Teaching experience in universities abroad and Lithuania
Academic posts prior to the election to the EP:
Full-time appointment: Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy at Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas, Lithuania.
Part-time appointments: (1) Docent of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland; (2) Extraordinary Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at Tallinn University, Estonia.
Teaching Experience in universities abroad and Lithuania:
1. University of Klaipėda, Lithuania (1991–2006). Courses taught:
(a) Introduction to Philosophy;
(b) Philosophy of History;
(c) Philosophy of Culture;
(d) Social and Cultural Criticism;
(e) Ideologies and Utopias;
(f) Representations and Misrepresentations of the Other in Modern History and Historiography;
(g) Aesthetics;
(h) History of Ideas of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
2. Vilnius University, Lithuania (1991–1993 and 2005):
(a) Philosophy of History;
(b) Philosophy of Culture;
(c) Identity, Tolerance, and Modern Moral Imagination.
3. Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts, Lithuania (1991–1993):
Theories of Culture.
4. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania (1996):
Urban Philosophy.
5. Estonian Institute of Humanities in Tallinn, Estonia (1993, 1995, and 1998):
(a) Theories of Culture;
(b) Comparative Theories of Civilization;
(c) Ideologies and Utopias;
(d) Social and Cultural Criticism.
6. University of Helsinki, Finland (1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006):
(a) Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Lithuania: Politics and Culture;
(b) Between Identity and Freedom: Mapping Baltic Philosophy in the Twentieth Century;
(c) On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Moral Imagination and Social Criticism in Eastern Europe;
(d) Politics and Literature;
(e) Civilization Theories;
(f) Modern Moral Imagination;
(g) Philosophy of Literature.
7. Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, USA (1994 and 1998–1999):
(a) Comparative Theories of Civilization;
(b) East European Ideas of Utopianism;
(c) Philosophy of History: The Russian Case;
(d) Politics and Literature;
(e) Critics of Culture.
8. University of Bradford, UK (1999–2000):
A graduate seminar in Central and East European studies (together with Professor John W. Hiden).
9. University of Montevallo, Alabama, USA (2001–2002):
(a) Critics of Culture;
(b) Politics and Literature.
10. University of Bologna-Forlì Campus, Italy (2007, 2008, 2009):
(a) Politics and Literature: An East-Central European Perspective.
11. Corvinus University of Budapest-Kőszeg Campus/ISES-The Institute for Social and European Studies, Hungary (2008):
Politics and Literature: An East-Central European Perspective.
12. Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania (2002–2009)
(a) Lithuania in the Twentieth Century: A Political and Cultural History;
(b) Moral Imagination and Social Criticism in Eastern Europe;
(c) Politics and Literature;
(d) Globalization and Its Discontents;
(e) Social Criticism;
(f) Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics;
(g) Contemporary Issues in Social and Political Philosophy;
(h) The Baltic States: Toward a New Regional Identity;
(i) Academic Writing.
