Professor Eglė Rindzevičiūtė

Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
Department of Criminology
School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
Penrhyn Road
Behaviour, Business and Policy

Professor of Criminology and Sociology

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About

I joined the Department in September 2015 from Sciences Po, the Paris Institute of Political Studies. Following my PhD I taught and did research at the University of Gothenburg and University of Linköping in Sweden as well as Sciences Po, France. In addition to this, I was a visiting scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, the University of Cambridge, Vilnius University, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Bremen University, the Humboldt University of Berlin and Gothenburg University.

My last book, The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science (Cornell University Press, 2023) explores the politics and epistemology of scientific predictions and their use in public policy in the long 20th century, thus extending the research agenda presented in my previous book, entitled The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World (Cornell University Press, 2016), that focused on the role of systems thinking and computer modelling as they were deployed to construct global governance.

I am lead editor of Nuclear Cultural Heritage (UCL Press, forthcoming in April 2027), which is a landmark volume signalling the new field of critical nuclear cultural heritage studies. My next book project is Beyond Containment: The Making of Nuclear Cultural Heritage, which will present a pioneering study of the shaping of nuclearity in museums and heritage sites globally.

Qualifications

Fellow, Higher Education Academy, the UK, 2017
PhD in Culture Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, 2008
MA, Nationalism Studies, Central European University, Hungary, 2001
MSc, Management of Culture, Moscow School of Social & Economic Sciences, Russia, 2000
BA, Art History and Theory, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, 1999

Domains

My research interests revolve around the sociology of scientific expertise and public policy and sociology of culture, particularly cultural policy, heritage and creative industries. Over the years, I have given more than 100 invited talks and lectures in such universities as Harvard, Cornell, NYU, Cambridge, Oxford, Zurich ETH, Copenhagen Business School, EHESS and ENS.

I link my research to practice through collaborations with arts and cultural organisations, such as Science Museum in London, National Museums Scotland, Serpentine Gallery and the Architectural Association in London, Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre and the Baltic and Lithuanian pavilions for the Venice Biennial of Architecture, which resulted in public events and major exhibitions, including the major exhibition "How to Feel Real: Art, Technology and Us" at MO Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (2026-2027).

As the P.I., I delivered Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage (NuSPACES), an international research project funded by the AHRC and consortium as part of the EU JPICH programme (499,075 Euro, 2021–2024). I am currently a Co-I at the international research project Artrepreneurs on the Edge: Artistic Autonomy, Marketization and the Organization of Creative Practice in the Baltic Sea Region (ArtR), led by Dr Ann-Sofie Koping (Sodertorn University) and funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation (5,999,000 SEK, 2024–2027). I am a Management Committee member of Terra Atomica: Exploring the Afterlives of Nuclear Landscapes in Europe (TerraAtomica), COST Action CA25116, 2026-2030.

Previously I led a research networking project Nuclear Cultural Heritage: From Knowledge to Practice, funded by the AHRC (2018–21) and was a Co-Investigator at the international research project Atomic Heritage Goes Critical, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (2018–21), where I explored the construction of nuclear cultural heritage in Russia and the UK.

I have served on the advisory boards of "Materialising the Cold War," a research project lead by P.I. Prof Sam Alberti, National Museums Scotland, and Prof Holger Nehring, University of Stirling, which culminated in a major exhibition about Scotland and the Cold War (2024).

I am a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), an editorial board member of The History of Social Science and The International Journal of Cultural Policy and have served on the advisory board of Sapiens (until 2025).

As of 2022, I am a member of the AHRC Peer Review College. In 2016–22, I served as a member of the Executive Group of the National Research Programme "Modernity in Lithuania," the Lithuanian National Research Council, where I also chaired expert panels for calls in social sciences and humanities (2026). At Kingston, I was a member of Senate (2019–22).

I serve as postgraduate research coordinator at the Department of Criminology and Social Sciences.

PhD supervision

Completions

First supervisor of Ms Lavinia Tinelli, PhD student in Sociology, KU. Thesis: "Lolita: Fashioning Identity, Liberal Selves, and the City. An investigation into practices of construction of the self in hybrid urban context." Funded by a KU PhD studentship and Techne AHRC Doctoral Partnership. Completed in 2025.
Advisor to Ms Marta Frejute, PhD student in Art Practice, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. Thesis: "The civilisation series." Funded by the Academy's studentship. Completed in 2026.

