Publications
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The Russia Conference Papers 2021
(2021)
This publication discusses Russia’s foreign, security, defence, and military policies from both Euro-Atlantic and Russian perspectives. More importantly – this work acts as an essential platform for analysing the security ...
Språkmöte och språkhistoria
(2020)
The fifteenth volume in the series “Studies in the History of the Swedish Language” consists of 21 articles chosen from the presentations of the 15th conference on Swedish language history that was organized by the Department ...
Cultural Crossroads in the Middle East
(2020)
The region of the Middle East has been called the cradle of mankind. This volume studies historical, cultural, religious, social and political legacies, which play a central role in obstructing intercultural dialogue in ...
Очерки по истории и культуре староверов Эстонии III [Studies on the history and culture of Old Believers in Estonia III]
(2012)
Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume continues the tradition of publishing studies on the history ...
The Migration Period, Pre-Viking Age, and Viking Age in Estonia
(2012)
This book analyses the society, economy, settlement, and culture of the territory of present-day Estonia in the period of ca AD 450–1050. This period is known in the Estonian archaeological chronology as the Migration ...
The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov’s Fiction: Narrative Strategies and Cultural Frames
(2012)
Marina Grishakova belongs to the younger generation scholars of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. Her book is part of a semio-narratological tradition of a single author or a single work research that tackles issues ...
Nationalepen zwischen Fakten und Fiktionen
(2011)
Since the 19th century national epics have had an important function in the cultural scene of almost every nation, and the same is true for the Central and East European countries that have regained their independence after ...
Tradition und Moderne in der Literatur der Schweiz im 20. Jahrhundert
(2008)
The papers in this volume show the presence of Gottfried Keller, the literary father figure of Swiss literature, in the texts of the Swiss authors from 1960ies, such as Otto F. Walter, Hugo Loetscher, Adolf Muschg, and Urs ...
Legal Pluralism
(2018)
An important part of the narrative of modern law and legal science has been the claim that legal unity possesses many advantages over the legal pluralism of earlier periods. This collection includes articles from the ...
Hellenostephanos. Humanist Greek in Early Modern Europe
(2018)
The rebirth of Ancient Greek in Europe was promoted by Humanist education and ideas to such an extent that we can consider the Greek language as a formative element of Humanist culture. Next to Latin, the default common ...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture Theory
(2020)
The central theme of the volume is interdisciplinary experimentation. The volume includes collaborative and interdisciplinary studies on a variety of topics, from territorialisation of theory, relations between culture ...
The Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Estonia
(2007)
This book analyses social, economic, and cultural processes during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages (18th century BC – 5th century AD) in what is today Estonia. The above period between the Stone Age (ca. 9000–1800 BC) and ...
The Space of Culture – the Place of Nature in Estonia and Beyond
(2011)
This volume sets out to construct a tentative bridge between the physical and perceived (academic) worlds, between the understandings of culture and nature, their spatiality and temporality by tackling the spatiality of ...
A more developed sign: interpreting the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer
(2012)
For more than 40 years, Jesper Hoffmeyer has been committed to the idea of developing “a semiotics of nature, or biosemiotics as he chose to call this effort, that could intelligibly explain how all the phenomena of inherent ...
Borderlands between History and Memory
(2016)
This book offers innovative perspectives on the intersections between history and memory in Central and Eastern European borderlands. It focuses on the case of Latgale, the multicultural region of eastern Latvia which ...
The 1970s
(2015)
This book draws a sociological portrait of the age group born in the 1970s in Estonia and discusses its generational features and constructions. This cohort’s coming of age coincided with the social and emotional turmoil ...
The German book in Wolfenbüttel and abroad
(2014)
The texts assembled in this volume by a small body of scholars are a reflection of their respect and gratitude to Ulrich Kopp, who during his many years of service in Wolfenbüttel’s Herzog August Bibliothek exhibited a ...
Поэма Пушкина “Братья разбойники” = Pushkin’s poem “The Robber Brothers”
(2023)
The book is an extended commentary on Pushkin’s poem “The Robber Brothers”. The author redefines the poem’s place in Pushkin’s creative biography and provides a detailed line-by-line commentary. This poem by Alexander ...
The Winter of Russia’s Discontent
(2023)
This book aims to trace the different directions that Russia has taken after initiating its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The authors, coming from positions of policy, academia, and practice, employ ...
Поэма Пушкина «Граф Нулин» = Pushkin’s “Count Nulin” Anew
(2023)
This book examines different contexts relevant to Pushkin in 1825 when the poem “Count Nulin” was written. Its bulk consists of studies devoted to (1) various manuscripts of the text, (2) the issue of censorship and the ...
Baltic Musics Beyond the Post-Soviet
(2024)
Baltic Musics Beyond the Post-Soviet is a collection of essays and conversations bringing together different generations of scholars and artists to advance critical conversations in Baltic cultural studies from the position ...
Strategic Pathways to Ending the Russo-Ukrainian War
(2025)
The 2025 edition of the BALTDEFCOL’s Conference on Russia Papers, published over three years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, examines the strategic pathways to resolving the Russo-Ukrainian war. This volume ...
Body, Personhood and Privacy: Perspectives on the Cultural Other and Human Experience
(2017)
This book studies how the concepts of body, personhood and privacy can be expanded across disciplinary borders. Notwithstanding the diversity of empirical material and theoretical frameworks, the chapters suggest innovative ...
