Public lectures in GSCSA 4th Winter School "Absence, Presence, Distance"

The Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts (GSCSA) kindly invites you to participate in the public lectures taking place during our 4th Winter School "Absence, Presence, Distance".

Monday, January 20

10:30–11:30 Prof. em. Zygmunt Bauman (University of Leeds):Living in the Times of Interregnum

11:30–12:30 Discussion lead by Prof. Rein Raud (University of Helsinki; Tallinn University)

16:00–17:00 Prof. Michael Bentley (University of St Andrews): Absence and Presence in Historical Theory since 1970

17:00–18.00 Discussion lead by Dr. Eva Piirimäe (University of Tartu)

Tuesday, January 21

10:00–11:00 Prof. Alexander Etkind (University of Cambridge; European University Institute, Florence): Victim Balls in Post-Stalin Russia: Distance, Generations, and Mourning

11:00–12:00 Discussion lead by Dr. Maria Mälksoo (University of Tartu)

15:30–16:30 Prof. em. Mieke Bal (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; University of Amsterdam): Long Live Anachronism! Preposterous History and the Past of the Future

16:30–17.30 Discussion lead by Prof. Tiina Kirss (Tallinn University)

Wednesday, January 22

10:00–11:00 Prof. Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London): How Absence becomes Presence: Imagination and Emotion in Europe, 1100–1600, and 2014

11:00–12:00 Discussion lead by Dr. Marek Tamm (Tallinn University)

15:30–16:30 Prof. François Hartog (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris): The Modern Regime of Historicity in the Face of Two World Wars

16:30–17:30 Discussion lead by Dr. Siobhan Kattago (Tallinn University)

Friday, January 24

10:00–11:00 Prof. Ansgar Nünning (University of Giessen): The Historical Novel as ‘the Most Typical Genre in World Literature’: Forms and Functions of Revisioning the Past in a Popular Genre

11:00–12:00 Discussion lead by Dr. Marina Grišakova (University of Tartu)

15:30–16:30 Prof. Vera Nünning (University of Heidelberg): Turning History into Art: Mediating Distance and Presence in Narrative and Painting

16:30–17.30 Discussion lead by Prof. Katrin Kivimaa (Estonian Academy of Art)