Vytautas Magnus University
Antakalnio g. 99-68
Department of Social Sciences-311
Vilnius 2000, Lithuania
Donelaicio 52
Phone: (+370 2) 77-00-50
Kaunas 3000
Mobile: (+370 685) 81162
Lithuania
tereskinas@policy.hu
Current Position
Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Vytautas Magnus
University
Director of V. Kavolis Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Vytautas
Magnus University
International Policy Fellow, Open Society Institute, Budapest, Hungary
Education
Ph. D., Harvard University, Department of History, March 2000. Fields of Specialization: Nationalism and Ethnicity, Sexuality and Identity, Mass Media and Mass Culture, Postmodern Social and Cultural Theory
A. M., Harvard University, Department of History, 1995
Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department
of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, 1991-1993
B. A., Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania, 1990
Honors and Awards
Open Society Fund of Lithuania, research and writing grant for a book on sexuality and identity, 1999-2000
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in Eastern European Studies for Dissertation Research, 1997
Foreign Language Area Studies Award for Dissertation Research, 1996-1997
Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, summer travel
grant for study in Lithuania, 1996
Lithuanian World Community Foundation Bronius Vaskelis Scholarship,
1995
Harvard University scholarship and stipend, 1993-1995
Russian Research Center, Harvard University, summer travel grant for study in Poland, 1994
Graduate Student Council, Harvard University, summer travel
grant, 1994
The Lithuanian Foundation scholarship. Chicago, IL. 1991-1994
& 1999
Teaching and Research Experience
"Contemporary Social and Cultural Theory." Upper level course taught at Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University. Fall 2000.
"Sociology of Culture." Upper level course taught at Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University. Fall 2000 and 2001.
"Sociology of Postmodernism." Upper level course taught at Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University. Spring 2000.
"Pierre Bourdieu: Disciplinary Encounters." Upper level course taught at Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University. Spring 2000 and Fall 2001.
"An Introduction to the Contemporary World." Undergraduate course at Emerson College, Boston, MA. Spring 1998. Focus on ethnicity, nationalism, post-communism and post-colonialism
"The World Since 1914." Undergraduate course at Emerson College, Boston, MA. Spring 1998
Graduate Student Fellow. Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University.
1998-1999
Research Assistant. Professor Adam Ulam, Harvard University. Fall 1998
"History of Russia and the Former Soviet Union." Undergraduate course
at Emerson College, Boston, MA. Fall 1996. Focus on communism, nationalism
and ethnic identity
Research Assistant. Professor Violeta Kelertas, Department of Slavic
and Baltic Languages, University of Illinois, Chicago. 1992-1993
University and Other Committees
Member, Selection Committee of the Best Lithuanian National TV News and Information Programs (Ad Rem), May 2000
Chair, "Body, Sexuality and Identity," Doctoral Student Giedre Smitiene Exam Committee, Dept. of Lithuanian Literature, Vilnius University, 2000
Member, Selection Committee for Best Reviews of Lithuanian Web Sites, Open Society Fund of Lithuania, Lithuania, 2000.
Coordinator of two forthcoming international conferences at Vytautas
Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Professional Presentations
“In the World of Global Mass Media: Between Migratory Scripts, Minority Politics and New Forms of Civic Identity.” Paper presented at a conference Challenges of Globalization:
“Ethnic Groups in the Lithuanian Mass Media: Images and Issues.” Paper presented at a seminar Ethnic Groups in a Democratic Society: Public Discourse, the Marginalized and Conspicuous in Contemporary Lithuania.” Open Society Fund of Lithuania, Vilnius, January 25, 2002.
“The Problems of Roma Minority in the Lithuanian Mass Media.” Paper delivered at an international seminar The Problems of Roma People and Their Social Integration (supported by UNESCO). Vilnius, January 10-11, 2002.
“Negotiating Inclusions: Representations of Minority Groups in the Lithuanian Mass Media.” Paper presented at an international conference The Role of Civic Education in Strenghtening Social Integration (supported by UNESCO). Lithuanian Law University, Vilnius, Lithuania, December 3-4, 2001.
Discussant in a round-table “Do Mass Media Help or Hinder Social Integration?” An international conference The Role of Civic Education in Strenghtening Social Integration (supported by UNESCO). Lithuanian Law University, Vilnius, Lithuania, December 3-4, 2001.
“Nomadologies: Mass Media, Minorities and Citizenship in the Contemporary World.” Paper presented at the conference Beginnings and Ends of Emigration: Life Without Borders in Contemporary World, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, November 22-23, 2001.
“Fashionable Nomadologies: On Migration, Fantasy and Identity.” Paper presented at the Open Society Fund of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, May 5, 2001.
