A. Grišinas |  D. Brandišauskas |  D. Daukšas  |  I. Šidiškienė  |  R. Paukštytė-Šaknienė  |  V. Savoniakaitė  |  V. Tumėnas  |  Ž. Šaknys |  N. Klumbytė  |  Z. B. Simon  |  E. Rindzevičiūtė  |  A. Kitovas

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sEglė Rindzevičiūtė, PhD in Culture Studies, Professor of Criminology and Sociology

  Senior Researcher

  Higher education

  BA in Art History and Theory, Vilnius Academy of Arts, 1999; MSc in Culture Management, Moscow School of sEconomic and Social Sciences, 2000; MA in Nationalism Studies, Central European University.

sPhD in Culture Studies, Linköping University, 2008.

Research interests and specialisations: Science and technology studies (STS), Cold War History, Global Governance; Computers and AI, Cultural and political sociology; the Anthropocene.

Key Publications

Refereed books

• Rindzevičiūtė, E. The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023.

            Reviewed in Slavic Review (2024), Survival: Global Politics and Strategy (2024), Études françaises de renseignement et de cyber (2024), History: Reviews of New Books (2024), H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review (2024), Dějiny – teorie – kritika/History, Theory, Criticism (2024), The British Journal for the History of Science (2023).

• Rindzevičiūtė, E. The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. Paperback version: 2025. Open Access.

            Reviewed in Technology and Culture (2022), Journal of the History of Ideas (2020), Slavic Review (2019), Cahiers du monde Russe (2019), Lithuanian Historical Review (2019), H-Diplo Discussion Forum (2019), American Historical Review (2018), Isis (2018), Serendipities (2018), Baltic Worlds (2018).

• Rindzevičiūtė, E, Andersson, J. eds. The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics: Forging the Future. London & New York: Routledge, 2015. Paperback version: March 2019.
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. Constructing Soviet Cultural Policy: Cybernetics and Governance in Lithuania after World War II. Linköping: Linköping University Press, 2008. [Doctoral dissertation]

Refereed journal articles

• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “The Politics of Nuclear Cultural Heritage in a Closed City: Layering the Past,” Urban History (2025), doi:10.1017/S0963926825100394.
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Bridging the Cybernetics Gap? Social Forecasting in the Late Soviet Union.” Geschichte und Informatik – Histoire et Informatique (2025). https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/28856
• Rindzevičiūtė, E.  “Soviet Technoscience and Late Modern Governance: From the Islands of Intellectual Autonomy to Networked Infrastructures,” Centaurus: Journal of the European Society for the History of Science 66, no. 3 (2024).
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “AI, a Wicked Problem for Cultural Policy? Pre-empting Controversy and the Crisis of Cultural Participation,” International Journal of Cultural Policy 28, 7 (2022): 829-844. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2022.2137151
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Nuclear Power as Cultural Heritage in Russia,” Slavic Review 5, no.4 (2021): 839-862. Translated into Czech and published in Flash Art, Czech and Slovak edition 66, no. 16 (2023): 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2022.1
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Transforming East European Cultural Policy: The Endless Frontier,” The International Journal of Cultural Policy 27, no. 2 (2021): 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1873972
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Soviet Policy Sciences and Earth System Governmentality,” Modern Intellectual History 17, no.1 (2020): 179-208. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244318000161
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Systems Analysis as Infrastructural Knowledge: Scientific Expertise and Dissensus under State Socialism,” History of Political Economy 51, S1 (2019): 204-230. Awarded an Honourable Mention by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Women’s Forum. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-7903300
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “The Struggle for the Soviet Future: A Birth of Scientific Forecasting in the Soviet Union,” Slavic Review 75, no. 1 (2016): 52-76. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.75.1.52
• Svensson, J., Tomson, K., Rindzevičiūtė, E. “The International Transfer of Creative Industries as a Policy Idea,” The International Journal of Cultural Policy 22, no. 4 (2016): 594-610. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1025067
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “The Overflow of Secrets: Disclosing Repression in the Museums,” Current Anthropology 56, Supplement 12 (2015): 276-285. https://doi.org/10.1086/683297
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “The Future as an Intellectual Technology in the Soviet Union: From Centralised Planning to Reflexive Management,” Cahiers du monde Russe 56, no. 1 (2015): 111-134. https://doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.8169
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Post-Soviet Transformation of Lithuanian State Cultural Policy: The Meanings of Democratisation,” The International Journal of Cultural Policy 18, no.5 (2012): 563-578. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2012.718916
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “When Formal Organisations Meet Informal Relations in Soviet Lithuania: Action Nets, Networks and Boundary Objects in the Construction of the Lithuanian Sea Museum,” Lithuanian Historical Studies 15 (2011): 107-134. https://doi.org/10.30965/25386565-01501007
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Soviet Lithuanians, Amber and the ‘The New Balts’: Historical Narratives of National and Regional Identities in Lithuanian Museums, 1940-2009,” Culture Unbound, vol.2 (2010):665-694. Translated into Lithuanian and published in a peer reviewed journal Lithuanian Ethnology (2014). https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.10237665
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Imagining the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: The Politics and Economics of the Rebuilding of Trakai Castle and the ‘Palace of Sovereigns’ in Vilnius,” Central Europe 8, no. 2 (2010): 180-202. https://doi.org/10.1179/174582110X12871342860243
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “The Politics of Governance in an Authoritarian Regime: Hybridization and Purification of Cybernetics in the Soviet Union,” Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 50 (2010): 289-309. https://www.fes.de/index.php?eID=dumpFile&t=f&f=46823&token=b798b606d6303a6d085e7e8892b929726bd98e3f

