Prof. Dovilė Budrytė

Georgia Gwinnett College, USA

Dovile Budrytė is a professor of political science at Georgia Gwinnett College, USA, and she is also an invited researcher at Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Center at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

In 2022–2024, she served as the president of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS). She currently is an Editor-in-Chief of Lituanus, a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal.

Her research interests include memory politics, trauma, Holocaust justice and gender studies, particularly in Eastern and Central Europe. Her most recent work examines the impact of international relations crises on memory politics, exploring themes such as the challenges to and defence of memory, memory discourses and transformations of identities, as well as mnemonic decolonization and historical justice.

Her publications include articles on various topics related to minority rights and memory politics, one single authored and six co-edited books, including Memory and Trauma in International Relations: Theories, Cases and Debates (co-editor with Erica Resende), and Defending Memory in Global Politics: Mnemonical In/Security and Crisis (co-editor with Erica Resende and Doug Becker).

In her keynote lecture, Dovile Budrytė will address the memory politics in times of crisis, focusing on the impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war on memory discourses in Lithuania and other Eastern European states.