. Ž. Raškevičiūtė
• editorial board member of the journal Literatūra (Vilnius University): https://www.journals.vu.lt/literatura
• organizer of the summer Academic Seminar „Literatūros salos“ (Islands of Literature), July 25–28 2023.
BEST REPORTS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, “Hybrid Diaspora: Lithuanian, Polish and Eastern European Jewish Modernist and Avant-Garde Milieu in Paris in the Late 1920s”, Uses of Modernism, Ghent University, Belgium, 21 September 2023.
2. Dainora Pociūtė, “’The Raptor of Souls‘: Schism and Heresy in the Production of Martyrology on Josaphat Kuncewicz (1580–1623)“, Strategies, Practices, Representations of Religious and Political Martyrdom Between the Early Modern and Contemporary Ages, Università di Torino (Italy), 23–24 November 2023.
MOST IMPORTANT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS RECEIVED FOR R&D ACTIVITIES
1. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, The Prize of Vilnius Mayor for creative work for and about Vilnius, International Poetry Spring Festival, 25 May 2023.
2. J. Ž. Raškevičiūtė-Andrikonienė, Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas’ Prize, established by the Lithuanian Writers' Union, the Lithuanian Journalists' Union, and the National Association of Journalists.
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr Dalia Čiočytė
• Expert of the Lithuanian Culture Council
• Expert of the Research Council of Lithuania
Assist. Prof. Dr Neringa Klišienė
• Expert of the Lithuanian Culture Council
Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Kuolys
• member of the Education Council of Lithuania under the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.
Prof. Dr M. Kvietkauskas
• member of the Commission for the Promotion of the Traditions and Heritage of Lithuanian Studies at the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania;
• member of the Literature Prize Commission of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union.
Prof. Dr B. Speičytė
• panel member of the Committee for Assessment and Competition of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore.
• panel member of National Culture and Art Prize (Ministry of Culture).
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. The video lecture series "Miniatures of Baltic Studies" (6 videos) by D. Čiočytė, N. Klišienė, D. Kuolys, M. Kvietkauskas, A. Peluritytė-Tikuišienė, D. Pociūtė, B. Speičytė, E. Terleckienė (EU project "Promotion of Cooperation between Foreign Baltic Studies Centres and Lithuanian Research and Study Institutions" No. 09.3.1.-ESFA-V-709-01-0002; 2022-2023): https://www.youtube.com/@baltistikosminiatiuros/videos
Prof. Emer. V. Daujotytė published 2 books:
• Viktorija Daujotytė, Džiaugsmas dienų audime: Fragmentinė humanistika [Joy in the Weaving of Days: Fragmentary Humanities], Vilnius: Tyto alba, 2023, 229 p. ISBN 9786094667183
• Viktorija Daujotytė, Arvydas Šliogeris: „Mano elementorius buvo Homeras“ [Arvydas Šliogeris: "My elementary book was Homer"], second ed., Vilnius: Odilė, 2023, 307 p. ISBN 9786098222432
Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Kuolys participated in more than 20 Radio and TV programmes,
and compiled and edited the poetry book: Liudvikas Jakimavičius, Koheleto vėjas, Vilnius: Odilė, 2023.
