EKA Doctoral School Conference

EKA Doktoral School Conference will take place on 2nd April 2026

Please register by 29th March.
Conference will be held in English.

PROGRAMME

08.40 Registration

09.00 Welcome by Prof. Linda Kaljundi (EKA Vice Rector for Research, Head of Doctoral School)

09.10 Opening Lecture
Moderator Prof. Linda Kaljundi

Dr. Anna Carolina Jensen “In-Between Chaos and Control”(EKA, postdoctoral researcher)

Panel 1: Art History & Visual Culture
Moderator Prof. Andres Kurg

10.10 Rahul Sharma “Border Chronotopes and Third-Positionality: Peripheral In-Between Identities on the Eastern Borderlands in de Montesquiou’s Olga and Olga (2017) and Eksperiment Katja (2020)” (supervisors Dr. Mari Laanemets, Prof. Linda Kaljundi).

10.45 Mie Mortensen “A Philosophy of Sponges: The Influence of Ernst Haeckel on Ivan Leonidov” (supervisor Prof. Andres Kurg).

11.20 Coffee break

11.40 Anneli Porri “How to Explain Pictures… to Ourselves?
Mediating the Artwork and Supporting Meaning-Making in Art History Education” (supervisor Prof. Linda Kaljundi).

12.15 Marten Esko “The Contemporary as Method: Use, Abuse, and Critical Afterlife” (supervisor Prof. Virve Sarapik).

12.50 Rahel Aerin Eslas “The Aesthetics of Nature in Denis Diderot’s Philosophy and Art Criticism” (supervisors Prof. Krista Kodres, Prof. Frédéric Ogée).

13.25 Lunch

Panel 2: Art & Design
Moderator Dr. Jaana Päeva

14.00 Kadri Liis Rääk “The Artist’s Body as a Sensory Threshold” (supervisor Dr. Liina Unt).

14.35 Taavi Varm “The Video Game Creation Process as a Practice of Care for Creative Sustainability and Psychological Well-being” (supervisors Dr. Varvara Guljajeva, Dr. Helen Uusberg).

15.10 Eva Liisa Kubinyi “Wondering Pathways Toward Community-Based Service Designing from Rõuge” (supervisor Associate Prof. Josina Vink).

15.45 Aman Asif “Beyond the Visible Spectrum: Algal Entanglements” (supervisor Prof. Kärt Ojavee).

16.20 Coffee break

Panel 3: Architecture & Urban Planning
Moderator Dr. Eik Hermann

16.40 Alvin Järving “The Value-Space of Extending Building Lifespans: Locating Architectural Practice in a Conflicted Field” (supervisor Dr. Siim Tuksam).

17.15 Jaak-Adam Looveer “Urban Planning in the Comfort Zone: The Case of Tallinn” (supervisors Dr. Siim Tuksam, Dr. Priit-Kalev Parts).

17.50 Roundtable: Dr. Eik Hermann, Prof. Andres Kurg, Prof. Linda Kaljundi, Dr. Jaana Päeva

Contact:

Aljona Gineiko aljona.gineiko@artun.ee

Ragne Soosalu ragne.soosalu@artun.ee