International conference "Fear in Culture and Culture of Fear"

ORGANISERS:

Juri Lotman Semiotics Repository, Tallinn University

The School of Humanities, Tallinn University

The 13th Annual Lotman Conference at Tallinn University aims to bring together discussions about fear from various disciplines. We invite theoretical explorations, historical inquiries, and concrete case studies that would help to illuminate the phenomenon of fear from various perspectives and together provide a multifaceted understanding of the complex workings of fear in culture.

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mihhail Lotman (Tallinn University, University of Tartu)

Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London)

Andrei Zorin (University of Oxford)

Evgeny Dobrenko (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

Read the full call for papers HERE. 

The event is organized in cooperation with the Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies and it is supported by the (European Union) European Regional Development Fund (Tallinn University’s ASTRA project, TU TEE activity A7).