Liisi Keedus reviewed the recent Estonian translation of The Fabric of Historical Time by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Marek Tamm. You can read her review (in Estonian) at Sirp.
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Liisi Keedus on postgowth societies
Eesti Päevaleht published Liisi Keedus’s critical considerations about the environmental, social and psychological costs of our dependency on unlimited economic growth. The article can be read here (in Estonian): https://epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/120264843/liisi-keedus-majanduskasvu-peatumine-ei-tahenda-paratamatult-kriisi
Ksenia Shmydkaya presented on adaptations of The Danton Case
At the annual Historical Fictions Research Conference that took place at the University of Malmö on 23–24 February 2024, Ksenia Shmydkaya gave a paper entitled “French Revolution à la Polonaise: Adapting The Danton Case.”
Ksenia Shmydkaya’s article on Sylvia Townsend Warner and Georg Lukács
The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society published Ksenia Shmydkaya’s article entitled “Georg Lukács, Sylvia Townsend Warner and The Historical Novel” in its 2023 issue. The article is available in open access.
Juhan Hellerma at the annual conference of the University of Tartu Museum
Annual conference of the University of Tartu Museum will take place on 6th of December 2023. This year’s topic is the role of scientific collections in education, research, and society at large. Our research fellow Juhan Hellerma will present the paper on the meaning and presence of the objects from the past (“Minevikuasjade tähendus ja kohalolu”).
Additional information about the conference and its programme are available at the Museum’s website (in Estonian).
Liisi Keedus’s chapter in “Crisis and Reorientation”
Liisi Keedus’s contribution to the collective volume Crisis and Reorientation, edited by Christine Svinth-Værge Põder and Sigurd Baark, is now available online. The chapter title is ‘“As a Tangent Touching a Circle”: Karl Barth and Dialectical Theologians Rethinking Time After 1918.’ DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-27677-4_3
International workshop “Time and History in Modern European thought”
“Between the Times” project hosted an international workshop “Time and History in Modern European thought: From the Age of Revolutions to the Anthropocene” on 8–9 September 2023.
We thank all invited scholars for these two days of intense discussions.
Lively discussion during the closing session
Ksenia Shmydkaya on the reception of Lukács
Ksenia Shmydkaya presented at the annual conference of the International Society for Intellectual History that took place at the University of Edinburgh, on 4–6 September 2023. Her paper was entitled “Lukács’s Ghost: On Crises and the (Ahistorical) Reception of The Historical Novel.”
Juhan Hellerma on imagining an unprecedented future
On 24 August, Juhan Hellerma will be presenting at the Annual Estonian Philosophy Conference. The title of his paper is “Kuidas kujutleda enneolematut homset?” (“How to imagine an unprecedented tomorrow?”).
More information is available at the conference’s page.
Juhan Hellerma at CBSE
Juhan Hellerma will be presenting at the 15th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE) “Turning Points: Values and Conflicting Futures in the Baltics,” in Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. His talk “Renegotiating the Value of Presentism” will take place on June 16th.
For more details, please consult the conference’s website.