Ongoing

First supervisor to Mr Zhihan Wang, PhD student in Social Sciences, KU. Thesis: "National Consciousness in Traditional Societies of East Asia."
Second supervisor of Mr Ajay Hothi, PhD student in Design, KU. Thesis on branding and community in association football clubs. Funded by Techne AHRC Doctoral Partnership.
First supervisor of Ms Virginija Januskeviciute, PhD student in Art History, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. Thesis: "The futures of artworks, or the futurity of artworks in the contemporary art field in Lithuania after 1990." Funded by the Academy's studentship.
First supervisor of Ms Milena Cerniakaite, PhD student in Art History, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. Thesis:"Art after the Digital Turn: From Institutional Power to Algorithmic Control." Funded by the Academy's studentship.
Second supervisor of Ms Maija Rudovska, PhD student in Art History and Visual Culture, the Estonian Academy of Arts. Thesis: "Artists as curators: the formation of curatorial discourse in the late 1980s and 1990s in Latvia." Funded by the Academy's studentship.

I have examined internationally 19 PhD theses in social science as well as art and curatorial practice (e.g. UCL, Edinburgh, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and the University of Lausanne).

I welcome inquiries from prospective PhD students interested in the digital criminology and AI, public policy and cultural and political sociology.

Publications

De-centring the history of the internet in the Soviet Union: computers, networks and the infrastructural politics of digitality in Lithuania

Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė, 2026, Internet Histories (10), 1-2 pp 11-28, Published

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The politics of nuclear cultural heritage in a closed city: layering the past

Rindzevičiūtė, Egle, 2025, Urban History, Accepted/In press

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Regulatory science and late modern governance in the Soviet Union: from the islands of intellectual autonomy to networked infrastructures

Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė, 2025, Centaurus : Journal of the European Society for the History of Science, Accepted/In press

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Book Review of 'The computable city: histories, technologies, stories, predictions' by Michael Batty

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2024, British Journal for the History of Science, E-pub ahead of print

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Book Review of 'Nuclear Russia: the atom in Russian politics and culture' by Paul Josephson

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2024, Slavic Review (83), 2 pp 421-422, Published

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Bridging the cybernetics gap?: Social forecasting in the late Soviet Union

Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė, 2023, Geschichte und Informatik = Histoire et Informatique (24) pp 51-71, Accepted/In press

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Introduction to Roundtable Review of 'Restricted data: the history of nuclear secrecy in the United States' by Alex Wellerstein

Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė, 2023, H-Diplo, Published

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Review Essay of 'Knowledge flows in a global age: a transnational approach' edited by John Krige

Rindzevičiūtė, Egle, 2023, H-Diplo, Published

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Ingrown infrastructures

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2022, A Shade Colder, 3, Published

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Nuclear power as cultural heritage in Russia

Rindzevičiūtė, Egle, 2022, Slavic Review (80), 4 pp 839-862, Published

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With Ukraine

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2022, Echo Gone Wrong, March, Published

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AI, a wicked problem for cultural policy? Pre-empting controversy and the crisis of cultural participation

Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė, 2022, International Journal of Cultural Policy (28) pp 829-844, Published

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With Ukraine

Rindzevičiūtė, Egle, 2022, Baltic Worlds (152), 1-2 pp 29-31, Published

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Šiuolaikinio meno politinė ekologija miesto erdvėje. Pokalbis su Egle Grėbliauskaite ir Agne Gintalaite = [Contemporary art ecology in urban spaces]

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2021, Artnews.lt, Published

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Archyvas / simuliatorius = [Archive / simulator]

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2021, Artnews.lt, Oct, Published

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Dekolonizuojant atomines infrastruktūras: politika, paveldas ir poetika = [Decolonising atomic infrastructures : politics, heritage and poetics]

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2021, Artnews.lt, Oct, Published

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Nuclear superpowers: art, culture and heritage in the nuclear age

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2021, Baltic Worlds (XIV), 1-2 pp 102-106, Published

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Chernobyl as technoscience

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2021, Technology and Culture (61), 4 pp 1178-1187, Published

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Book Review of: 'Enrichment : a critique of commodities' by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre, translated by Catherine Porter

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2021, International Journal of Cultural Policy (27), 5 pp 699-701, Published

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Transforming cultural policy in Eastern Europe: the endless frontier

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2021, International Journal of Cultural Policy (27), 2 pp 149-162, Published

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Strange fossils

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2020, Blok, E-pub ahead of print

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Book Review of: 'Rational fog : science and technology in modern war' by M. Susan Lindee

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2020, H-Diplo, Published

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Splitting the Atom. Creating Trust