Edited special journal issues

• Invited guest editor of a special issue “Cultural Policies in Eastern Europe: The Endless Frontier,” The International Journal of Cultural Policy 27, no. 2 (2021). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcul20/27/2

Peer reviewed book chapters

• Rindzevičiūtė, E., Dovydaityte, L., Kasperski, T. “Nuclear Cultural Heritage: Coping with the Legacies of Soviet Nuclear Colonialism,” in Fallout Reframed: Rethinking Nuclearity from Below, edited by Christopher Hill, Jonathan Hogg and Raminder Kaur (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, in press, forthcoming in 2026).
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “The Cybernetic Prediction: Orchestrating the Future,” in Futures: An Oxford Handbook, edited by Jenny Andersson and Sandra Kemp (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 430-443.
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “The Unlikely Revolutionaries: Soviet Decision Science and Liberal Government,” in Nicolas Guilhot and Daniel Bessner eds., The Decisionist Imagination: Sovereignty, Social Science and Democracy in the 20th Century (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019), 217-249.
• Storm, A. Krohn Andersson, F., Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Urban Nuclear Reactors and the Security Theatre: The Making of Atomic Heritage in Chicago, Moscow and Stockholm,” in Heike Oevermann and Eszter Gantner, eds. Securing Urban Heritage: Agents, Access and Securitization (London and New York: Routledge, 2019), 111-129.
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Toward a Joint Future beyond the Iron Curtain: East-West Politics of Global Modelling”. In Jenny Andersson & Egle Rindzeviciute, eds., Forging the Future: The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics (London & New York: Routledge, 2015), 115-143.
• Andersson, J. and Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Introduction: Toward a New History of the Future”. In Jenny Andersson & Egle Rindzeviciute eds., Forging the Future: The Struggle for the Long-Term in Transnational Science and Politics (London & New York: Routledge, 2015), 1-15 [with Jenny Andersson]
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Post-Soviet Transformation of Lithuanian State Cultural Policy: The Meanings of Democratisation”. In Geir Vestheim ed. Cultural Policy and Democracy (London & New York: Routledge, 2015), 71-86 [this is a re-print of the IJCP article (2012)]
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Geopolitics of Distinction: Negotiating Regional Spaces in the Baltic Museums”. In Peter Aronsson and Lizette Graden, eds., Performing Nordic Heritage: Everyday Practices and Institutional Culture (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013), 221-246.
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Hegemony or Legitimacy? Assembling Soviet Deportations in Lithuanian Museums”. In Tomas Balkelis & Violeta Davoliute, eds. Maps of Memory: Trauma, Identity and Exile in Deportation Memoirs from the Baltic States (Vilnius: LLTI, 2012), 153-177.
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. “Internal Transfer of Cybernetics and Informality in the Soviet Union: The Case of Lithuania”. In Sari Autio-Sarasmo & Katalin Miklossy, eds. Reassessing Cold War Europe (London & New York: Routledge, 2011), 119-137.

