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My teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of Philosophy, Sociology and Politics. I have written three monographs. In the first, "Ambiguous Memory: the Nazi Past and German National Identity, "(Praeger 2001) I argued that German memory followed two trajectories: a universalization of the past in the East and an internalization of the past in the West. The book focused on a comparative study of how the Nazi past and the Holocaust were remembered in official speeches and memorials in the two Germany’s during the 1980s and in unified Germany in the early 1990s.

My second monograph, "Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: The Persistence of the Past" was published with Ashgate Publishers (2012). This book draws on the theoretical work of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin and Zygmunt Bauman to discuss examples from the multiple layers of Europe’s totalitarian past. It asks why certain places and not others symbolically capture the past and freeze time? What kind of shadows, traces, ciphers, remnants and ruins does the past leave on the present society? Why does the process of memory, as a fluid and changing activity, seem to prevent its own solidification?

"Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time" examines different encounters with the past from within the present-whether as commemoration, nostalgia, silence, ghostly haunting or combinations thereof. Taking its cue from Hannah Arendt's definition of the present as a time span lying between past and future, the book reflects on the old philosophical question of how to live the good life-not only with others who are physically with us but also with those whose presence is ghostly and liminal. While tradition may no longer command the same authority as it did in antiquity or the middle ages, individuals are by no means severed from the past. Rather, nostalgic longing for bygone times and traumatic preoccupation with painful historical events demonstrate the vitality of the past within the present. Chapters examine ways in which the legacies of World War II, the Holocaust and communism have been remembered after 1945 and 1989. Maintaining a sustained reflection on the nexus of memory, modernity and time in tandem with ancient questions of responsibility for one another and the world, the volume contributes to the growing field of memory studies from a philosophical perspective.

In addition, I edited "The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies" (2015) which among others, includes chapters by Patrick Hutton, Daniel Levy, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Mieke Bal, Alexander Etkind and an afterword by Jeffrey Olick.

Articles, chapters and book reviews have appeared in Memory Studies, New German Critique, The European Legacy, Journal of Political Power, European Journal of Social Theory, Constellations: a Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory and the Journal of Baltic Studies.

I am currently working on a manuscript on the centrality of the world for Hannah Arendt's political philosophy.

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University of Tartu: Tartu, EE

2015-09-01 to present | Associate Professor of Practical Philosophy (Philosophy)
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Works (41)

Ghostly pasts and postponed futures: The disorder of time during the corona pandemic

Memory Studies
2021-12 | Journal article
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Book review: Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness

Memory Studies
2020-06-10 | Book review
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Statelessness, refugees, and hospitality: Reading Arendt and Kant in the twenty-first century

New German Critique
2019 | Journal article
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Statelessness, Refugees, and Hospitality: Reading Arendt and Kant in the Twenty-First Century

2019 | Journal article
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Encountering the Past within the Present

2019-11 | Book
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Repair and Responsibility:

Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
2019-09-01 | Book chapter
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Book review: Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory

Memory Studies
2019-06 | Book review
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Haunted house: Memory, ghosts and political theology in Lenin's Mausoleum

Constellations
2017 | Journal article
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The Anxiety of Influence: Modernism and Totalitarianism

European Legacy
2017 | Book review
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The end of the european honeymoon?: Refugees, resentment and the clash of solidarities

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
2017 | Journal article
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Thought at the meridian: the continued relevance of Albert Camus

Journal of Political Power
2017-05-04 | Book review
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Introduction: Memory studies and its companions

The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies
2016 | Book chapter
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The ashgate research companion to memory studies

The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies
2016 | Edited book
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The many sounds of Heidegger's silence

Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance
2016 | Journal article
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Introduction: Memory Studies and its Companions

Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies
2015 | Journal article
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The many sounds of Heidegger's silence

Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance
2015 | Book chapter
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The Spirit of Hamburg

European Legacy
2015 | Book review
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Written in stone: Monuments and representation

The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies
2015 | Book
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Book review: History, memory, and trans-European identity: Unifying divisions

Memory Studies
2015-09-02 | Book review
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ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE... OR A CAGE?

Urban Semiotics: the City as a Cultural-historical Phenomenon
2014 | Journal article
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Hannah Arendt and Political Theory: Challenging the Tradition

History of Political Thought
2014 | Journal article
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Memory and representation in contemporary Europe: The persistence of the past

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: The Persistence of the Past
2013 | Book
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Why the world matters: Hannah arendts philosophy of new beginnings

European Legacy
2013 | Journal article
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In the shadow of Antigone: resisting moral blindness

Journal of Political Power
2013-11 | Book review
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Europe between Past and Future

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: the Persistence of the Past
2012 | Journal article
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Goodbye to Grand Narratives? Moving the Soviet War Memorial in Tallinn

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: the Persistence of the Past
2012 | Journal article
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How common is our common world? Hannah Arendt and the rise of the social,Kiek bendras musų bendras pasaulis? Hannah Arendt ir socialumo iškilimas

Problemos
2012 | Journal article
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Living in the Third Person: The Uncanny Hans Schneider/Schwerte

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: the Persistence of the Past
2012 | Journal article
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Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: The Persistence of the Past

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: the Persistence of the Past
2012 | Journal article
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Memory, Pluralism and the Agony of Politics

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: the Persistence of the Past
2012 | Journal article
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The Ethics of Seeing: Photographs of Germany at the End of the War

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: the Persistence of the Past
2012 | Journal article
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The Fata Morgana of Revolution

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: the Persistence of the Past
2012 | Journal article
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The Slippery Slope of Memory

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: the Persistence of the Past
2012 | Journal article
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The Sound of Silence: 1 Reflections on Bernhard Schlink and Gesine Schwan

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: the Persistence of the Past
2012 | Journal article
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Memory, pluralism and the agony of politics

Journal of Baltic Studies
2010 | Journal article
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Does Ethics have a Chance in a World of Consumers? by Zygmunt Bauman

Constellations
2010-03 | Book review
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Agreeing to disagree on the legacies of recent history: Memory, Pluralism and Europe after 1989

European Journal of Social Theory
2009 | Journal article
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War Memorials and the Politics of Memory: the Soviet War Memorial in Tallinn

Constellations
2009-03 | Journal article
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Commemorating liberation and occupation: War memorials along the road to Narva

Journal of Baltic Studies
2008 | Journal article
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Comemmorative cultures: Germany, Italy and Japan since 1945

American Historical Review
2005 | Journal article
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Ambiguous memory

2001 | Book
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for European journal of cultural and political sociology. (1)