Gender Studies Centre

Sukurta: 17 September 2013

47 Didlaukio, LT-08303 Vilnius
Tel. 219 3028 fax 219 3017
E-mail:
www.lsc.vu.lt

Chair – Prof. Dr. Dalia Leinartė

STAFF

Professors: Dr. D. Leinartė, Dr. A. Tereškinas.
Lecturers: Dr. L. Stundžė, Dr. D. Šėporaitytė.
Research fellows: Dr. E. Kačkutė – Hagan (post-doc), V. Tretjakova, L. Šumskaitė.

RESEARCH AREAS

Implementation of Gender Equality in Lithuania
History of Lithuania: Sources, Historiography, Heritage, Memory

MAIN CONFERENCES ORGANIZED IN 2013

International conference Cohabitation in Europe: through Space and Time

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Gender Equality
Women’s Rights
Disabled Women
Masculinity

RESEARCH PROJECTS CARRIED OUT IN 2013

Traditional Lithuanian Family. Prof. D. Leinartė. 2012–2013.

Project Supported by University Budget

In the 19th century, traditional Lithuanian family was closely intertwined with the Catholic Church. The Church regulated many issues of married life. It explains why in this research a significant body of the sources consists of nearly one hundred years (1813–1915) of documents from the Curia of the Samogitian Diocese. They include the reports of priests about the obstacles in Canon Law to the marriage of particular individuals, the requests of parishioners for permission to marry and the letters of priests to bishops about these requests, and parishioners’ complaints about the interference of priests in their proposed marriages. These archival documents permit to examine the motives for nineteenth-century Catholic marriages, and study note the incidence of traditional Lithuanian family and reasons for marriages between close relatives. The protocols of the Samogitian Curia also facilitate the reconstruction of traditional Lithuanian family how the sacrament of marriage was administered and managed, and the attitude of the clergy toward illegitimate marriages among Catholics.

Main publications:

Leinartė, D., Žilinskienė, L., Kraniauskienė, S., Šutinienė, I., Gečienė, I., 2013. Sovietmečio atmintis gyvenimo istorijose: monografija. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 300 p.

Leinartė, D., 2013. Women’s and gender history in Lithuania: an overview from time and distance. In: Aspasia the international yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European women's and gender history. Oxford : Berghahn Books Ltd., vol. 7, 183–192.

National Research Projects

Research Council of Lithuania. Young men’s procreational identities: cultural norms, individual desires and experiences (No. MIP-005/2013). Dr. D. Šėporaitytė. 2013–2014.

The Culture Support Foundation. Barbora Didžiokienė: memories of the little artist. Vol. II prep-work (No. KRF-S-908). Prof. D. Leinartė. 2013.

International Research Projects

Project European Historical Population Samples Network, EHPS-Net (European Science Foundation ESF) http://www.iisg.nl/hsn/news/ehps-net.php

This project is funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) for a period of five years. EHPS-Net brings together scholars to create a common format for databases containing information on persons, families and households. This format or Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) forms an integrated and joint interface between many European (and non-European) databases. The steering committee of the network includes representatives of fourteen countries, Lithuania among them. Representative: Prof. D. Leinartė

International project Mosaic (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) http://195.37.34.109/cgi-bin/index_partners.plx

The Mosaic project identifies, gathers, harmonizes, and distributes surviving historical census micro data for Europe and beyond. It aims at building a comprehensive and detailed resource for the historic study of populations by historians, demographers, economists, and other researchers. Under the scope of this project the database of 20.000 records on households of the 19th century were collected in the Lithuanian State Historical Archive. Representative: Prof. D. Leinartė.

MAIN R&D&I (RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION) PARTNERS

Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania)
Inter-Ministerial Commission on Equal Opportunities of Women and Men (Lithuania) Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) 

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

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