“Decolonization in the Baltics? Revisiting the Concept of Cultural Resistance under Foreign Rule since 1990.” Monuments of the Soviet Occupation Period as Dissonant Heritage, Art Academy of Latvia, 30 October – 1 November 2025.
“Continuity and Change in Remembrance of the Soviet Past: The Case of Lithuania.” Keynote Lecture, Mobilizing and Weaponizing Memories of Soviet Repressions, University of Warsaw, Warsaw Library, 29 – 31 October 2025.
“The Habitus of Holocaust Reckoning during the Thaw in Soviet Lithuania.” Lecture delivered at the seminar Surveiller et réprimer à l’Est: nouvelles approches, nouveaux terrains (URSS, Europe centrale et orientale), École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 25 March 2025.
“Present Impact of Cultural Divides – The Management of Cultural Differences in the History of Russia,” Cluster of Excellence Eurasian Transformations. 1st Annual Conference: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity. University of Vienna, 22 November 2024.
“Jewish Deportees and Evacuees from Lithuania in June 1941: Displaced Lives, Misplaced Memories,” Retours d’exils en Lituanie et en Europe orientale au 20e siècle. Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg, 5 November 2024.
“Means and forms of resistance: On the (im)possibility of independent public history in contemporary Russia,” History and Historians in the Post-Truth Era: Monopoly, Polyphony, Cacophony? Berin: Aufarbeitung Foundation, 13 April 2024.
“Moments of Liberation in Baltic History,” ASEEES Annual Conference 2024. Boston, 22 November 2024.
“Genocide and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe,” ASEEES Annual Conference 2024. Boston, 24 November 2024.
Panelist, “Uneven Ground: ‘The Holocaust by Bullets’ in Literature and Film,” 23-24 September 2024, University of Edinburgh.
Invited Speaker, Conférence inaugurale de la Saison lituanienne en France – Lituanie et France: un voisinage lointain – une expérience partagée, 12-13 September 2024, Faculté des Lettres – Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.
Invited speaker, “Anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop and contemporary fears and drives of creating a common European defence system,” 22 August 2024, House of European History, Brussels, Belgium.
Panelist, “Remembrance of Crimes of Communism and Nazism – an ongoing tension in Memory Cultures in Eastern and Central Europe,” Memory Studies Association 8th Annual Conference, 19 July 2024, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima.
“The (Un)silencing of Sexual Violence and the Politics of the Past in Lithuania: A Tale of Two Diaries,” Travels beyond the Holocaust: Memorialization, musealization and representation of atrocities in global dialogue, 26 June 2024, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
“Iconoclasm in Lithuania and the Memory of Cultural Resistance under Foreign Rule,” History and Responsibility: Doing History in Times of Conflicting Political Demands | International Network for Theory of History, 17 April 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.
Panelist, “Good Citizens, Terrible Times: Community, Courage and Compliance in and beyond the Holocaust,” NIOD, 17 April 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
“The Holocaust Perpetrator in Local Memory. Case Studies from Lithuania in European Perspective,” Iconographies of the Holocaust. 20 April 2024, Brown University, Providence, USA.
“Decolonization in Lithuania? Revisiting the concept of cultural resistance under foreign rule,” BASEES Annual Conference, 7 April 2024, Cambridge, UK.
Keynote lecture. “Vilnius ir pokario vilniečiai, Vilniaus miesto savivaldybė” (Vilnius and Residents of Vilnius after the Second World War), Tarybos posėdžių salė, 8 December 2023, Vilnius.
“Ontological Insecurity and the Framing of Memory Studies in Eastern Europe.” Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. 3 December 2023, Philadelphia, USA.
“The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism and the Soviet Mass Deportations of June 1941,” International conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Anti-Nazi Resistance and Liquidation of the Vilnius Ghetto – Ideologies of Hate and Hope in Modern Jewish History, 28 November 2023, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius.
Guest Lecture, “Genealogical Writing and Perpetrator Postmemory of the Holocaust in Lithuania,” 24 October 2023, Department of History, Lund University, Sweden.
“Representations of the post-genocidal shtetl in Soviet Lithuanian cinema.” The VIII Baltic Sea Region Film Conference – City, Cinema and Media. 20 October 2023, Vilnius.
“The Baltic Model of Civic-Patriotic History and the New Wave of Anti-Soviet Iconoclasm,” 2nd PoSoCoMeS – MSA Working Group conference, 20-23 September 2023, Tallinn University, Estonia.
