Liisi Keedus’s contribution to the collective volume Crisis and Reorientation, edited by Christine Svinth-Værge Põder and Sigurd Baark, is now available online. The chapter title is ‘“As a Tangent Touching a Circle”: Karl Barth and Dialectical Theologians Rethinking Time After 1918.’ DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27677-4_3
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International workshop “Time and History in Modern European thought”
“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 on the reception of Lukács
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.”
Juhan Hellerma on imagining an unprecedented future
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 at CBSE
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.
Henry Mead reviews “Modernism and Theology”
Henry Mead published a review of Modernism and Theology by Joanna Rzepa (Palgrave, 2022), in Modernist Cultures 18.1 (Feb 2023), pp. 99-104. Now available online in open access: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/mod.2023.0389
Liisi Keedus and Henry Mead gave papers on decadence
“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.
Juhan Hellerma on museums and temporality
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.
Liisi Keedus on the interwar intellectual groupings and their avant-garde temporalities
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 on crisis and renewal in European Modernism
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.