A seminar "One day after Parliament elections: women in politics" [2012-10-15]
15 October 2012 Gender studies centre organized a seminar "One day after Parliament elections: women in politics". In the seminar Parliament elections results were overviewed with political scientist prof. Irmina Matonytė and politician Agnė Zuokienė.
A seminar "Six days till Parliament elections: women and politics" [2012-10-09]
9 October 2012 Gender studies centre organized a seminar "Six days till Parliament elections: women and politics" assoc. prof. Giedre Purvaneckienė.
A seminar „Special bodies" – the discourse on gender and the body in the German Disability Movement and international Disability Studies" [2012-09-25]
25 September 2012 Gender studies centre organized a seminar „Special bodies" – the discourse on gender and the body in the German Disability Movement and international Disability Studies", dr. Swantje Köbsell (Bremen university, Germany).
A seminar "Interrelationality in Baltic Women's Deportation and Gulag Narratives" [2012-09-10]
10 September 2012 was organized a seminar "Interrelationality in Baltic Women's Deportation and Gulag Narratives" dr. Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (Tartu university). Focusing on the representation of suffering in the deportation stories of Estonian women within a comparative frame of similar narratives by Latvian and Lithuanian women, the objective of the research has been to reflect on different representation and conceptualisation possibilities of the Baltic experience of the hurtfulness of the repressions of the Soviet regime where gender emerges as an important category of delineation of the impact and implications of such experience.
International conference "The Soviet Past in the Post-Soviet Present: Ethics of Oral History and Memory Studies" [2012-09-06]
Prof. Dalia Leinarte, The Gender Studies Centre, Vilnius University, Lithuania, and prof. Melanie Ilic, Department of Humanities, University of Gloucestershire, UK, on 6-7 September 2012 organized international conference "The Soviet Past in the Post-Soviet Present: Ethics of Oral History and Memory Studies". The conference had its origins in a roundtable discussion at the ICCEES VIII World Congress in Stockholm in July 2010 on ‘Researching Women’s Lives: Official Perspectives and Lived Experience’. The roundtable touched on a number of as yet unexplored issues relating to the ethics of conducting oral history when researching women’s lives in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Read more in the articles: Melanie Ilic: Vilnius Conference and Kelly Highnett: The View East Central and Eastern Europe, Past and Present