Justina Smalkyte

Diplômée d'une Licence d'Histoire de l'Université de Vilnius et d'un double Master en Histoire Européenne de l'Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 et l'Université Humboldt de Berlin, Justina Smalkyte est depuis 2018 doctorante contractuelle au Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po. 

Après un mémoire portant sur la mémoire de la Shoah en Lituanie post-soviétique (financé par le programme MIEM USPC), sa recherche doctorale s'interroge sur le genre et les relations inter-ethniques dans les mouvements de la résistance anti-nazie en Lituanie sous occupation allemande (1941-1944).

Ce travail de thèse se concentre sur les modalités d'engagement, les expériences et les identités des résistant(e)s appartenant a de multiples groupes ethno-politiques du Geberalberzirk Litauen.

Publications et interventions

• “Re-conceptualizing the 'Sacred' and the 'Secular': A Case Study of Same- Sex Marriage in Denmark”, coauthored with Lea Brinkgaard and Farhad Mirza, the Berlin Historical Review, special issue: “Community and Faith: A Social History of Religion in Modern Societies” ( publication 2019-2020).
• “Anti-Semitism, Multiple Identities and Gendered Power Structures in the Communist Resistance in German-occupied Lithuania: An Intersectional Perspective”, Research Workshop: Jewish Experiencesand the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, 5-16 August 2019, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
• “Ethnicity, Gender and Multidirectional Violence: A Case Study of the Formation of the Local Force (Vietine Rinktine) in German-occupied Lithuania (February-May 1944)”, Conference: Reshaping the Nation: Collective Identities and Post-War Violence in Europe 1944–48, 16-17 May 2019, Charles University in Prague.
• “Memory of the Holocaust in Lithuania: Between National, Regional and European Memories” GRACEH 2017 (Graduate Conference in European History): Beyond Established Narratives? New Approaches to European History from Early Modern Times to the Present, 27 – 29 April 2017, the European University Institute in Florence.
• “Holocaust Memory in Lithuania: A Gender Perspective”, Graduate Conference: Rethinking Gender in Historical Research, 4-7 September 2016, Drosendorf, Austria.