Conferences [2012-11-23]
On 31 March 2017 was organized national scientific conference
"25 years Gender Studies in Lithuania" at Vilnius University.
Organizer: Gender Studies Centre, Vilnius University.
Conference organizing commitee:
Assoc. Prof. dr. Lijana Stundžė (Chairwoman)
Prof. (HP) dr. Dalia Leinartė
Dr. Deimantė Šėporaitytė – Vismantė
Assoc. Prof. dr. Ilona Michailovič
Dr. Rasa Lužytė
Laima Statulevičienė (Secretary)
On 5 - 6 September 2013 was organized international conference
"Cohabitation in Europe: Through Space and Time" 
at Vilnius University.
Organizers dr. Jan Kok, Radboud University Nijmegene www.ru.nl (The Netherlands), and prof. dr. Dalia Leinartė, Gender Studies Centre, Vilnius University.
The conference was supported by Research Council of Lithuania.
On 6 - 7 September 2012 was organized international conference "The Soviet Past in the Post-Soviet Present: Ethics of Oral History and Memory Studies".
Read more:
Melanie Ilic: Vilnius Conference
Kelly Highnett: The View East Central and Eastern Europe, Past and Present
On 30 September 2011 was organized academic conference "M.K. Čiurlionis and Sofija Čiurlionienė- Kymantaitė" at Vilnius University Gender Studies Centre. M.K. Čiurlionis and Sofija Kymantaitė formed part of the newly emerged cultural phenomenon in Lithuania at the beginning of the 20th century, a marriage of two equal and equally educated individuals. Sofija Kymantaitė, who returned Čiurlionis to the Lithuanian culture and who did much to perpetuate his heritage, is often thought of as an "unequal talent" to that of her husband's. The conference strives to look at the two creative people together, as united by common objectives, ideals, and influenced by the ideas of the beginning of the 20th century.
Sofija Kymantaitė - Čiurlionienė (in the middle) in Geneva, 1930
On 3 - 4 March 2011 was organized international conference "Women's Entrepreneurship in the OSCE Region: Trends and Good Practices". Programme
It was organized by the OSCE Gender Section in cooperation with the Lithuanian Ministry of Social Security Labour and the Gender Studies Centre, Vilnius University. Funded by Andorra, Germany and USA.
On 6 - 8 October 2010 was organized international conference "The Last Volumes of the Collection: Trajectories of Autobiographical Writing". Organizers: Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and Vilnius University Gender Studies Centre.
The conference was supported by Research Council of Lithuania.
Procreational similarities of young men: cultural norms, individual desires and experiences [2014-06-02]
Procreational similarities of young men: cultural norms, individual desires and experiences
The first year of the project “Procreational similarities of young men: cultural norms, individual desires and experiences” is drawing to a close. All the intended tasks have been completed, 60 semi-structured interviews with young men (aged 19-34) from different locations in Lithuania, who are childless and from different social groups. The main instrument in this research were questions about young men’s concepts of fatherhood, other men’s assessments of fatherhood, procreational intentions and their change, readiness for becoming a father, their image of children and imagined activities and child care, and potential fatherhood scenarios. Much attention was given to questions about the research participants’ natural families, their relationships with their fathers, mothers and other close people. The scientists note that young men’s experiences in their own birth families and relationships with their immediate family impact on their procreational choices and concepts of fatherhood and manliness. During the interview, significant attention was also given to romantic relationships and their connections with fatherhood, as the nature and quality of relations with a partner and their existing experience in romantic relationships is very closely associated with young men’s procreational intentions and their realization. The group of questions on sexual behaviour and reproductive health helps reveal men’s procreational consciousness, their attitudes towards their own and their partner’s reproductive health, and their understanding of responsibility in family planning matters.
