Daiva Šeškauskaitė lives and works in Kaunas. She is a PhD: event organizer, singer, musician, lecturer and master of ceremonies. He conducts Lithuanian rites of celebration, registration of girls, boys, names, engagements, weddings, on various occasions, such as inaugurations, consecrations of various monuments and monuments, performs concerts, conducts classes, lectures on Lithuanian nature belief, worldview, secularism, mythology.
Fields of education-scientific work:
Ethnology, folkloristics, linguistics, musicology, ethnobatics, mythology, religious studies, anthropology, ethnography.
In 1982, she graduated from the J. Gruodis Conservatory as a violinist.
In 1995-2001, Vilnius University of Education Lithuanian studies.
In 1995-2001, doctoral studies in the field of ethnology, branch of folkloristics, Vytautas Magnus University.
In 2001, Vytautas Magnus University of Kaunas – Ethnology department defended the Doctor of Humanities dissertation “Contracts
in a ceremonial context”,
Workplaces-institutions
In 2005, Kaunas Forest Engineering College-Department of Social and Humanities: Department of Social and Humanities: Ethnobotany, Ethnic culture and traditions, Leisure organization, Language culture. Position docent. 2005 year.
Stulginskis University of Lithuania Institute of Rural Culture: Development of Society. Position docent. September 2006 – 2007.
Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities: Leisure organization, Baltic mythology lecturer 2009.
Lithuanian Language Institute researcher 2011-2012.
Participation in 5 international programs. More than 50 articles have been published.
Travel, concert and research trips:
Europe (Poland, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Greece, Iceland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Latvia, Estonia, etc.), Norway, Australia, South America (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay), Africa ( Congo), Japan, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, India, Thailand, etc.
Attended more than 20 public lectures. More than a hundred were given to event organizations. More than 50 presentations were read. Member of 10 international scientific committees.
Over 30 -imt qualification certificates. Compiler of three books.
in 2013 03.15 Dr. Daiva Šeškauskaita was awarded the G. Petkevičaitė Bitė medal. In 2010, Algirdas Brazauskas received a letter of honor.
Interviews, discussions, talks, TV shows: World X, Hour with Rūta 2012 03 20. dr. Daiva Šeškauskaitė’s participation in the Why show. Friday on Tele3, LNK program KK2.
1. Interviews in magazines, newspapers: Delfi, Balsas, Ji, etc. 2. Interview with Daiva Šeškauskaita. Tom Janonis. Change of traditions: in the past, the best gift for Lithuanians was soap made from ashes. 2. Interview Cosmopolitana.