Prof. Dr M. Kvietkauskas compiled, edited, and wrote Introduction to:
• Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Alvydas Šlepikas (eds.), Mačiau Vilnių. Poezijos antologija pirmojo Vilniaus paminėjimo 700 metų sukakčiai [I saw Vilnius. A poetry anthology for the 700th anniversary of the first mention of Vilnius], Vilnius: Vilnius UNESCO literatūros miestas, 2023, 400 p., ISBN 978-609-96369-0-0
• Prof. Kvietkauskas also contributed to the collection of memoirs about Irena Veisaitė:
• Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, „Atsiverti ir atsitiesti“, in: Mūsų Irena. Atsiminimai apie Ireną Veisaitę, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2023, p. 295–299, ISBN 978-609-425-339-3
• Other dissemination activities of Prof. Kvietkauskas include 4 popular articles on literature and culture, 2 of them published in Poland:
• „Niewygodna dla pamięci historycznej nie tylko Polaków. Zapomniana powieść Miłosza “, Gazeta Wyborcza (magazyn Wolna Sobota), 2023 06 06, p. 30-32, https://wyborcza.pl/magazyn/7,124059,29708285,jak-milosz-leczyl-traumy-pamieci.html
• Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, „Żywe pokoje“, tłum. D. Dziułka, Czas Literatury, Kraków, nr. 3, 2023, p. 15-17, ISSN 2544-8447, https://www.czasliteratury.pl/
• Kvietkauskas also regularly participated in talks and interviews on Lithuanian and Polish media, covering topics on Jewish cultural heritage in Lithuania, Holocaust, Lithuanian – Polish cultural relations, Vilnius and its poetry, e.g.:
https://www.polskieradio.pl/8/380/Artykul/3113186,Wilno-miejsce-na-mapie-i-w-duszy-Rozmowy-z-okazji-700lecia-miasta
https://www.lrt.lt/naujienos/kultura/12/1932587/i-nobeli-pretendaves-litvaku-rasytojas-grade-ir-jo-zmona-inna-vyro-kurybai-pasisvente-kaip-angelas-pakenke-kaip-velnias
https://www.15min.lt/kultura/naujiena/literatura/vilniaus-poezijos-antologijos-sudarytojas-m-kvietkauskas-vilnius-tai-tekstas-kuris-teberasomas-ir-siandien-286-2052370
https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000277068
https://wilno.tvp.pl/71937184/studio-wilno-10082023-prof-mindaugas-kvietkauskas
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING STUDIES
Universiteto g. 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 72 45
E-mail:
Head – Prof Dr Nijolė Maskaliūnienė
STAFF
Professors: Dr N. Burkšaitienė, Dr J. Grigaliūnienė, Dr N. Maskaliūnienė.
Associate professor: Dr L. Černiuvienė, Dr D. Maumevičienė (part-time).
Senior research fellow: Dr A. Ratkus.
Research fellow: Dr A. Kiltinavičiūtė.
Researcher in the project: I. Tatolytė.
Assistant professors: Dr D. Mankauskienė, Dr R. Užgiris, Dr D. Veličkienė.
Lecturers: A. Dailidėnaitė (part-time), A. Dambrauskas (part-time), R. Darbutaitė (part-time),
D. Guogienė (part-time), D. Valentinavičienė (part-time), A. Zolubienė.
Doctoral student: Ž. Pekūnas.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Literary translation
• The (Gothic) Bible translation
• Ideological aspects of translation
• Interpreting
• Dante Studies
• Linguistic aspects of translation
• Translation technologies and market practices
• Translator/interpreter training
RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Meta-Cognitive Investigation of Translation as Bilingual Communication. Prof. Dr N. Maskaliūnienė. 2023–2026.
All staff members participated in this project and contributed articles, gave talks at conferences on literary translation, ideological aspects of translation and translation training methodology, issued a special volume of the journal Vertimo studijos/Studies in Translation devoted to the problems of translation in relation with ideology and ethics, https://www.journals.vu.lt/vertimo-studijos/issue/current.
One major research project event was held in 2023: an international Translating Europe Workshop (TEW) The Language of EU Documents (Eurolect) and the Lithuanian Administrative Language (in cooperation with the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission), October 12, 2023. https://www.flf.vu.lt/vsk/naujienos/kvieciame-i-seminara
Main publications:
1. Kiltinavičiūtė, A. 2023. (Extra)ordinary Sensation and Visionary Perception in Dante’s Purgatorio XV and XVII. Italian Studies, 78 (3): 274–291. https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2023.2260694
2. Kiltinavičiūtė, A. 2023. Vita nova XXIX [19.4–19.7]. In: Z. Barański, H. Webb (eds) Dante’s Vita nova: A Collaborative Reading. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press. 269–277.
3. Maskaliūnienė, N., G. Juršėnaitė. 2023. Passing through the Filter: Literary Translation from Spanish in Lithuania under Soviet Censorship. STRIDON: Studies in Translation and Interpreting, 3 (2): 5–27. https://doi.org/10.4312/stridon.3.2.5-27.
National Research Projects
Translation and Censorship under Soviet Ideology. Research Council of Lithuania. Researcher groups project No. S-MIP-21-45. April 2021–March 2024. Prof. Dr N. Maskaliūnienė. Researchers: Prof. P. V. Subačius, Assoc. Prof. N. Keršytė, Assoc. Prof. Dr L. Černiuvienė, Assist. Prof. Dr D.Veličkienė, Assist. Prof. Dr D. Mankauskienė, D. Valentinavičienė, A. Zolubienė, I. Tatolytė.
