Location: Lithuania, Vilnius (Rinktinės 47-52)
Contact: +37o 6 74o7385 (mob.tel)
e-mail: pedsakas@gmail.com

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Since 2oo2 - Doctoral student at Vilnius University, Department of Philosophy;
  
• 2ooo - 2oo2 - MA studies in Philosophy (Vilnius University);
  
• 2oo2 –MA in philosophy;
  
• 2oo1 - 2oo2 - BA studies in Sociology (Vilnius University);
  
• 1999 - 2oo2 – interdisciplinary studies at Lithuanian Invisible College (Fields of research: theories of perception, media studies, sound ecology);
  
• 1996 - 2ooo - BA studies in Philosophy (Vilnius University); 2ooo – BA in philosophy;

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Urban Studies / Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Phenomenology, Philosophical Anthropology

OTHER INTERESTS

Street photography

LANGUAGES

English, Lithuanian, Russian

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2oo6 o4 – lecture in ISM University of Management and Economics; course “Hyper-reality of Popular Culture: Production of Images” for master programme in international management;
  
• Since 2oo6 – lecturer in Vilnius Technical University, Department of Philosophy and Political Theory; lecturer in Shiauliai University, Faculty of Humanities).
  
• 2oo5 – 2oo6 – assistant in Vilnius Technical University, Department of Philosophy and Political Theory
  
• 2oo2 – 2oo4 – teaching practice in Vilnius University: seminars on History of Philosophy.

Developed (and taught) courses:

• Introduction to Media Studies (VGTU),
  
• Visual Culture and Urban Studies (VGTU),
  
• Pop Culture: the Production of Images (ISM),
  
• Urban Sociology (EHU, in collaboration with O. Zaporozhets)
  
• Understanding Urban Spaces: comparative perspectives (Samara University, in collaboration with O. Zaporozhets), work in progress.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• 2oo7 – Collaborative research project “Competing Representations of Urban Spaces: Comparative Perspectives” (The project of this research won a grant in the framework of the theme “The Modern East Central European City in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Commonalities of Urban Life, Regional Variations and Vectors of Change”, announced by “Center for Urban History of East Central Europe”, Lviv, Ukraine). Co-author: Oxana Zaporozhets.
  
• 2oo6 – Collaborative research project: Being Lost. The institutional mechanisms of regulation of the lostness (Russian and European lost-and-found offices). Co-author: Oxana Zaporozhets.
  
• 2oo5 – Collaborative research project: Understanding Urban Space (Samara and Vilnius cases). Co-author: Oxana Zaporozhets;

PHOTO-PROJECTS & EXHIBITIONS

• 2oo7 1o o1 – 2oo7 11 o3 – Group exhibition “From the Street to the Night” (COLETTE Paris, 213 Rue Saint Honore) Photo-project “Laimikis: la rue de Vilnius”.
  
• Since 2oo7 o3 – Collaborative photo-project Laimikis: Street people (Vilnius case). Work in progress; the results are being published: laimikis.lt (http://laimikis.lt), pravda.lt (http://www.pravda.lt/#act=js/posts&author=2298).

WEB-PROJECTS (WEB-MASTERING, DESIGN, EDITOR)

• 2oo7 – a web-page for Faculty of Philosophy of Shiauliai University. Design: http://filosofija.su.lt;
  
• 2oo3 – 2oo6 – e-zine “Delirium” (http://delirium.ten.lt).

LASTING RESEARCH SEMINARS (CO-INITIATOR AND CO-MANAGER)

• Since 2oo6 o5 – lasting international Vilnius Media Seminar (Universities involved: VU, VDA, VGTU, EHU); http://www.balsas.cc/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=4 
  
• Since 2oo6 o4 – lasting seminar “Narrative Identity” (Lithuanian Comparative Literature Association; Vilnius University; Culture, Philosophy and Arts Research Institute);

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• 2oo7 o4 – 2oo7 o6 – working on an alternative Vilnius guide “Naked Vilnius” (incity.lt) as one of the authors;

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, PUBLIC LECTIONS, WORKSHOPS (PARTICIPANT)

• 2oo7 11 29 – 2oo7 12 o1 The 14th NIC Symposium on Intercultural Communication (Vilnius University). Presentation of the project “Laimikis: Vilnius street people” (together with J. Narkūnas).
  
