We are proud to announce that on June 3, 2024 at 12.00, Johannes Bent will defend his doctoral thesis: “Ernst Troeltsch and Eastern Europe: Interwar Interpretations and Applications of a German Philosopher of History”.
Public defence will take place in Tallinn University hall M648. The wider audience can follow the defence and ask questions from the degree applicant in Zoom.
Supervisors are Professor Liisi Keedus from Tallinn University and Professor Emeritus Gangolf Hübinger from European University Viadrina.
Opponents are Professor Balázs Trencsényi from Central European University Budapest and Professor Matthias Schloßberger from European University Viadrina.
The doctoral thesis is available in Tallinn University Digital Library ETERA.
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Liisi Keedus and Juhan Hellerma at the ‘History & Responsibility’ Conference
The 5th Conference of the International Network for Theory of History will take place in Lisbon at the end of May. This year’s topic is ‘History & Responsibility. Doing History in Times of Conflicting Political Demands’.
On 23 May, Liisi Keedus will give a talk ‘Can we make a new time? A perspective from intellectual history’, and Juhan Hellerma will present on 24 May on ‘Historical responsibility and the question of presentism’.
Liisi Keedus on time regimes and progressivism
Liisi Keedus gave interview to the Novaator portal where she spoke about the variety of temporal regimes, dangers of the uncritical belief in progress, and the Anthropocene. The article can be read here (in Estonian): https://novaator.err.ee/1609335198/pime-usk-progressi-muudab-inimkonna-suurte-probleemide-ees-haavatavaks
Liisi Keedus’s keynote at the Estonian Annual Conference of Humanities
The inaugural Estonian Annual Conference of Humanities took place at Tallinn University on 10–12 April 2024. Liisi Keedus’s keynote focussed on the Anthropocene and multiple temporalities from the perspective of intellectual history. The full recording is available at Novaator (in Estonian).
Review of The Fabric of Historical Time
Liisi Keedus reviewed the recent Estonian translation of The Fabric of Historical Time by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm. You can read her review (in Estonian) at Sirp.
Liisi Keedus on postgowth societies
Eesti Päevaleht published Liisi Keedus’s critical considerations about the environmental, social and psychological costs of our dependency on unlimited economic growth. The article can be read here (in Estonian): https://epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/120264843/liisi-keedus-majanduskasvu-peatumine-ei-tahenda-paratamatult-kriisi
Publication by Tommaso Giordani
Tommaso Giordani published an open acces research article in the journal Bergsoniana entitled “Two political itineraries of European Bergsonism: Georges Sorel and Thomas Ernest Hulme“. The article builds on Dr. Giordani’s previous publication with Dr. Henry Mead, and explores the way in which the two thinkers’ relationship with Bergsonian philosophy evolved from the late 19th century until the Great War.
Tommaso Giordani teaches at the Invisible University for Ukraine Winter School
In January 2024, our team member Tommaso Giordani taught at the second Invisible University for Ukraine Winter School in Budapest. Dr Giordani mentored students and delivered a lecture on different temporalities of revolution. BETWEEN THE TIMES stands in solidarity with the Ukranian people and condemns the brutal and unprovoked Russian aggression.
Ksenia Shmydkaya presented on adaptations of The Danton Case
At the annual Historical Fictions Research Conference that took place at the University of Malmö on 23–24 February 2024, Ksenia Shmydkaya gave a paper entitled “French Revolution à la Polonaise: Adapting The Danton Case.”
Ksenia Shmydkaya’s article on Sylvia Townsend Warner and Georg Lukács
The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society published Ksenia Shmydkaya’s article entitled “Georg Lukács, Sylvia Townsend Warner and The Historical Novel” in its 2023 issue. The article is available in open access.