Projects [2012-11-23]
The procreational particularities of young men: cultural norms, individual desires and experiences – project results
In seeking to reveal the content and expression of the procreational particularities of young men, plus the social factors forming them in Lithuania, as part of the implementation of the project a qualitatively new, multidisciplinary study was conducted analyzing the relationship between procreational aspirations, visions of fatherhood, and contraceptive practices and cultural masculinity models, features of romantic relationships, and fantasies of a good life. Sixty semi-structured interviews with young males (aged 19-34) were conducted who live in various locations in Lithuania, who were childless and from different social groups. A subjectivist interpretational methodology was applied in the project, revealing the subjective experiences of the research participants.
Five publications were written based on the project results (references to these publications are given below). The research results were also presented to different researcher and practioner audiences in three national and four international conferences that took place in Lithuania and abroad.
Scientific publications prepared based on the project results:
Tereškinas, A. 2014. Masculinity Scripts, Good Life and Familial Intentions: the Case of Young Lithuanian Men. Social Sciences. Nr.4 (86). http://socsc.ktu.lt/index.php/Social/article/view/7882/4443
Tretjakova, V., Šumskaitė, L., Šėporaitytė - Vismantė, D. 2014. Fertility desires and visions of fatherhood: individual preferences of young heterosexual men in Lithuania. Filosofija. Sociologija / Philosophy. Sociology. T. 25. Nr. 4, Lietuvos mokslų akademija. p. 300–307. http://www.lmaleidykla.lt/filosofijasociologija/2014/4/7049
Šėporaitytė – Vismantė, D. 2015. Judėjimo negalią turinčių jaunų vyrų prokreaciniai lūkesčiai ir tėvystės vizijos, STEPP: socialinė teroija, empirija, politika ir praktika, Nr. 10. http://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/socialine-teorija-empirija-politika-ir-praktika/article/view/4860/3115
Šumskaitė, L. 2014. Jaunų homoseksualių ir biseksualių vyrų prokreaciniai lūkesčiai Lietuvoje, Kultūra ir visuomenė: socialinių tyrimų žurnalas, Nr. 3, Vytauto Didžiojo u-tas. http://culturesociety.vdu.lt/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/4_Sumskaite_Jaunu_homoseksualiu_biseksualiu_vyru_prokreaciniai.pdf
Tretjakova, V. 2014. Vyriškumas ir kontraceptinės praktikos: jaunų vyrų Lietuvoje atvejis“, Kultūra ir visuomenė: socialinių tyrimų žurnalas, Nr. 3, Vytauto Didžiojo u-tas. http://culturesociety.vdu.lt/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/5_Tretjekova_Vyriskumas_kontraceptines_praktikos.pdf
Barbora Didžiokienė: memories of the little artist. Vol. II prep-work
The purpose of this project is to conduct the preparation work towards release of Vol. II of artist Barbora Didžiokienė’s journal.
Barbora Didžiokienė (1896–1976), was a famous Russian-born Lithuanian painter, graphic artist and stage designer from the inter-war period, and wife of painter Vladas Didžiokas, whose life story-journal is kept in Kaunas in the National M.K.Čiurlionis Art Museum. The Gender Studies Centre, in cooperation with art researcher Ramutė Rachlevičiūtė, released Vol. I in 2011 (616 p.). This was not only a description of a foreign female artist’s youth (until she turned 25), but also a valuable art history and historical source on the early 20th century (from 1896 to 1921), richly illustrated with unique documentary photographs and reproductions of the artist’s works. Vol. II shall continue with Barbora’s life story and creativity in Lithuania (from 1921 to 1976), presenting the drama of “two artists under one roof”. This will give readers a complete introduction to the life of this overlooked yet very important individual in art history from the first half of the 20th century, as well as present her creative output.
Project leader – prof. Dalia Leinartė.
Project duration – 2013 July– 2013 November.
Project cofinanced by the Culture Support Foundation.
Visiting researchers [2012-11-23]
Dr. Solveig Bergman
Director of Nordic Gender Institute (NIKK), Norway, ES Socrates/Erasmus programme for non-academic organizations, in the autumn of the year 2011 has given a lecture "Gender, Family Policies and Working Life in a Nordic Perspective".
