2024

Panel “Reflections on Public Memory: Local and National Histories in Transition“ (panel moderator: Jogilė Ulinskaitė, Annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference “The Year of Elections: Lithuania, Europe, the World”, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 6 December 2024)

Keynote presentation. Jan Claas Behrends, “Russia going from Totalitarianism back to Totalitarianism - Stalin to Putin”. Moderated by Violeta Davoliūtė, Annual Lithuanian Political Science Conference “The Year of Elections: Lithuania, Europe, the World”, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 6 December 2024.

Panel “Public History as a Tool of Democracy. Lithuanian Memory Institutions in Context" (panel moderator: Violeta Davoliūtė, conference “Memory Institutions and the State”, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, 7 November 2024)

Ignė Rasickaitė, “Typology of Museums and their Relationship with Communities in the Vilnius Region”, Memory Institutions and the State, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, 7 November 2024.

Neringa Latvytė, “From Gatekeepers to Collaborators: The Evolution of Museum Communication and its Impact on Democracy in Lithuanian Memory Institutions”, Memory Institutions and the State, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, 7 November 2024.

Rūta Matimaitytė, “Memory Activism as a Tool Against Silence: Wolf Children”, Memory Institutions and the State, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, 7 November 2024.

Liucija Vervečkienė, “Memorial Home Museums as Slow Memory Institutions“, Memory Institutions and the State, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, 7 November 2024.

Dovilė Budrytė, “Knotted Memories: Depicting the Crimes of Nazism and Communism in Lithuania‘s Leading Museums”, Memory Institutions and the State, Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania (online), Vilnius, Lithuania, 7 November 2024.

Panel discussion “Black Ribbon Day” - Remembering the Nazi-Soviet Pact“ (panel moderator: Christopher Burns, speakers: Violeta Davoliūtė, Roger Moorhouse, Joanna Urbanek), House of European History, Brussels, Belgium, 22 August 2024.

Violeta Davoliūtė, Dovilė Budrytė, Rūta Vyšniauskaitė, Ignė Rasickaitė, “Data Collection in Public History Projects: The Europast Research”, EUROPAST Mid-Project Conference: Public History and Community-Based Research, 5-6 July 2024.

Neringa Latvytė, “Unveiling Layers of Memory: Expploring the Communicative Dynamics of Holocaust Memorial Sites in Lithuania”, EUROPAST Mid-Project Conference: Public History and Community-Based Research, 5-6 July 2024.

Uršulė Toleikytė, “Social Theatre: Artistic-Social Processes and Transformative Potential”, EUROPAST Mid-Project Conference: Public History and Community-Based Research, 5-6 July 2024. 

Violeta Davoliūtė, “Decolonization in the Baltic States? Revisiting the concept of culturalr esistance under foreign rule”, H3 – Contamination or Implication? Confronting the Memory of Collaboration in the Baltic States, chair: Walderez Ramalho (State University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), 21-24 May 2024. 

Dovilė Budrytė, “Heroic Resistance” and the Securitization of International Relations”, H3 – Contamination or Implication? Confronting the Memory of Collaboration in the Baltic States, chair: Walderez Ramalho (State University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), 21-24 May 2024.

Viktorija Rimaitė-Beržiūnienė, "Memory Institutions in Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania: Between Historical Research and Political Instrumentalization", ISA2024 Annual Convention Putting Relationality at the Centre of International Studies San Fransisco, 3-6 April 2024.

2023

Violeta Davoliūtė, "The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism and the Soviet Mass Deportations of June 1941", International Conference Ideologies of Hate and Hope in Modern Jewish History, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, 28 November 2023.

Violeta Davoliūtė, "The Securitization of Memory and the Practice of Public History in the Baltic States", Genocides and Memories: Russia’s War Against Ukraine in Comparative Perspective, November 13, 2023, 12:30 pm - November 15, 2023, 4:45 pm.

Liucija Vervečkienė, "Narration and Re-narration: Memory Research in a Family Setting", "Narrating Lives". International Conference on Storytelling, (Auto)Biography and (Auto)Ethnography, University of Malta, 26-27 August 2023.

Violeta Davoliūtė, International research network "New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies" open lecture by Violeta Davoliūtė "The Transnational and Transgenerational Migration of Memory", 30 May 2023.

Violeta Davoliūtė, “Public Spaces and the Legacy of Soviet Occupation in the Baltic States”, Europe Lab 2023 (Forum for Young Professionals), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 11-15 September 2023.

Viktorija Rimaitė-Beržiūnienė, „Public Heritage as a Source of State Security and Insecurity: the case of Lithuania“, International AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) Conference PRAGUE-HERITAGES, Prague, Czech Republic, 28-30 June 2023.

Panels (2nd PoSoCoMeS Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia, 20-23 September 2023):

Panel I Public History in Practice: State Initiative and Public Participation in the Co-creation of Narratives of Collective Trauma in Central and Eastern Europe I (online)

Odeta Rudling, “Juozas Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis’ memory in the Light of the 80th Anniversary of 1941 Uprising in Lithuanian SSR: The Debates of the Public Space”, 2nd PoSoCoMeS (Working group of the Post-socialist and Comparative Memory Studies) Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia, 20-23 September 2023 (online).

Sebastian Graf, “Art and Affect – Assembling Ukrainian Virtual Museums of War”, 2nd PoSoCoMeS (Working group of the Post-socialist and Comparative Memory Studies) Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia, 20-23 September 2023 (online).

Per Anders Rudling, “Memories of the Belorussian Peoples' Republic at its 100th Anniversary”, 2nd PoSoCoMeS (Working group of the Post-socialist and Comparative Memory Studies) Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia, 20-23 September 2023 (online).

Tomas Sniegon, “Soviet Marshal Konev’s Posthumous Battle of Municipal District Prague 6”, 2nd PoSoCoMeS (Working group of the Post-socialist and Comparative Memory Studies) Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia, 20-23 September 2023 (online).

Panel II Public History in Practice: State Initiative and Public Participation in the Co-creation of Narratives of Collective Trauma in Central and Eastern Europe II

Dovilė Budrytė, “Memory Wars and Mnemonic Cooperation: The Relationship of the Roma Holocaust Narratives to the Leading Trauma Stories in Lithuania”, 2nd PoSoCoMeS (Working group of the Post-socialist and Comparative Memory Studies) Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia, 20-23 September 20.

Violeta Davoliūtė, “The Baltic Model of Civic-Patriotic History: Engaging National and European Audience”, 2nd PoSoCoMeS (Working group of the Post-socialist and Comparative Memory Studies) Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia, 20-23 September 2023.

Viktorija Rimaitė-Beržiūnienė, “Memories in Conflict: Exploring Representations of the Traumas of the Nazi and Soviet Occupations in the Public Sphere in Lithuania”, 2nd PoSoCoMeS (Working group of the Post-socialist and Comparative Memory Studies) Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia, 20-23 September 2023.

Liucija Vervečkienė, “Commemorating heroic armed resistance: intersection between state-level and family memory“, 2nd PoSoCoMeS (Working group of the Post-socialist and Comparative Memory Studies) Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia, 20-23 September 2023.