2018 metų AABS konferencija Stanfordo universitete pažymėjo dvi svarbias datas – 50-ąsias AABS (Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies) įkūrimo metines ir Lietuvos, Latvijos ir Estijos Nepriklausomybių šimtmetį.

Konferencijoje dalyvavo akademikai, besidomintys Baltijos šalių studijomis ir kuriantys ryšius tarp Baltijos šalių ir Stanfordo universiteto tyrinėtojų. Konferenciją organizavo AABS ir Stanfordo universiteto biblioteka ir archyvai. Daugiau informacijos apie konferenciją: http://library.stanford.edu/node/142477.

„Šie žmonės kuria tiltus tarp Baltijos šalių ir likusio pasaulio.” Darius Gaidys, Lietuvos Respublikos generalinis konsulas Los Andžele

Jūsų dėmesiui pilnas Lietuvos atstovų, prezentavusių konferencijoje sąrašas.

Pranešėjai

❈ Dr. Agnia Grigas, Atlantic Council

KEYNOTE: 50 YEARS OF TRANSFORMING GEOPOLITICS AND BALTIC STUDIES

❈ Lina Uzukauskaite, University of Salzburg

Lithuanian Poets Write about the Holocaust: A Poetry Anthology

❈ Vilius Ivanauskas, Lithuanian Institute of History

The Trajectories of Jewish Writers in Soviet Lithuania: Between Titular Culture and Imperial Discourse

❈ Birutė Triškaitė, Research Institute of the Lithuanian Language

The Acquisition of the Lithuanian Language in the 18th Century: The Case of Johann Jacob Quandt

❈ Gediminas Lankauskas, University of Regina

On Lingering Soviet Statuary and Biosocialist Remembrance in Lithuania

❈ Natalija Arlauskaite, Vilnius University

Patchworked Soviet Body: Media Campaign for Rasa Prasceviciute Reattachment Surgery, 1983–1984

❈ Daiva Markelis, Eastern Illinois University

WAR TRAUMA AND THE EXPERIENCE OF THE SECOND GENERATION: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

❈ Julija Sukys, University of Missouri

War trauma and the experience of the second generation: a roundtable discusssion

❈ Birute Putrius, Independent scholar

War trauma and the experience of the second generation: a roundtable discusssion

❈ Egidijus Balandis, Vytautas Magnus University 

Lithuanian-American Liberalism in the 1920s and 1930s

❈ Rasa Navickaite, Central European University 

“The Earth was Sacred”: Romantic Images of Lithuania and Marija Gimbutas’ Scientific Persona

❈ Vilius Kubekas, Central European University

Lithuanian Catholic Intellectuals in the Search for a New Political Form During the 1930s

❈ Viktoras Bachmetjevas, Vytautas Magnus University 

Levinas’s Reception in Lithuania

❈ Darius Kucinskas, Kaunas University of Technology

An Idea of Lithuanian Independence and the Early Lithuanian Music Recordings in the United States

❈ Danute Petrauskaite, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

Cultural Cooperation of Soviet Lithuanian Institutions with Lithuanian Emigrants in the USA: Analysis of Musical Relations

❈ Rasa Murauskaitė, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

The International Image of Lithuanian Composers after the Restoration of Independence (1990–2018)

❈ Andrius Suminas, Vilnius University/National Library of Lithuania

Sources of Everyday News and Information: A Changing Landscape of Media Consumption in Lithuania

❈ Kristina Maikštėnienė, ISM University of Management and Economics

Personal Networks in Baltic Tech Innovators: The World is an Opportunity, Neighborhood is a Glass Ball?

