Presentation of the book "Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality. Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945 – 1970" [2011-02-20]
20 February 2011 and 19 November 2010 at Vilnius University Library, P. Smuglevičius hall and Vilnius Book Fair 2011 were organized presentations of the book Leinarte, D. Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality. Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945 – 1970. Rodopi : Amsterdam/New York, 2010. Read more
Participants: philosopher Leonidas Donskis,editor Rodopi publishing house seria "On the Boundary of Two Worlds. Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics" and Ramunė Marcinkevičiūtė (Ramutė Rachlevičiūtė).
A seminar about Lithuanian Women Parliamentarians [2010-10-20]
20 October 2010 at Vilnius university library was organized a seminar "Lithuanian Women-Parliamentarians: what and how happens when traditions and organizational structures of political representation undergo big changes" prof. Irmina Matonytė, ISM University of Management and Economics, Kaunas-Vilnius, Lithuania.
A seminar "Surgery of beauty: pro and contra" [2010-10-11]
11 October 2010 doctor of plastic surgery dr. Darius Radzevičius on the seminar "Surgery of beauty: pro and contra" talked about plastic surgery practices.
International conference "The Last Volumes of the Collection: Trajectories of Autobiographical Writing" [2010-10-06]
6-8 October 2010 Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and Vilnius University Gender Studies Centre organized international conference "The Last Volumes of the Collection: Trajectories of Autobiographical Writing". The conference aims were to test, revise, and designate the limits of contemporary approaches to the film analysis. Main topics:
-The limits of cinematic text;
- Film as text or/and event;
- Alternative coherences;
- Spectators and spectatorial regimes;
- (Re)contextualization of soviet cinema.
The conference was supported by Lithuania State Science and Studies Foundation.
A seminar "The History of Feminism in the Academy and the Futures of Gender Studies" [2010-10-05]
5 October 2010 at Vilnius university was orgamized prof. Sidonie Smith, University of Michigan, USA public seminar "The History of Feminism in the Academy and the Futures of Gender Studies". With reference to the field of women's life writing, this presentation briefly surveys the diverse strands of feminist theory from the 1970s to 2000. It then explores recent projects involving women's life writing that point to possible futures for transnational feminist alliances and knowledge production.