Dr Viktorija Rimaitė-Beržiūnienė

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Viktorija is a graduate of VU TSPMI BA in Political Science and MA in Politics and Media. In 2022 she defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Monuments in Lithuania: shaping state identity” (supervisor Prof. Alvydas Jokubaitis).

One of her main academic objectives is to demonstrate that political knowledge can be acquired through artistic and visual practices as well as scientific mind.

In 16-30 June 2024 took part in international traineeship at Tallinn Academy of Fine Arts (Tallinn).

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

Department of Political Philosophy and History  of Ideas; Commission for Dispute Resolution.

Research projects and grants

1. 2024-2026 postdoctoral fellow in the project „The Positive Aspect of De-Sovietization: the Compatibility of Narrative and Visuality”. Financed by the Research Council of Lithuania, agreement No. S-PD-24-47.
2. 2023-2025 participant in the project EUROPAST, this project is supported by the European Union under the WIDERA programme (EUROPAST project, Grant Agreement No. 101079466).

Selected conference papers

1. 23-24 January 2025, International conference “Memory, Forgetting and Creating”, online, „The Positive Aspect of De-Sovietization: The Visuality of Post-Soviet Monuments“, oral presentation.
2. 24-25 May 2024, International conference “Governing Remembrance: Collective Memory, the Public Sphere and Law”, Riga, organisers: Riga Graduate School of Law; Jagiellonian University, Centre for legal Education and social Theory,  „From De-Sovietisation to Positive Aspect of De-Sovietization: memory laws and collective memory formation“, oral presentation.
3. 3-6 April 2024, (San Fransiskas), ISA2024 Annual Convention “Putting Relationality at the Centre of International”, San Francisco, “Memory Institutions in Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania: Between Historical Research and Political Instrumentalization”, oral presentation.
4. 20-23 September 2023, International PoSoCoMeS Conference 2023, Tallinn, accepted abstract „Memories in Conflict: Exploring Representations of the Traumas of the Nazi and Soviet Occupations in the Public Sphere in Lithuania”.
5. Viktorija Rimaitė-Beržiūnienė. Visual securitization: collective memory in shaping security and foreign policy. // Workshop IPSA. Political Identities Challenged. Exploring the Consequences of the Confrontation with COVID and Communicative Changes. March 18, 2022.
6. International conference „The European Conference on Arts & Humanities (ECAH2021)“, London 2021, „Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods: Political Monuments in Lithuania and National Identity“.
7. National conference „Memory Politics in Lithuania”, Vilnius 2020, „Identity of Lithuania in the Monuments of Vilnius: Soviet and Postsoviet Monuments“.
8. International conference „Visual and Performing Arts“ (10th Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts), Athens 2019, „Political Monuments in Lithuania: National Narratives, Political Meaning, and ArtisticAesthetics“.