The Phenomenon of Rat
(2023)
This book introduces the most ancient and commonest mammalian life form, which is nonetheless largely overlooked – the muridoids, i.e., animals with mouse-like body structure. There are approximately two thousand mouse-like ...
Am Rad der Geschichte drehen
(2022)
Did the Federal Republic of Germany plan another European border revision just 20 years after the end of the Second World War? Did the plan call for the use of biological and chemical weapons? Bonenkamp’s ground-breaking ...
The Material Bases of Meaning
(2021)
Contemporary semiotics has often gone too far in proposing language as the model to explain every phenomenon of communication. Giorgio Prodi’s seminal book, originally published in Italian in 1977, poses the question from ...
Хрестоматийные тексты
(2013)
Свое – чужое в языке и речи
(2016)
A Restless Embrace of the Past?
(2022)
The Baltic Defence College’s “Conference on Russia Papers 2022: A Restless Embrace of the Past?” begs a question. How will Russia’s past shape its present and future, both at home and abroad? This volume’s chapters include ...
Cultural Crossroads in the Middle East
(2019)
The region of the Middle East has been called the cradle of mankind. This volume studies historical, cultural, religious, social and political legacies, which play a central role in obstructing intercultural dialogue in ...
Reading in changing society
(2014)
The changing state of reading and its fate in the digitalised world is one of the core issues in the contemporary debates about the future of culture. The central position of the printed word, and primarily, books as the ...
The Modern Fairy Tale
(2014)
This book provides a unique and intriguing insight into current debates concerning the relationship between nation and state as well as the political management of international image in today’s Europe through an examination ...
Being a Young Citizen in Estonia: An Exploration of Young People’s Civic and Media Experiences
(2013)
The book gives an intriguing insight into how young people in Estonia, twenty years after the establishment of democracy, perceive their own role as citizens. It does so in a theoretical framework that stresses the ...
Jaan Kross and Russian Culture
(2012)
Acta Slavica Estonica is an international series of publications on current issues of Russian and other Slavic languages, literatures and cultures. This volume is devoted to the interrelations of the prominent Estonian ...
Generations in Estonia: Contemporary Perspectives on Turbulent Times
(2016)
This book provides the international reader with the first study of different generations and intergenerational relations in Estonia. The chapters highlight generational patterns in the 20th and 21st centuries, with the ...
The Dynamics of Cultural Borders
(2016)
This volume encompasses a broad span of issues related to borders as areas of intense activity substantially contributing to the dynamics of culture. The chapters address questions relating to the construction and ...
Синтактические исследования [Sintaktičeskie issledovanija]
(2015)
Studies in Syntactics. The purpose of this book is to explore the structure of the text as such using a metalanguage derived from quantitative poetics. Grigori Utgof’s thesis is that texts should be studied statistically. ...
Animal Umwelten in a Changing world: Zoosemiotic Perspectives
(2016)
The book raises semiotic questions of human–animal relations: what is the semiotic character of different species, how humans endow animals with meaning, and how animal sign exchange and communication has coped with ...
Estonian Approaches to Culture Theory
(2014)
The fourth volume in the Approaches to Culture Theory series is a contemporary Estonian anthology in culture theory. Most of the authors are members of the research groups of the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory: ...
Historical Memory versus Communist Identity
(2014)
This collection consists of articles on the subjects addressed by the research conference “The Shaping of Identity and Personality under Communist Rule: History in the Service of Totalitarian Regimes in Eastern Europe”, ...
Things in Culture, Culture in Things
(2013)
This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary studies the authors examine how things gain meaning and status, generate a multitude of emotions, ...
The Curving Mirror of Time
(2013)
This volume attempts to create a ‘relief map’ of temporalities in Estonian newspapers over different periods of time. The special focus is on binding the empirical analysis to the theoretical and methodological discussions ...
Archaeological Research in Estonia 1865–2005
(2006)
This volume is dedicated to the historiography and analysis of the present state of Estonian archaeology. Part I (articles by Valter Lang and Marge Konsa) provides a review of the general development of archaeological ...
Eesti ühiskond kiirenevas ajas = Estonian society in an accelerating time
(2017)
The book examines the transformation of the life-world in the context of the rapidly changing Estonian society. The authors pose three main questions to be discussed throughout the book: What has happened in the Estonian ...
Researching Estonian Transformation
(2020)
This collective monograph offers a reflexive review of the transformations in Estonian society, particularly by using the lens of social morphogenetic analysis developed by Margaret Archer and her co-workers. Based on ...
Hortus Floridus
(2024)
Classical studies at the University of Tartu (Estonia) have had several beginnings. As a separate academic discipline, classical philology was introduced to the university curriculum by Professor Karl Morgenstern right ...
Quattuor Lustra
(2012)
The papers in this volume have been gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the re-establishment of classical studies at the University of Tartu (1990). The subjects pursued range from Hittite and Homeric etymology ...
The Paradox of Power
(2024)
This volume interrogates the paradox of Russian power, revealing how Russia’s war against Ukraine has simultaneously exposed and concealed elements of strategic fragility and systemic resilience. Russia’s failure to achieve ...
Perpetual Conflict: Russia and the Struggle for European Security
(2026)
The 2026 edition of the BALTDEFCOL’s Conference on Russia Papers examines the structural confrontation between Russia and Europe and its implications for the continent’s political order and capacity for strategic action. ...
Baltic Orthodoxy
(2025)
This edited volume that examines Orthodox Christianity in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, with additional perspectives from Finland and Belarus. The book adopts a microhistorical approach, focusing on everyday religious ...