Rūta Marija VABALAITĖ

PhD, researcher

In 1998 defended PhD thesis entitled „The Problem of Art’s Death (Comparative Analysis of Basic Concepts)” at Vilnius University. Since 2009 works in the Department of History of Lithuanian philosophy of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, since 2020 is the head of the same department. In 1997–2011 read courses on history of philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of culture, etc. at Vilnius Pedagogical University; since 2011 teaches at Mykolas Romeris University, in 2012 – 2018 was the Bachelor of Philosophy study program director at this university. As an Erasmus professor lectured at Maynooth (Ireland, 2013) and Ioannina (Greece, 2022) Universities.

Published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed editions, made over 50 contributions at national and international conferences, took part at the research projects funded by EU (ESIFs) and Research Council of Lithuania, did the scientific internships at Warsaw University (2015) and at the Institutes of Philosophy of National Academies of Science of Ukraine (2017) and Belarus (2019).

Is a member of editorial boards of international scientific journals. Is a member of International Association for Aesthetics and The Society for German Idealism and Romanticism.

Main research interests: history of Lithuanian philosophy, philosophy of art, modern and contemporary philosophies.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9576-4772

E-mail: marijavabalaite@gmail.com

Selected articles published in English

Vabalaitė, R. M. The Spread of Teilhard de Chardin's Ideas in the Lithuanian Diaspora. Religiski-Filozofiski Raksti, 2024, nr. 35, p. 70-88. 10.22364/rfr.35

Vabalaitė R. M. Between Locality and Globality: The Problems of the History of Philosophy in Lithuania, Sententiae 40:2 (2021): 46-54 https://doi.org/10.31649/sent40.02.046 ISSN 2075-6461 ISSN 2308-8915

Vabalaitė R. M. Faith and Reason in the Theories of Open and Closed Society. Reliģiski-filosofiski raksti, 2020, vol. 28, p. 34-54, ISSN 1407-1908. DOI 10.22364/rfr.28

Vabalaitė R. M. Jan Śniadecki’s Philosophical Interpretations of the Concepts Explaining Beauty and Art. Sententiae 39:1 (2020): 54-60. https://doi.org/10.31649/sent39.01.054 ISSN 2075-6461; ISSN 2308-8915.

Vabalaitė R. M. et al. A forgotten philosopher Juozapas Čepėnas: ethic insights // Filosofija Sociologija, 2020, nr. 31 (1), p. 61-69. https://doi.org/10.6001/fil-soc.v31i1.4179 ISSN 0235-7186.

Vabalaite R. M. Kandinsky’s and Deleuze’s Ideas in Rethinking the Concepts of Art, in Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Aesthetics, Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics: Aesthetics Between History, Geography and Media. Belgrade: University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture, 2019, p. 679-685. ISBN 978-86-7924-224-2

Vabalaitė R. M. Early Heidegger’s concept of identity // Identity and globalization: ethical implications / edited by Dalia Marija Stanciene, Irena Darginaviciene, Susan Robbins. Washington: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2018. p. 59-67. ISBN: 9781565183261.

Vabalaite R. M. Formation of the Romantic world outlook of the thinkers related to historical Lithuania and Vilnius University. Romanticism in Literature. Ed by Irma Ratiani. Beau Bassin: Scholars' Press, 2018, p. 555-571. https://www.scholars-press.com/# ISBN: 978-620-2-30883-0

Vabalaite R. M. The Meaning of Human Relations in Existential Philosophy and Its Reflection in Contemporary Art. Ruch Filozoficzny, 2018, Vol 74, No 2, p. 7-14. ISSN 0035-9599 https://apcz.umk.pl/RF/article/view/RF.2018.010

Vabalaitė, Rūta Marija. Activity and Passivity in the Creation of Art: Heidegger and Later Philosophers, Filosofija. Sociologija, 2017, t. 28, nr. 1, p. 3–10. ISSN 0235-7186.

Vabalaitė, Rūta Marija. Wasily Sesemann’s Aesthetics of Nature, Aesthetic in human environment: the book of OIAC VIII Proceedings, Moscow: Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2017, p. 69–73; ISBN 978-5-4485-7959-2.

Vabalaitė, Rūta Marija. Nietzschean Conception of the Work of Art in Friedrich Nietzsche in Cultural Context. Ed by Maike Schmidt, Tigran Simyan ... Ruta Marija Vabalaite ... et al. Yerevan: Yerevan State University Press, 2015, p. 176-183. ISBN 978-5-8084-1981-0

Vabalaitė, Rūta Marija. The Influence of Pseudo-Dionysius The Areopagite’s Concept of Beauty over Aesthetical Thought of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas, Dialogue of Cultures: Platonic Tradition and Contemporary Thomism - Selection of Scientific Articles. Klaipėda: Klaipėda University, 2015, p. 43-49. ISBN 978-9955-18-858-2

Vabalaite R. M. The concept of selfhood in Martin Heidegger’s thinking after “Being and Time”, in Martin Heidegger’s and present day’s sociocultural trends (in commemoration of M. Heidegger’s 125-th anniversary): proceedings of international seminar Murmansk, on September 30. Murmansk: Murmansk State Humanities University, 2015, 71-77, 21-27; ISBN 978-5-4222-0279-9

Vabalaite R. M. Philosophical Ideas as a Constitutive Element of Some Contemporary Sculptures in Philosophy of the Contemporary Art: the book of OIAC VI Proceedings, Moscow Lomonosov Moscow State University 13–15.11.2014. Moscow, 2014, p. 81-87 ISBN 978–5–93883–237–4

Vabalaitė, Rūta Marija. Questions about the Art itself in the modern artworks, Filosofija. Sociologija, 2014, t. 25, nr. 1, p. 29–34. ISSN 0235-7186.

Vabalaitė, Rūta Marija. The Reception of German Philosophy in the Tractate of Józef Gołuchowski, Societal Studies, 2012, 4 (1), p. 7-18. ISSN 1392-6195 (print), ISSN 2029-2058 (online).

Ruta Marija Vabalaite at the Institute (in autumn 2020)