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Junior research fellow
Address: Universiteto 5, LT-01122 Vilnius
Phone number: +370 5 268 7235, +370 5 219 32 47
Consultation hours: Appointment by e-mail
Fields of research
- Gender studies
- Motherhood studies
- Eastern European studies
- Gender and Language
- Sociolinguistics
Courses taught
- Contemporary Motherhood and Fatherhood (ENG)
- Feministinės kritikos pagrindai (Introduction to Feminist Critical Theory) (BA) at Vilnius University, Lithuania
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Lithuanian Culture and Literature (BA course in English) at Vilnius University, Lithuania
PUBLICATIONS
Articles and book chapters
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Bisigirskaite, Ieva. "The Beginning of the End of Gendered Family Names: A Feminist Reading of Recent Linguistic Initiatives in Lithuania" [submitted in June 2024] to Taikomoji kalbotyra; eISSN 2029-8935
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Bisigirskaite, Ieva. "Mothers Challenging “Unsafe” Birth: A Matricentric Feminist Perspective on Maternal Activism in Lithuania" [submitted in June 2024] to Journal of Mother Studies; ISSN 2833-5155
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Bisigirskaite, Ieva. Choosing a Surname of Her Own: Non(Neo)-Traditional Femininities in Contemporary Lithuania. 2021, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts. https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/205125/
- Bisigirskaitė, Ieva. “Neoliberal discourse in self-naming practices of contemporary Lithuanian women.” Neoliberal Discourse and Gender Equality: Proceedings Vol. 2 of the 5th International Conference on Gender Studies, Famagusta, North Cyprus, March 25-27, 2015. Edited by Seda Orbay Yücel, and Süheyla Üçışık Erbilen, Eastern Mediterranean University-Centre for Women’s Studies, 2015, pp. 1-9.
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Monography: Ieva Bisigirskaitė, Yulia Gradskova, and Soheyla Yazdanpanah. “Nationalisms and ‘good mothers’: Lithuania, Sweden and Russia (draft will be submitted in Feb 2025 to CEU Educational Service Non-profit LLC (CEU Press) [publishing contract has been signed in 2024]
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
PhD dissertation
- Bisigirskaitė, Ieva. Choosing a surname of her own: non(neo)-traditional femininities in contemporary Lithuania. 2021, Ciuricho Universitetas. Disertacija [https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/205125/]
Research projects
- 2022 - 2025 “Maternity in time of ‘traditional values’ and femonationalism”. Research project with Dr. Yulia Gradskova and Dr. Soheyla Yazdanpanah (Södertörn Universitety, Stokholm). Financed by the Baltic Sea Foundation (Sweden)
- 2015-2018 Forschungskredit scholarship for the PhD project “New femininities in post-communist societies”
Conferences
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Bisigirskaitė, Ieva. “Pabaigos pradžia: lietuviškų moterų pavardžių reformų analizė iš feministinės perspektyvos” (The Beginning of the End: An Analysis of Lithuanian Women's Surname Reforms from a Feminist Perspective), Vilnius University, VU TSPMI, March 28, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MMw9pFZ1tA&t=1s
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“Challenging ‘Safe’ Birth: A Feminist Perspective on Maternal Activism in Lithuania.” Threads of Connection Conference, “Sorry/Not Sorry: Confronting mother (and other) blame–healing & resistance in contemporary culture and beyond,” St. Petersburg, Florida, 22-24.03.2024
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“Mothers We Care For And Mothers We Care About: Maternal Activism In Lithuania.” MotherNet Final Conference 2024: Thinking through Motherhood: Images, Experiences and Narratives Across Time, Vilnius, 23-25.01.2024
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“Maternalism in Post-transition.” Panel presentation at the 55th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Panel: Mothers’ Political and Social Role in East European History and Present, Philadelphia, 11.30-12.03.2023
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“Maternalism old and new: redefining ‘good-motherhood’ through state awards for Lithuanian mothers of many children” at the roundtable discussion “Contested Motherhood: between state politics and subjective/material experiences (Lithuania, Russia and Eurasian migrants in Sweden)”. BASEES Annual Conference, Glasgow, 03.31-02.04, 2023
- “The kids are ALL right: Postcolonial Interpretations of Good Motherhood in Lithuania.” From Stabat Mater to Mater Movens: Analysing Discourses on Motherhood, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, London, 9- 10.07.2022
- “Decolonizing Birth: A Feminist Reading of Birth Activism in Lithuania”. White Ink, Red Flag: Expressing Maternity in Eastern European Culture, Slavic and Easten European Maternal Studies Research Network (SEEMS), Exeter, 9.07.2022
- “Constructing global femininities: Lithuanian women talk about their non- suffixed marital surnames”. 11th biennial conference of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA11), Queen Mary University of London, London, 22-24.06. 2021
- “Refusing the name of the mother-[in- law]: Lithuanian women talk about their feminist surname”. 9th Conference Narrative Matters 2018: The ABC’s of Narrative, Enschede, 2-5.07.2018
- “Neoliberal discourse in self-naming practices of contemporary Lithuanian women”. 5th International Conference of Gender Studies: Neoliberal Discourse and Gender Equality, Famagusta, 25- 27.03.2015
- “Gender and Language Ideologies: the Lithuanian female surname as a National Frontier”. Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Research Colloquium at the University of Zurich, 06.11.2019
- “Nationalism as a discursive strategy in self-naming practices by contemporary Lithuanian women”. 2nd International Graduate Workshop “Family Narratives/National(istic) Narratives”, University of Zurich, 9-10.06.2015.
Other scientific activities
- Member of “MotherNet” - a cross- disciplinary netwrork for motherhood studies
- Member of International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) since 2020