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Eva Piirim\u00e4e<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Eva Piirim\u00e4e (Ph.D. University of Cambridge, 2006) is Professor of Political Theory at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. Her research interests include early modern moral philosophy and political thought, the intellectual history of human rights and the self-determination of peoples from the Enlightenment to the present, and historical and contemporary theories of sovereignty and humanitarian intervention. Piirim\u00e4e\u2019s monograph \u201cHerder and Enlightenment Politics\u201d (Cambridge University Press, 2023) has received multiple accolades, most importantly The Istv\u00e1n Hont Book Prize in 2024. She has co-edited several special issues, and a collection (with Liina Lukas and Johannes Schmidt) \u201cHerder on Empathy and Sympathy\/ Einf\u00fchlung und Sympathie im Denken Herders\u201d (Leiden: Brill, 2020). Her recent articles include \u201cSovereignty, Self-Determination, and Human Rights from Walzer to the Responsibility to Protect\u201c, Global Responsibility to Protect 10:4 (2018) and \u201cHuman Rights and Their Realisation in the World: Herder\u2019s Debate with Kant\u201c, in: Passions, Politics and the Limits of Society, ed. Heikki Haara, Mikko Immanen and Koen Stapelbroek (Berlin: DeGruyter,\u00a02020). <\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teva.piirimae@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Hent-Raul Kalmo<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Hent Kalmo is Research Fellow of Law and Political Theory at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. In 2017 \u2013 2020 he served as\u00a0Marie Curie Global Fellow in Harvard University and before that as Max Weber Fellow in European University Institute in Florence. His main research interests are the concept of \u201csovereignty\u201d, international relations and methodology of intellectual history. His recent publications (among others) are \u201cThe End of Self-fulfilling Europe\u201d (in Nanopoulos and Vergis (eds.) The Crisis Behind the Eurocrisis (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and \u201cPrinciples and Pragmatism in State Succession: Bargaining in the Economic Affairs Commission of the Tartu Peace Conference\u201d (in Baltic Yearbook of International Law, Brill, 2019). In 2015, Kalmo received the Enn Soosaar Ethical Essayists Prize for his\u00a0article \u201cUtopian Estonia\u201d, published in Vikerkaar (vol. 10-11, 2014).<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thentraul@gmail.com<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Kaarel Piirim\u00e4e<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Kaarel Piirim\u00e4e (Ph.D. University of Cambridge, 2009)\u00a0is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Tartu and Senior Research Fellow at the Estonian War Museum. He\u00a0is the author of Roosevelt, Churchill and the Baltic Question: Allied Relations during the Second World War (Palgrave 2014), and editor\/co-editor of The Second World War and the Baltic States (Peter Lang 2014), The Baltic Sea Region and the Cold War (Peter Lang, 2012), The Baltic States and the End of the Cold War (Peter Lang, 2018). His article \u201cLiberals and Nationalism: E. H. Carr, Walter Lippmann and the Baltic states from 1918 to 1944\u201d won the Vilis Vitols Prize for the best article in the Journal of Baltic Studies in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tkaarel.piirimae@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Juhan Saharov<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Juhan Saharov (Ph.D. in political science, University of Tartu, 2021) is a Research Fellow of Political Theory at the\u00a0Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. His research interests are the history of reform socialism\u00a0in Eastern Europe and the role of experts and intellectuals\u00a0in political change during the late Cold War period. His\u00a0doctoral dissertation, \u201eFrom Economic Independence to Political Sovereignty: Inventing \u201cSelf-Management\u201d in Estonian SSR\u201c (supervisor: Eva Piirim\u00e4e), was awarded the main prize at the national contest for university students in 2021. Saharov has published articles on the \u201cself-management\u201d movement in Estonian SSR and its relation with the collapse of the Soviet Union (1987-1991) in journals like Contributions to the History of Concepts, Europe-Asia Studies, and Czech Journal of Political Studies. In Spring 2024 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) at Stanford University.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tjuhan.saharov@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Semyon Reshenin<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Semyon Reshenin (Ph.D. in philosophy,\u00a0University of Tartu, 2023) is a Research Fellow of Political Theory at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu (supervisor: Eva Piirim\u00e4e). His research interests are primarily\u00a0in Kantian moral philosophy and psychology. Currently he is working on the ways in which\u00a0Kant\u2019s ethical and aesthetic ideas were critically appropriated and further developed by Friedrich Schiller. In a nutshell, Reshenin intends to show that Schiller inherits the concept of self-determination from Kant and distinguishes within it the different layers: namely, self-determination as a source of the moral truths (moral autonomy), self-determination as a capacity for choice (Willk\u00fcr), self-determination as a personal project, and self-determination as a foundational principle for building a more free society.