Rita REPŠIENĖ

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5891-1024
Email: r.repsiene@gmail.com

Doctor of Humanities. Senior researcher at the Department of Contemporary Lithuanian Culture. Since 2006 works at Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. Editor-in-chief of eight books and fifteen volumes of periodical scientific journals.

Associate Professor of the Department of Digital Cultures and Communication of the Faculty of Communication of Vilnius University (since 2009), Associate Professor of the Department of Art History and Theory of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (2008–2020).

Research interests:

Contemporary Lithuanian culture, communication theories, media studies, modern mythology, identity, cultural memory, heritage

Member of the Scientific Council of the Latvian Academy of Culture (since 2014)

Member of the Scientific Council of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute (since 2020)

Editorial boards of peer-reviewed scientific journals:

Since 2014 Culture Crossroads, Editorial Board, Riga: the Latvian Academy of Culture, http://www.culturecrossroads.lv/en/izdevuma-veidotaji

Since 20011 the editor-in-chief of Sphairos: Cultural and Media Studies

Projects

2021–2022 Humor in the European public sphere: Fostering societal debate about contested expression in a globalizing world (Unibo – UNA Europa)

2020–2023 “Identity on the Line” project (expert, VU) funded by the Culture sub-program of the European Commission's Creative Europe Program

2020–2022 International Corona Humor Project (initiators Prof. Giselinde Kuipers, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, Dr. Mark Boukes, University of Amsterdam, participating in more than 257 countries; coordinator, LCRI)

2017 Project supported by the French Institute “Culture in the Networked Society: Identity Industry” (LCRI)

2015–2017 Latvian Ministry of Education and Science funded project “Sustainability of Latvian Cultural Traditions in an Innovative Environment” (Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, Latvia)

Edited scientific journals in English:

Marija Gimbutas in the 21st Century: Longing for Peaceful Civilisations, ed. by Rita Repšienė, Vilnius: Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, 2023. 208 p. ISSN 2029-8560, eISSN 2783-5529 – Sphairos: Cultural and Media Studies, 13.

Main Publications in English:

Repšienė, Rita. Marija Gimbutas, the 21st Century and the Media: Creating Hope for the Peaceful Future through the Discovery of Prehistoric Civilization, Marija Gimbutas in the 21st Century: Longing for Peaceful Civilizations, ed. by Rita Repšienė, Vilnius: Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, 2022, p. 26–63. ISSN 2029-8560; eISSN 2783-5529 – Sphairos: Cultural and Media Studies, 13.

Rita Repšienė, Odeta Žukauskienė. The Song Celebration as Power of Cultural Memory and a Mission of Modernity, Culture Crossroads, Vol. 9. ISSN 2500-9974. Riga: Research Centre of the Latvian Academy of Culture, 2016, p. 20–35, http://www.culturecrossroads.lv/pdf/5/en

Repšienė, Rita, Žukauskienė, Odeta, Utopias, Fictions and Dead Cities: Reality and Perspectives, Perspectives on Contemporary Legend, Tartu/Tallinn: ESL Scholarly Press, 2016, p. 42–43, ISBN 978-9949-586-10-3

Rita Repšienė, Laima  Anglickienė. Identity and Stereotypes: Humor Manifestation, Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, 50.  Edited byMare Kõiva & Andres Kuperjanov, Tartu: Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Institute of Folklore, 2012, p. 9–28,
 http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol50/index.html DOI: 10.7592/FEJF2012.50.identity

Rita Repšienė. New Narratives, Traditional Values, and National Cultural Distinction: Reimagining Baltic Identity.  Mihály Hoppál (eds.) Sustainable Heritage, Symposium on European Intangible Cultural Heritage, Budapest: European Folklore Institute, 2010, p. 85–91. ISBN 978-963-88799-5-0

Rita Repšienė. Lithuanian Mythology: Perspectives and Possibilities, Jowita Niewulis-Grablunas, Justyna Prusinowska, Ewa Stryczynska-Hodyl (eds.). Perspectives of Baltic Philology. Poznań: Wydawnistwo „RYS“, 2008, p. 197–208. ISBN 978-83-601517-32-1.

Main Papers in English at the International Conference

Repšienė, Rita. Challenging Reality and Crisis Communication: Shaping Public Opinion, Performing Global Crises: Conference, Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 30 November – 2 December 2022.

Rita Repšienė; Tsafi Sebba (Elran University of Haifa, Israel). Iconic Mythicality and Visual Thinking in Pandemic Memes: Pursuing “The Forgotten Language”, From Language to Communication and Beyond Language in the Third Millennium, Kraków, 23-25 March 2022.

Rita Repšienė; Tsafi Sebba (Elran University of Haifa, Israel). “If God Asks…”, Hidden Emotions and Folk Beliefs in the “Mythical Meme” of the Pandemic, Balkan and Baltic States in United Europe: History, Religion, and Culture V; Nature and Culture in the Rituals, Narratives and Beliefs, Tartu, September 18–22, 2022.

Rita Repšienė, Challenges for Culture and MIL’s Today: Theoretical Prerogatives, Strategic Approach and Practical Achievements,  “New Media” and Challenging (Artificial) Intelligence, Identity and Culture, Vilnius: National Gallery of Art, 2019 12 06

Rita Repšienė, New Media Challenges and Intellectual Crisis, The Feature Conference of Global MIL Week 2018, the 8th Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (MILID) Conference, Kaunas:  UNESCO, Vytautas Magnus University, 2018 10 24–25

Rita Repšienė, Sacred Past in Controversial Future: Legendary Memory as Contemporary Communication, From language to mind V: What a wonderful world of legends! Conference dedicated to Estonian folklorist Eda Kalmre, Tartu: Department of Folkloristics, Estonian Literary Museum Academic Folklore Society Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies (CEES), 2018 09 21

Repšienė, Rita, Žukauskienė, Odeta, Utopias, Fictions and Dead Cities: Reality and Perspectives, Perspectives on Contemporary Legend, 34 th International Conference, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, Tallinn, 2016 June 28 – July 2, http://www.folklore.ee/rl/fo/konve/2016/legend/program.htm

Membership in International Societies

Repšienė, Rita, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, since 2016

Repšienė, Rita, International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS), since 2020

Expert Activity

Since 2020 Web of Sciences Publon expert

Since 2014 Member of the Scientific Council of the Latvian Academy of Culture and expert

Since 2014 expert of the International Database "Lituanistika"

2014–2017 Expert of the Lithuanian Culture Council

2012–2013, 2015–2016, 2019–2020 Expert of the Press, Radio and Television Support Fund (SRTRF)