Basia NIKIFOROVA

Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Associate Professor.
Email: nikiforovaphilosophy@gmail.com

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2774-4707

Senior Researcher at the Department of Contemporary Philosophy in Lithuanian Culture Research Institute (since 2003). 1997–1998 Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University; 1999 Maria Salit-Gitelson Tell Memorial Fellowship, Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO); 1999 Research Fellow, The International Research Institute on Jewish Women, Brandeis University; 2016 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Aesthetics and Visual Arts, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Lublin), COST Action: IS1307.

PHD: in 1977 defended PhD dissertation “Religious Pluralism and Non-traditional Forms of Religiosity” in Moscow Lomonosov State University. The nostrification was hold by Lithuania Council of Science in Vilnius, 1993.10.07.

Research interests: philosophy of religion, religious pluralism, European religious and cultural borders, cultural studies.

PUBLICATIONS

Edited books:

Borderology: Cross-disciplinary Insights from the Border Zone Along the Green Belt. Edited by Jan Selmer Methi, Andrei Sergeev, Malgorzata Beienkowska, Basia Nikiforova, Switzerland: Springer, 2019, ISBN 9783319993928.

Tarp Vilniaus ir Minsko: Lietuvos–Baltarusijos pasienio istorinis-kultūrinis paveldas [Between Vilnius and Minsk: Historical and Cultural Heritage of Lithuanian–Belarusian Borderland], Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2014, 295 p. – ISBN 978-9955-868-71-2.

Edited volumes:

Creativity Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, sudaryt. ir red. B. Nikiforova, Vilnius: Gedimino technikos universitetas, 2016, p. 103–176. – ISSN 2345-0479 (print), ISSN 2345-0487 (online).

Santalka: filosofija, komunikacija [Coactivity: Philosophy, Communication] 24 (3), Vilnius: Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas, 2016, p. 83–163, ISSN 2029-6320, 2029-6339.

Book chapters:

Nikiforova, Basia. Central European Spiritual Image: Between Representation and Context (Chapter 5), Europe: Environmental, Political and Social Issues, Edited by Elias A. Thygesen, New York: NOVA Science Publishers, 2020, p. 115–162. ISBN 978-1-53618-246-0

Articles:

Nikiforova, Basia. Central European Literary Reconceptualization of Historical Memory: The Case of Ingeborg Bachmann’s Novels, Kultura i Wartości 34, 2022, p. 163–182. ISSN 2299-7806 http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/kw.2022.34.163-182

Nikiforova, Basia. The Archive as Witness of Intertextual Lithuanian-Russian Dissidence Links, Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps. Dissidences de l’Est en exil Inventaire, histoires, pratiques documentaires, 145–146 (2). La contemporaine, 2022, p. 105–111. ISSN 0769-3206, ISSN 1952-4226 (online).

Nikiforova, Basia. Visual Images of Framing Borders from Migration to Pandemic Crises. Filosofija. Sociologija. 2022. T. 33. Nr. 3, p. 303–309.

Nikiforova, Basia. Derridean “Zone without Belonging” and its Literary Ambience, Logos 109, 2021, p. 79–88. https://doi.org/10.24101/logos.2021.78

Nikiforova, Basia. Deconstructing Border Theory through the Axiological Assumption. Culture and Values 30, 2020, p. 173–187. https://journals.umcs.pl/kw/article/view/6639/8779  

Nikiforova, Basia. Do Not Ask for the Meaning: Wittgenstein and Religious Language, Sovijus: tarpdalykiniai kultūros tyrimai, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2019, T. 8, Nr. 2, p. 81–90, ISSN 2351-471X (print), ISSN 2351-4728 (online).

Nikiforova, Basia; Šapoka, Kęstutis. Dissenting Body and its Creative Recontextualisation in Lithuanian Visual Arts, Creativity Studies 12 (2), 2019, p. 361–375, ISSN 2345-0479 (print), 2345-0487 (online). – http://doi.org/10.3846/cs.2019.11178

Nikiforova, Basia. Crossing Borders within City: the Correlations of Discourse and Image, World City vs. Global Village: Prospects for Dialogue in the Contemporary World, edited by A. Sautkin, Murmansk: Murmansk Arctic State University, 2019, p. 70–79.

Nikiforova, Basia. Atminties ir žvilgsnio trajektorijos: vaizdo kultūros refleksija, Creativity Studies 12 (2), 2019, p. 394–398, ISSN 2345-0479 (print), 2345-0487 (online). https://doi.org/10.3846/cs.2019.11830

Nikiforova, Basia. Deconstruction of European Environmental Identity in the Mass Immigration Context, Borderology: Cross-disciplinary Insights from the Border Zone Along the Green Belt, edited by Jan Selmer Methi, Andrei Sergeev, Malgorzata Beienkowska, Basia Nikiforova, Switzerland: Springer, 2019, p. 121–131, 247–248, ISBN 9783319993928.

