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
Publication by Tommaso Giordani
Tommaso Giordani published an open acces research article in the journal Bergsoniana entitled “Two political itineraries of European Bergsonism: Georges Sorel and Thomas Ernest Hulme“. The article builds on Dr. Giordani’s previous publication with Dr. Henry Mead, and explores the way in which the two thinkers’ relationship with Bergsonian philosophy evolved from the late 19th century until the Great War.
Tommaso Giordani teaches at the Invisible University for Ukraine Winter School
In January 2024, our team member Tommaso Giordani taught at the second Invisible University for Ukraine Winter School in Budapest. Dr Giordani mentored students and delivered a lecture on different temporalities of revolution. BETWEEN THE TIMES stands in solidarity with the Ukranian people and condemns the brutal and unprovoked Russian aggression.
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.”