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CLOSING ROUND TABLE
CULTURAL TEMPORALITIES
TALLINN UNIVERSITY, TALLINN HALL (M-218)
SATURDAY, 2 JUNE
16:00-18:30
The final round table considers how cultural temporalities link the sensible materiality of art to a
particular way of being of the community. We explore temporalities of moods and embodiment,
ethics and morality, literature and everyday existence, stretching from modernity to post-times, from
anticipation to resignation.
Epp Annus
Organizer and Introducer
Epp Annus is a senior researcher with the Research Group in Cultural and Literary
Studies, at the Estonian Literary Museum. She is also a lecturer at the Ohio
State University. She has published a monograph “Kuidas kirjutada aega“ (How
to Tell Time, 2002), has co-authored several books on Estonian literature and
literary theory, and has edited a collective monograph “Kahekümnenda sajandi
mõttevoolud“ (Movements of Thought in Twentieth Century Literature, 2009).
Her interests include the phenomenology of the everyday, psychoanalysis, Soviet
postcolonialism, and 20th century Estonian and comparative prose fiction. Her
current project is The Phenomenology of Home: The Soviet Everyday and Beyond.
In addition to her academic work, she has also published a novel Sina, Matilda,”
and a number of children books.
Liisa Steinby
Liisa Steinby (until 2007 Saariluoma) is professor of Comparative Literature at
the University of Turku, Finland. Her publications include the monographs Der
postindividualistische Roman (Würzburg 1994); Nietzsche als Roman. Über die
Sinnkonstituierung in Thomas Manns “Doktor Faustus” (Tübingen: Niemeyer
1996); Erzählstruktur und Bildungsroman. Wielands “Geschichte des Agathon”,
Goethes “Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre” (Würzburg 2004); Wilhelm Meisters
Lehrjahre und die Entstehung des modernen Zeitbewusstseins (Trier 2005);
Kundera and Modernity (Purdue University Press, forthcoming in 2012).
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