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Associate Professor
Address: Universiteto g. 5, LT-01513 Vilnius, Department of Classical Philology
Phone: +370 5 268 7220
Fields of research
- Ancient Philosophy
- Ancient Political Thought
- Ancient Cosmology
- Greek Religion and Theology
- Plato
Courses taught
- Ancient Philosophy
- Plato's Political Philosophy
- The Theme of Moderation in Classical Culture
- Writing Academic Text
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
- 2023 Bartninkas, V. „Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy“, Cambridge University Press, p. 300, ISBN: 9781009322591 (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009322638)
Articles
- 2023 Bartninkas, V., „Persistent Dissent and Plato‘s Later Theory of Civic Participation“, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought 40: 415-435 (https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340416)
- 2023 Bartninkas, V., „Platoniškoji nuosaikumo politika ir šiuolaikinė pilietinė teorija“, Problemos 104: 74-85 (https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.2023.104.6)
- 2022 Bartninkas, V., „The Greek Notion of Sea-Power“, in R. Clare and H. Williams (eds.), The Ancient Sea: Utopia and Catastrophe in Classical Narratives and their Reception, Liverpool University Press, p. 43–61.
- 2021 Bartninkas, V., „Nuo politinio gyvūno prie vidinio asmens: du Alvydo Jokubaičio kūrybos periodai ir jų antropologinės prielaidos“, Lietuvių katalikų mokslo akademijos metraštis 44: 89-102.
- 2021 Bartninkas, V., (2021) „Imitating the Traditional Gods: Moral Virtues and Cult Practice in Plato‘s Laws“, Mnemosyne: 1-22.
- 2019 Bartninkas, V., „Drama ir politika Atlantidos pasakojime“, Literatūra 61 (3): 22–31.
- 2019 Bartninkas, V., „Kas yra antikinis politinis mąstymas?“, Problemos 96 (2): 48-60.
- 2015 Bartninkas, V., „Pilietinė tapatybė ir pamaldumas Platono Įstatymuose“, Literatūra 57 (3), 7-15
- 2014 Bartninkas, V., „The State is Not Like a Beehive: The Self-Containment of Plato's Statesman“, Problemos (86): 127-138.
- 2014 Bartninkas, V., „Meistrysčių vadyba Platono dialoge Valstybininkas“, Literatūra 56 (3), 32-44.
- 2014 Bartninkas, V. ‘The Pre-political and the Political in Aristotle’s Politics’, Problemos (85): 18-29.
Reviews
- 2023 Bartninkas, V., „Platonists on Platonism Mauro Bonazzi: Platonism: a concise history from the Early Academy to Late Antiquity. Classical scholarship in translation. Translated by Sergio Knipe, Introduction by David Sedley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 233 pp, £30.00 HB“, Metascience (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-023-00945-7)
- 2023 Bartninkas, V., „Review of Luc Brisson, Arnaud Macé, Olivier Renaut (eds.), Plato’s Parmenides: Selected Papers of the Twelfth Symposium Platonicum. International Plato studies, 41. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2022“, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.06.02/)
Ancient Sources and Commentaries
- 2016 Bartninkas, V., Ališauskas, V., Platono Alkibijadas (lietuviškas vertimas ir įvadas – Vilius Bartninkas; komentarai – Vytauto Ališausko), Vilnius: Jonas ir Jokūbas, p. 175. ISBN: 9786099589510
- 2015 Bartninkas, V. Apie Karalystę. Petrą Dirgėlą kalbina Vilius Bartninkas. Vilnius: Naujasis Židinys-Aidai, p. 146. ISBN: 9786098163063
- 2014 Bartninkas, V., Platono Lisidas (lietuviškas vertimas, komentarai ir įvadas), Vilnius: Lietuvos Klasikų asociacija (Societas Classica), p. 253. ISBN 9786099558127
Translations
- 2015 Hannos Arendt Eichmannas Jeruzalėje. Ataskaita apie blogio banalumą (lietuviškas vertimas), Vilnius: Aidai, p. 420. ISBN 9786094500251
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
PhD dissertation
- 2019 „Traditional Gods and Civic Religion in Plato’s Later Dialogues“, University of Cambridge.
