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.

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).

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.

Henry Mead will attend the opening of exhibition “The Great War” at Muzeum Sztuki in Łód, 23.11, at 18.00