Special issue of "Central Europe" on Grand Duchy of Lithuania
10 January, 2011. British-Lithuanian Society introduces a special issue of the academic journal Central Europe on Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The new issue will be introduced by Dr Richard Butterwick (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, and Dr Eglė Rindzevičiūtė (Linköping University, Sweden). Doors open 6.30, evening starts at 7pm at the Lithuanian Embassy in London.
An international conference devoted to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and its legacy was held at UCL, in October 2009 to mark Lithuania’s millennium. The event was attended by scholars from Lithuania, the UK, the USA, Germany, and Poland. Seven of the papers delivered at this conference have been revised and expanded, and are published in the latest issue of Central Europe.
The journal is edited from the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and publishes original research articles on the history, languages, literature, political culture, arts and society of the lands once part of the Habsburg Monarchy and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The articles in the special issue are concerned with themes of religious and national identity, and cover the entire period from the Christianization of Lithuania in 1387 to the ongoing rebuilding of the Grand Ducal Palace in the Lower Castle in Vilnius.
Dr Richard Butterwick is Senior Lecturer at UCL-SSEES. He graduated in History from Queens’ College, Cambridge, and was awarded his DPhil by Oxford University. A revised version was published by Oxford University Press in 1998 as Poland’s Last King and English culture: Stanisław August Poniatowski 1732-1798. His field of research is the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the eighteenth century. He is the outgoing editor of Central Europe, and the author of one of the articles in the special issue: How Catholic was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Later Eighteenth Century?
Dr Eglė Rindzevičiūtė is a Researcher at Gothenburg University. She graduated in Art History from Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, gained her MSc in Cultural Management from the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and MA in Nationalism Studies from the Central European University in Budapest. She was awarded her PhD in Culture Studies by Linköping University, Sweden. The special issue of Central Europe contains her paper Imagining the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: The Politics and Economics of the Rebuilding of Trakai Castle and the ‘Palace of Sovereigns’ in Vilnius.
If you wish to come to this event please register by e-mail to blssecretary@hotmail.com and pay at the door (cheque or exact amount in cash, please, £8 per person, students free). There will be an opportunity to buy copies of the issue at a reduced price.
10 January, 2011. 6.30 for 7pm, Lithuanian Embassy in London, 84 Gloucester Place, W1U 6AU. £8 per person, students free.