❈ Gintarė Judžentytė, Vilnius University

Space Deixis in Lithuanian

❈ Ausra Park, Siena College, NY

Individualized Pathway to Political Success? The First Generation of Baltic Political Leaders and Their Legacies

❈ Tomas Janeliūnas, Vilnius University

Grybauskaite’s Doctrine: Main Principles Affecting the Posture of Lithuania’s President in International Relations

❈ Zilvinas Beliauskas, Vilnius Jewish Public Library

Lithuanian Identity Facing Challenges of the Past in Contemporary Global World

❈ Rasa Bieliauskaite, Institute of Individual Psychology

What Psychologist Can Find in the Basements of Expropriated and Demolished Buildings

❈ Anna Avidan, NGO Jerusalem of the North

Commemoration in Terms of Social Responsibility for the Choice of the Message

❈ Ramunė Bagdonaitė Stelmokienė, Vytautas Magnus University

Informal Learning of the Families Who Foster a Non-Relative Child: A Lithuanian Case

❈ Marija Dremaite, Vilnius University

Modern, Yet Nationally Distinctive? Discussion on the Baltic Postwar Architectural Regionalism

❈ Darius Furmonavicius, Lithuanian Research Centre

Occupation of the Königsberg Region by Soviet Russia in Comparative Perspective

❈ Tomas Balkelis, Lithuanian Institute of History

The Transformative Impact of War and Occupation on the Civilian Population in Lithuania during the Great War

❈ Vasilijus Safronovas, Klaipėda University

Former Invader Demands Pensions: “German” Communities of the First World War Experience in Interwar Lithuania

❈ Linas Kontrimas, Vilnius University

Political Process: From a Free to a Dependent Status

❈ Dalia Senvaityte, Vytautas Magnus University

Native Faith Paganisms in Contemporary Lithuania

❈ Dainius Genys, Vytautas Magnus University

The Life of Dreams through Lost Illusions? The Experiences of a Contemporary Lithuanian Émigré

❈ Ieva Juska, Miami University

Interactions of Invasive Species with Native Woody Plants: Parallels Between the Baltic Region and Midwest United States

❈ Jolanta Budriūnienė, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences

Documentary Heritage in the Library: New Forms of Dissemination

❈ Jurate Imbrasaite, Vytautas Magnus University

Traditional Voters or Postmodern Citizens? Citizenship Typology in Lithuania

❈ Birutė Miškiniene, Vilnius University Business School

Entrepreneurship Among Women

❈ Taurimas Valys, Vilnius University

Business School Entrepreneurship in Terms of Business Financing Alternatives

❈ Aistė Bimbirytė-Mackevičienė, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

The European Tradition in Lithuanian Collecting History in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

❈ Mindaugas Kavaliauskas, Artist, Art Curator

inCARnation: Visual Study of Automotive Culture in Lithuania (1990 to Present)

❈ Vaida Tretjakova, Lithuanian Social Research Centre

Women‘s Life Course Pathways to Childlessness in Lithuania

❈ Audronė Daraškevičienė, Lithuanian Institute of History

Learning Morality in the Soviet and Postsoviet Lithuania

❈ Jolanta Kuznecoviene, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences/Vytautas Magnus University

Dignity of Dying: Medical Practices vs. Legal Regulations

❈ Giedrius Subačius, University of Illinois at Chicago

A Real Person behind the Bride Character in Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” (1905–1906)

❈ Violeta Kelertas, University of Washington

The Story of Valdas Papievis’s Forgotten Manuscript

❈Vilma Zydziunaite, Vytautas Magnus University; St. Ignatius of Loyola College;

❈Vaida Jurgile, Vytautas Magnus University

Implementing the Intellectual Leadership of a Scholar through Visibility in Media: The Case of Lithuania

❈ Violeta Kaledaite, Vytautas Magnus University

Participial Structures in K. Donelaitis’ Metai (The Seasons): What Is Lost in Translation?

❈ Gintare Venzlauskaite, University of Glasgow

From Post-War West to Post-Soviet East: Manifestations of Displacement, Collective Memory, and Lithuanian Diasporic Experience

❈ Robert Vitas, Lithuanian Research and Studies Center

Lithuanian Research and Studies Center: The Next 100 Years

❈Viltė Migonytė-Petrulienė, Vytautas Magnus University

Leisure Culture as a Modern Phenomenon in the Baltic States: The Case of Lithuania (1918–1940)

❈ Vaidas Petrulis, Kaunas University of Technology

Kaunas 1919–1939: The Capital Inspired by the Modern Movement

❈ Kestutis Paul Zygas, Arizona State University

Shades of Vitruvius and Da Vinci in the Layout of St. Casimir’s Chapel

❈ Violeta Davoliūtė, Vilnius University

Nazi and Soviet War Propaganda in Lithuania and the Role of the Creative Intelligentsia