"Gender and Sexual Stereotypes in Lithuanian Mass Media." Paper presented at the seminar organized by the Lithuanian Women's Issues Information Center, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 10, 2000
"Life on the Net: Information, Fantasies of Power and Postmodern Citizenship." Paper presented at the conference "Information Society 2000," Vilnius, Lithuania, October 23, 2000
"The Humanities and Social Sciences after Humanism: Living without the Canon," Guest Lecturer at the Department of Slavic and Baltic Literatures & Languages, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, August 29, 2000
"How to Wear your Body: The Norms of Masculinity in Lithuanian Mass Media." Paper presented at the Conference "Stereotypes of the Social Roles of Women and Men" organized by the Governmental Agency for Equal Rights of Women and Men. Trakai, Lithuania, June 30, 2000
"Cultural Symptoms: Notes on Identity and Politics in Contemporary Lithuania." Guest Lecturer at Kaunas Technological University, Kaunas, Lithuania, April 2000
Virtual Communities: Living in a Virtual Space." Paper presented at the Open Society Fund of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, April 7 2000
"Youth and the Job Market in Lithuania." Discussant at the Conference "Youth and Professional Success: Aspirations and Possibilities." Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, May 2000
"To the Nation's Bottom: A Theory of Contemporary Lithuanian National Identities and Identifications." Paper presented at the Conference "The New Europe at the Crossroads," St. John's University, York, England, August 1997
"Threatening Bodies/Bodiless Nation: The Erotics of National Disembodiment in Post-Communist Eastern Europe." Paper presented at the Conference "Social Process Without Actors? Conspiracy Theories and the Quest for Enemies in Central and Eastern Europe," Klaipeda, Lithuania, February 1997
"Contemporary Lithuanian National Identifications." Guest Lecturer at Baltic Studies Summer Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL. July 1996
Selected Publications
Books:
1. (editor) Intymios erdves, vieši gyvenimai: viešuma, fantazija, pilietiškumas šiuolaikineje Lietuvoje (Intimate Places, Public Lives: Publicity, Fantasy and Citizenship in Contemporary Lithuania), forthcoming, Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2002.
2. Kuno zymes: Seksualumas, identitetas, erdve Lietuvos kulturoje (Bodily
Signs: Sexuality and Identity in Lithuanian Culture) (Vilnius: Baltos Lankos,
2001).
Articles:
1. "Threatening Bodies/ Bodiless Nation: Erotics of National Disembodiment in Postcommunist Lithuania," in A Comparative History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe, forthcoming, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Press, 2002.
2. “On the Margins: Representations of Sexual Minorities in the Lithuanian Press (2000-01),” forthcoming Sociologija/Sociology, Klaip?da, 2002.
3. “Towards a New Politics of Citizenship: Representations of Ethnic and Sexual Minorities in the Lithuanian Mass Media (2000-01),” in Miklos Sukosd and Peter Bajomi Lazar, eds., Reinventing Media: Media Policy in East Central Europe, forthcoming (Budapest, 2002).
4. "Kaip nesioti savo kuna: vyriskumo rebusai siuolaikineje Lietuvos kulturoje" (How to Wear Your Body: Masculinity in Contemporary Lithuania). Baltos Lankos (2002), forthcoming.
5. "Skaitant Vytauta Kavoli: kulturiniai tekstai, patirties ivaizdziai, reiksmiu archeologija" (Reading Vytautas Kavolis: Cultural Texts, Images of Experience, the Archeology of Meanings). Vytautas Kavolis: asmuo ir idejos (Vytautas Kavolis: Person and Ideas), ed. Rita Kavoliene & Darius Kuolys (Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2000), 94-106.
6. "Between Soup and Soap: Iconic Nationality, Mass Media and Pop Culture in Contemporary Lithuania," www.artium.lt. (Electronic journal of culture and history supported by Soros Foundation of Open Lithuania), no. 1 (1999). Reprinted in Sociologija/Sociology, no. 3 (Winter 1999): 16-32; and Lituanus, 46: 2 (Summer 2000): 14-54.
7. "Tautos dugnan: masine kultura, kasdienybes logika, tautiskumo teorija" (To the Nation's Bottom: A Theory of Contemporary Lithuanian National Identities and Identifications). Kulturos barai, 10 (1998): 2-10.
8. "Reconsidering the Third of May Constitution and the Rhetoric of Polish-Lithuanian Reforms, 1788-1792," Journal of Baltic Studies, vol. 27, 4 (Winter 1996): 291-308.
9. "Between Romantic Nostalgia and Historio-Pedagogic Sentiments: A Few Ways to Discourse the Lithuanian Past," Lituanus, 43:3 (1997): 11-48.
10. "Vytautas Kavolis nuostabos ir saskambiu sociologijoje." (Vytautas
Kavolis in the Sociology of Wonder and Resonance: An Afterword for Vytautas
Kavolis's book Cultural Psychology). Vilnius: Open Lithuania Foundation,
1995, 185-207.
Foreign Languages
English, Russian, Polish, French, German.