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).
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Liisi Keedus at the 10th International Degrowth Conference
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.
Workshop “Time and History in Modern European Political Thought”
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.
Johannes Bent, ‘Ernst Troeltsch and Eastern Europe’: Thesis Defence, 3 June 2024
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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.
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).
The Crisis of German Historicism:
The Early Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, 2015, Cambridge University Press, by Liisi Keedus
Time outside history: Politics and ontology in Franz Rosenzweig’s and Mircea Eliade’s reimagined temporalities
Piret Peiker will participate as discussant Artishok biennial 20.-28.10.2018
From 20 to 28 October, the passenger terminal of the Baltic railway station in Tallinn will host the VI Artishok Biennial which will use the format of a fashion exhibition. For curator Sten Ojavee (Centre for Contemporary Arts Estonia), the main aim of the exhibition is to offer a critical approach to the contemporary ideas about national identity and to offer different viewpoints on interpreting contemporary nationalism. To achieve this aim, the participating artists will be using the possibilities offered by fashion. This year’s biennial is organized by the contemporary art platform Artishok in co-operation with the Centre for Contemporary Arts Estonia.
Artishok Biennial is an experimental exhibition format created in 2008 where every participating artist will make a new work and every writer will write an article about these works. The texts are exhibited alongside the works in the gallery. AB is the only such art biennial in Estonia that brings artists and writers together to an equal platform and experiments with their mutual relationships.
Piret Peiker is invited as a discussant to a joint art performance/philosophy seminar event, 28.10, 18.00