On 8 July 2022, Henry Mead gave a paper entitled ‘The Fall of the Fall: Religious and Post-Religious Themes in British Modernist Writing’ at the Time and Political Thought International Workshop held at Tallinn University, 8-9 July 2022.
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Ksenia Shmydkaya presented at the History and Translation Conference
Ksenia Shmydkaya participated in the inaugural conference of the History and Translation Network, at Tallinn University, on 25–28 May 2022. She gave a paper entitled “Linguistic strategies of Stanisława Przybyszewska: translating one’s self from the margins.” Full information about the conference is avaliable here.
Henry Mead on ‘The Fall of the Fall in Literary Modernism’, 21 April 2022
On 21 April, Henry Mead delivered a paper entitled ‘The Fall of the Fall in Literary Modernism’ at ‘Inventing the Secular’, a conference in New College, University of Edinburgh, organised by the ‘Literature and Religion’ research group (University of Bergen), the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature (University of Edinburgh), and the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (University of Edinburgh).
Workshop in Tallinn: Call for Papers
We are pleased to annouce our workshop Time and History in Modern Political Thought in Tallinn on the 8 and 9 of July!
We are welcoming abstracts (max 500 words) until the 15th of April to liisi.keedus@tlu.ee or tommaso.giordani@tlu.ee
More information can be found here: TallinnTemporalitiesWorkshop
Liisa Bourgeot on Gustav Shpet
On the 23 of February, Liisa Bourgeot from the University of Helsinki gave a talk entitled
“Gustav Shpet, Russian phenomenology, time and history”.
The talk was followed by a small reception.
Between the Times Summer School 11-15 July 2022
TRANSNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY: COMPARATIVE METHODS
DATES: 11-15 JULY 2022
The course outlines, discusses, and evaluates the methods for studying intellectual history transnationally. It focuses on the inter-relationship between political, cultural, and intellectual history, and the transference and re-signification of ideas. We ask how best to study the circulation of knowledge, and the reasons for integration, rejection – or ignorance of – certain lines of thought transnationally. We also look at how disciplines like philosophy, semiotics, politics, literary studies, translation studies, etc. can provide tools for intellectual historians. The course addresses general methodological issues and compares the insights of different approaches, yet is also strongly based on historical case studies and tailored to students’ on-going research.
The course gives the students the opportunity to present their own study projects and problems, and to receive feedback in seminars, one-to-one tutorials, and through essay evaluation. The course also strongly promotes and encourages informal communication and exploration of ideas among the participants.
The course is organised in cooperation with the project “Between the Times – Embattled Temporalities and Political Imagination in Inter-War Europe,” based at the School of Humanities.
Course instructors are intellectual historians, cultural historians, literary theorists and philosophers, whose research specializes on conceptual history (e.g. history of concepts of “sovereignty”, “progress”, “revolution”, “violence”, “West”), history of 20th century political thought (e.g. in Central and Eastern Europe, Germany, France, Jewish thought, liberalism and its critics), study of processes of intellectual transfer (e.g. reception and translation studies, emigre studies), political ideologies in European modernisms and avant-gardes, and comparative European intellectual history, among other themes.
WHY THIS COURSE?
– All teachers are innovative researchers, internationally recognised in their respective fields.
– Besides providing general lectures and seminars, the course aims to address each student’s particular research work in proposing methodological options and best practice.
– The course promotes informal communication and exploration of ideas, making time for topically related tours and get-togethers.
TEACHERS
Keynotes: Assoc. Prof. Eva Piirimäe, Prof. Georgios Varouxakis
Other teaching/supervising academic staff:
Dr. Tommaso Giordani
Prof. Liisi Keedus
Dr. Henry Mead
Dr. Piret Peiker
TIMETABLE
TBC
PARTICIPANTS
PhD students and dedicated MA students whose postgraduate research focuses on, or draws upon intellectual history.
Minimum bachelor’s degree; knowledge of the English language B2 level or above.
Together with the application, please send your CV and a short (100 words) motivation letter, describing your research project and how you expect it would benefit from this course. The deadline is 1May 2022.
Group size: maximum 15 students. Participants will be selected based on their CV and motivation letter.
CREDIT POINTS
Upon full participation and completion of course work students will be awarded 6 ECTS points and a certificate of completion.
In order to complete the course, student needs to:
– Actively participate in discussions
– Do a presentation
– Complete a final essay related to student’s work in progress (3000-5000 words)
COURSE FEE
50 EUR.
Course participants are provided free Tallinn University Dormitory double room accommodation for up to 10 nights.
CONTACT
tss@tlu.ee, peiker@tlu.ee
Piret Peiker on ‘European Constitutional Imaginaries in Estonia’
9 December 2021, Dr. Piret Peiker participated in the internatio
Liisi Keedus on Karl Barth at ‘European Crisis and Reorientation’, Copenhagen 28 October 2021
On Thursday 28 October 2021, Prof. Liisi Keedus delivered a paper at the ‘European Crisis and Reorientation’ workshop, entitled ‘“A snake biting its own tail”: Karl Barth’s critique of political modernity in its Weimar contexts.’
See link here for details of the paper and the event, an open international workshop on Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief in the cultural and intellectual context of post-WW1 Europe, held at the University of Copenhagen 27-30 October 2021.
Ideas in Revolution / Revolution in Images: film screening of Danton (1983)
8 October 2021, 18:00
SuperNova Cinema (N-406), Tallinn University
We are happy to invite you to the Open Philosophy Seminar dedicated to representations of the Revolution and its ideas!
The significance of the French Revolution goes far beyond its practical political consequences: ideas of radical change born in that tumultuous decade have gained shape and weight, survived the trials of application – or were disqualified by them – and continue to haunt the imagination of historians, philosophers, politicians, and writers. The (re)conceptualization of the French Revolution is an ongoing practice: new meanings are assigned to it, old ones are contested, and through this process the preoccupations of its many interpreters are revealed.
Stanisława Przybyszewska’s Sprawa Dantona (1929) is one of the most compelling dramatic works on the topic produced in the twentieth century, largely unknown until the seventies; Andrzej Wajda’s film Danton (1983), adapted from the aforementioned play, is considered to be a gripping testament of the political situation in Europe at that moment. Both authors took the revolutionary ideas and shaped them in accordance with their respective visions of history and of the present day.
A film screening of Danton will be followed by a seminar discussion of what we do with ideas of the Revolution and how they are put to work. French revolutionary actors themselves were already adapting the teachings of the Enlightenment; Przybyszewska and Wajda, in their turn, looked back at this process from a historical distance that was both an advantage and an impediment, and used the channels at hand, textual and visual, to convey what they saw there. What do we in 2021, watching a 1983 film about the events of 1794, itself an adaptation of the 1929 play, make of all that? How do we consume the ideas of the French Revolution today and what does that historical event itself mean to us?
The discussants:
Dr hab. Monika Świerkosz (Jagiellonian University)
Dr Diana Popa (Tallinn University)
Ksenia Shmydkaya (Tallinn University)
NB! Registration to the event is obligatory. Please, fill in the form: https://forms.gle/9x7TYrP1tDmLJB6L9
Ksenia Shmydkaya on biofiction
Ksenia Shmydkaya gave a presentation at the conference Biofiction as World Literature / La biofiction comme littérature mondiale, at KU Leuven, on 15-18 September 2021. Her paper was entitled “Biofiction as Soviet literature? On The Crazy Ship and its passengers.” The full book of abstracts can be found here.