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’.
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
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A snake biting its own tail’: Karl Barth on political modernity
teadusseminaril ‘Between civil war and revolution’ (23.-24.05), Göttingeni Ülikoolis, Lichtenberg-Kollegiumis.
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
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 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).
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.
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.
The programme for the upcoming conference is now available online at the link below!
The event will take place in Tallinn Teachers’ House in the Town Hall Square on the 7 and 8 of June.
On 20 May 2019, Tommaso Giordani presented a paper entitled “Revolution and Class Formation in Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence” at the Intellectual History Seminar held at the Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics of the University of Tartu. Event information can be found here
