On 14 July 2022, Henry Mead gave a paper entitled ‘Transnational Art History from the British perspective’ at the Transnational Intellectual History Summer School held at Tallinn University, 11 July-15 July 2022.
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.
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.
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).
Henry Mead has published a chapter on Edward Carpenter’s modernist philosophy of history in the essay collection Heresy and Borders in the Twentieth Century, edited by Karina Jakubowicz and Robert Dickins (Routledge, 2021), pp. 28-46. (https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003090649)
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
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.
Daniele Monticello has published a chapter entitled ‘Lotman and Deconstructionism’ in The Companion to Juri Lotman: A Semiotic Theory of Culture, eds. Marek Tamm and Peeter Torop (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Link here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/companion-to-juri-lotman-9781350181632/
Liisi Keedus has published an article on the political thought of Swiss theologian Karl Barth, entitled “‘The snake biting its own tail’: Karl Barth on the modern promise of politics”. The piece appears in the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, and is available here.
