DAGMĀRA BEITNERE-LE GALLA

Curriculum vitae

Education

2003 Ph.D degree in Sociology, Thesis: Self-reference and the Paradigm of Latvian culture (20.-40. and 90th years of XX century) Dr.Diploma C-D Nr. 001688

Work experience

Since 1986 Senior Research at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Latvia

2005 – 2008 Vice-Rector for Scientific and Creative Work at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Mysic

1998 – 2007 Lecturer at the Stradins University of Riga, Faculty of Social Sciences and Law

Social activities

Since 2003 Member of Latvian Association of Anthropologists

Since 2004 Member of NVO Fronda

Other significant experience

·  Participation at the Research State Condition in Latvia. Stradins University of Riga and Orhus University (Denmark), Department of Political Sciences -2000.

·  Participation at the Research Decentralization and State Social Policy. Open Society Institute (Budapest, Hungary) - 2000.

·  Expert at the research the “Labor market studies” project of the European structural fund national programme “Labor market studies of the ministry of welfare” no. Vpd1/esf/nva/04/np/3.1.5.1./0001/0003, 2005 - 2006.

·  Vice-chair of group Educated and Creative Human at the Expert Forum by National Development 2007-2008.

·  Member of Foundation for Innovation in the Education (IIF) - 2008.

·  Member of Council at the Center of Cultural Education and Cultural Heritage – 2008-2009.

·  Member of advisor board for National Identity and Integrity at the Ministry of Culture.

Skills and competences

·  Window, PowerPoint, Internet;

·  Driving license, category B;

·  Language skills – Latvian (native), Russian, German, and English - active (Polish and French read with vocabulary).

Interest and other skills

Nordic walking, opera, classical music, gardening, life sciences and art.

Publications

1.  Beitnere, Dagmāra. Sociālais raksturs un „pagrieziens” uz latvietību (socioloģisko teoriju skatījumā) [Social character and a „turn” to Latvian identity (in the perspective of sociological theories)]. Letonica. Journal of Humanities. 2011, Nr. 21., 9.-18. lpp.

2.  Beitnere, Dagmāra. Mūzika un vara: padomju pagātne atmiņu diskursā [Musicology and Power in the Discourse of Soviet Latvian History and Memory]. No: Kultūras identitātes dimensijas. S. Krūmiņa-Koņkova, M. Zirnīte (red.). Rīga : LU Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts, 2011, 223.-244. lpp.

3.  Beitnere, Dagmara. Cultural Narratives and Life-Stories in Self-Reference: the Latvian Case in the 1990s. In: Inheriting the 1990s: The Baltic Countries. Studia Uralica Upsaliensia No. 37. Ed. by B. Metuzale-Kangare. Uppsala : Uppsala University Press, 2010, pp. 65-80.

4.  Beitnere, Dagmara. Musicology and power in the Discourse of Sovjet Latvian History and Memory. In: Across Centuries and Cultures: Musicological Studies in Honor of Joachim Braun. Eds. J. Braun, K. Karnes and L. Sheptovitsky. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2010. pp.151.-168.

5.  Beitnere, Dagmāra. Seno latviešu dievu pētniecība Upsalā un profesionālā pieredze zinātnieku dzīvesstāstos [Research of Latvian Ancient Gods in Upsala and Professional Experience in Life Stories of Scholars]. No: Letonika. Otrais kongress. Nacionālā mutvārdu vēsture. Reliģiskās idejas Latvijā. Otrā grāmata. Sast. B. Bela, M. Zirnīte un A. Podmazovs. Rīga : LU Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts, 2008, 72.-87. lpp.

6.  Beitnere, Dagmāra. Dzīves robežsituāciju stāsti Vārkavas ekspedīcijas materiālos [Stories of liminality in the field-work materials of Varkava]. No: Vārkava. Tradicionālā kultūra un mūsdienas. Sast. J. Kursīte, J. Stauga. Rīga : Madris, 2008, 146.- 156. lpp.

7.  Beitnere, Dagmāra. Pretestības tēma dzīvesstāstos [Theme of Resistance in Life Stories]. No: Kultūra un Vara. Raksti par valodu, literatūru, tradicionālo kultūru. Sast. J. Kursīte, J.Stauga. Rīga : LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2007, 49.-58. lpp.

8.  Beitnere, Dagmara. Przestrzen duchowa mezczyzny. Kilka refleksji. In: Problemy rodziny. Warszawa. 2000, Vol. 6 (234), XI.XII. s. 19-22.

9.  Beitnere, Dagmara. Througts About Religious Feminisms and Local Culture. In: Women’s Studies and Gender Research in the Baltic and Nordic Countries: Mapping the Situation’98. Riga, 1999, pp. 9-16.

10.  Beitnere, Dagmara. Latvian Traditional Culture, Reason and Love. In: Love and Law in Europe. Ed. by Hanne Petersen. Dartmount: Ashgate, 1998, pp. 121-127.

11.  Beitnere, Dagmara. Lettische Heidnische Religion als Vertreterin des religiosen Synkretismus. In: Dialogue between Christianity and Secularism in Latvia. Annals of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. 1996, Vol.15, pp. 42-50.

Conferences papers

1.  How can the Future be built upon the Past? - The 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Social Relation in Turbulent Time, Geneva, Switzerland, 2011.

2.  Looking for self-references (case of Latvia). - The 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Sociology of culture, heritage and identity, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009.

3.  Invisible Synchronization –Cultural Stories like Strategies. - 10. International (ISSEI) Conference, The European Mind: Narrative and Identity. Valleta, Malta, 2006.

4.  Cultural Narratives and Life stories in Self-Reference: the Latvian Case. - Inheriting the 1990s. Cultural Transition in the Baltic Countries. Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004.

5.  Narrative and Societal Self-Identification. - The 6th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Aging Societies, New Sociology, Murcia, Spain, 2003

6.  Reference agents and self-reference in Communication spice of Latvia today. - The Second Baltic Readings, Riga, Latvia, 2003.

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