On June 25 Johannes Bent gave a presentation at Viadrina University in Frankfurt (Oder) entitled:
Between the ‘Crisis of Historicism’ and the ‘Construction of European Cultural History’ – Ernst Troeltsch in Interwar Eastern Europe
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Interwar influences on post-war reconstruction
Jorge Varela presented the paper
The attributeless catholicism of Alexandre Kojève
in a special panel on Political Theology at the SEF-FEP joint conference in Royal Holloway University and gave a paper entitled
Reframing the political after the End of History
at the University of Brighton as part of the After the “End of History”: Philosophy, History, Culture, Politics conference.
In these papers Jorge explored the intellectual lineage of Kojève’s political proposals during and immediately after the World War II.
‘Modernists Between the Times: Heresy and Orthodoxy in Interwar Europe’,
Henry Mead gave a paper entitled ‘Modernists Between the Times: Heresy and Orthodoxy in Interwar Europe’, at the British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) Conference, ‘Troublesome Modernisms’, King’s College London, 21-22 June 2019. This paper offered a comparative view of a reaction against liberalism in interwar German theology, and tensions in British modernism between notions of ‘orthodoxy’ and ‘heresy’.
Karl Barth on Political Modernity
On the 23 of May 2019, Liisi Keedus presented the paper:
A snake biting its own tail’: Karl Barth on political modernity
at the workshop ‘Between civil war and revolution’ (23.-24.05), in the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen
Liisi Keedus pidas ettekande
A snake biting its own tail’: Karl Barth on political modernity
teadusseminaril ‘Between civil war and revolution’ (23.-24.05), Göttingeni Ülikoolis, Lichtenberg-Kollegiumis.
Tommaso Giordani on Sorel and Anarchism
On the 8 July 2019, Tommaso Giordani presented a paper entitled “Was Georges Sorel an anarchist? Anti-statism, Marxism, and modes of proletarian violence” at the Communicating Community: Anarchism and its Boundaries conference held at the European University Institute in Florence. For a conference report, see here
Teaching resources on Futurism
Roberta Albertini just published some didactic resources on Futurism as part of her contribution to the Between the Times project. They can be found in the following addresses:
Ksenia Shmydkaya on one Troublesome Modernist
Ksenia Shmydkaya gave a paper “Crooked Mirror of Modernism(s): Stanisława Przybyszewska and the Creation of an Author” at the British Association of Modernist Studies Conference Troublesome Modernisms (King’s College London, 21-22 June 2019).
‘Is there a European Intellectual History?’: workshop abstracts
The ‘Between the Times’ project workshop ‘Is there a European Intellectual History?’ took place on the 6th and 7th of July. During the two days we had 4 wonderful keynote talks by Balász Trencsényi, Giuseppe Bianco, Tim B. Müller, and Martin van Gelderen. In addition we also had the chance to listen to 10 wonderful talks by several younfer researchers, you can read their abstracts here.
Liisi Keedus on Estonian and European ideas of progress
Liisi Keedus contributed to the Estonian Public Broadcasting weekly research programme (27.04.2019), speaking about ideas of progress in Estonian and European intellectual history
Ksenia Shmydkaya on Stanisława Przybyszewska’s epistolarium
On June 1st, Ksenia Shmydkaya presented a paper entitled “Drama in Search of a Reader: Stanisława Przybyszewska’s Epistolarium and Tragedy of a Genius” at the 11th Annual Juri Lotman Days at Tallinn University. Full programme of the conference can be found here.