❈ Lina Kaminskaite-Jancoriene, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre 

Cinema under Stalin in the Baltics: Propaganda and Everyday Life

❈ Daiva Litvinskaite, the University of Illinois at Chicago

Food, Eating, and Appetite in Contemporary Lithuanian Women’s Prose

❈ Ginta Remeikis, Private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis/ClearView Communities

An Instance of Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma via Eating Disorder in Oksanen’s Stalin’s Cows

❈ Rima Žiūraitis, The Lithuanian Research and Studies Center

An Analysis of Gene Sharp’s Non-Violent Methodology in Freedom Movements using the Lithuanian Model

❈Svaja Vansauskas Worthington, University of Alaska Anchorage

In Defense of Nationalism: A Lithuanian Case – Stasys Šilingas’ “Testamentas Lietuvai”

❈ Grazina Kristy Sviderskyte, Vilnius University

Historical Thinking, Heroic Imagination, and the Birth of E-Hero

❈ Andrius Marcinkevicius, Lithuanian Social Research Centre

“Nobody Missed Them“: Reflection of History of Russian Ethnic Group in Contemporary Lithuanian Press

❈ Ausra Valanciauskiene, Vilnius University

Culture-Specific Items in Bilingual Dictionaries of Lithuanian

❈ Vilma Zubaitienė, Vilnius University

Dialectal Variation in the Dictionaries and Grammars of Lithuanian Minor (XVII-XIX c.)

❈ Ineta Dabašinskienė, Vytautas Magnus University

Conflicting vs. Harmonious Multilingualism: The Case of Language Development of Children in Lithuania

❈ Deividas Slekys, Vilnius University

Development of Lithuanian Military Thought under the Shadow of “Copy-Paste” Culture

❈ Egle Murauskaite, University of Maryland

Escalation Management in the Gray Zone: Transatlantic Insights on Lithuanian Security Challenges

❈ Justinas Lingevicius, European Integration Studies Centre

Survival of Small State: Lithuania’s Search for Security and Self-representation in Geopolitical Crisis

❈ Dainius Genys, Vytautas Magnus University

The Dynamic of Public Energy Security Perception in Lithuania

❈ Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

AABS: INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY

❈ Eglė Aleknaitė, Vytautas Magnus University

Migrants and Religion: Experiencing Religious Diversity in Lithuania and the UK

❈ Asta Zelenkauskaite, Drexel University

Media Literacy by Engaging Users through Social Media and User-Generated Content?

❈ Ruta Ziliukaite, Vilnius University

Explaining Development of Civil Society in Lithuania: Cultural Values and Path Dependency

❈ Arvydas Grišinas, Kaunas University of Technology

“Is This What Were We Fighting For?”: Mask-Identity and (In-)Authenticity in post-Soviet Lithuania

❈ Inga Gaizauskaite, Lithuanian Social Research Centre

Mapping Support for Democracy in the Baltic States during 1990–2017

❈ Jocelyn Bartkevicius, University of Central Florida  

LITHUANIAN-AMERICAN/CANADIAN WRITERS READ FROM THEIR WORK

❈ Diana Vidutis, Lithuanian-American Community, Inc.

Crowdsourcing the Translation of a Diary from Lithuanian into English

❈ Mindaugas Šinkūnas, Lithuanian Language Institute  

String Similarity Detection and Old Lithuanian Bible translations

❈ Milda Alisauskiene, Vytautas Magnus University

Some Features of Religious Pluralism in the Baltic States

❈ Jolanta Mickute, Vytautas Magnus University

The Vilner Trupe in Interwar Years: Art for Art’s Sake or for National Politics?

❈ Ruta Dapkunaite, Vytautas Magnus University 

Thinking about Immigration and Integration: Lithuanian Case for Understanding the Interaction between Citizens and Refugees

❈ Viktorija Benaityte, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington  

Has Transnational Identity Replaced Nation-State Based Identification? A Study of Lithuanian Migrants

❈ Liudvika Leisyte, Center for Higher Education, TU Dortmund University

Academic Staff Mobility in the Baltics: Brain Gain, Brain Drain or Brain Circulation?