The aim of this project is to systematically investigate the effects of censorship on translation of foreign literature in Soviet Lithuania (1940–1990). During 2023, the researchers gave 2 talks in conferences, published 2 articles on translation censorship, interviewed translation scholars and were working on the book to deliver the findings of the research project.
Main Publications:
1. Tatolytė, I. 2023. Changing Horizons in Audiovisual Translation: ‘We Are Becoming More Aware of the Power and Impact of Language’. Interview with Jorge Díaz-Cintas. Vertimo Studijos/Studies in Translation,16: 219–241. https://www.journals.vu.lt/vertimo-studijos/article/view/33342.
2. Tatolytė, I. 2023. Unfolding Archives for Translation Studies: On Context, Human Condition, and Staying Wary. Interview with Outi Paloposki. Vertimo Studijos/Studies in Translation, 16: 242–256. https://www.journals.vu.lt/vertimo-studijos/article/view/33343.
International Research Projects
Development and implementation of a digital platform for the promotion of access to mental healthcare for low language proficient third-country nationals in Europe — MHEALTH4ALL. Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) of the European Commission. January 2022– December 2024. Coordinator Prof. Dr N. Maskaliūnienė. Researcher Assist. Prof. Dr D. Mankauskienė. https://www.mhealth4all.eu In this project, 13 partners from 9 European countries are developing, testing, and implementing a multilingual, culturally-sensitive, evidence-based digital information and communication platform in mental healthcare. This platform aims to reduce the negative impact of linguistic and cultural barriers in accessing mental healthcare services (interpreting) for refugees and migrants.
MUST (Multilingual Student Translation) Corpus. On-going research project coordinated by Louvain-La-Neuve University (Belgium). Researcher Prof. J. Grigaliūnienė.
ARQUS European University Alliance
Project “ARQUS EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY ALLIANCE”, No. 612247-EPP-1-2019-1-ES-EPPKA2-EUR-UNIV. Project action "Student-centered Framework for Quality Learning” (September 2019–September 2022; September 2022–September 2024). Prof. Dr N. Maskaliūnienė, Board member.
Project “ARQUS II: ARQUS EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY ALLIANCE”, No 101089551. Project action "Multilingual and multicultural university", 2022-2023. Expert. Prof. Dr N. Burkšaitienė
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Louvain-La-Neuve University (Belgium)
University of Latvia (Latvia)
University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
University of Granada (Spain)
University pf Alcala (Spain)
University of Padova (Italy)
University of Warsaw (Poland)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Prof. Dr N. Burkšaitienė
• Editorial board member and reviewer of the journal The Asian ESP Studies, (Web of Science, SCOPUS, 2019-present), (asian-esp-journal.com)
• Editorial board member of the journal Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta u Prištini (University of Priština, Serbia); (2015-present) Scindeks - Journal (ceon.rs)
• Editorial board member of the journal International Journal of Education and Science (Ukraine); (2019-present) https://ijes.world/en/magazine-information/editorial-team
Prof. Dr J. Grigaliūnienė
• editorial board member and reviewer of the journal Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture. https://www.journal.lu.lv
• editorial board member and reviewer of the journal Respectus Philologicus, http://www.rephi.knf.vu.lt/
• editorial board member and reviewer of the journal Vertimo studijos / Studies in Translation, http://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/vertimo-studijos/about/editorialTeam
Prof. Dr N. Maskaliūnienė
• editor-in-chief of the journal Vertimo Studijos/Studies in Translation (Scopus)
Dr A. Ratkus
• editorial board member of the journal Vertimo studijos / Studies in Translation), www.vsk.flf.vu.lt/Vertimo studijos/ (Scopus)
Dr Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė
• Chair and roundtable participant, the 2023 Society for Italian Studies Biennial Themed Conference ‘Affect, Sensation, Emotion’, University of Cambridge, 7-8 September 2023.
• Chair and respondent, ‘Dante Futures: New Voices in the UK and Ireland,’ University of Leeds, 17-18 November 2023.
• Editor (early modern period), Notes in Italian Studies, Journal of the Society for Italian Studies.
