Spring has arrived, but there is still time for one more Online Talk before the summer holidays!
In this academic year’s final event of the Online Talk on Eurasian Media series – the collaborative initiative between TaRC and the Russian Media Lab Network (University of Helsinki) – on May 13, we will hear from Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus from the University of Helsinki, who presents her study on the public discussion on Soviet-era monuments in Estonia.
After the Russian full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, Estonian political authorities proposed an initiative to remove the remaining Soviet-era monuments from Estonian public spaces. The initiative evoked an intensive media debate in Estonian public broadcasting between various political decision-makers, journalists, experts, and representatives of the academia.
Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus has examined this debate in the framework of popular geopolitics – that is, the critical scrutiny of interconnections between the media and geopolitics where various spatial entities are imagined and parallels with the former spatial entities are drawn.
Speaker info:
Dr Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus works as a University Lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Department of Finnish, Fenno-Ugrian and Scandinavian studies. Her research specializes in media and communication, identity and belonging, critical geopolitics, and European and Estonian studies.
Event info:
This Online Talk will be held on Zoom on Tuesday 13 May 2025, 12.00–13.30 Finnish time (GMT+3). Discussion will be moderated by Dr Katja Lehtisaari (Tampere University).
Participation in the event requires registration. Please sign up by using this link before Sunday 11 May 2025, 23.45 Finnish time.