Dr. Melanie Ilič
University of Gloucestershire, Centre for Russian and East European Studies at University of Birmingham, UK, in the spring semester of the year 2011 has given a lecture "Oral history".
Prof. Sidonie Smith
Professor in Michigan university, US, plenary speaker in the international conference "The Last Volumes of the Collection: Trajectories of Autobiographical Writing", in the autumn of the year 2010 has given a lecture "The History of Feminism in the Academy and the Future of Gender Studies".
Dr. Mikolaj Szoltysek
Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany, ES Socrates/Erasmus programme for non-academic organizations, in the autumn semester of the year 2010 has given a lecture "The East - Central European Family in Comparative Historical Perspective".
Prof. Rae Lesser Blumberg
Professor in Sociology, University of Virginia, US, in the summer of the year 2010 has given a lecture "The Great Gap: How the World Textbooks Overlook Over 40 Years of Women's Progress".
Prof. Dr. Jan Kok
Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Belgium, ES Socrates/Erasmus programme for non-academic organizations, in the pring semester of the year 2010 has given a lecture "Family systems and extramarital births: variation across time and space in Europe 1900 - 2000"
Assoc. Prof. Serap Palaz
Balikesir University , Turkey, ES Socrates/Erasmus programme, in the autumn semester of the year 2009 has given a lecture "Gender Segregation in Turkish Institutes of Higher Education Employment".
Tilly Vriend
Aletta, Institute for Women's History, Netherland, ES Socrates/Erasmus programme for non-academic organizations, in the autumn semester of the year 2009 has given a lecture "Women's memory: the Relevance of Preserving Women's Cultural Heritage".
Dr. Malene Vest Hansen
Danish Association of Art Critics, Denmark, ES Socrates/Erasmus programme for non-academic organizations, in the spring semester of the year 2009 has given a lecture, "Public Places/ Private Spaces: Investigations by Contemporary Artists".
Assist. Prof. Dr. Senol Yaprak Afyon
Kocatepe University, Turkey, ES Socrates/Erasmus programme, in the year 2007 has given lectures about women at work.
Prof. Christina Parnell
Erfurt University, Germany, in the year 2003-2004 has given lectures on Interculturality and Gender, Gender discussion in East and West.
Assoc. Prof. Gerd Battrup, Assoc. Prof. Maurice Hartmark
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, in the year 1999 – 2000 were given lectures on „Gender and Law: Perspective of Lithuania".
G. Virdee
Professor from USA in the year 1999 -2000 has given lectures on „Media and Massculture: Gender, Nationality and Identity".
Dr. Dean Frazier Johnson
Louisiana State University, USA, Civic Education project, in the year 1994 – 1995 has given lectures on „Gender and Aging", „Introduction to Sociology".
Fulbright Fellowship
Jennifer Lynn Bovair – Danulevičius
Michigan University, USA, in the year 2003 -2004 has given lectures on Postsocialism and Gender.
Dr. Karen Garner
Florida International University, USA, in the year 2003 has given lectures on American Women's History and Introduction to Gender Studies.
Dr. Rebecca Morrow
Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, in the year 2001-2002 has given lectures on Feminist Etnography.
Assoc. Prof. Bruce Nordstrom - Loeb
St. Olaf College, USA, in the year 1997-1998 has given lectures „Marriage and Family".
Public lecture about sexual harassment, 26 Feb at 3 pm [2018-02-19]
After public hearing about possible cases of sexual harassment in Lithuania and abroad the Gender Studies Centre at Vilnius University Faculty of Communication invite you to a public lecture:
"Sexual Harassment or Flirt: Where Are the Bounds?"
The lecture will be held in Lithuanian.
Lecturers: Assoc. Prof. dr. Lijana Stundžė and Assoc. Prof. dr. Ilona Michailovič.
The lecture will take place in room 210, Saulėtekio ave. 9, 1st building, on 26 Feb at 3 pm.
