Prof. Violeta Davoliūtė
Professor
Department
The (Post)Soviet Memory Studies Center
Department of Political Philosophy and History of Ideas
Research areas
European Studies
Political Theory
Additional info
violeta.davoliute@tspmi.vu.lt
Dr Violeta Davoliūtė is a specialist in matters of historical trauma, the politics of memory and national identity. PhD from the University of Toronto. Author of The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War. Visiting scholar at Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Yale University, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Uppsala University.
Research Networks
- Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (Senior Fellow). October 2022 – February 2023.
- EUROPAST – Facing the Past: Public History for a Stronger Europe (Project leader). Project funded by Horizon Europe Programme (2022 – 2025).
- Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change. (Representative for Lithuania). Project funded under the COST programme (2021 – 2025).
- Translating Memories: the Eastern European Past in the Global Arena. (Advisory Board Member). Project funded by the European Research Council (2020 – 2024).
- Co-editor (with Prof. Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Prof. Lavinia Stan) of the CEU Press book series Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe.
Courses taught
Aftermaths of Genocide
The Holocaust and the Politics of the Past
Research interests
Historical Memory and Historical Consciousness
Critical theory
Publications
Davoliūtė, V. (2022) "Agonistic homecomings: Holocaust postmemory, perspective and locality," Memory Studies 15(3): 539-550. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221085524
Milerius, N., Narušytė, A., Davoliūtė, V., Brašiškis, L. (2022) Everyday Representations of War in Late Modernity. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031071348
Davoliūtė, V. (2022) "The Gaze of the Implicated Subject: Non-Jewish Testimony to Communal Violence during the German Occupation of Lithuania," East European Politics and Societies. https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254211070852
Davoliūtė, V. (2021) "The Baltic Model of Civic-Patriotic History," Journal of Genocide Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2021.1968145
Davoliūtė, V. (2021) "Local Testimony and the (Un)Silencing of Sexual Violence in Lithuania under German Occupation during WWII," Humanities, 10, 129. https://doi.org/10.3390/h10040129
Davoliūtė, V. (2021) "Genealogical Writing and Memory of the Holocaust in Lithuania," East European Jewish Affairs, 51:1, 70-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501674.2021.1952026
