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Political Memory: Leonidas DONSKIS, MEP

{{#icon:LeonidasDonskis.jpg|Leonidas DONSKIS}}

General Data

• Born on 13 August 1962, Klaipėda
• Country: {{#icon:LT.png|Lithuania||MEPs_LT}} Lithuania
• Political Group: {{#icon:ALDE.png|ALDE||MEPs_ALDE}} Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
  Party: Lietuvos Respublikos liberalų sąjūdis

Contact {{#icon:Click_to_call_now.png|+32 2 28 45 610||callto://+3222845610}} Parlement européen Bâtiment Altiero Spinelli 10G217 60, rue Wiertz, 1047 Bruxelles Tel.: +32 2 28 45 610/+32 2 28 47 610 Fax: +32 2 28 49 610 Parlement européen Bâtiment Winston Churchill M02022 1, avenue du Président Robert Schuman - CS 91024, 67070 Strasbourg Cedex Tel.: +33 3 88 175 610/+33 3 88 177 610 Fax: +33 3 88 179 610 Email: leonidas.donskis(at)europarl.europa.eu Page on European Parliament website: www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=96692

Functions in European Parliament

• Committee on Development (Member)
• Subcommittee on Human Rights (Member)
• Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (Member)
• Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (Member)
• Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (Substitute)
• Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (Substitute)
• Delegation for relations with Israel (Substitute)
• Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (Substitute)

Curriculum Vitae

• Higher education diploma, Lithuanian State Conservatory, Klaipėda faculties, specialising in Lithuanian language, culture and theatre (1985)
• Placement at the Department of Philosophy of Vilnius University (1985-1987)
• Doctorate at the Department of Philosophy of Vilnius University (1987-1990)
• Doctorate at the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy of the University of Helsinki (Finland, 1997-1999)
• Doctor (philosophy), Humanities Department of Vilnius University, dissertation title: Culture in Crisis and the Philosophy of Culture (1990)
• Doctor of social sciences (D.Soc.Sc.), Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland, dissertation title: The End of Ideology and Utopia? Moral Imagination and Cultural Criticism in the Twentieth Century (nostrificated in Lithuania in 2006 as doctor of social sciences, subject area - sociology) (Finland, 1999)
• Dean of the Political Science and Diplomacy School of Vytautas Magnus University, Professor of Political Science (2005-2009)
• Associate professor, Department of Social and Moral Philosophy of the University of Helsinki (Finland, since 2002)
• Visiting professor of philosophy and cultural theory, Tallinn University (Estonia, since 2003 (2005))
• Author and host of the cultural discussion programme 'Be pykčio' (Pique-free) on the Lithuanian television station LTV (2003-2009)
• Board member of the Sugihara Foundation 'Diplomats for Life' (since 2003)
• President of the Institute for Liberal Thought (since 2008)
• Member of the European Parliament, member of the ALDE Group, member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights and ALDE Group coordinator
• Board member of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP) (since 2007)
• Member of the Senate of the University of Klaipėda (1991-2001)
• Member of Lithuania's National Prize Committee for Culture and Art (1992-1994)
• Consultant for the journal Liaudies kultūra (Folk Culture) (since 1992)
• Member of the editorial board of Metmenys (Patterns) (USA, since 1993)
• Consultant for the journal Archiforma (Architectural Form) (since 1996)
• Member of the editorial board of the periodical Akiračiai (Horizons) (since 2004)
• Member of the editorial board of the journal Kultūros barai (Domains of Culture) (since 2004)
• Member of the editorial board of the journal Bravissimo (since 2005)
• Member of the editorial board of the academic journal Athena (since 2006)
• Member of the editorial board of the academic journal Darbai (Works) (since 2006)
• Director of the Open Society College (Invisible College) (1996-1997)
• Chair of the Philosophy Department and Director of the Comparative Civilisations Centre at the University of Klaipėda (1991-1997 and 1995-1997)
• Expert at the Open Society Institute (Budapest, Hungary, since 2000)
• Member of the advisory council to the Rector of Lithuania Christian Fund College (LCC) (since 2001)
• Member of the Board of Trustees at Vilnius Academy of Music and Theatre (since 2004)
• Member of the Senate of Vytautas Magnus University (2005-2009)
• Member of the editorial board of the academic Journal of Baltic Studies (since 2005) Member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation (2005-2009)
• Member of the Lithuanian PEN Club (since 2005)
• Member of the Governing Board of the Lithuanian Human Rights Defence League (since 2005)
• Member of the Council of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry (since 2005)
• Named academic of the year by the Lithuanian television company LRT's campaign 'More sun, more light' campaign and the Research Council of Lithuania (2006)
• Named Person of Tolerance of the Year by the newspaper Klaipėda (2006)
• Named Kaunas Knight of Thought by the newspaper Laikinoji sostinė (2006)
• European Commission Ambassador in Lithuania for Tolerance and Diversity (2004)
• Founding and executive editor of the book series On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics for the international academic publishers Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and New York, USA: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=BALTIC (since 2004)
• Executive editor of the Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) (from 2008)
• Honours: Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands, 2008)
• IREX research grant (USA, 1993-1994)
• Fulbright lecturing grant (USA, 1994)
• The Swedish Institute guest scholarship (Sweden, 1997-1998)
• Visiting professorship at Dickinson College (USA, 1998-1999)
• The Leverhulme Trust research fellowship (UK, 1999-2000)
• Guest professorship at the University of Uppsala (Sweden, 2000)
• Paschal P. Vacca Chair of Liberal Arts (distinguished visiting professorship), University of Montevallo (Alabama, USA, 2001-2002)
• Fellowship at Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study (Hungary, 1 October 2003-29 February 2004)
• Guest researchership at Stockholm University (Sweden, 2004)
• Guest scholarship at the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators (Visby, Sweden, 2005)
• Nominal grant of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania (2007-2008)
• Lithuanian state supreme research fellowship (2005-2006)
• The Stasys Šalkauskis Award (2005)
• The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania Award for the most significant published works on culture (2005)

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Votes

• 22/09/2010 - Rapport Gallo on enforcement of intellectual property rights in the internal market 62.5/100

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Opinions

Sources

• Written questions at European Parliament
• Proposals for a resolution at European Parliament
• Reports at European Parliament
• Opinions at European Parliament
• Speeches in plenary at European Parliament
• Written declarations in European Parliament
• Wikipedia
• Google

Positions

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