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsemen.reshenin@gmail.com<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Kadi K\u00e4h\u00e4r-Peterson<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Kadi K\u00e4h\u00e4r-Peterson is PhD candidate at the Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Tartu. Her research interests include Enlightenment political thought and philosophy of history, the relationship between national, regional, and cosmopolitan histories and identities. She is currently working on the dissertation \u201eThe Progress of Humanity \u2013 Europe and the Baltic provinces: Garlieb Merkel\u2019s Ideas in the Context of European Theories of Civilisation\u201c (supervisors: P\u00e4rtel Piirim\u00e4e, Eva Piirim\u00e4e).<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tkadi.kahar@gmail.com<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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David Ilmar Lepasaar Beecher<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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David Ilmar Lepasaar Beecher (Ph.D University of Berkeley, 2014) is lecturer of political thought and cultural history at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. He was a Fulbright Scholar and Tartu University\u2019s first Visiting Professor of the Estonian Diaspora at the same institute in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 respectively.\u00a0 Before that he taught world history and political economy for five years as a lecturer in the Global Studies program at UC Berkeley, where his dissertation \u201cIvory Tower of Babel:\u00a0 Tartu University and Its Languages in Two Empires, a Nation-State, and the Soviet Union\u201d earned him the history department\u2019s prize for best dissertation in 2015.\u00a0 Four concepts \u2014 language, the university, the city, and the state \u2014 guide his research into topics ranging from the university as a school for both individual and national \u201cself-determination\u201d since the early modern era to the Soviet Union\u2019s \u201cFriendship of the Peoples\u201d as a unique (if failed) solution to the problem of self-determination in an increasingly globalized world: living together while still living apart.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdavid.ilmar.lepasaar.beecher@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Oliver Rowe<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Oliver Rowe is a Junior Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu (supervisor: Eva Piirim\u00e4e). His PhD thesis, preliminarily entitled \u201cSelf-determination in Theory and Practice: The Reconfiguration of the \u2018Russian\u2019 Empire, 1914-1924\u201d, focuses mainly on the \u2018agents of self-determination\u2019 of the Bolsheviks, the White Movement, and the Allies, and assesses their relationship to each other in an increasingly popular-opinion-led international system following the Russian Revolution(s) of 1917, the conclusion of the First World War in 1918 and the subsequent Paris Peace Conference. It also makes a conscious effort to examine self-determination beyond these so-called \u2018Great Powers\u2019, with many novel findings coming from the then-aspiring states of Estonia, Georgia, and Ukraine \u2013 not to mention the significance of many (actively) non-state peoples during the period.\u00a0Oliver\u2019s wider academic interests include the intellectual history and political theory of states, authority, and self-determination; contested states and statehoods; terrorism and political violence; Russian history 1861-1928; and ideas of emancipation, broadly conceived, in theory and practice.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\toliver.rowe@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Karl Lembit Laane<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Karl Lembit Laane is a Junior Research Fellow and PhD candidate at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu. His PhD thesis, entitled \u201cThe Crisis and Renewal of Procedural Democracy\u201d and supervised by Prof. Eva Piirim\u00e4e, focuses on the link between normative political theory and institutional design in democracies to realise the idea of popular self-determination and maximise equal political freedom. The baseline for this approach is the theory of procedural democracy, contemporarily most popularised by Nadia Urbinati, which has its roots in the works on democracy by the Austrian legal scholar and political theorist Hans Kelsen (1881-1973). At the moment, Karl Lembit is working on uncovering the Kantianism of Kelsen\u2019s interwar approach to the ideal of self-determination and the concept of fiction in mitigating the gap between this ideal and its institutional reality of contemporary democracies. This promises to be a part of a wider contribution to the theory of procedural democracy and provide insights into institutional reform for overcoming the current crisis of democracy.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tkarl.lembit.laane@ut.ee<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Liisi Veski<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Liisi Veski (PhD in Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, 2022) serves as a History of Political Thought Lecturer at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. Her research focuses on the intellectual history of nation-statehood in interwar Estonia, the history of Konstantin P\u00e4ts\u2019 authoritarian regime (1934\u20131940), and the cooperative movement in Estonia during the first half of the twentieth century. In 2022, her doctoral dissertation earned first prize in the Estonian National Student Research Competition in the field of Humanities and Arts. In 2024, she was awarded the AABS Grant for Emerging Scholars. During the autumn semester of 2024, she was an Affiliated Researcher at the MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies at Yale University.<\/p>\n

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