❈ Rimas Vaisnys, Yale University

❈ Egidija Ramanauskaitė Kiškina, Vytautas Magnus University

Systems Theory and Ethnography in Practice: The Case of Lithuanian Student Migration

❈ Eglė Žurauskaitė, University of Washington

Impoliteness in Lithuania’s Political Discourse

❈ Skaistė Aleksandravičiūtė, University of Oxford (Lincoln College)

Language and Globalization: The Making, and Life, of the Global Young Elites in Vilnius

❈ Arunas Vaicekauskas, Vytautas Magnus University

The New Museology in Lithuania: Challenges and Everyday Practice

❈ Jocelyn Bartkevicius, University of Central Florida

Staged: The Peculiar Confluence of Burlesque and Soviet Gulags

❈ Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Poet/Author

White Stockings: A Poetic Study of Mythical Freedom Fighters

❈ Linas Kontrimas, Vilnius University

New Masses: Transitions in Postideological Societies and Media Role

❈ Ornela Ramasauskaite, Kaunas University of Technology

Media and Society: New Masses Living in the Information Bubbles

❈ Aelita Skarzauskiene, Kaunas University of Technology

Developing Collective Intelligence in Online Communities

❈ Liucija Balciunaite, Southern Illinois University

Explaining Differences in Party System Stability Over Time: Ideological versus Ethnic Polarization in Latvia and Lithuania, 1990–2014

❈ Liutauras Gudzinskas, Vilnius University  

Securitization as a Factor of the Democratic Left in the Baltic Countries

❈ Gintare Malinauskaite, GHI Office in Vilnius

Postwar Justice: Holocaust and War Crimes Trials in Soviet Lithuania

❈ Dovile Rukaite, Jewish Community of Lithuania/Women’s Issues Information Center

❈ Dovile Budryte, Georgia Gwinnett College

Project #MemoryResponsibilityFuture: Challenging the Borders of Memory Communities and Attempting to Resist Various Prejudices

❈ Vygantas Vareikis, University of Klaipeda

The Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania: Problems and Controversies

❈ Aušra Kristina Pažėraitė, Vilnius University

Responsibility of religious person according to R. Chayim Wolozhiner and R. Sneur Zalman from Lyady

❈ Vilma Zydziunaite, Vytautas Magnus University/St. Ignatius of Loyola College  

Implementing the Mission: Features of Everyday Scholar’s Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education in Lithuania

❈  Luda Popenhagen, California State University Channel Islands

❈  Ron Popenhagen, California State University Northridge

Seagull in a Baltic Operating Theatre: Four Walls, a Table, and Trouble in the Wings

❈ Martynas Petrikas, Vilnius University

How the Theatre Audiences Remember

❈ Vida Savoniakaitė, Lithuanian Institute of History  

Politics of Knowledge in the Soviet Baltic Ethnography

❈ Darius Staliūnas, Lithuanian Institute of History  

Ethnic vs Civic Nationalism within the Lithuanian National Movement: Late 19th c. – 1918

❈ Aušra Jurgutienė, Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore

The Problem of National and Regional Identity in Comparative Literature Studies

❈ Regina Kvasyte, Siauliai University  

Research of the Language of Lithuanians Living in Latvia

❈  Kristina Juraite, Vytautas Magnus University

Rethinking News Media Consumption in the Post-Truth World: The Case of Lithuania

❈ Inga Zaksauskiene, Vilnius University

Mission Radio Hope: Western Radio Broadcasts to the Soviet Baltic Republics

❈ Egle Jurgita Vaiciukynaite, Kaunas University of Technology 

Lithuanian Leader Emotions in Images

❈ Karina Simonson, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

“White Privilege” in the Photographic Works and Academic Research of South African Litvak Artists

❈ Jurgita Staniskyte, Vytautas Magnus University

Politics, Populism and Spectatorship: Strategies of Audience Engagement in Contemporary Baltic Theatre