Scholarships and Awards
- 2025 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise, University of Heidelberg
- 2024 Professoris Optimi Scientiae Politicae apdovanojimas, Vilnius University Corporation „RePublica“
- 2023 Rector's Research Award, Vilnius University
- 2023 State Independence Scholarship, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania
- 2022 Rector's Diploma for the 2022 Lecturer of the Year, Vilnius University
Postdoctoral Fellowships
- 2021–2023 Politics of Moderation and Justified Beliefs: The Civic Participation Model in Plato’s Philosophy, Vilnius University, awarded by Research Council of Lithuania, Nr. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-23-0107
- 2019–2021 Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Academy During the Hellenistic Period, Vilnius University, awarded by Vilnius University Fund, Nr. (1.54) 15600-S-56
Supervised Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
- 2023–2027 The Influence of Cultural and Religious Concept on Ancient Ethics: From Plato to Stoics, doctoral student Simonas Baliukonis, awarded by Research Council of Lithuania, Nr. P-PAD-23-60
- 2024–2026 Resetting our understanding of being and language. Dialectical games and the meanings of being in Antiquity, postdoctoral fellow Luca Chieti, awarded by European Research Council and Central Project Management Agency of Lithuania, Nr. 10-036-T-001
Student Research Internships
- 2024 Justice and Citizen Empowerment in Plato's Philosophy, awarded by Research Council of Lithuania, Nr. P-SV-24-95
- 2023–2024 Politics and the Problem of Unpredictability in Aeschylus' Oresteia, awarded by Research Council of Lithuania, Nr. P-ST-23-126
- 2022 Republican Conception of Civic Participation: The analysis of P. Pettit's Theory, awarded by Research Council of Lithuania, Nr. P-ST-22-22
- 2022 Politics and Theology in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, awarded by Research Council of Lithuania, Nr. P-SV-22-25 (Published article DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/Litera.2022.64.3.1)
- 2021–2022 Between Nationalism, Globalism, and Ideology: M. Nussbaum's Theory of Justice, awarded by Research Council of Lithuania, Nr. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-25-0171 (Published article DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.2022.102.7)
- 2021 Aristotle's Conception of Political Friendship, awarded by Research Council of Lithuania, Nr. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-24-0089
- 2020 The Dialogue Between Believers and Atheists: Plato's Model in the Laws, awarded by Research Council of Lithuania, Nr. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-22-0230 (Published article DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.100.3)
Selected academic presentations
- 2024/01/29 Plato's Mathematical Economists, or On Normative Mathematics in Household Management and Economic Policy, invited presentation, London Institute of Classical Studies
- 2023/08/26 Plato’s Economic Experts: Situating Household Management Between Mathematics and Politics, workshop „Economic Epistemologies in the Graeco-Roman World“, Leiden University
- 2023/06/25 Response to Lia Theodoroudi‘s “Who are the Kompsoi of 285a1?, workshop „16th Annual West Coast Plato Workshop: the Statesman“, University of Arizona
- 2023/06/01 The Ouranian God in Plato‘s Academy, colloquium „Gods In and Outside the Cosmos in Ancient Religion and Philosophy“, The University of St Andrews
- 2023/04/28 Persistent Dissenters in Plato‘s Magnesia, invited presentation, Oslo University
- 2022/11/25 Cosmic Gods: Philosophy and Astronomy, invited lecture, University of Cambridge
- 2022/06/09 Politics of Moderation: Reclaiming Plato’s Civic Participation Model, conference „Plato 2022“, University of Rhode Island
- 2022/03/01 Nuosaikumas moralėje ir politikoje, conference „Moralė ir politika“, Vilnius University
- 2021/09/11 Pasaulio ribos, conference „Nidos forumas: Finis Mundi“, Thomo Manno kultūros centras
- 2021/06/17 The Greek Gods and the Planetary Names, workshop „Astronomy and Astrology in Early Text Cultures“, University of Oxford
- 2021/04/15 The Two Theogonies of Plato's Timaeus, seminar „Plato‘s Timaeus“, Fribourg University
- 2021/03/05 The Greek Notion of Sea-power, conference „The Ancient Sea: Utopia and Catastrophe in Classical Narratives and their Reception“, University of Liverpool
- 2019/09/27 Politiniai gyvūnai ir slaptoji erdvė, conference „A. Jokubaičio politinės filosofijos konferencija“, VU TSPMI
- 2019/09/11 Helenistinė dorybių teorija: Antiocho indėlis, departmental seminar, VU TSPMI
- 2018/12/14 Plato’s Ideal of Godlikeness and Its Contemporary Readers, workshop „Tartu Ancient Philosophy Workshop“, University of Tartu
- 2018/06/06 A response to Taichi Miura on Is the Philosophical Life Ascetic? The Affinity Argument (Phaedo, 78b-84b), graduate colloquium „Ancient Triangle Graduate Colloquia“, University College London
- 2018/05/26 Becoming Godlike in the Timaeus: A Reassessment of the Debate, conference „Cambridge-LMU Graduate Student Conference“, University of Cambridge
- 2018/03/12 Eudoxus and the Immanent Forms in Aristotle, De ideis, 97.27–98.24, doctoral seminar, University of Cambridge
- 2017/12/05 Ouranos and Kosmos in Plato’s Timaeus, invited lecture, Sun Yat-sen university
- 2017/11/30 Plato’s Sophist, 236d4-239b5: Parmenides and what is not (neither one nor many), with Alessio Santoro, departmental seminar, University of Cambridge
- 2017/09/19 The Social Function of Plato’s Cosmology and Politogony, conference „Plato’s Communities: Citizenship and Diversity“, University of Brasília
- 2016/12/02 Plato on the Younger Gods, work in progress seminar, Institute of Classical Studies, London
- 2016/11/11 Why the Universe is an Animal? On Animality and Technomorphy in Plato‘s Timaeus, conference „Colloquium Balticum XV Vilnense“, Vilnius University
- 2016/10/21 Liver in Plato’s epistemology, seminar „Paris-Lille-Cambridge Seminar“, University of Lille
- 2016/09/20 Remembering What Never Happened: Repetitions in Plato’s Timaeus-Critias, conference „The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature“, University of Oxford
- 2016/06/25 Plato on Becoming a Perfect Society, conference „The 1st Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Philosophy“, Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2016/05/04 Heraclitus on His Contemporaries, Their Authorities and Customs, with Caterina Pellò, doctoral seminar, University of Cambridge
- 2016/03/19 Response to Bram Demulder on Plutarch’s Cosmic Cycles, conference „The 6th Cambridge Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy“, University of Cambridge
- 2015/11/07 Civic Religion in the Pseudo-Platonic Epinomis, conference „Colloquium Balticum XIV Tartuense“, University of Tartu