Piret Peiker’s book Discourses of Modernity. The Case of Estonian Literature is now out from Helena History Press!
The book launch took place last week, on December 11th, in Tallinn. Liisi Keedus and Daniele Monticelli led the engaging discussion about postcolonial modernities and the role of literature in the Estonian nation-building.
This October, The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis was released. Ksenia Shmydkaya’s contribution to the volume, “One man’s dystopia is another woman’s utopia: Humanity revolutionised, according to Stanisława Przybyszewska,” discusses the utopian potential of a little-known novel presenting an alternative history of the 1920s Europe.
On September 24th, the Estonian Research Council celebrated the 12th anniversary of its Brussels office with a high-level seminar and the opening of the exhibition “Estonian Research Excellence Showcase: ERC Grants Across the Years” at the Permanent Representation of Estonia to the European Union.
At the exhibition, the PI of ‘Between the Times’ Liisi Keedus was featured among other 29 Estonian researches who have received the prestigious ERC grant.
Read the whole news here.
At the Thinking in the We-Mode workshop (Käsmu, Estonia, 9-10 September), Liisi Keedus presented a paper entitled “Solitude as the Absence of Time: Emmanuel Levinas’s Intersubjective Temporalities.”
The most recent issue of History and Theory journal features a review essay by Juhan Hellerma. Titled “Making the Past Speak: Acceleration, Resonance, and Presence,” it offers an extended analysis of Hartmut Rosa’s Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World (Cambridge: Polity, 2019).
This week, the University of Vigo hosts the joint conference of the international degrowth research networks and the European Society for Ecological Economics in Pontevedra, Spain. Liisi Keedus will present her paper “Technology, ecological overshoot and the poetics of progress: a philosophical perspective” on 21 June.
The detailed programme of the conference is available online.
On 7-8 June 2024, a diverse group of international scholars gathered at Tallinn University to discuss the collective book project, headed by Prof. Liisi Keedus, Prof. Balázs Trencsényi, and Dr. Tommaso Giordani. Conducted in a hybrid format, the workshop spanned over two days of lively and stimulating discussions.
We thank all the participants and look forward to the future developments of the project.
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.
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 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