Keynote lecture. “Public Spaces and the Legacy of Soviet Occupation in the Baltic States. The Case of Lithuania,” Europe Lab – Civil Society Forum, 12 September 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
“Attitudes towards the Soviet past in contemporary Lithuania,” 75 Baltischen Historikertreffen. Aktualisierungen der Vergangenheit: Die Gegenwart in der Baltischen Geschichte, 3 June 2023, Göttingen University, Germany.
Keynote lecture. “The Transnational and Transgenerational Migration of Memory,” New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies, 31 May 2023, Aarhus University/Vilnius University, Vilnius.
Keynote Lecture, “Vectors of Memory since the Collapse of the USSR. Examples from the Baltic States,” 30 Years after the Collapse of the USSR from the Perspective of Warsaw, 6-7 December 2022, Studium Europy Wschodniej, University of Warsaw, Poland.
“Memory of the Shoah,” Fifth World Litvak Congress, 23-26 May 2022, Constitution Hall, Parliament of Lithuania, Vilnius.
“The Habitus of Holocaust Remembrance during the Thaw in Soviet Lithuania,” Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered, 15-16 April 2022, European Studies Council, Yale University, USA.
“Unfinished Transitions and Historical Memory: Personal Narratives and State Memory Institutions.” Transformation Narratives Beyond Winners and Losers: Deep Stories in Central and Eastern Europe, 17 June 2021, Vilnius University.
“Remembering two Dictatorships? The Rivalry of Dealing with the Past in the Baltic States,” 11 May 2021, Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur, Berlin.
Panellist on roundtable “Memory Politics in Ukraine and Lithuania: A Comparative Perspective,” , 5-8 November, ASEEES Convention, Washington, DC, USA.
“The Holocaust and Testimony to Communal Violence in Lithuania after WWII,” The Second World War in the Collective Memory and Politics of the Former Eastern Bloc Countries. Institute of Political Studies, 22 October 2020, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Guest Lecture, “Multidirectional Memory: Lithuanian Jews and the Soviet Deportations of June 1941,” February 20, 2020, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia.
“Sexual Violence in the Accounts of Ethnic Lithuanians and Jews Deported in June 1941,” 26 November 2019, ASEEES Annual Conference, San Francisco, USA.
“Writing about the traumatic past from inside and outside the Lithuanian scholarly tradition,” Yale Baltic Studies Visiting Fellows Reunion Conference, 20-21 November 2019, Yale University, USA.
Keynote Lecture, “Perpetrator Postmemory and Populism: Debate and Controversy over Collaboration with Nazi Germany in East Central Europe,” History Matters Series, 19 November 2019, Wesleyan University, USA.
“The Burden of Collaboration and the Memory of WWII in Lithuania,” Seminar Series, 17 December 2018, Imre Kertez Kolleg, Jena, Germany.
“Memory Reforged: Propaganda and Culture in the Baltic States under Hitler and Stalin, 1939-53,” 1-3 June 2018, AABS Conference, Stanford University, USA.
Keynote Address, “Memories of Displacement and Urban Culture in Postwar Lithuania,” Urban Cultures in the Baltics (from the Middle Ages to the 20th century). The Third Conference on Baltic Urban History. 18-20 April, Klaipėda University, Lithuania.
“Colonialism and Collaboration in Lithuania during WWII,” Second Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, 4-6 June 2017, Tartu, Estonia.
“After WWI. Displacement in Lithuania in the 20th Century,” Migrazioni forzate sul Baltico all’alba dello stato-nazione in una delle periferie d’Europa, 15 May 2017, University of Padova, Italy.
Roundtable on “Budapest 1956 and its Repercussions in the East,” at Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen, 29 November 2016, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France.
“Forced Modernisation in 20th Century Lithuania,” Transformations of statehood and their impact on societies in 20th –21st century Central Europe”, 3-4 November 2016, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
“Native Narratives: Soft Power and Cultural Collaboration in Lithuania under Nazi Rule,” American Association for Baltic Studies Conference, 27 May 2016, Philadelphia, USA.
“The Culture of Collaboration: Lithuanian Intellectuals under German Occupation (1941-1944),” 26 April 2016, European Studies Council, Yale University.
“Memory of WWII in Lithuania: Victims, Heroes and Beyond?” “Commemoration without Borders – European Commemoration II,” 15 December 2015, Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin.
“Building a Soviet Intelligentsia in Lithuania after WWII: A Generational Approach,” 18 November 2015, European Studies Council, Yale University.
“Antimodernist Cultural Practices in Lithuania in the 1970s.” Interlocking urbanity and rurality in the Popular Culture of East European Societies, 31 October 2015, Ethnographical Museum, Prague.