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė, Fight or Flight: The Fear of Flying in Dante’s Comedy, the 2023 Society for Italian Studies Themed Conference ‘Affect, Sensation, Emotion,’ University of Cambridge, September 7, 2023.
2. Dalia Mankauskienė, Translation project management competences: what, where and when. EMT Network meeting “Upskilling Translators for the AI Era”. Salamanca, October 19, 2023.
3. Nijolė Maskaliūnienė, Translation paradoxes in Soviet Lithuania: What was (not)translated – and why?, international conference „Language and Power“. Riga, Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, October 20, 2023.
4. Artūras Ratkus, plenary talk “Language challenges, problems of translation and disputes in court”, Interinstitutional Terminology Meeting 2023, European Court of Justice, Luxembourg, November 17, 2023.
5. Rimas Užgiris, keynote speaker: “Icchokas Meras’s Stalemate and the Fluidity of Ethnic Boundaries under Conditions of Moral Action,” the 2023 International Student-Doctoral Conference at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow on the theme of “Boundaries,” May 19, 2023.
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS, ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS ENTITIES
Prof. N. Maskaliūnienė
• member of the temporary sub-commission of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language for the preparation of the Lithuanian Style Guide for translators at EU institutions. https://vlkk.lt/struktura-ir-kontaktai/komisija/pakomises
Assist. Prof. D. Veličkienė
• member of the Evaluation Panel of the ESU National English Public Speaking Competition 2023.
Lect. Diana Guogienė
• member of Studies Assessment Commission with the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (from 2023, representative of social partners)
CONSULTATIONS PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC OR ECONOMIC ENTITIES
1. Expert testimony on the language of commercial documents in a court case, commissioned by law firm Sorainen and Partners, Vilnius. Delivered by Senior Research Fellow Dr Artūras Ratkus.
2. Expert testimony on the language of transport documents in a court case, commissioned by law firm Sorainen and Partners, Vilnius. Delivered by Senior Research Fellow Dr Artūras Ratkus.
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. A cycle of public lectures for Philomaths of VU Dante Research Group: “How to tame fear? (after Dante Alighieri)” 20-03-2023; “On dreams and visions (after Dante Alighieri)“ 24-04-2023, “On art (after Dante Alighieri)” by Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė, 08-05-2023.
2. A talk on the LRT radio program with Rimas Užgiris, “LRT Klasika” about the theme of the Druskininkai Poetic Fall festival, “Do Good Poets Steal?” 29-09-2023.
3. Discussion panel “Lithuanian literature in English translations: Challenges and Prospects” at the Vilnius Book Fair, Rimas Užgiris together with Marius Burokas, Birutė Šležas, Žydronė Kolevinskienė, 25-02-2023.
4. Literary Tour Guide for the Vilnius UNESCO City of Literature: a tour of Vilnius Old Town with readings of translated literature written at or about certain places of interest with Rimas Užgiris. (Four tours in autumn, 2023)
5. A cycle of podcasts (17) on language, translation and interpreting delivered by Diana Guogienė https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVPSZOeTSh6N3BIl09jAW9g/videos
A. J. GREIMAS CENTRE FOR SEMIOTICS AND THE THEORY OF LITERATURE
Universiteto g. 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Tel. (+370) 5 268 7161,
E-mail:
Head – Prof. Dr Irina Melnikova
STAFF
Professors: Dr I. Melnikova, Habil. Dr K. Nastopka (emeritus), Dr A. Sverdiolas (emeritus), Dr P. V. Subačius.
Associate professors: Dr J. Katkuvienė, Dr N. Keršytė, Dr J. Levina, Dr B. Meržvinskytė.
Assistant professors: Dr P. Jevsejevas.
Doctoral students: D. Gervytė, A. Kundrotaitė (academic leave), A. Sireikis, I. Skikaitė, A. Žičkytė.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Textual poetics and its relation to philosophical, aesthetic, sociological systems
Semiotic and hermeneutic text analysis
Terminology of literary criticism
Theory of the text, textual scholarship
Intertextuality, intermediality
RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Projects Supported by the University Budget
Semiotics and Humanities. Prof. Dr I. Melnikova. 2023–2026.
