Jūratė Kavaliauskaitė
Junior researcher, lecturer
Department
The (Post)Soviet Memory Studies Center
Department of Political Behavior and Institutions
Department of Political Philosophy and History of Ideas
Research areas
Comparative Politics and Political Sociology
Politics and media
Additional info
jurate.kavaliauskaite@tspmi.vu.lt
Lectures and conducts research at the Institute since 2009, focuses on aestheticized, unconventional forms of political expression, thinking and communication, laughter in politics, as well as culture, political subjectivity and memory of the Soviet era; she had academic training at Universities of Vienna, Essex and Bamberg. Currently a member of a research project: “Lithuanian national electoral study 2020”.
Courses taught
Anthropology of Soviet and Post-Soviet Societies
Power and communication
Voice of Citizens
Master's Colloquium
Research interests
Political representations, communication and popular imaginaries
Culture, subjectivity and memory of the Soviet era
Politics of laughter
Publications
Kavaliauskaitė, J., Vinogradnaitė, I., Ramonaitė, A., Ulinskaitė, J., Kukulskytė, R., 2018, Sakytinė istorija kaip sovietmečio tyrimo metodas. (Oral history as a research method of Soviet history). Vilnius: VU leidykla.
Kavaliauskaitė J., 2015, ‘Experiments of Authenticity, or What did it Mean to Immerse in the ‚Bermuda Triangle‘ of Vilnius Old Town?‘ (in Lithuanian). In Ramonaitė, A. (ed.), Nematoma sovietmečio visuomenė (Invisible society of the soviet era). Vilnius: Naujasis židinys – Aidai, pp. 62-104.
Kavaliauskaitė, J., Ramonaitė, A., Klumbys, V.) (sud.), 2015, „Kažkas tokio labai tikro“: nepaklusniosios sovietmečio visuomenės istorijos. Sakytinės istorijos šaltinių rinkinys (‚Something so Truly Real‘: Narratives of the Disobedient Society of the Soviet Era‘. Collection of oral histories). Vilnius: Aukso žuvys.
Kavaliauskaitė, J., 2014, ‘Alexei Yurchak on the Political: the Paradoxes of the Late Soviet Era or those of Rethinking the Soviet?‘ (in Lithuanian). Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas, 2(35), pp. 236-251.
Kavaliauskaitė J., 2014, ‘The Secret of Political Leaders' Personal Appeal: (How) Do Personality Traits Matter?‘. Baltic Journal of Political Science, 3, pp. 113-133.
Kavaliauskaitė, J., Mikailienė, Ž., 2012, ‘The Western Thrust‘ and Autonomy during the Soviet Era: from Hippies to the Rock Marches in Lithuania‘ (in Lithuanian). In Kavaliauskaitė J., Ramonaitė, A. (eds.), Sąjūdžio ištakų beieškant: nepaklusniųjų tinklaveikos galia (Searching for the Origins of Sąjūdis: the Power of Contentious Networking). Vilnius: Baltos lankos.