Josephson, Paul, Kasperski, Tatiana, Rindzeviciute, Egle and Stsiapanau, Andrei, 2020, Echo Gone Wrong, Published

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Culture Unbound vol. 12 editorial

Dahlin, Johanna, Olsson, Jesper, Rindzeviciute, Egle, Van Orden Mart├¡nez, Victoria and Wagrell, Kristin, 2020, Culture Unbound : Journal of Current Cultural Research (12), 1, Published

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Soviet policy sciences and Earth system governmentality

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2020, Modern Intellectual History (17), 1 pp 179-208, Published

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Systems analysis as infrastructural knowledge: scientific expertise and dissensus under state socialism

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2019, History of Political Economy (51), S1 pp 204-227, Published

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Cold War cybernetics, strategy and managerial governance: unpicking the military roots of neoliberalism

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2019, Progress in Political Economy (PPE), Published

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Book Review of: 'Scenescapes : how qualities of place shape social life' by Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2019, International Journal of Cultural Policy (25), 4 pp 541-543, Published

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Boundary objects of communism: assembling the Soviet past in Lithuanian museums

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2018, Ethnologie Francaise (2018), 2, Published

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Policy change as institutional work: introducing cultural and creative industries into cultural policy

Jenny, Svensson, Klara, Tomson and Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2017, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management (12), 2 pp 149-168, Published

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Book review of: 'Cold War modernists : art, literature, and American cultural diplomacy' by Greg Barnhisel

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2017, International Journal of Cultural Policy (23), 6 pp 782-784, Published

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A struggle for the Soviet future: the birth of scientific forecasting in the Soviet Union

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2016, Slavic Review (75), 1 pp 52-76, Published

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The international transfer of creative industries as a policy idea

Rindzeviciute, Egle, Svensson, Jenny and Tomson, Klara, 2016, International Journal of Cultural Policy (22), 4 pp 594-610, Published

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Book review of: 'Making culture, changing society' by Tony Bennett

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2016, International Journal of Cultural Policy (22), 2 pp 307-308, Published

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The overflow of secrets: the disclosure of Soviet repression in museums as an excess

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2015, Current Anthropology (56), S12, Published

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The future as an intellectual technology in the Soviet Union: from centralised planning to reflexive management = Le futur en tant que technologie intellectuelle en Union sovietique : de la planification centralisee au management reflexif

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2015, Cahiers du Monde Russe (56), 1 pp 113-134, Published

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Post-Soviet transformation of Lithuanian state cultural policy: the meanings of democratisation

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2012, International Journal of Cultural Policy (18), 5 pp 563-578, Published

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Book Review of: 'Politics, policy and the discourses of heritage in Britain' by Emma Waterton

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2011, International Journal of Cultural Policy (18), 4 pp 488-490, Published

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Soviet Lithuanians, Amber and the "New Balts": historical narratives of national and regional identities in Lithuanian museums, 1940-2009

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2010, Culture Unbound (2) pp 665-694, Published

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Imagining the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: the politics and economics of the rebuilding of Trakai Castle and the 'Palace of Sovereigns' in Vilnius

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2010, Central Europe (8), 2 pp 181-203, Published

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Purification and hybridisation of Soviet cybernetics. The politics of scientific governance in an authoritarian regime

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2010, Measurement Science and Technology (50) pp 289-309, Published

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When formal organisations meet informal relations in Soviet Lithuania: action nets, networks and boundary objects in the construction of the Lithuanian Sea Museum

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2010, Lithuanian Historical Studies (15) pp 107-134, Published

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From authoritarian to democratic cultural policy: making sense of de-Sovietisation in Lithuania after 1990

Rindzeviciute, Egle, 2009, Nordisk kulturpolitisk tidskrift (12), 1 pp 191-221, Published

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Digital vilnius baroque

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2024). In: Gelunas, Arunas, Mickunaite, Giedre, Andriulyte, Alge, Antanaviciute, Rasa, (eds.), Vilnius, Lithuania: [Published]

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L'hiver nucleaire: imaginaires numeriques de la destruction du climat mondial

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2024). In: Stavrinaki, Maria, Garimorth, Julia, (eds.), Paris, France: pp 296-301 [Published]

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Nuclear temporalities

Matviyenko, Svitlana and Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė (2023). [Published]

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Atliepiant ateities žvilgsnį: pliuralistinės patirčių orkestruotės Emilijos Škarnulytės kūryboje [A look into the future : the pluralist orchestration of experience in Emilija Škarnulytė's work]