Development of methodological framework in contemporary theory of literature, art studies, philosophy and semiotics. Aspectual analysis of literary texts and other types of discourses. The academic staff of A. J. Greimas Centre carried out research in semiotics, textual scholarship and intermediality. The staff members published 4 research articles, edited a new volume (No 18) of the journal Semiotika, presented 17 papers at national and international conferences, seminars, summer academic schools, worked in research and dissemination projects.
Main publication:
1. Levina, Jūratė. 2023. Uždaros visuomenės fenomenologija Antano Vienuolio „Paskenduolėje“: antropologiniai profiliai [Phenomenology of a closed society in „The Drowned Girl“ by Antanas Vienuolis: anthropological profiles]. Literatūra, 65 (1): 55–83. https://doi.org/10.15388/Litera.2023.65.1.4.
National Research Projects
Semiotic Models of Reading (Research Council of Lithuania, National Lithuanian Studies Programme 2016-2024, grant P-LIP-21-73, 2021-2023). Coordinator and researcher: Prof. Dr Irina Melnikova. Researcher: Dr Jurgita Katkuvienė.
Main publication:
1. Katkuvienė, Jurgita. 2022. Vizualiosios poezijos skaitymo strategijos: semiotinė prieiga ir praktinis pritaikymas [Strategies for reading visual poetry: a semiotic approach and practical application]. Semiotika, 17: 264–296. https://doi.org/10.15388/Semiotika.2022 [the article was published in 2023]
Text as a hedgerow. (Research Council of Lithuania, National Lithuanian Studies Programme 2016-2024, grant S-LIP-21-11, May 2021 – September 2023. Coordinator and researcher: Prof. Dr Paulius V. Subačius.
Main publication:
1. Subačius P. V. 2023. Klaida? Ar tokių išvis būna... Naujasis Židinys-Aidai, 7: 27–31. ISSN 1392-6845.
Translation and Censorship under Conditions of Soviet Ideology. Research Council of Lithuania. Researcher groups project (S-MIP-21-45), project coordinator Prof. Dr N. Maskaliūnienė, April 2021–March 2024. Researchers: Prof. Dr P. V. Subačius, Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Keršytė.
Main publication:
1. Subačius, P.V. 2023. Rainbow without the Sun: Textual Refraction in Soviet-era Translations (in Lith.). Vertimo Studijos/Studies in Translation, 16: 157–167. https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/vertimo-studijos/article/view/33339.
Academic Journal Semiotika. Research Council of Lithuania. Lithuanian Studies and Dissemination Programme (2016-2024). Reg. No. P-LIP-22-6. 2022–2024. Project coordinator: Prof. Dr Irina Melnikova.
Main publication:
1. Jevsejevas, P. (ed.). Semiotika 18, 2023. ISSN 1392-0219 | eISSN 2424-547X. https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/Semiotika/issue/view/2192
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. J. Levina, “T. S. Eliot in Two Minds: The Scientific and Phenomenal Poetics of The Waste Land.” International Conference Literature and Science 1922-2022, Universita di Roma, 30-31 March 2023. https://sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/literature-and-science/home.
2. J. Levina, “Authorial and editorial integrities in T. S. Eliot’s Collected Works.” The European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS) annual conference “Authorship, Identity, and Textual scholarship,” 13-14 April 2023, University of Kent, UK.
3. D. Gervytė, „The Living Dead, or The Multifunctional Authorial Agency“, Authorship, Identity, and Textual Scholarship: From Antiquity to Modern Times: 18th Annual Conference of The European Society for Textual Scholarship, University of Kent (GB), 13–14 April 2023: https://textualscholarship.eu/ests-2023/.
4. D. Gervytė, „The Motionless Draft, or the Imperfection of Genetic Imagination“, The Draft and Its Environs: From the Writer’s Desk to the Desktop, National Taivan University (Taivan), 27–29 September 2023. https://genesistaipei2023.wordpress.com/.
5. P. Jevsejevas, „The Human Realism of Animal Faces in Popular Narrative Film“, Feeling Skill Knowledge, The 13th Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (Helsinki), 7–9 June 2023: http://nordicsemiotics.org/?page_id=697.
