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
Author Archives: Henry John Mead
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.
Henry Mead on periodization in cultural criticism
Henry Mead gave a paper entitled ‘Dreams of Reconciliation: Periodization in Cultural Criticism’, at the ‘Periodization and Time in History: Perspectives from Germany, Europe and the Middle East’ conference at Pembroke College, Cambridge, on 30 March 2023.
Ksenia Shmydkaya, ‘Revolution, She Wrote’: Thesis Defence, 7 November 2022
We are proud to announce that on November 7, 2022 at 11.00, Ksenia Shmydkaya will defend her doctoral thesis:
“Revolution, She Wrote: Historical Representation in the Interwar Works of Stanisława Przybyszewska, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Olga Forsh”.
The 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:
Liisi Keedus, Professor at Tallinn University
Julia Kuznetski, Professor at Tallinn University
Opponents:
Catriona Kelly, Honorary Professor at Cambridge University
Zsófia Lóránd, Marie Curie Fellow at Cambridge University
The doctoral thesis is available in Tallinn University Digital Library ETERA.
Johannes Bent on Ernst Troeltsch
Johannes Bent published an essay with Gangolf Hübinger on ‘Ernst Troeltsch and Contemporary History’ (‘Ernst Troeltsch und die Zeitgeschichte’), available online at:
Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte Begriffe, Methoden und Debatten der zeithistorischen Forschung
Henry Mead on Ezra Pound’s Canto 76
Henry Mead’s chapter on Ezra Pound’s Canto 76 was published in July 2022 in Readings in the Cantos, volume 2, edited by Richard Parker (Clemson University Press/Liverpool University Press, 2022), pp. 225−234 – DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2qnx5bf.
Henry Mead on Transnational Art History, 14 July 2022
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.