Nikiforova, Basia. European Posthuman Border Image: Performativity, Creativity and Beyond, Creativity Studies 11 (2), 2018, p. 348–361, ISSN 2345-0479 / eISSN 2345-0487. – https://doi.org/10.3846/cs.2018.6296

Nikiforova, Basia. The Religion’s Return (?) to Philosophical and Cultural Discourse: Introduction to the Problem, Sovijus: tarpdalykiniai kultūros tyrimai 6 (2), Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2018, p. 86–97, ISSN 2351-471X (print), ISSN 2351-4728 (online). http://www.sovijus.lt/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/97-p.-Nikiforova-Santrauka.pdf

Nikiforova, Basia. A política linguística e o pluralismo cultural, translated by Silva, Diego Barbosa, Revista Linguasagem 28 (1), Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2018, p. 388–407, ISSN 1983-6988. https://www.linguasagem.ufscar.br/index.php/linguasagem/article/view/379/224

Nikiforova, Basia. Refugees on the Border: Visuality and Discourse, A Human Between..., edited by Sautkin, A., Murmansk: Murmansk Arctic State University, 2018, p. 83–89, ISBN 9785422203502.

Nikiforova, Basia. (De)construction of Cultural Identity in the Lithuanian- Polish-Belarusian Borderland, Identity and Globalization: Ethical Implications, Lithuanian Philosophical Studies, VIII. Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change, Series IVA, Eastern and Central European Philosophical Studies, Vol. 57, edited by Dalia Marija Stanciene, Irena Darginaviciene and Susan Robbins, Washington: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2018, p. 35–51, ISBN 9781565183262. http://www.crvp.org/publications/Series-IVA/IVA-57.pdf

Nikiforova, Basia. Cultural and Religious Dimensions of the Sacred and Profane ambivalence: the Vilnius case, Studies in East European Thought 69 (2), 2017, p. 153– 164. – ISSN 0925-9392 (print) ISSN 1573-0948 (online). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11212-017-9283-z 

Nikiforova, Basia. European Borders: New Materialist Approach and Beyond, Sovijus: tarpdalykiniai kultūros tyrimai 5 (2), 2017, p. 69–80. – ISSN 2351-471X (print), ISSN 2351-4728 (online). http://www.sovijus.lt/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/80-p.-Nikiforova-Santrauka-Sovijus-T.-5-Nr.-2.pdf

Nikiforova, Basia. Deconstructing Border Theory: a New Way of Thinking about European Borders (Review-essay), Sovijus: tarpdalykiniai kultūros tyrimai 5 (1), 2017, p. 131–137. – ISSN 2351-471X (print), ISSN 2351-4728 (online). http://www.sovijus.lt/wordpress/?page_id=1396

Nikiforova, Basia; Rossvær, Virgo. Borders and Tolerance in Contemporary Political and Cultural Discourse, Coactivity: Philosophy, Communication 25, 2017, p. 69–74. – ISSN 2029-6320 (print), ISSN 2029-6339 (online). http://www.cpc.vgtu.lt/index.php/cpc/article/view/258

Nikiforova, Basia. Радикально «Другой»: образ, риторика и европейский дискурс [Radically “Other”: Image, Rhetoric and European Discourse], Воображаемые и реальные миры и их границы = Imaginary and real worlds and their borders : сборник научных статей, науч. ред. А. А. Сауткин, Мурманск: Мурманский арктический государственный университет, 2016, с. 75–82. – ISBN 978-5-4222-0300-0.

Nikiforova, Basia. European Borders and Identity from the New Materialist Approach, Pogranicze. Studija spoleczne XXVII (1), pod redakcją: A. Sadowskiego i K. Stop-Rutkowskiej, Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersitetu w Białymstoku, 2016, s. 151–162. – ISSN 1230-2392. http://repozytorium.uwb.edu.pl/jspui/bitstream/11320/4717/1/Pogranicze_27_cz-1_B.Nikiforova_European_borders_and_identity_from_the_new_materialist_approach.pdf

Nikiforova, Basia; Bespamyatnykh, Nikolai. Belarusian- Lithuanian Border. Between Fear and Hope: a View from Both Sides, Sovijus: tarpdalykiniai kultūros tyrimai 3 (2) 2015, p. 87–101, – ISSN 2351-471X (print), ISSN 2351-4728 (online). – http://www.sovijus.lt/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/101-N.-Bespamyatnykh-B.-Nikiforova-Santrauka.pdf

