Valda Budreckaitė

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Valda Budreckaitė received master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy at IIRPS VU. She started her PhD program at IIRPS VU in 2019 and is currently working under the supervision of prof. Ainė Ramonaitė (a working title of her dissertation is “The Post-Soviet Period in Lithuania as a Cultural Trauma: Experiences of Sociopolitical Transformations and Their Reflections in Political Attitudes of the Residents of Lithuania”).

Projects and grants

2021-2022: junior researcher in the research project “Post-communist Transformation as Dismantling of the Soviet Modernity Project”, Research Council of Lithuania, Vilnius University.

2020-2022: participant in the projects “Baltic-Nordic Network for the Advancement of Methodology in Area Studies 2020” (BAMSE 2020) and “Baltic-Nordic Network for the Advancement of Methodology in Area Studies 2021” (BAMSE 2021). More information here.

Selected conference papers

1.  “A Journey with No Clear Destination? Postsocialist Transformation as a Time Period in Collective Memory of Citizens of Lithuania.” Sixth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, University of Tartu, Tartu (Estonia), 2022.
2.  “Speak, Memory: The Faces of Postsocialist Transformation in Collective Memory of the Citizens of Lithuania.” The 28th Biennial AABS Conference “Baltic Studies at a Crossroads”, University of Washington, Seattle (U.S.), 2022.
3. “Hope in Post-Communist Politics: Stasys Lozoraitis Jr. as President of Hope.” Deep Transformations: Emotional Experiences in the Post-Communist Change,  IIRPS VU, Vilnius, 2020.