• 2oo7 o9 26 – public lection “Competing Representations of Urban Spaces: Comparative Perspectives of Samara, Vilnius” (together with O. Zaporozhets). Center for Urban History, Lviv (Ukraina);
  
• 2oo6 11 29 (11 17 – 12 02) VIRUS 11: Contemporary Art Festival: interdisciplinary conference “Fear now”. Paper presented: No-places: the Production of Fear (Shiauliai, Lithuania)
  
• 2oo6 o5 11 – 2oo6 o5 14 Annual international interdisciplinary conference “The City: Object of Study and Learning Environment (Testing New Ground)” (organized by MA centre for cultural studies and sociology, Lviv National University, Ukraine). Paper presented: Lost in the City (in co-authorship with O. Zaporozhets).
  
• 2oo6 o4 27 Multimedia art festival ENTER. Interdisciplinary conference “New medias – new contexts”. Paper presented: Bestiary: Mediated personages (Shiauliai, Lithuania)
  
• February 2oo4 – July 2oo6 – participation in the International Project “Cultural and Visual Studies Reconsidered” (HESP project: ReSET).
  
• 2oo5 o5 14 - 2oo5 o5 15 – Finnish-Lithuanian seminar “Current Topics in Philosophy” (Vilnius University, University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University). Paper presented: Nobrow: On Fast Thinking and Media-Rhetoric;
  
• 2oo4 o3 18 – 2oo4 o3 19 – International Conference “Art. Adventure of Interpretation”, organized by Vilnius Academy of Arts. Paper presented: Between Word and Image: On the Strategies of Construction and Destruction of Reality;
  
• 2oo3 o9 26 – Conference “Pop Culture: Production, Consumption, Wealth”, organized by Kaunas Humanitarian Faculty of VU and Institute of Social and Cultural Research of Vilnius University (Lithuania). Paper presented: Pop-text as the Form of Articulation of Existential Extremes;
  
• 2oo3 o5 o2 – 2oo3 o5 o3 – Conference “the Global and the Local”, organized by Lithuanian Society for Philosophy (Lithuania). Paper presented: Urban Margins: Vagrancy. Practice and Texts.
  
• 2oo3 o3 27 – 2oo3 o3 28 – International Conference of Universities of Saint-Petersburg and University of Shiauliai (Lithuania): “The problems of compatibility of philosophical traditions (philosophy and issues of the day). Paper presented: On the Fragmentation of the Everyday: Virtual Biographies.
  
• 2oo2 o5 1o – 2oo2 o5 12 – the English Baltic Student Workshop “The Everyday”, organized by the Civic Education Project (Latvia). Paper presented: The On-line Modus of “the Everyday”: Virtual Co-being.
  
• 2oo1 o8 15 – 2oo1 o8 2o – International NEFA Summer Seminar “Beyond the Text”, organized by Joensuu, the Department of Finnish and Cultural Research and the Center for Media Culture (Finland). Paper presented: Non-linearity: Elements and Effects (On the perception of digital texts and communication);

SELECTED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

• Production of Anxiety: Transitive Places // Problemos (supplement), 2oo6 (in Lithuanian);
  
• Flâneurs of the Net: Self-Representation, Co-Existence and Community Feeling // Media Art: Social Interaction and Collective Intelligence (in English);
  
• Nobrow: A New Character in the Shadow Theatre // Inter-studia humanitatis (New Identities in Creative Industries), №3, 2006 (in Lithuanian);
  
• Self-Stories: the Author-Personages and Public Diaries (reading Kierkegaard and Kafka) // The Paradoxes of Existence: Interpretations of Kierkegaard’s Philosophy (A. Andrijauskas, ed.), ISBN9955-699-25-6,Versus Aureus, 2006 (in Lithuanian);
  
• Exploring “Photographic Identity”: Reading “Camera Lucida” // Filosofija. Sociologija, 2006, №1 (in Lithuanian);
  
• Creating the Self-story: Notes on (Self)oblivion // Filosofija. Sociologija. 2006, №1 (in Lithuanian);
  
• Self-stories: events and schemata // Filosofija. Sociologija, 2005, №3 (in Lithuanian)
  
• Reading the Urban-Text: Preliminary Notes // Топос. Minsk: European University, 2004, №2 (9) (in Russian);
  