Nikiforova, Basia. Philosophy of Matter Manipulation in Brothers Quay’ Metaphorical Animation World, Creativity Studies 8 (1), 2015, p. 3–11. – ISSN 2345-0479 (print), ISSN 2345-0487 (online). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3846/23450479.2015.1015464

Nikiforova, Basia.The Changing Borders of Tolerance and European Media Discourse, Sovijus: tarpdalykiniai kultūros tyrimai 2 (2), 2014, p. 56–68. – ISSN 2351-471X (print), ISSN 2351-4728 (online).

Nikiforova, Basia. Lietuvos-Baltarusijos pasienio kultūrinė erdvė: fenomenologinis vaizdas [Cultural Space of Lithuanian–Belarusian Borderland: Phenomenological Image], Tarp Vilniaus ir Minsko: Lietuvos–Baltarusijos pasienio istorinis-kultūrinis paveldas,  Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2014, p. 169–184.

Nikiforova, Basia. Słownik literatury Europy środkowej. Casus Bruno Schulza [The Dictionary of Central European Literature: The Case of Bruno Schulz], Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo 19, 2013, p. 361–374. – ISSN 1234-4087. http://uwm.edu.pl/hip/sites/default/files/numery/Humanistyka%20i%20Przyrodoznawstwo%2019.pdf

Nikiforova, Basia. Borders of Differences as European Challenge, Pogranicze: Studia Społeczne, tom XIX, Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersitetu w Białymstoku, 2012, p. 7–20. – ISSN 1230-2392. –http://pogranicze.soc.uwb.edu.pl/images/PDFy/pogranicze19.pdf

Nikiforova, Basia. Central Europe: territoriality and spiritual images Limes: borderland studies 5 (2), 2012, p. 103–114. – ISSN 2029-7475. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3846/20297475.2012.717236

Nikiforova, Basia. Europos medijų diskursas ir religinės tapatybės įvaizdinimas [European  Media Discourse and Visualisation of Religious Identity], Nacionalinis tapatumas medijų kultūroje, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2011, p. 209–222, 261. – ISBN 978-609-427-062-8.

Nikiforova, Basia. Transforming Borders Functions in the Lithuanian-Polish-Belarusian Borderland, Limes: cultural regionalistics 3 (2), 2010, p. 124–132. – ISSN 2029-0187 (print), ISSN 2029-0209 (online). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3846/limes.2010.13

Participation in the International Projects

COST Action CA20107. The International COST project “Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity”, 2021–2025. Investigator.

The Lithuanian and Hungarian joint project “Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) concepts. – Philosophical, Sociological and Historical Analyses”. Lithuanian-Hungarian Bilateral Project. Hungarian Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and VGTU, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. 2020–2022. Investigator.

https://fi.btk.mta.hu/images/Litvan_magyar_bilateralis_Sustainable_Urban_Development_concepts.pdf

Bilateral Hungarian – Lithuanian Project „Conception of creative city within Central Europe: historical images and empirical indices“, Lithuanian and Hungarian Academy of Science, 2016–2018. Investigator.

Lithuanian-Belarus Programme Project „Historical and Cultural Heritage of Lithuanian–Belarusian Borderland: between Vilnius and Minsk“, Research Council of Lithuania, 2013–2014. Chief investigator.

COST Action CA16213. International project “New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent”, 2017–2021. Investigator.

COST Action IS1307. Internamional project “New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matterʼ”, Perspectives of the European academic community network, 2013–2018. Investigator.

COST action IS0803. International COST project “Remaking Eastern Borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europeans Eastern peripheries”, 2008–2013. Research Council of Lithuania, Chief investigator.

Membership and Activities in Professional Associations

Limes: cultural regionalistics, Vilnius: Technika, ISSN 2029-0187 print/ISSN 2029-0209 online. Deputy Editor-in-Chief. http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tlim20/3/2#.UwIS184kjrQ

POGRANICZE. Studia Społeczne, Poland, Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersitetu w Białymstoku, ISSN 1230-2392 Board member. http://pogranicze.soc.uwb.edu.pl/ , http://pogranicze.soc.uwb.edu.pl/redakcja.html  

Culture and Values, Poland, Lublin: Marie Curie-Skłodowska University, e-quarterly ISSN 2299-7806 Board member. http://kulturaiwartosci.umcs.lublin.pl/en

Member of Lithuanian Philosophy Association