Cultures of Remembrance and Historical Imagination

Research group
CULTURES OF REMEMBRANCE AND HISTORICAL IMAGINATION

2023–2025
The Beginning of the Dissemination of History through the Mass Media in Lithuania
Postdoctoral fellow Titas Krutulys

2022–2024
Macikai as an Object of the “Dark Heritage”: Memorial, Museum, Remembrance
Head of the project: Hektoras Vitkus

2022
Scientific monograph “Paneriai Memorial in the Culture of Remembrance and Politics of Memory (1944–2020)”
Head of the project: Zigmas Vitkus

2020–2021
The Use of the “Dark Heritage” in the Lithuanian Remembrance Culture: A Case Study of Macikai Camps
Head of the project: Hektoras Vitkus

2020
Jews in the 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division: History and Memory
Head of the project: Justas Stončius
In cooperation with the research group Jewish and Antisemitism Studies

2019–2022
“Lived History” in Interwar Lithuania: Between Experience Narratives and Politics of Memory
Head of the project: Vasilijus Safronovas

2015–2018
Remembrance of the First World War: A Comparative Analysis of Lithuania and East Prussia (before 1939)
Head of the project: Vasilijus Safronovas
In cooperation with the research group War and Society in the 20th Century

2012–2014
Relationships between Cultures of Remembrances in the former East Prussia after 1945. Comparative Study of Olsztyn and Klaipėda
Coordinator of the project (at Klaipėda University): Vasilijus Safronovas
In cooperation with the University of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn and the Lithuanian Institute of History