Lectures on the idea of the "West" and the self-determination of nations
As part of annual international Tallinn Summer School (Tallinn University), this year the open and free English language course "Transnational Intellectual History: Comparative Methods“ is organized.
On July 12, Professor Georgios Varouzakis of Queen Mary College, University of London will give a lecture on “How 'Global' Can Intellectual History Be? The History of the Idea of 'the West' as a Case Study“. The lecture and discussion will be chaired by Liisi Keedus, Professor of Political Philosophy at Tallinn University's School of Humanities
On July 13, Dr. Eva Piirimäe, Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Tartu's Johan Skytte Institute for Political Studies, will give a lecture „Should we consider political concepts both in a particular historical context and from a long duration perspective? The case of "self-determination of peoples". The lecture and discussion will be chaired by Daniele Monticelli, Professor of Semiotics and Translation Studies at Tallinn University's School of Humanities.
The course will take place in Tallinn University Mare building room M-225, Uus-Sadama 5, Tallinn on July 12th starting at 5 pm and July 13th starting at 5:30 pm. The lecture hall is also easily accessible by wheelchair.
The course is organized by the European Research Council-supported project Between the Times: Embattled Temporalities and Political Imagination in Inter-War Europe, based at Tallinn University.
Additional information:
Piret Peiker
T: 58095834
Ksenia Shmydkaya
T: 55577322