Dr. Justinas Dementavičius

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I am growing up academically in the environment of IIRPS VU since 2000. Only for a brief period, in 2012-2014, after defending my doctoral thesis on the concept of state in Lithuania, I did postdoctoral studies at the Lithuanian Institute of History. This further enabled me to try to integrate political science, philosophical and historical perspectives in my researches. These attempts are reflected in the book “Between homo oeconomicus and zoon politicon: History of Modern Lithuania Political Thought” and in the current studies dedicated to reflections of the different forms of political imagination in Lithuania.

In addition to these investigative interests, I am an editor of the IIRPS VU journal “Politologija” and I try to participate in various projects dedicated to civic and political education. For example, I had the joy of being one of the curators of the Valstybės pažinimo centras, also participated as a co-curator of several exhibitions dedicated to Lithuanian intellectual history.

However, despite the willingness to keep studying, teaching occupies the most of my academic time. But I am trying to do my best to create the Institute as a scientific community to which every student can contribute.

Membership of working groups, councils, etc. within Vilnius University and IIRPS VU

IIRPS VU Council; (Post)Soviet Memory Studies Center; Department of Political Behavior and Institutions; Department of Political Philosophu and History  of Ideas; Commission for Dispute Resolution; Political Science Bachelor Studies Programme Committee; Editor-in-Chief of the journal Politologija.

Membership of international organisations, editorial boards, international working groups, etc. 

Editor-in-Chief of the journal Politologija.

Selected conference papers

1. Dementavičius, Justinas “Tradicijos palikimas: Lietuvos valstybė ir romantinis konservatizmas” [The Heritage of the Tradition: Lithuanian State and Romanticist Conservatism], Annual Conference of Lithuanian Political Scientists, Vilnius, 24 11 2017;
2. Dementavičius, Justinas “Alternatives in a Making: Concept of Freedom in Lithuanian Catholic Samizdat (1972-1989)”, 18th Annual Aleksanteri Conference: Liberation-Freedom-Democracy-1918-1968-2018, Helsinki, 24-26 10 2018 (abstract);
3. Dementavičius, Justinas “Integral Democracy as Principle and Tool of Critique”, Civitas Annual Conference. Christian Democracy in Exile 1925-1989, Bonn, 21-23 11 2018;
4. Dementavičius, Justinas “Apie tankų konservatizmą: A. Jokubaitis kaip lietuviškojo konservatizmo apologetas” [On Dense Conservatism: A. Jokubaitis as an Apologist of Lithuanian Conservatism], Conference on Political Philosophy of Alvydas Jokubaitis, Vilnius, 27 09 2019;
5. Dementavičius, Justinas “Intelektualinės kirmgraužos. Fribūro universiteto patyrimai atkuriamoje Lietuvoje”, conference on the opening of the exhibition “Dvasiniai Fribūro vaikai. Fribūro universiteto Lietuviai ir jų reikšmė Lietuvai”, Vilnius, 27 09 2019.