Annual conference of the University of Tartu Museum will take place on 6th of December 2023. This year’s topic is the role of scientific collections in education, research, and society at large. Our research fellow Juhan Hellerma will present the paper on the meaning and presence of the objects from the past (“Minevikuasjade tähendus ja kohalolu”).
Additional information about the conference and its programme are available at the Museum’s website (in Estonian).

“Between the Times” project hosted an international workshop “Time and History in Modern European thought: From the Age of Revolutions to the Anthropocene” on 8–9 September 2023.

We thank all invited scholars for these two days of intense discussions.

Lively discussion during the closing session

Ksenia Shmydkaya presented at the annual conference of the International Society for Intellectual History that took place at the University of Edinburgh, on 4–6 September 2023. Her paper was entitled “Lukács’s Ghost: On Crises and the (Ahistorical) Reception of The Historical Novel.”

On 24 August, Juhan Hellerma will be presenting at the Annual Estonian Philosophy Conference. The title of his paper is “Kuidas kujutleda enneolematut homset?” (“How to imagine an unprecedented tomorrow?”).

More information is available at the conference’s page.

Juhan Hellerma will be presenting at the 15th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE) “Turning Points: Values and Conflicting Futures in the Baltics,” in Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. His talk “Renegotiating the Value of Presentism” will take place on June 16th.

For more details, please consult the conference’s website.

“Decadence in Estonian Culture” conference („Dekadents eesti kultuuris: tõlge ja tõlgendus“) took place in Tallinn on 4-6 May.

Liisi Keedus presented the results of her work with Johannes Bent in a paper “Oswald Spengler Eestis: väljavõtteid Teise maailmasõja eelsetest arvustustest ja võrdlus teiste Ida-Euroopa retseptsioonidega.”

Henry Mead gave a paper entitled “An Anarchy of Atoms: Decadence and Organicism.”

More information about the conference, as well as abstracts of the papers, are available here.

Dr. Juhan Hellerma, who has recently joined the project, will be giving a talk at the Mõtlev muuseum (Thinking museum) conference organised by Tartu University Museum on the 12th of May. The presentation title is “Mõtestades ajaloolist aega: presentism ja temporaalne provintslus” (“Examining historical time: presentism and temporal provincialism”).

More details and the conference programme are available here.

On 28 April Liisi Keedus presented her talk at the EuroStorie Research Seminar, in the University of Helsinki, entitled “ᴍᴎᴘᴄᴋᴏнца and οὐροβόρος: Avant-garde temporalities in European interwar scholarship.”

Abstract of the paper can be found here.

Henry Mead gave a paper entitled ‘Disintegration of the Intellect: Crisis and Renewal in European Modernism’ at the ‘Humanity / Humanities’ April Conference at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, on 21 April 2023.

On the 18 March 2023, Tommaso Giordani presented a paper entitled “Towards the ‘République sociale’: ideological interaction and social reform in the Third Republic” at the conference Boundaries and Encounters organized by the Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History held in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Further details can be found at https://www.sfhsconference.org/