On 20 May 2019, Tommaso Giordani presented a paper entitled “Revolution and Class Formation in Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence” at the Intellectual History Seminar held at the Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics of the University of Tartu. Event information can be found here
Author Archives: Jorge Varela
Churches in a Pluralist World: The Theological Legacy of John Neville Figgis
Henry Mead recently attended a conference on English Theology and political pluralism that dealt with the Legacy of Neville Figgis (1866-1919).
The Tears of Quasimodo: Victor Hugo and the ideals of progress
By Paul Berman, In Tablet, 24.04.2019
“Time, History, Biography: Lotman in Context” conference program
The 11th annual Lotman conference at Tallinn University will take place between the 31th of May and the 2nd of June. The conference is co-organized by the “Between the Times” project. The conference will connect Lotman’s Ideas on history and time to the study of biographical documents. The conference program is available here.
Kojève’s Death
Jorge Varela published a review of Jeff Love’s book on Alexandre Kojève in the latest issue of Radical Philosophy.
“Where, when, and what is ‘the West’? The history of an idea”
A talk by Prof. Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary University of London). Prof. Varouxakis is a Co-director of QMUL Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought. He is the author of Liberty Abroad: J. S. Mill on International Relations (CUP, 2013) and numerous other books and articles on the intellectual history of liberalism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism.
The seminar will take place on May 10, Friday, at 16.15 in M 328. Everyone is welcome to attend!
Presentation of “Between the Times” PhD projects
The project’s PhD students (Johannes Bent, Ksenia Shmydkaya and Jorge Varela) made a presentation of their projects at Tallinn University’s Interdisciplinary research seminar on the 16th of April 2019. The projects were discussed by Professors Liisi Keedus and Alexandre Horstmann, and by fellow PhD students.
Public presentation of “Between the Times” project
Tommaso Giordani made a presentation of the “Between the Times” project at Tallinn University’s Centres of Excellence public outreach seminar on the 14th of March 2019. In addition to researchers from the University, the event was attended by – and aimed at – other non-academic partners of the University.
“For the Benefit of the People” – On Lydia Koidula’s Social Thought in the 1860s
Piret Peiker made a presentation at the celebratory meeting of the Estonian Academic Agricultural Society on 20 February 2019, her talk titled “For the Benefit of the People” – On Lydia Koidula’s Social Thought in the 1860s, based on her latest research collaborating with colleagues Krista Mits and Daniele Monticelli. The talk discussed Koidula’s conceptualisation of the ideas of „the history“ and „the people“. The meeting was dedicated to the celebration of the 101st anniversary of the Republic of Estonia. The Estonian Academic Agricultural Society unites top scholars in the agricultural fields and promoters of knowledge-based Estonian agriculture. We are pleased that Piret Peiker was invited to join the Society in connection with her contribution to the historical study of modern Estonian agriculture, as well as with her role as a Member of Board of the company that won the prize for the best Estonian organic product 2018 (birch syrup).
From Jamaica to Paris and back to Tartu again
The article by Piret Peiker, Krista Mits and Daniele Monticelli on Lydia Koidula’s take on the historical process and “the people” won the Annual Award of the journal Keel ja Kirjandus (Literature and Language) in the field of Literary Studies. The english abstract can be read here and the full text in estonian here.