Lecture by Piret Peiker at the Public Service University, Budapest, 16.03.21

As an invited guest speaker, Piret Peiker gave an electronic lecture and seminar for the research group on Politics and Governement at the Public Service University, Budapest, Hungary 16.03.2021.

The paper was entitled ‘Building a Postcolonial State: The Case of the Law on Cultural Autonomy for Ethnic Minorities, Passed in the Estonian Parliament 1925’.

The lecture introduced the historical underpinnings, political imagination and topical debates that shaped the crafting and eventual passing of the law. Drawing upon that, the seminar discussion also focused on the methodology of the approach, and emphasised the relevance of the insights of intellectual history, entangled history, and postcolonial studies for politics and governance in the present world. The seminar was chaired by Prof. Ferenc Hörcher.

Link: https://pak.uni-nke.hu/hirek/2021/03/16/nyilvanos-intezeti-szeminarium-62021

Piret Peiker: Trans-Actional Analysis and Nationalism Studies

Piret Peiker has published a chapter (co-authored with Peeter Sieg), entitled:

‘There Is More to Groups of People Than Just Groups and People: On Trans-Actional
Analysis and Nationalism Studies’ in John Dewey and the Notion of Transaction, A Sociological Reply on Rethinking Relations and Social Processes, ed Christian Morgner (Palgrave 2020), pp. 55-81 (Green access here).

Tallinn University Summer School in Transnational Intellectual History

Tallinn University has announced its summer school in Transnational Intellectual History, to run between 23-27 July 2021. The course will be run by members of the ERC Between the Times project.

Transnational Intellectual History: Comparative Methods

Keynotes:
Assoc. Prof. Eva Piirimäe
Prof. Georgios Varouxakis

Other teaching/supervising academic staff:
Dr. Tommaso Giordani
Prof. Liisi Keedus
Dr. Henry Mead
Dr. Piret Peiker

Deadline for Applications: 30 April 2021.

Piret Peiker on Eastern European Literature

Piret Peiker’s article “East European Literature from the Postcolonial Perspective” (“Ida-Euroopa kirjandus postkoloniaalsest vaatenurgast) was published in the anthology edited by Johanna Ross and Epp Annus Art Created for Several Masters: Soviet Colonialism and Estonia (“Mitmele isandale loodud kunst. Sotskolonialism ja Eesti”).Tartu: Tartu University Press, pp. 165-166.

The article focuses on the depiction of history and human agency in the East European Bildungsromane in the interwar and postwar periods. It uses postcolonial theory as its main approach.

You can find it in the below link (in Estonian):

Peiker Ida-Euroopa kirjandus postkoloniaalsest vaatenurgast