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.

Zoom link to the Defense.

Ksenia Shmydkaya presented parts of her doctoral research, under the title “Debating the French Revolution in Interwar Poland: The Danton Case and Its Echoes,” at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Intellectual History. The Conference, dedicated to Histories of Knowledge, took place at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, on 12–15 September 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.

On 8 July 2022, Henry Mead gave a paper entitled ‘The Fall of the Fall: Religious and Post-Religious Themes in British Modernist Writing’ at the Time and Political Thought International Workshop held at Tallinn University, 8-9 July 2022.

Ksenia Shmydkaya participated in the inaugural conference of the History and Translation Network, at Tallinn University, on 25–28 May 2022. She gave a paper entitled “Linguistic strategies of Stanisława Przybyszewska: translating one’s self from the margins.” Full information about the conference is avaliable here.

On 21 April, Henry Mead delivered a paper entitled ‘The Fall of the Fall in Literary Modernism’ at ‘Inventing the Secular’, a conference in New College, University of Edinburgh, organised by the ‘Literature and Religion’ research group (University of Bergen), the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature (University of Edinburgh), and the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (University of Edinburgh).