• On the Fragmentation of the Everyday: Virtual Biographies // Baltic Philosophical Readings (Lisaniuk J.N, Razejev D.N. eds.), Saint-Petersburg University, 2004 (in Russian);
  
• Urban Margins: Vagabonds (Practice and Texts) // Global and Local. Vilnius University Press, 2003 (in Lithuanian);
  
• Interactivity as a Model of Reading // Problemos, 2002, №.62 (in Lithuanian);
  
• M.Merleau-Ponty’s Notion of Perception: the Encounter with the thing // Žmogus ir žodis, 2000, Vol. 2, №.4 (in Lithuanian);

In co-authorship with O. Zaporozhets:

• To Get Lost for to Find: On the Photographic Experience of the Urban// Visual Anthropology: New Approaches to Social Reality (eds. Yarskaya-Smirnova E.R., Romanov P.V., Krutkin V.L). Saratov: Academic Press, 2006. p.61-77 (in Russian);
  
• To Get Lost in the City. On the Tactics of Urban Studies // Urban Sociology (in print);
  
• Research Games in Urban Space (Seeking for Bearings of Urban Studies) // Communitas / 2006. № 1 (in Russian).

PUBLICIST PROJECTS (contributions)

• Since 2oo7 o1 25 – contribution to a publicist project “Pravda.lt” (http://www.pravda.lt/);
  
• Since 2oo5 – contribution to a e-journal for media studies “Balsas.cc” (http://balsas.cc);
  
• 2oo4 o9 – 2oo5 o8 – participation in the publicist project “Saulėgrąžos” (omni.lt, now www.balsas.lt );
  
• Since 2oo3 – editor of e-zine “Delirium”;

CRITICS, ESSAYS (selected)

• On reading labyrinths // Balsas, 2oo7 (in Lithuanian); http://www.balsas.cc/category/balsai/jekaterinos/
  
• “This is Moscow calling”: on the vocal aspect of authority // Balsas, 2oo6 http://www.balsas.cc/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=145 (in English);
  
• The Writing Body in the Intertextual Trap // Šiaurės Atėnai, 2oo4 nr. 711 (in Lithuanian);
  
• On Interactivity // Literatūra ir Menas 2oo4, nr. 2994 (in Lithuanian);
  
• Soundwalk and Sound Reports: the Project of Formatting the Sensitive Listener // Naujasis židinys, 2oo2, Nr.5 (in Lithuanian);
  
• The Question of the Status of Phenomenological Description: soundwalk and trip-report // Seminarai, V.: Strofa, 2oo2 (in Lithuanian);
  
• The Choreography of Reading: preliminary notes // Naujoji Romuva, 2oo1, Nr. 3 (in Lithuanian);
  
• Non-Linearity: the Foundations of the Choreography of Reading // Seminarai, V.: Strofa, 2oo1 (in Lithuanina);
  
• Interactive Literature: Staging of the Author’s Death and Simulation of Reader’s Freedom // Šiaurės Atėnai, 2ooo, Nr.40 (in Lithuanian);

Literary texts and illustrations published in Lithuania (since 2000), Russia (since 2006) in collected stories, illustrated annuals and literary almanacs.

ACADEMIC AWARDS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS

• 2oo7 – short term research and travel grant from the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe (Lviv, Ukraine) for the research in the framework of the main research theme of the Center: “The Modern East Central European City in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Commonalities of Urban Life, Regional Variations and Vectors of Change” (in co-authorship with O. Zaporozhets);
  
• 2oo7 - CDC Scholarship (HESP) for the development of the course “Understanding Urban Spaces: comparative perspectives” (in co-authorship with O.Zaporozhets). Curriculum Resource Center of the Central European University (academic subject area: Anthropology. Course level: advanced).
  
• 2oo1 - Scholarship and diploma of Munster University for bachelor thesis “The Concept of Anxiety in S.Kierkegaard’s Philosophy”.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

• Since 2oo7 – the member of Laboratory of Critical Urbanism (EHU);
  
• Since 2oo7 – the member of NECEN (Nordic and East / Central European Network for Qualitative Social Research).
  
• Since 2oo4 – the member of Lithuanian Social Science Forum;
  
• Since 2oo4 - the member of Lithuanian Association of Phenomenology