❈ Elina Sukaryavichute, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Emigration Patterns in the Baltic Countries: Can Migration Policies Make It Any Better

❈ Ausra Bremner, De Montfort University, Leicester

Impact of Migration to the UK on Lithuanian Family Relationships

❈ Indre Cuplinskas, St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta

The Vaidilute: 20th Century Nationalist Appropriations of Pagan Lithuanian Priestesses

❈ Vaidotas Vaicaitis, Vilnius University, School of Law

1918 Lithuanian Act of Independence and its Influence for the 1990 Independence Act

❈ Aurimas Švedas, Vilnius University

Literature and Cinema: Unconventional History in Postmodern Lithuanian Culture

❈ Jurate Motiejunaite, Faculty Saint-Jean, University of Alberta

Markelis, Beyoncé, and Achebe Walk into…a Class

❈ Rokas Zubovas, M. K. Čiurlionis House, Vilnius

❈ Sonata Zuboviene, M. K. Čiurlionis House

Vilnius – M. K. Čiurlionis. A Portrait of the Lithuanian Soul

❈ Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University of Pennsylvania  

From Rivals to Enemies, from Neighbors to Victims: Lithuanian Perceptions of Jews, 1939–1945

❈ Laima Kreivyte, Vilnius Academy of Arts

Coming or Going? Artistic and Curatorial Critique of Monumental Propaganda

❈ Skaidre Urboniene, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute

Memorialization of Lithuania’s Independence: From 1928 to 2018

❈ Asta Petrikienė, Kazimieras Simonavicius University

Theatre and the Law in Lithuania: Historical Experiences and Present Challenges

❈  Auguste Baltrimaviciute, University of Illinois at Chicago  

Youth and Identity in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Post-Stalin Era

❈ Dalia Leinarte, Vytautas Magnus University  

Unfinished Business of the Soviet Gender Equality

❈ Monika Frėjutė-Rakauskienė, Lithuanian Social Research Centre

“From Majority to Minority”: Notions of Social and Historical Justice among Russians after Restoration of Lithuanian Independence in 1990

Moderatoriai

Discussant: Vilius Ivanauskas, Lithuanian Institute of History

Chair: Monika Petraite, Kaunas University of Technology

Chair: Violeta Davoliūtė, Vilnius University

Discussant: Jolanta Mickute, Vytautas Magnus University

Chair: Ginta Remeikis, Private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis/ClearView Communities

Chair: Asta Zelenkauskaite, Drexel University

Chair: Vida Savoniakaitė, Lithuanian Institute of History

Chair: Arvydas Grišinas, Kaunas University of Technology

Chair: Jolanta Mickute, Vytautas Magnus University

Discussant: Asta Zelenkauskaite, Drexel University

Session Organizer: Ornela Ramasauskaite, Kaunas University of Technology

Discussant: Violeta Kelertas, University of Washington

Chair: Birutė Triškaitė, Research Institute of the Lithuanian Language

Ineta Dabašinskienė, Vytautas Magnus University

Chair: Jolanta Budriūnienė, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences

Chair: Giedrius Subačius, University of Illinois at Chicago

Chair: Saulius Sužiedėlis, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Dovile Budryte, Georgia Gwinnett College

Organizer: Zilvinas Beliauskas, Vilnius Jewish Public Library

Chair: Kestutis Paul Zygas, Arizona State University

Session Organizer: Vytenis Mockus, Vilnius University Business School

Chair: Taurimas Valys, Vilnius University Business School

Chair: Audronė Daraškevičienė, Lithuanian Institute of History

Discussant: Dalia Leinarte, Vytautas Magnus University

Rima Praspaliauskiene, University of California, Berkeley

Chair: Dovile Budryte, Georgia Gwinnett College

Discussant: Kristina Juraite, Vytautas Magnus University

Chair: Jurate Motiejunaite, Faculty Saint Jean, University of Alberta

Mindaugas Šinkūnas, Lithuanian Language Institute

Chair: Ginta T. Palubinskas, West Virginia State University

Chair: Milda Alisauskiene, Vytautas Magnus University

Session Organizer/Chair: Kristina Juraite, Vytautas Magnus University