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania)
Centre de recherches politiques (France)
Ohio University (USA)
University of Tartu (Estonia)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assist. Prof. Dr P. Jevsejevas
• board member of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies. http://nordicsemiotics.org
• peer reviewer of the journals Semiotika, Colloquia, Politologija, Literatūra
Assist. Prof. Dr J. Katkuvienė
• editorial board member and reviewer for the journal Semiotika. https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/Semiotika/about/editorialTeam
• reviewer of the journal Colloquia
Assoc. Prof. Dr N. Keršytė
• secretary of the editorial board and reviewer of the journal Semiotika. https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/Semiotika/about/editorialTeam
• supervisor of two doctoral students
• editorial board member and reviewer of the journal Acta semiotica. https://actasemiotica.com/index.php/as/organigramme
• member of the panel of the competition “Article of the Year 2022” organized by the Academic Summer Seminar “Islands of Literature”
Assoc. Prof. Dr J. Levina
• reviewer for the journals Acta Paedagogica Vilnensia, Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, Colloquia, Comparative Studies in Modernism (CoSMo)
• member of the Research Board of the Faculty of Philology
• reviewer of the disertation thesis of G. Bidlauskienė The Text & the City: Spaces of Vilnius in Lithuanian Literature and Poetical Documentary Film of the Second Half of the 20th Century
Prof. Dr I. Melnikova
• editor-in-chief of the journal Semiotika. https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/Semiotika/about/editorialTeam
• reviewer of the journals Colloquia, Respectus Philologicus, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Philologica
• supervisor of one doctoral student;
• chair of the Research Board of the Faculty of Philology
Assoc. Prof. Dr B. Meržvinskytė
• editorial board member and reviewer of the journal Semiotika. https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/Semiotika/about/editorialTeam
• reviewer of the journals Literatūra and Colloquia
Prof. Dr Habil. K. Nastopka
• editorial board member and reviewer of the journal Semiotika. https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/Semiotika/about/editorialTeam
• reviewer of the journals Colloquia, Semiotika
Prof. Dr P. V. Subačius
• editorial board member and reviewer of the journals LCAS Annuals, Studies in Church History, Fontes Historiae Lituaniae
• reviewer of the journals Archiwa, Biblioteki i Muzea Kościelne, Colloquia, Variants, Ab Imperio
• supervisor of two doctoral students
Prof. Dr A. Sverdiolas
• editorial board member of the journal Athena. https://www.athena.lt/editorial-board
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES
Prof. Dr P. V. Subačius
• board member of the Research Council of Lithuania
• expert of the Research Council of Lithuania
• expert of the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO (Memory of the World)
Prof. Dr I. Melnikova
• expert of the Estonian Research Council
Assoc. prof. Dr J. Levina
• expert at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences) https://nias.knaw.nl
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Prof. Dr Paulius V. Subačius published 3 articles on topical issues of Lithuanian literature in monthly cultural journal Naujasis Židinys-Aidai, and was interviewed by Polish journal:
Tekstologia po litewsku: Rozmowa Dariusza Pachockiego i Wojciecha Kruszewskiego z Pauliusem V. Subačiusem // Sztuka Edycji. – 2023. – Vol. 1. – P. 145–152. – ISSN 2084-7963 (print). – ISSN 2391-7903 (online). – https://doi.org/10.12775/SE.2023.0014.
He also gave 33 commentaries on different issues of literature, culture, religion etc. in television, and radio programmes as well as popular media portals. E.g.:
https://www.delfi.lt/plius/pasaulis/didziausiu-galvos-skausmu-rusams-tapes-valancius-buvo-paruoses-aisku-plana-imperija-turi-griuti.d?id=92259417.
https://www.delfi.lt/spausdinti/?id=92798597;
2. Prof. Dr (hp) A. Sverdiolas had a talk in the popular cultural and philosophical podcast Homo Cultus. Between the Past and the Future with S. Čelutka: https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000311437/homo-cultus-kam-priklauso-kalba-kas-yra-kalbos-suverenas-pokalbis-su-arunu-sverdiolu?fbclid=IwAR1nZbTWgVVrDXfKxQJUe7nQbe4mAby8A6dPKunm3DgJeoF0EaDZi2hmRCM.
CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Universiteto g. 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
E-mail:
Head – Dr Dovilė Kuzminskaitė
STAFF
Associate professors: Dr A. Kučinskienė, Dr D. Kuzminskaitė, Dr I. Vidugirytė-Pakerienė.
