We are pleased to host a lecture by TOMASZ KAMUSELLA, Reader of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. He specializes in the interdisciplinary study of language politics and nationalism in modern central Europe. His recent English-language publications include monographs Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War: The Forgotten 1989 Expulsion of Turks from Communist Bulgaria (Routledge 2018) and The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity (Palgrave 2017). At present he is finishing Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe (IB Tauris 2020).

The lecture, entitled The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity, will take place on April 11, 14.15, in room M 649.

Everyone is warmly welcome!

The flight magazine of the Estonian airline Nordica, “Time Flies” regularly features stories on science. It asked Liisi Keedus to contribute to the autumn/winter 2018 issue – see “Why is the myth of progress crumbling?”

Piret Peiker will give a presentation “Bildungsroman and Soviet Estonian Modernity: The Case of Silvia Rannamaa’s Kadri-novels” on 50th Annual ASEES (Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies) Convention, Boston MA, 6-9 December 2018. She will speak on panel, The Influence of Literature and Literary Publishing in the Formation and Transformation of Identity in Central Europe and the Baltics.