Rindzevičiūtė, E. (2023). In: Patiomkinaitė, Laura, (eds.), Vilnius, Lithuania: pp 78-83 [Published]

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Hosts and hostages of modern infrastructure: the halos of destruction in Ukraine

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2023). In: M├Ârner, Ninna, (eds.), Stockholm, Sweden: Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, S├Âdert├Ârn University pp 15-22 [Published]

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The atomic condition

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2023). In: S├ªther, Susanne ├ÿstby, (eds.), Milan, Italy: [Published]

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The cybernetic prediction: orchestrating the future

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2021). In: Kemp, Sandra, Andersson, Jenny, (eds.), Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press [Published]

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Boundary objects of communism: assembling the Soviet past in museums and public spaces

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2020). In: Iordachi, Constantin, Apor, Peter, (eds.)[Published]

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Besieged by the future

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2019). In: Kleberg, Lars, Lane, Tora, Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Marcia, (eds.), Huddinge, Sweden: Södertörn University pp 17-29 [Published]

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Meat and migration: toward posthumanist history, theory and policy

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2019). In: Grigoravičienė, Erika, Paberžytė, Ugnė, (eds.), Vilnius, Lithuania: pp 139-143 [Published]

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The swamp modernity

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2019). In: Urbonas, Nomeda, Urbonas, Gediminas, (eds.), Cambridge, Mass., U.S.: [Published]

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The unlikely revolutionaries: decision sciences in the Soviet government

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2019). In: Guilhot, Nicolas, Bessner, Daniel, (eds.), Oxford, U.K.: pp 217-249 [Published]

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Urban nuclear reactors and the security theatre: The making of atomic heritage in Chicago, Moscow, and Stockholm

Storm, Anna, Krohn Andersson, Fredrik and Rindzeviciute, Egle (2019). In: Oevermann, Heike, Gantner, Eszter, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge pp 111-129 [Published]

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Hegemony or grassroots movement? The musealization of Soviet deportations

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2018). In: Davoliute, Violeta, Balkelis, Tomas, (eds.), Budapest, Hungary: pp 147-174 [Published]

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Infrastructures for the future

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2016). In: Berzins, Karlis, Daubaraite, Jurga, Isora, Petras, Lozuraityte, Ona, Paegle, Niklavs, Smilga, Dagnija, Tali, Johan, Zarina, Laila, Zukauskas, Jonas, (eds.), London, U.K.: pp 225-236 [Published]

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Les liasons dangereuses? Kultur och ekonomisk tillväxt i EU [Dangerous liaisons? Culture and economic growth in the EU]

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2016). In: Svensson, Jenny, Tomson, Klara, (eds.), Lund, Sweden: pp 71-94 [Published]

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Introduction: Toward a new history of the future

Andersson, Jenny and Rindzeviciute, Egle (2015). In: Andersson, Jenny, Rindzeviciute, Egle, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge pp 1-15 [Published]

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Post-Soviet transformation of Lithuanian state cultural policy: the meanings of democratisation

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2015). In: Vestheim, Geir, (eds.), London, U.K.: pp 71-86 [Published]

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Toward a joint future beyond the Iron Curtain: East-West Politics of global modelling

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2015). In: Andersson, Jenny, Rindzeviciute, Egle, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge pp 115-143 [Published]

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Geopolitics of distinction: negotiating regional spaces in the Baltic museums

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2013). In: Aronsson, Peter, Graden, Lizette, (eds.), Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate pp 221-246 [Published]

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Institutional entrepreneurs of a difficult past: the organisation of knowledge regimes in post-Soviet Lithuanian museums

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2013). In: Mithander, Connie, Sundholm, John, Velicu, Adrian, (eds.), Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi pp 65-93 [Published]

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Hegemony or legitimacy? Assembling Soviet deportations in Lithuanian museums

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2012). In: Davoliute, Violeta, Balkelis, Tomas, (eds.), Vilnius, Lithuania: pp 153-177 [Published]

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National museums in Lithuania: a story of state building (1855-2010)

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2011). In: Aronsson, Peter, Elgenius, Gabriella, (eds.)[Published]

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Internal transfer of cybernetics and informality in the Soviet Union: the case of Lithuania

Rindzeviciute, Egle (2010). In: Autio-Sarasmo, Sari, Miklossy, Katalin, (eds.), London, U.K.: Routledge pp 119-137 [Published]

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Nuclear temporalities

Matviyenko, Svitlana and Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė(2023). [Published]

Professor Eglė Rindzevičiūtė

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