Book reviews and review articles

• Rindzevičiūtė, E. review of Michael Batty, The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. The British Journal for the History of Science (2024). https://doi:10.1017/S000708742400147X  
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. review of Paul Josephson, Nuclear Russia, London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2023. Slavic Review (2024). https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2024.426
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. review essay of John Krige, ed. Knowledge Flows in a Global Age: A Transnational Approach. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2022. H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, 20 October 2023. https://issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/RE80.pdf
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. An introduction to a discussion roundtable on Alex Wellerstein’s book Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021, H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, 30 October 2023. https://issforum.org/to/jrt15-11
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. review of Yuri Kostenko, Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Slavic Review 81, 2 (2022), 514-516. https://doi:10.1017/slr.2022.186  
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. review of Luke Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre, Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities, Cambridge, Polity, 2020. International Journal of Cultural Policy 27 (2021), 699-701. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1931154
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. an invited review essay of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019), “Chernobyl as Technoscience,” Technology and Culture 61, 4 (2020), 1178-1187. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2020.0117
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. review of Susan Lindee, Rational Fog: Science and Technology in Modern War, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2020. H-Diplo (2020). https://issforum.org/essays/PDF/E281.pdf
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. review of Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark, Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2016. The International Journal of Cultural Policy, April 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2019.1601717
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. review of Tony Bennett, Making Culture, Changing Society, Abingdon, Routledge, 2013. The International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol.2, 22 (2015):307-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2015.1074193

Research and policy reports

• Rindzevičiūtė, E. [lead author], Dovydaityte, L., Storm, A. Nuclear Spaces: Communities, Materialities and Locations of Nuclear Cultural Heritage. Final Report. Kingston upon Thames: Kingston University London, 2024. https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/55751/
• Rindzevičiūtė, E., Morner, N., Lane, T., Frohlig, F. ed. State of the Region Report 2022, Series 3: Ecological Concerns in the Post-Communist Space: A Comparative Study of the Responses to Waste and Destruction in the Region. Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden, 2023 https://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1746330&dswid=-5859
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. Nuclear Cultural Heritage: From Knowledge to Practice, the final report. Kingston University London, 2022. https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/52583/1/Rindzeviciute-E-52583-VoR.pdf
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. [lead author], Sam Alberti, Will Bell, Robert Bud, Ele Carpenter, Oliver Carpenter, Wayne Cocroft, Frank Dittman, Philip Greatorex, James Gunn, Rodney Harrison, Jonathan Hogg, Sandra Kemp, Susan Molyneux-Hodgson, Linda Ross, Anna Storm, Aditi Verma. Nuclear Cultural Heritage: A Position Statement, Thurso, 12 September 2019. https://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/id/eprint/44426/1/Rindzeviciute-E-44426-VoR.pdf
• Contributor (input through a workshop into the research agenda and structure of the report), The Ethics of Coding: A Report on the Algorithmic Condition, authored by Felicity Colman et al., report of the project The Ethics of Coding, funded by H2020-EU.2.1.1. 2018. https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/14236/1/Ethics_of_Coding_A_Report_on_the_Algorit.pdf
• Rindzevičiūtė, E. National Member State correspondent, prepared national reports about the youth cultural policies in Lithuania and Sweden for A Study of Youth Access to Culture in Europe: Final Report (Laaksonen A., et al., Brussels, European Comission: Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), 2012. https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/edc2d7e3-e6e6-4802-a157-26f260a7f7a7