Mindaugas Peleckis

In 1993 graduated J.Janonis' secondary school in Šiauliai. 1993-1999 studied in Vilnius University (Bachelor and Master of Communication Studies/Journalism). In 1996 studied in Utrecht University, The Netherlands, in 1998 – journalism and EU politics in Århus University (Denmark), in 2003 – courses of journalism in Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and Brussels, Belgium. From 2008 to 2013 – doctoral student of philosophy in Institute of Culture, Philosophy and Art (from 2010 - Lithuanian Culture Investigation Institute), Vilnius, Lithuania, finished thesis on Mulla Sadra‘s philosophy.
Work experience: 1997-1999 translator/interpreter of English and Russian languages in Vilnius. 1999-2004 worked in daily newspaper „Respublika“ („Republic“; starting from reporter on cultural, political, law matters to special correspondent, editor of Lithuanian matters). After that, 2006-2011 – a cultural reviewer, analyst in weekly „Literatūra ir menas“ („Literature and art“). From 2008 – Member of Lithuanian Writers‘ union, freelance writer and journalist, musician (Agama Tirtha). 1990-2018 author of about 20 books (documentary, poems, prose, essays, scientific, about music, mythological, encyclopedia), published in Lithuania, Australia and France (in French). I‘ve written about several thousand journalistic publications in total, translated one book (Carl Honoré, In Praise of Slow), published and written several scientific publications in Lithuanian and English. I wrote and published a book of popular science about phenomenon of apocalypse. Also, I've written a book about new religious movements in Lithuania and a mythological study about water-snakes.
Scientific interests: languages, language ecology, literature, philosophy, mythology, comparative view of cultures, civilization studies, geopolitics, pseudohistoriography, religious minorities.