Assistant professors: Dr M. Sebastià-Sáez.
Doctoral student: G. Bidlauskienė.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• History of the Spanish and Latin American literatures
• Comparative Studies in East and Central Europe Literature
• Comparative Literature Theory
• Feminist Theory
• Translation Studies
• Literary Urban Studies
RESEACH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2023
Project Supported by the University Budget
Comparative Literature Studies. Assoc. Prof. Dr I. Vidugirytė-Pakerienė. 2023–2026.
The goal of this project is to study literary, egodocumentary, and media texts and literary field in a comparative, interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective focusing on female identity and urban literary studies. In 2023, the group continued work expanding their field of research in Spanish, Lithuanian and East and Central European literature, participated in conferences, carried out project work and were active in research dissemination.
Main Publication:
1. María Sebastià Sáez. 2023. Una aproximación a la Revolución francesa a través del epistolario del jesuita expulso Manuel Lassala Sangermán (‘An approach to the French Revolution through Suppressed Jesuit Manuel Lassala Sangermán’s Personal Letters’). In: S.A. Ștefan (ed) Guerras poetizadas y escritura polémica en la Edad Moderna [Poetized Wars and Controversial Writing in the Modern Age]. Editura Universității din București. 45–65.
National Research Projects
Women’s City in Contemporary Lithuanian Literature: places, territories, identities. Research Council of Lithuania. Research funding measure – Researcher Group project, (2023-2026). Coordinator and researcher: Assoc. Prof. I. Vidugirytė-Pakerienė. Participant: Prof. G. Beconytė (cartography).
The project aims to explore the significance of the city as a geographical, social and architectural space in articulating the issues of identity and subjectivity in contemporary Lithuanian women's literature, and to research the urban aspects of women's creative work. This year project activities included collecting research data, presentations at the conference „The Urban Cultural Space: Baltic Narratives“ and academic summer school „Islands of Literature“, and two traineeships at Utrecht University and Trinity College (Dublin).
International Research Projects
MotherNet (European Commission — Research Executive Agency — European Union’s Horizon 2020. 952366 - WIDESPREAD-05-2020 H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5 (Developing a new Network of Researchers on Contemporary European Motherhood)), under direction of Dr E. Kačkutė-Hagan, Vilnius University (Lithuania), Uppsala University (Sweden), Maynooth University (Ireland). 2020–2023. Researchers: Assist. Prof. Dr D. Kuzminskaitė, Assist. Prof. Dr M. Sebastia-Saez.
The overall goal of the MotherNet project is to connect researchers from the VU Thinking Motherhood group with experts from the two partner universities and their research networks to stimulate innovative, cross-disciplinary, and policy-relevant research on motherhood in Europe. The research activities in 2023: 3 presentations at international conferences, traineeship of D. Kuzminskaitė at Uppsala University, publications.
Main publications:
1. María Sebastià Sáez. 2023. Wimbush, A., Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile, Liverpool University Press. Contemporary Women's Writing, 16 (3): 409-410. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpac017.
2. María Sebastià Sáez (2023). La reformulación del mito de Ifigenia en Le crime du comte Neville de Amélie Nothomb: el sacrificio humano como elemento de perversidad (‘Amélie Nothomb’s Le crime du comte Neville, a Versión of Iphigenia Myth: Human Sacrifice as an Element of Perversity’). In A. Sánchez i Bernet & Carmen Sánchez-Mañas (Eds.), El mal en las literaturas clásicas y su recepción (‘Evil in Classical Literature and its Reception’, pp. 149-160). Ediciones Clásicas.
MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS
University of Valencia (Spain)
University of Bucharest (Romania)
Uppsala University (Sweden)
Maynooth University (Ireland)
University Roma Tre (Italy)
Tampere University (Finland)
University of Limoge (France)
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Kučinskienė
• reviewer of the journals Colloquia, Literatūra.
Assist. Prof. Dr M. Sebastià-Sáez
• Fellow of Research Center SEMS (Spanish Early Modern Studies) under direction of Dr Silvia Stefan, University of Bucharest (Romania);
• Fellow of Research Group GIRLC (Grup d’Investigació en la Recepció de les Literatures Clàssiques), under direction of Prof. Jordi Redondo Sánchez, University of Valencia (Spain).
