Slavery in the 18th-19th century United States and British Empire and serfdom in the Russian Empire have been compared in previous studies, but those works have generally overlooked the particularities of the Baltic provinces. In his doctoral dissert...
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Doctoral dissertation: Serfdom in the Baltic region was seen as similar to slavery in the United States and the British Empire.
TÜHI celebrates once again the success of its MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship initiative
The School of Humanities at Tallinn University (TÜHI) has recently completed another successful round of applications for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships. Launched in Fe...
Doctoral thesis: sexual philosophy is the foundation for sexual ethics based on mutual care and pleasure
There has been little research on sexual philosophy in Estonia, but it is a field of research that helps us make sense of an important part of human relationships. Rita Niineste, a PhD candidate at Ta...
Doctoral thesis: disabled people are still seen as ‘the other’ in contemporary Russian culture
The cultural space is a reflection of societal values. Alina Poklad, a PhD candidate at Tallinn University's School of Humanities, researched how people with disabilities are portrayed in contemporary Russian culture and how this is reflected in publ...
Doctoral dissertation: The literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries reveal resistance to social norms and constraints
Kristjan Haljak, who defended his doctoral thesis at the Tallinn University’s School of Humanities, argued that both the Estonian writer Jaan Oks and the French writer Comte de Lautréamont share a r...
Summer School of Sign Language Studies
In collaboration with Universität Hamburg, Tallinn University, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Summer School of Sign Language Studies will take place from July 21 to July 25, 2025, at Humboldt...
Doctoral thesis: The choice of literature for translation depends on local culture, politics and international trends
The Spanish-speaking world is a big place, but Spanish literature accounts for just 3% of all the world's literary translations. What is translated from the language tends to be on the fringes of literary translation in Estonia as well. Mari Laan, a ...
Doctoral thesis explored trams as subjects and platform for art
"Rail- or tram" factor is a term explaining why people sometimes choose trams without considering objective criteria like speed or cost. Aleksandra Ianchenko, doctoral student at Tallinn University Sc...
The thesis explores the importance of the aesthetics of ugliness in Estonian art at the time of Konrad Mägi and Eduard Wiiralt
It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and this very much applies to art: it is no longer appropriate to call a work of art either beautiful or ugly. But when and why did artists' sense...
Stories of war and conflict are abound today; however, narration is increasingly fragmented
Wars are increasingly taking place not only on battlefields, but also online. Jaana Davidjants, a PhD student at Tallinn University’s School of Humanities, studied narratives around wars and conflicts on social media in her PhD thesis.
How did transnational knowledge transfer between Eastern European cultures of history during the interwar period?
Tallinn University School of Humanities doctoral student Johannes Walter Benjamin Bent explored in his doctoral thesis, how did historical discourses provide basis for 20th century historical nation-b...
Doctoral thesis studied the role of public transportation
What is the role of public transportation and the effect of ticket fares have on its usability, studied Loise Sträuli from Tallinn University School of Humanities in her doctoral thesis.
“Read Japan” donation has reached the Research Library
On April 3rd, the research library was visited by the Ambassador of Japan, Yukihiko Matsumura, and the cultural attaché, Toshiko Shimizu, to donate books as a part of the “Read Japan 2023” project.
TÜHI MSCA postdoctoral fellowship support initiative helped three postdoctoral researchers succeed
Last year, TÜHI as a host institution organized a new initiative for prospective MSCA postdoctoral researchers which included a grant writing training camp. As a result, three new postdoctoral researc...
Doctoral thesis investigated, how the noh and kyogen actors in Japanese traditional theatre achieve their awe-inspiring mastery
Many people enjoy theatre as a performing art, but few are likely to be familiar with theatre theories. Yet, theatre theories are an excellent basis for understanding how an actor, by developing their...
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Timothy Anderson: "My research aims to broaden the understanding of ‘Estonianness'"
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Aleksandra Ianchenko: I learnt that artists can do a PhD. This made me believe that I could do a it too
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