Dr. Vilius Mačkinis

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2011-2018: PhD studies in Political Science, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. In 2019 defended doctoral dissertation titled „Traditions and Reforms: Enlightenment Influences on Lithuanian Political Thought” (supervisor Assoc. Prof. Vladas Sirutavičius).

2008-2010: International Masters in Economics and Society (IMESS) with a reference to East Central Europe. Double degree from University College London (UCL) and Charles University in Prague (Univerzita Karlova v Praze). 2004-2008: BA in Political Science, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University (Lithuania). Internships at Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (SUSI programme funded by the US Department of State). Member of „Political Concepts“ ECPR standing group. He is a member of the ECPR Political Concepts Group and of the Nordic Summer University (merged with https://www.nsuweb.org/) study circle “Racialization, Whiteness and Politics of Othering in Contemporary Europe”.

Membership of working groups, councils, etc. within Vilnius University and IIRPS VU

IIRPS VU Council; Department of Political Philosophu and History  of Ideas; Estern European and Russian Studies (MA) Programme Committee; Chairman of the Admissions and Testing Board.

Research projects and grants

1. HORIZON EUROPE a project funded by the Twinning programme “Facing the Past. Public History for a Stronger Europe (EUROPAST)
2. 2020: project leader “The Concept of Progress in Lithuania: from Idea to Policy”. Vilnius University
3. 2016: project coordinator “25 Years of Trust Building in the Face of Global Challenges. Commemoration of the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations between the Nordic Countries and Lithuania”, Vilnius University
4. 2012-2015: project administrator “Invisible society of Soviet-era Lithuania: the revision of distinction between systemic and non-systemic social networks”, Vilnius University

Conference papers

1. Strategies for the Baltic Advancement: Understanding Concept of Progress in the Baltic States, 28th Biennial AABS Conference “Baltic Studies at a Crossroads”, 2022, Seattle, WA;
2. With Mariam Tsitskishvili, Framing Georgia as European: Identification Through the Eyes of Country’s Political Leaders, ARQUS Research Focus Forum “Changing Societies – Dimensions of Europeanization”, 2022, Graz, Austria; State-endorsed Advancement: Lithuanian Progress Strategy and the Concept of Progress, 23rd International Conference on the History of Concepts “Global Modernity: Emotions, Temporalities and Concepts”, 2022, Berlin;
3. Defining Eastern Europe: Conceptual Reflection or Othering and Stereotyping in Academia?, NSU Summer Symposium “Whiteness and Racialization in Colonial Pasts and Presents”, 2022, Oslo.