Assoc. Prof. Dr I. Vidugirytė-Pakerienė
• member of the Doctoral Committee at the Faculty of Philology
• supervisor of Gintarė Bidlauskienė's doctoral studies
• reviewer of the journals Colloquia, Semiotica
BEST PRESENTATIONS DELIVERED AT CONFERENCES ABROAD
1. Mintarė Dargytė & María Sebastià Sáez „Violencia social y homosexualidad reprimida en El público y Así que pasen cinco años de Federico García Lorca“ (‚Social violence and repressed homosexuality in Federico García Lorca‘s El público and Así que pasen cinco años‘), at the 23rd WISPS Annual Conference, University of Warwick (UK), 11/11/2023.
2. Dovilė Kuzminskaitė. “Pregnant, Alone and Silent: Representation of Pregnancy in Maternasis by Núria Pompeia” (54th annual NEMLA Conference, Niagara Falls, 23-26 March 2023).
3. Dovilė Kuzminskaitė, plenary paper “Voces desde el margen: traducción y difusión de la literatura lituana”, Seminario internacional “Descubriendo libros y autores europeos: recientes traducciones de las literaturas de la Europa del Este”, Universidad de Granada, 14-15 June 2023.
MOST IMPORTANT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS RECEIVED FOR R&D ACTIVITIES
1. Aistė Kučinskienė, Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas’ Prize, established by the Lithuanian Writers' Union, the Lithuanian Journalists' Union, and the National Association of Journalists.
MOST IMPORTANT PARTICIPATION CASES OF RESEARCHERS IN WORKING GROUPS OR COMMISSIONS SET UP BY STATE AUTHORITIES, STATE AND MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS, AND BUSINESS ENTITIES
Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Kučinskienė
• chair of the Literature Council of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania;
Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Kuzminskaitė
• consultant for Latin America literature at publishing house “Kitos Knygos“
• advising assistant for projects submissions at Vilnius Central Library
Assoc. Prof. Dr I. Vidugirytė-Pakerienė
• expert at Lithuanian Research Council
MOST IMPORTANT RESEARCH DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES
1. Dr A. Kučinskienė gave 3 lectures about Lithuanian and Spanish literature for secondary school teachers and studens, published translations from the Spanish literature, commented on the most popular Lithuanian awards in literature and literary scholarship http://www.satenai.lt/2023/01/27/ka-ir-kam-dave-k-a-2-0-2-3/; she gave introductory lectures on Spanish (at the Week of the Spanish Culture) and Lithuanian literature (for French publishers at Vilnius Book Fair), ant was invited to talks on National Radio:
https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000254667/ryto-allegro-po-knygos-apdovanojimu-k-a-2-0-2-3-viltys-ir-ryztas-knygu-kurejams-demesi-rodyti-kasmet.
2. https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000296220/kalbos-rytas-dr-aiste-kucinskiene-zmogus-klysta-ir-todel-yra-kurybiskesnis-uz-dirbtini-intelekta.
Dr D. Kuzminskaitė is an author of monthly book reviews and interviews on National Radio and TV programmes Ryto allegro, Time for Culture and on its portal lrt.lt (16 radio issues and 16 articles). Her activities on the National Radio and TV:
https://www.lrt.lt/author/dovile-kuzminskaite-1275195. Also, Kuzminskaitė gave invited lectures, one of them at the Readers‘ Clubs Convention in the National Library (28 September 2023), and published the article „Ode to Reading“ in the cultural weekly Šiaurės Atėnai: http://www.satenai.lt/2023/10/27/ode-skaitymui/
3. Assoc. Prof. Dr I. Vidugirytė-Pakerienė was the invited discutant to the panel “The Eastern border in the European imaginary” at the international debates "Culture and the imaginary in the face of war", organized by French Institute and Vilnius University, 30 November – 1 December, 2023: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid022xyfTWUxKJBHFgbrngcBL3nZ3a5eP5Lvz7YUAsuryKD98dDBShB7hQZ9bXtrDqxpl&id=100015016599654.
She was also invited to give presentations at the academic summer schools „Baltos lankos“, and „Literatūros salos“, and to take part in the talk at the programme of Lithuanian National Radio „Homo Cultus. A Man and a City. Literary Vilnius“: https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000288118/homo-cultus-zmogus-ir-miestas-literaturinis-vilnius