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OPENING ROUND TABLE
ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE
TALLINN UNIVERSITY, TALLINN HALL (M-218)
MONDAY, 28 MAY
16:00-18:30
The opening round table addresses the aesthetic and political dimensions of human temporalities, focusing on
futuristic visions, traumatic memories and the emerging sensibilities of the present era.
Tõnu Viik
Tõnu Viik is a professor of philosophy at Tallinn University, Estonia. He
received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2003 writing a dissertation
on Hegel’s philosophy of culture. Currently he is working on cultural
phenomenology.
Rein Raud
Rein Raud graduated from St. Petersburg University (Japanese Studies,
1985) and defended his doctorate in the University of Helsinki (Literary
Theory, 1994). He has worked in the University of Helsinki since 1995 as the
Professor of Japanese Studies, concomitantly affiliated with the Estonian
Institute of Humanities and, after its establishment in 2005, with the
Tallinn University, of which he served as the first rector in 2006-2011. He
has published extensively in the areas of classical Japanese literature and
philosophy, as well as a number of novels, poetry collections and essays. He
has also published a number of translations, mainly from classical Japanese
literature.
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