Dalia Leinartė
Dalia Leinarte (born in 1958, October 25 in former Soviet Union) is a Lithuanian historian, author and activist. Leinarte is Chairperson of the UN CEDAW Committee. She is Fellow-Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, and Professor at Vytautas Magnus University. In 2018 she was selected by Apolitical among the Most influential people in global policy Gender equality Top 100.
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Biography
Leinarte was the first expert elected (2012) to the UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) from Eastern European countries. She became Chairperson of the CEDAW in 2017 before serving two years as Vice-Chair of the Committee. Leinarte is Chair of CEDAW Working Group on General Recommendation Trafficking in Women and Girls in the Context of Global Migration.
Dalia Leinarte was born in 1958 in Lithuania’s historic capital Trakai. She graduated from Vilnius University and earned her PhD in History in 1996 at Vytautas Magnus University. Leinarte won prestigious FULBRIGHT scholarship and spent a year as a researcher at SUNY Buffalo for 2002-2003. In 2005 she also won American Association of University Women (AAUW) Research Scholar grant. In 2009 Leinarte became full professor at Vilnius University.
After the break of Soviet Union Leinarte has become actively involved in promotion of women’s rights and gender equality. For almost two decades she was a director of Gender Studies Center at Vilnius University (2000-2017). As an activist of civil society she was especially focused on issues of trafficking in women and girls.
Leinarte is an author of a number of articles and books on family and women’s history. Her book Lithuanian Family in Its European Context won Association of Advanced Baltic Studies (AABS) honorable mention in 2018.
Keynotes
2017 Oral History Australia Conference
Awards and Honors
2018 Honorable mention, Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), The Lithuanian Family in Its European Context
2018 Gender Equality Top 100. The Most Influential People in Global Policy
2012 Women Inspiring Europe Award (European Institute for Gender Equality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vo0PuRMDHg
2010 Vilnius University Rector’s Scientific Excellence Award
2005–2006 American Association of University Women, Research Scholar grant (AAUW)
2002-2003 FULBRIGHT Scholar grant, State University of New York
1998 International Women’s Solidarity Award, Norway
Major bibliography
2017 The Lithuanian Family in its European Context, 1800-1914: Marriage, Divorce and Flexible Communities ISBN-13: 978-3319510811
2017 Cohabitation in Europe: a Revenge of History? (together with Jan Kok) ISBN-13: 978-1138732742
2015 The Soviet Past in the Post-Soviet Present (together with Melanie Ilic) ISBN-13: 978-1138933453
2010 Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945–1970 ASIN: B01K0QI212
2012 Cohabitation in imperial Russia: the case of Lithuania // The History of the Family 17(1): 16-30
2011 On Emotions // Eurozine March 11 https://www.eurozine.com/on-emotions/
2006 Nationalism and family ideology: The case of Lithuania at the turn of the 20th century // The History of the Family 11(2): 81-92
Reviews of Leinarte's works
Book review, 2018, The Lithuanian family in its European context
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01629778.2018.1499999
Book review, 2017, The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present https://www.oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/files/oha_journal_no39_2017_final.pdf
Book review, 2017, The Soviet Past in the Post-Socialist Present https://www.schoeningh.de/fileadmin/downloads/schoeningh/LHS_Vol._21-final.pdf
Book review, 2014, Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/576750
Book review, 2012, Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality, https://search.proquest.com/openview/913c82f01ee15e66beb2ff7fa35b68f6/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=52451
Book review, 2011, Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality, http://www.lituanus.org/2011/11_3_08BR2_Leinarte.html
Book review, 2011, Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality, http://balticworlds.com/among-superwomen-and-alcoholics/
Book review, 2011, Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality, http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca/index.php/ohf/article/view/398
External links
UN CEDAW Committee, Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights
Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge
https://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/fellow-commoners/professor-dalia-leinarte/
Gender Equality Top 100. The Most Influential People in Global Policy
2015 International Commission of Historical Demography
EIGE European Institute for Gender Equality
References, interviews with Leinarte
2018 Interview with Dalia Leinarte, Cambridge University https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/16195
2018 Statement by Dalia Leinarte at the UN General Assembly, Third Committee http://statements.unmeetings.org/media2/19409160/chair-cedaw-3rdcomm-item-29-oct-5-lv.pdf
2018 On Framework of Cooperation signed by Dalia Leinarte, Chair of the UN CEDAW and Pramila Patten, Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict https://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/press-release/committee-on-the-elimination-of-discrimination-against-women-and-office-of-the-special-representative-of-the-secretary-general-on-sexual-violence-in-conflict-join-forces-to-address-the-root-causes-of/
2018 Virgil Krapauskas. Journal of Baltic Studies, Vol. 49, Issue 3, p. 407-409
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01629778.2018.1499999
2018 AABS Book Prize Dalia Leinarte http://aabs-balticstudies.org/category/awards-prizes/book-prize
2018 World Facing 'Moment of Opportunity' to End Violence against Women https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/gashc4229.doc.htm
2018 Dalia Leinarte, Chair, Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Concludes its 69th Session
2017 Lithuanian experts working in international organizations – a major achievement of the country
2017 Jayne Persian. Oral History of Australia Journal (39). pp. 70-71 https://eprints.usq.edu.au/33615/
2017 TomasVaiseta. Lithuanian Historical Studies, Vol. 21, p. 198-204
2014 Diana T. Kudaibergenova, Ab Imperio, Vol. 4, p. 425-427
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/576750
2015 Professor Dalia Leinartė - Lithuania's candidate to CEDAW http://www.urm.lt/missionny/en/news/professor-dalia-leinarte-lithuanias-candidate-to-cedaw
2012 Timothy Ashplant, Aspasia, Vol. 6, p. 206-208
2012 Dalia Leinartė: Lithuania's standing in global gender equality is not bad
2011 Virgil Krapauskas. Lituanus, Vol. 57, No. 3
http://www.lituanus.org/2011/11_3_08BR2_Leinarte.html
2011 Andrea Peto. Negotiating Soviet Gendered Reality in Lithuania // Baltic Worlds, Vol. 3, p. 36-37
http://balticworlds.com/among-superwomen-and-alcoholics/#disqus_thread
2011 Irene Elksnis Geisler, Oral History Forum, Vol. 31
http://www.oralhistoryforum.ca/index.php/ohf/article/view/398
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