Dr. Liucija Vervečkienė

 ORCID iD

I graduated from the IIRPS VU in 2010 with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. In 2011 I finished a Master’s degree in Modern European Studies at the University College London . Between 2016 and 2022 I did my PhD and defended my doctoral thesis “”They were all patriots anyway, they wanted independence”: memory work and understanding of the previous regime in the generation after the transformative turning point”.

For some time I worked in the field of applied public policy research, in 2012 I had a traineeship at the European Commission; from 2013 to 2017 I worked in the Office of the Committee on European Affairs of the Chancellery of the Seimas; from 2014 to 2017 I was the Head of the European Integration Studies Centre. I have extensive practical knowledge on inter-institutional coordination of European Union affairs and parliamentary scrutiny mechanisms on EU issues. Since 2016 I have been working as a junior researcher at the IIRPS, since 2022 as an assistant and researcher. In June 2019 I took part in a fellowship at the Frankfurt Platform for Memory Studies at W. Goethe University with Prof. Dr. Astrid Erll, and in June 2024 I will be doing a fellowship at University College London with Prof. Dr. Mary Fulbrook.

From 2024 to 2026 I will be pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lithuanian Institute of History, analysing the change of discourses on collaboration after the transformative regime change.

Membership of international scientific organisations, associations, international working groups, expert panels, editorial boards of publications, etc.

Member of Memory Studies Association (PoSoComes and Museums and Memory working groups); member of Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.

Research projects and grants

Team member in the project “Public History for a Stronger Europe” (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03-01 under the Grant Agreement No. 101079466).

Selected conference presentations

1. „(Un)closing the door of uncomfortable past: home museums between irritating narrativity and slow responses to change“, Inaugural conference of the Museums and Memory working group “Museums, Memory, Politics” (virtual event), 24-25 January 2025.

2. „Shifting discourse(s) on collaboration with the past occupant regime: Lithuanian case“, MSA 8th Annual conference „Memories in Transit“, 18-20 July 2024, Lima (Peru).

3. „The Legacy of Collaborationism in an Era of Securitization. Shifts in Public and Academic Discourse“, 5th conference of International Network of Theory of History „History & Responsibility: Doing History in Times of Conflicting Political Demands“, Lisbon, Portugal, 21-24 May 2024.

4. „Commemorating heroic armed resistance: intersection between state-level and family memory“, 2nd PoSoCoMeS (Working group of the Post-socialist and Comparative Memory Studies) Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia, 20-23 September 2023.

5. „Narration and Re-narration: Memory Research in a Family Setting“, “Narrating Lives”. International Conference on Storytelling, (Auto)Biography and (Auto)Ethnography, University of Malta, 26-27 August 2023.