Tallinn Summer School
VIII Tallinn Postgraduate Summer School in Social and Cultural Studies
World-Systems and Life-Worlds:
Globalisation in Plural
July 23 – 30, 2010
Hosting institutions: Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University; Institute of
International and Social Studies, Tallinn University; Centre for Central-Eastern Europe and
the Balkans, University of Bologna
Supporters: City of Tallinn; Hungarian Cultural Institute in Tallinn; European Parliament;
Directors: Ms. Linda Kaljundi; Ms. Piret Peiker
Preliminary programme
Details are subject to change.
Unless otherwise stated, all events take place at the premises of the Tallinn University
“Mare” Building, 5 Uus-Sadama St.
July 23, Friday
Venue: registration in the foyer; lecture in M-218; reception in the Atrium, 2nd floor; gettogether in the ground floor café
15:00
Registration
16:00
Welcome to the Summer School by Prof. Rein Raud, Rector of
Tallinn University
An Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalizations
Keynote lecture by Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia
University)
Open to general public
Chair: Prof. Tiina Kirss (University of Tartu)
18:00
Opening reception of the Tallinn Summer School
19:30
Get-together of the World-Systems and Life-Worlds course
participants
July 24, Saturday
Venue: M-213
10:00 – 12:00
Panel discussion World-Systems and Life-Worlds Across Disciplines:
Preliminary Definitions
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12:30
Participants: Prof. Airi-Alina Allaste (Tallinn University), Dr.
Karin Dean (Tallinn University), Prof. Bruce Knauft (Emory
University), Dr. Nick Lawrence (Warwick University), Dr. Graeme
MacDonald (Warwick University, Prof. Tõnu Viik (Tallinn
University).
Chair: Prof. György Schöpflin (MEP for Hungary; Visiting
Professor at University of Bologna)
Meeting for fieldwork guidelines, followed by independent student
fieldwork in small study groups.
July 25, Sunday
Venue: M-213, dinner at restaurant Argo, 37 F.R. Faehlmanni St.
Morning
Fieldwork continued. Preparation of fieldwork reports in study
groups
15:00 – 19:00
Student workshop. Presentation of fieldwork reports by study
groups
Chairs: Prof. Airi-Alina Allaste, Mr. Andres Kurg (Estonian Art
Academy), Prof. Tõnu Viik
Dinner
19:30
July 26, Monday
Venue: M-213; public lecture M-218
10:00 – 12:00
Global Processes, Democracy and the Rise of Non-Democracy
Prof. György Schöpflin
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 16:00
Scholarship in Time?: Bringing life-worlds and world-systems
together in anthropological practice (reflections from alternative
world areas)
Prof. Bruce Knauft
16:30 – 18:00
TBA.
Mr. Indrek Teder, Chancellor of Justice of the Republic of Estonia
Open to general public
Chair: TBA.
July 27, Tuesday
Venue: M-213; public lecture tba.
10:00 – 12:00
Lebenswelt as a Horizon of Meaning-Creation
Prof. Tõnu Viik
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 16:00
Optional cultural programme.
Creating a Traveller’s Tale, an illustrated talk
Mr. Rory MacLean, travel book author
16:30 – 18:30
The Aporias of Global Technicity and the Responsibility Between Us
Prof. Hugh Silverman (Stony Brook University)
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Open to general public
Chair: Prof. Tõnu Viik
July 28, Wednesday
Venue: M-213
10:00 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:30
Student research workshop I
Chair: Ms. Linda Kaljundi (Tallinn University)
Lunch
12:30 – 14:00
New Social Movements: Global Ideologies and Local Practices
Prof. Airi-Alina Allaste
14:30 – 16:00
Life Stories and "World-Creation": Cross-sectioning the Personal and
the Political
Prof. Tiina Kirss (University of Tartu)
16:30 - 18.30
States of Exception and the Inscriptions of Difference in the
Contemporary World
Prof. Hugh Silverman
July 29, Thursday
Venue: M-213
10:00 – 12:00
Globalisation's Other Face: Lit-System, Deathworld
Dr. Nick Lawrence
12:00– 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 14:30
Resource Fictions: The Energy of World Literature
Dr. Graeme MacDonald
15:00 –16:30
Student research workshop II
Chair: Mr. Tarmo Jüristo (Tallinn University)
17:00 –
Screening of The World. Dir. Jia Zhangke
Chair: Dr. Karin Dean
July 30, Friday
Venue: M-213
10:00 – 11:30
12:00 – 13:30
13:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 16:30
17:00
Glocality and the Literary Periphery: Scottish Literature in the World
Dr. Graeme MacDonald
Round table discussion Globalisation in Plural: Conclusions (all
participants)
Chair: Prof. Tiina Kirss
Lunch
Optional cultural programme
Travel As a State of Mind: The Texts and Practices of Classical
Japanese Travel Literature
Prof. Rein Raud, Rector of Tallinn University
Closing reception of the Tallinn Summer School
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